Post #3531920
2026-07-02 10:27 UTC
Replies (5)
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@fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 2026-07-02 10:41
you can still play chrono trigger
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@huey_m@reddthat.com 2026-07-02 14:20
I’m still a couch and controller gamer primarily, I just use a PC to do it lol. Honestly, with Steam, it’s really easy to just change Steam Big Picture mode as the default shell for Windows, so even if you don’t want to install SteamOS, you can still have the console experience of just turning the machine on and booting right into your games menu.
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@philanthropicoctopus@thelemmy.club 2026-07-02 11:50
Well done. I finished my degree once I quit drinking
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@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-02 14:50
I’m a gamer from back in the days when a “games console” was a ZX Spectrum or an Amiga, not an open standard like the PC mainly because back then nothing was standard, but far more open than modern consoles. The came the PC and for a time it was the dominant platform for games (basically the good old days of Shareware and a few years after). Then consoles were reinvented, in modern console business structure and tech stack which most present day gamers are acquainted with. This time around consoles were a locked down tech and the business was a walled garden model. At that point I was so used to PCs and to the piracy as an alternative to source PC games, that I never really jumped into modern consoles as it was too locked down. Also by then I was already a Tech professional and aware of the risks of jumping into a tech stack wholly controlled by a 3rd party. So, yeah, here we are now with the closed down walled garden tech stack were there wasn’t even a proper piracy culture to disincentivize abusing locked-in customers having enshittified to extreme levels, as was IMHO entirely expectable.
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@Tbird83ii@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-07-06 05:08
You can be a PC couch gamer! Apollo/Moonlight or Steam Link work pretty damn well. If I can play cyberpunk two rooms away from my PC… it isn’t without its issues, and my ISP’s router keeps messing with things, but hey, my wife went from “watch him play over his shoulder on a 24” screen" to “play in the living room on a couch and controller with him”