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What Are You Playing? Neoteric November 2024

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What are you up to this month? Have any games in mind for the future? Let us know in the comments below!


At present, I am done playing Marvel Snap again (again). I've transitioned over to Pokemon TCG Pocket - while this game has packs that muddy your ability to chase things, it still feels less predatory than Snap does if you want to make specific decks. The ability to craft a particular card always helps. Snap remained fun, but it's just too expensive.

Beyond that, I'm probably gonna start Dragon Age: The Veilguard sometime today. Haven't decided on a class yet - Warrior has a fun looking dropkick attack and can become a Reaper, a necromantic combatant different than the normal Paladin/Barbarian/Fighter experience one usually gets offered in RPGs. Mage is always a fun one, too, and Rogue might be as well; too many appealing choices! I haven't forgotten about Black Myth: Wukong, but maybe if I step away and focus on something else, I can return to the monkey with a healthier/happier mindset.

Regarding November at large, I'm not sure if anything major comes out this month that I want. December is Marvel Rivals, Indiana Jones, The Spirit of the Samurai, etc.; but this month is weirdly dry for my interests. I'm okay with that, honestly: the amount of money I can devote to video games shrinks with each passing day it seems :/

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    Senior Writer 2255 2701 Posts Joined 03/19/2019
    Posted 1 month ago

    After getting into Civilization just a little bit ago, I've finally won my first game of Civ 6 on the normal difficulty just a couple of days ago:

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    Senior Writer Serra Angel 1720 2907 Posts Joined 02/09/2019
    Posted 1 month ago
    Quote From Demonxz95

    After getting into Civilization just a little bit ago, I've finally won my first game of Civ 6 on the normal difficulty just a couple of days ago:

    Science Victory is always the way to go, in my opinion. Quietly relax in the corner building your Research, moving through the ages faster than others before you drop the W* on them. Don't engage anybody in conflicts if you can help it, but if they mess with you, your superior technology will end the problem.

    * Fun fact: The W doesn't mean "Win"...it stands for "Warheads".

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  • Fluxflashor's Avatar
    CEO 2015 3135 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago

    Stardew Valley's 1.6 update finally hit Nintendo Switch so I've started a new farm with a friend and we've been playing that late at night this week so far. There's so much stuff over the past couple of updates, it's been pretty fun to uncover new things while we were still in Spring. We started on the Meadowlands Farm map which has been a nice change of pace from my usual desire to go with the basic farm. We haven't really touched animals yet, and neither of us has been remembering to love our Chickens everyday, but that should come now that Summer has just started and we ended up planting a few hundred crops on the first day. 

    Hilariously, we were unable to get low enough in the Mines (okay, it was me, I kept getting some horrible luck) during Spring so we started off Summer with no sprinklers. Luckily though, I only had to delve another 10 levels to start getting gold which a week into Summer, so we've now got half our fields covered in them which is so good for the energy bar and time.

    I expect there to be a lot more Stardew fun in the coming weeks.

    Going to also be jumping back into Medieval Dynasty which is getting a big update at the end of the month. It's been a nice, relaxing grind game and our town is about halfway done I'd say. I do wish the game had just a bit more depth to it, I feel as if we're going to get to a point where there's just no more point in continuing to play - lack of end game? TBD!

    I started a Factorio run through last week due to the new expansion coming out and I need to jump back into it soon because I've just hit the expansion content. It was a bit jarring I will admit though because I finally encountered something in Factorio that I had no clue what to do with which made it confusing. I hadn't experienced that feeling in quite a long time!

    Pokemon TCG Pocket will hopefully get some attention because I see our site staff having fun with it with all their Slack messages. The Warcraft 30th Anniversary stuff is going on in World of Warcraft which is something I want to jump back into; I was abandoned at the start of the expansion so I didn't get to do as much as I had hoped. On the flip side I had just met a cool new person and we've been knee-deep into the gaming train so I'm not really complaining hehe.

    Ugh. I need more time in the day, my lack of sleep due to the late night gaming is definitely not good for me.


    And yes, Civ Science victories FTW! 

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    Garrosh 695 295 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
    Posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago

    Started playing Supreme Ruler since i've had this game for a great while now. It's quite overwhelming and the tutorial not that great. Might need some youtube tutorials to really get what's going on. Nevertheless, the game is great! Really curious how the 1914 german campaign merges into the next eras (1936 and so on), if it even does that! The game seems to have great freedom, so not sure if there are any scripted events going to happen (like ww2 in 1939). Also, the game goes up to 2020 or so, and it's really funny (and sad) that the american campaign of that year is the one from Trump. There's even a "build a wall" decision in the game. Lmao!

     

    Secondly, i also played some Interstellar Space Genesis. And finished an "election victory" within a few hours! It's strange because i usually play these games (like stellaris, civ) ad infinitum and never actually finish them. When things get too messy i just start anew. I guess my huge pleasure is at the start, before everything gets too crowded and/or powerful. No game (4X) has managed to capture this feeling for a long time :( All in all, the game is really good and you should try it if it's your genre of choice.

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  • anchorm4n's Avatar
    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2509 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago

    Got kissed by Yogg and pulled some insanely lucky boons in Hades 1 this weekend, beating the game on 16 heat for the first time. Now I only have to level all the trinkets to max to earn my first ever Platinum trophy 😍 The third Skelly statue is something I'd really like to unlock as well but I heavily doubt I'll ever manage to do 32 heat. Maybe I'll check out some youtube videos to get a better feeling of what it takes to do this.

    Other than that only Hearthstone. Wild legend is in the bag as of Saturday, I still don't like the current meta game. Standard is more fun at the moment, starships are pretty cool :-)

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  • linkblade91's Avatar
    Senior Writer Serra Angel 1720 2907 Posts Joined 02/09/2019
    Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago
    Quote From anchorm4n

    Got kissed by Yogg and pulled some insanely lucky boons in Hades 1 this weekend, beating the game on 16 heat for the first time. Now I only have to level all the trinkets to max to earn my first every Platinum trophy 😍 The third Skelly statue is something I'd really like to unlock as well but I heavily doubt I'll ever manage to do 32 heat. Maybe I'll check out some youtube videos to get a better feeling of what it takes to do this.

    Hey, that's awesome! I never got around to dealing with Heat that much, so you're technically farther than I am :D

    Now it's time to play Hades II haha

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  • anchorm4n's Avatar
    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2509 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago

    I wish! Unfortunately I'll have to wait a little longer because I'm a PS5 gamer, I don't have a PC I could play on. Probably better for my wallet :D

    I've heard the currently released Hades 2 version is already bigger than Hades 1?! Did you enjoy it so far?

    I notice I am confused. Something I believe isn't true. How do I know what I think I know?
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  • linkblade91's Avatar
    Senior Writer Serra Angel 1720 2907 Posts Joined 02/09/2019
    Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago
    Quote From anchorm4n

    I've heard the currently released Hades 2 version is already bigger than Hades 1?! Did you enjoy it so far?

    It's quite large, yeah, and I honestly think it's even better than the first game. Supergiant is puttin' in the work, and it shows.

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    Squirtle 1120 1057 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago

    This month I have been back to Overwatch for the classic event and been playing Echoes of Wisdom (Legend of Zelda) and plan to star Mario and Luigi Brothership.

     

    That is it for now I think. As well as TCG Pocket wich I am really enjoying

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  • Echo's Avatar
    Staff Writer Cupcake 860 321 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 weeks ago

    hey hey hey, due to a sort of involuntary exile from my home (aka training on the other end of the country for 3 weeks) I've had a good amount of internet to finally grind a bit of Marvel Snap. Bit rough being several very strong season pass cards behind (especially missing kate bishop and agent venom) but been able to get back from like, rank 13 to rank 87 without much struggle, probably gonna try pushing the last bit in the next couple of days.

    Besides that, finally going to take the time to clear out the last couple of achievements in a couple games cuz I can't be damned to do it without a guide. Stuff like "collect every relic" in Ara Fell is such a painful achievement on what was otherwise a pretty cute jrpg. Also need to replay a bunch of Can of Wormholes since for whatever reason achievements don't unlock on that game if you get them when you are offline. Three days ago I'd also be checking off Sea of Stars but the new update brought a bunch of local coop achievements, which I uhh.... can't really do here that easily.

    The last thing that has been eating up my time has been with Crystal Project. Turns out that the game has a ludicrously in-depth (but also weirdly limiting) modding client so I've been slowly making my own mod. Haven't gotten around to playtesting it yet but its been really fun coming up with just class concepts for what's probably my favorite rpg (maybe even one of my fav game of all time too tbh, pretty tough competition by I digress). Its been a bit funny looking back because some classes are just "glorified druid focusing only on plant magic" to eventually "Shapeshifting monstrosity that transforms itself into different enemies and stealing their skillsets" and "Mecha with a heat meter in a game that does not have anything remotely close to a heat meter". Been slowly learning how to sprite things so I can create the 96 different sprite sheets needed, then some amount of animations and status icons which has been pretty fun. All this to say that I will probably be working on this mod until the day I die, but c'est la vie its been fun so I don't mind it. I know some people cough Link cough have tried it and not been a fan, but the game has a very generous demo so I'd definitely recommend atleast taking a peek.

    Oh I also got Void Stranger recently and that games been very cool as well, not far enough in to really go in detail but I know theres some meta puzzles that I'm looking forward to getting irritated-then-ecstatic about like I did with Baba is You.

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    Senior Writer Serra Angel 1720 2907 Posts Joined 02/09/2019
    Posted 3 weeks ago
    Quote From Echo

    All this to say that I will probably be working on this mod until the day I die, but c'est la vie its been fun so I don't mind it. I know some people cough Link cough have tried it and not been a fan, but the game has a very generous demo so I'd definitely recommend atleast taking a peek.

    Why play the game when I can live vicariously through you and your adventures in modding? lol :D

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    Senior Writer Serra Angel 1720 2907 Posts Joined 02/09/2019
    Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago

    Finished Dragon Age: The Veilguard, with all achievements. I rather enjoyed the game, and still believe the flak was overblown as fuck lol :/ Might consider having another run at it, as a Mage this time, streaming the game so my sister can watch. She's one of those people who'd rather experience the story from the passenger seat; she doesn't get much out of playing video games.

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2509 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 2 weeks ago
    Quote From anchorm4n

    The third Skelly statue is something I'd really like to unlock as well but I heavily doubt I'll ever manage to do 32 heat. Maybe I'll check out some youtube videos to get a better feeling of what it takes to do this.

    Well, I'm a stubborn person when it comes to gaming. Made it to the last boss'es final stage during my first session which was encouraging (despite the direct jump from 16 to 32 heat lol). Then came the weekend and a 4 hours + monster session during which I stood no chance at all until the very last run somewhere around midnight. Suddenly everything clicked: all the right boons, all the high rarity, boom, 32 heat done. Big oof.

    Since that's something I'm pretty proud of and I did it with a build of my own instead of popular stuff from the internet (tried Merciful End a few times but couldn't get far with it), I'll add some details here:

    Mirror:

    • Increased chance of epic boons instead of Duos and Legendaries made a huge difference. You'll see why when I tell you about my build.

    Pact:

    • Increased enemy movement and attack speed took some experimentation. I've trained a few runs at 40% and then toggled it down to 20% again for the successful final run.
    • Time limit and number of additional enemies are tightly interwoven for me. I'm generally capable of doing the 5 minute time limit, but not with additional enemies. So I settled for +20% and 7 minutes. Ironically, on that final perfect run I had lots of time left in the end (more than 7 minutes actually if I remember correctly).
    • I've tried deactivating the first few mirror boons but that didn't go well. Instead I've decided to praise Yogg and go with one less option for every choice, my reasoning being that with enough reps I was bound to get lucky at some point. Worked out, took quite some time though.

    Build:

    • Zagreus Fists - defense is not my strength so I'm glad for the additional evasion chance. Fast button smashing on the offense is fun.
    • Zeus on Attack, additional chain lightning.
    • Don't even remember the Special, I usually take whatever here... Aphrodite is always nice, might have been Zeus as well.
    • Same for the Cast. I like Demeter's laser beams but in general I just shoot whatever I have for the bonus from the mirror and focus on Attack.
    • Artemis Call - my favorite by far because of the high damage output. I think I also managed to secure the boon that fills your call-meter faster.
    • Athena Dash - I usually take this one or Poseidon's (which is great in the Sartyr tunnels). The final run seems to prove that Athena is actually superior.
    • Hammer: more reach and damage on Attack helped keep some distance.
    • Hermes speed up and immunity after dash is something I always take.
    • Artemis increased chance of crit damage on every attack
    • As you can see, I don't need any Duos or legendaries for this and starting out with all the key boons on epic was enough to do the job.

    Now what? I still have to grind out the last few trinkets for the platinum trophy. I'll do that without any heat though, I want to enjoy the different weapons now and discover some boon combos I haven't used yet. The one competitive thing left would be to beat the final boss with the extra sequence. So far I've tried once and failed miserably. That was with Merciful End though, so maybe I just need to rebuild my favorite stuff to do it. When all that is done I'll still enjoy the game for its own sake and grind some ressources for all the cool cosmetics and stuff I can buy in the hall. One of my favorite games of all time for sure!

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2509 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 1 week ago

    Mission accomplished. What a masterpiece! 

    I notice I am confused. Something I believe isn't true. How do I know what I think I know?
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    Squirtle 1120 1057 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 1 week ago

    Congrats! That is quite some work put into the game. I still have to play it, sitting there on my backlog. Will try to try it next month :)

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    Senior Writer Serra Angel 1720 2907 Posts Joined 02/09/2019
    Posted 6 days, 14 hours ago

    Congrats on your Platinum, anchorm4n! Hades II should hopefully see full release sometime next year, so don't let your skills get too dull hehe :D

    Echo repeatedly tells me "yeah dont buy new things finish ur older stuff", so...here I am, reinstalling Baldur's Gate III. Maybe the third time is the charm for actually seeing the game to completion? Time will tell lol. Mods could be a fun avenue for heightening the experience and maintaining my engagement. Not anything too drastic, but still worth a gander.

    Frankly gotta chill with my purchases for a bit...but we'll see how long that lasts. If Marvel Rivals isn't Free to Play (a possibility with all current and future characters being apparently free/accessible), I might buy it anyway next week 'cause it was so much fun during the beta.

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2509 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 6 days, 8 hours ago
    Quote From Lemushki

    Congrats! That is quite some work put into the game. I still have to play it, sitting there on my backlog. Will try to try it next month :)

    Thanks! That's the beauty of it... Most of the achievements come naturally if you just enjoy the game and play a lot. There were only two or three that took some effort or made me do stuff I usually wouldn't have without the incentive.

     

    Thank you, too, @linkblade91! Unfortunately I still don't have a gaming PC, so I fear I'll have to wait a little longer until the sequel hits the PlayStation market.

     

    Speaking of which... has any of you taken advantage of Black Friday deals? I know PlayStation has some nice sales going on like AC Valhalla, Horizon: Forbidden West and Diablo IV. I'll probably dip my toes in Diablo for the first time this weekend... The one downside is that all those sales are only for the digital versions and I have a disc console with limited space for downloads but eh.

    I notice I am confused. Something I believe isn't true. How do I know what I think I know?
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    Squirtle 1120 1057 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 6 days, 5 hours ago

    I have the same problem (well and also currently unemployed so playing old stuff).

    Even still if I had some money to throw on the Nintendo Switch sale, I get physical everytime if there is the chance.

    Hope you enjoy Diablo, I played the second and third one and really liked them.

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    CEO 2015 3135 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 5 days, 22 hours ago

    Well, November is almost over now so let's recap.

    Stardew Valley confirmed to still be the main game right now. We hit year two and a couple of nights ago entered Summer. We kicked Fall 1 off with getting the Barn upgraded so that we could get a little bit of everything to get the community center finished up. Our cows produce the finest milk for the finest of cheeses because they love us so much, and the Witch gave us a Void Egg so now we have a great gift for Seb and, thankfully, we were able to make Void Mayo for the Witch Hut this year (which we found out about via the Library).

    Fall was a ton of Pumpkins, the entire farm covered in crops, and occasionally having some Skull Cavern fun. Winter hit and with not much to do on the farm, we spent our time fishing, running together in the Skull Cavern to help farm Iridium for sprinklers for the upcoming year, and being very bad at upgrading our tools for the upcoming spring. Spring Year 2 hit and we weren't able to get all our crops planted in time on Day 1 which threw off the harvests a little which kinda sucked, but we did better Summer 1 with only missing a handful of crops due to spending too much time at the store buying the wrong seeds - I went with the intention to stock up on Red Cabbage, and spent too much time buying Melons instead. Which, speaking of Melons, we ended up with a Gigantic Melon last night, which was both of our first time getting our own Gigantic Crop. Hell yes!

    We're just about halfway through Summer 2 now and we're refilling our bank account after getting a second barn. Our first year we almost made a million gold, and this summer we should be making around 1.5 if all goes to plan, it'll just take some time to chug through the crops that are being turned into Artisan Goods.

    Oh god, thats a lot of Stardew talk.

    We did play some more Medieval Dynasty but Stardew took over the gaming time. I also have played another 14 hours or so of Factorio this month, which has been not great because instead of spending it in expansion content I've been fixing problems with my primary base... stupid biter attacks from every side and poor defense. In my rush to get the 8 hour rocket launch, which I missed by an hour, I didn't really set myself up for defending against the biter attacks very well and so now I'm suffering due to the massive amount of pollution. I have started walling off the base though and lining it in laser turrets which are, finally, automated, so that's been helping quite a bit. I still have some big lines to do with that but soon it shall be done. Between attacks I've been expanding my raw materials production through the use of trains. I've also got a few thousand logistics bots now which has been amazing and they're all circuit network wired up to keep being produced until I hit 50k of them so I can't wait. I've got Kovarex Enrichment going too so I have unlimited amounts of Nuclear fuel, ready to power my base forever. I need to get my Nuclear setup tripled in size though because I've hit the limits of the current reactor setup with regards to my energy usage.

    I've started playing Balatro again too. I was pretty pissed off when my save got nuked on iOS, so much so I bought it on Steam instead of using Apple Arcade (the save didn't correctly go forward to my iPad and the iPad overwrote the save file to be nothing on iCloud.. yay) and now I've started the painful process of unlocking everything again. It's so weird playing without having access to soooo many of the jokers. I've had to change my playstyle up but god do I love Balatro. It's good they're gonna win a handful of rewards this year without a doubt.

    I haven't had a chance to play Pokemon TCG Pocket yet. The Venusaur Event though... I should play this weekend.

    I've managed to do a little bit of WoW 20 birthday stuff, so I'll need to find time to finish that up next month.

    Overall it's been a very, VERY busy November and I'm happy I've been able to get in some solid hours gaming late at night.

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    CEO 2015 3135 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 5 days, 22 hours ago
    Quote From anchorm4n

    Speaking of which... has any of you taken advantage of Black Friday deals? I know PlayStation has some nice sales going on like AC Valhalla, Horizon: Forbidden West and Diablo IV. I'll probably dip my toes in Diablo for the first time this weekend... The one downside is that all those sales are only for the digital versions and I have a disc console with limited space for downloads but eh.

    No real plans for any Black Friday deal shopping here. I don't need more games added to my backlog hahahaha. I also don't really feel like I need anything in general right now. I'm quite happy with the state of things and really the only major thing I'm looking to buying within the next year is the M4 Mac Studio for work. It's not that my M2 is bad, it's just I bought it with the intention I would upgrade to the M4 when it came out and go with the higher-end version of the Studio to last for multiple years. It's been great that more and more games are working on Mac now too, I very rarely have to boot into my Windows desktop to play games anymore. The only reason would be for simracing really. I reinstalled Windows this month and still need to get all my racing stuff setup again though before I can hop back in on that fun.

    Black Friday has been kinda... lame? for the past few years though. It never feels like there are any really good deals anymore and it's just largely the same deals we'd see during other times of the year. On the plus side to that though, I do notice fewer people trying to sell Black Friday-specific SKU products which are bottom of the barrel with regards to how they are produced and with what components, so maybe that's a positive.

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    CEO 2015 3135 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 5 days, 22 hours ago
    Quote From Lemushki

    Even still if I had some money to throw on the Nintendo Switch sale, I get physical everytime if there is the chance.

    Physical all day every day for me too. The eShop won't be around forever, and it gives me the opportunity to sell the games in the future if I want to (I won't, lol) which is nice. It's also nice to be able to loan games out to friends or family. Companies were so hyped about the major switch to Digital, I'm gonna be pissed the day we can't buy Nintendo stuff physical anymore... if that ever actually happens. I feel like Nintendo is in a very unique position where they have huge physical sales still due to the major collector market for the systems, and they're afraid to touch that.

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    Senior Writer 2255 2701 Posts Joined 03/19/2019
    Posted 5 days, 22 hours ago
    Quote From anchorm4n

    Speaking of which... has any of you taken advantage of Black Friday deals? I know PlayStation has some nice sales going on like AC Valhalla, Horizon: Forbidden West and Diablo IV. I'll probably dip my toes in Diablo for the first time this weekend... The one downside is that all those sales are only for the digital versions and I have a disc console with limited space for downloads but eh.

    I've used the Steam sale to buy a game for a really good friend of mine because it was on her wishlist. I could've set the gift to be delivered to her on Christmas, but I decided to give it to her right then and there because I wanted to avoid the possibility of someone else buying the same gift in-between then and Christmas. She was absolutely ecstatic when saw the gift in her inventory.

    Christmas comes early for all of us sometimes.

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    Garrosh 695 295 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
    Posted 5 days, 19 hours ago

    Stalker 2 is awesome :)

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    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2509 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 3 days, 19 hours ago

    Ooooh that sounds like you're just the guy to harass with a question that came up lately! 

    So I am loosely considering getting a gaming PC. I currently mostly play Hearthstone on my iPad and my smartphone. Other than that I use my PS5 for games like Witcher 3, hades, diablo, god of war, Jedi. What makes me consider getting a pc on top of that is

    • the idea of streaming hearthstone / doing a podcast
    • the ability to get back to some of my favorite games from the past like the portal series
    • maybe finding an emulator that allows me to also play old Nintendo favorites like ocarina of time

    Now gaming PCs are expensive but I don't really need it to be top notch because I can always rely on the PlayStation to manage the high end stuff.

    So. Would you say the imac mini m4 in its cheapest version would be a good answer to these expectations? Do you have any experience in how easy and stable steam can be used on these? I've read a bit about that and while some people say it's super easy, others had lots of trouble. Any other thoughts or stuff I should be aware of? 

    I notice I am confused. Something I believe isn't true. How do I know what I think I know?
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