Finasty 2023-06-16 06:31:35

Me who doesn't have a PC:
*Smiles*

LaStella 2023-06-16 15:16:51

Yeah i hate It lmao

jthrash 2023-06-17 01:25:33

@Finasty Some of us like spending the first three hours with a game fiddling with the graphics settings before giving up and setting everything to "Low Settings/30 FPS," okay??

jthrash 2023-06-17 01:31:26

How long has it been since you've been on Steam? I feel like it looked like this for a while now. I tend to check GOG.com or itch.io in some cases for a DRM-free version of the game before checking the Steam website, anyway. I also wonder if these changes were made to look better in the Steam Deck, not that I bother with these "handheld PCs" coming out in droves nowadays since they completely miss the point of the Switch and our phones (i.e. extremely short battery lives, uber-expensive, not simple to set up, too big to use outside the house, the only games that seem to work well on them could easily also run on a cheap smartphone or a Switch...).

Finasty 2023-06-17 06:16:18

@jthrash This is typically me lmao, when i first open a game the first thing i touch is the settings

jthrash 2023-06-17 10:43:49

@Finasty Pretty much all games have settings now, which is of course great, but I’m talking about how (good) PC games and PC ports take it to an extreme and you could genuinely spend more time in the settings than in the actual game just tweaking and optimizing everything. Which is why I usually just give up after a while and say “you know what? My screen is small, and I just value a stable frame rate and letting my laptop’s battery last a long time over pretty graphics”—proceeds to set everything to the Lowest Settings and moving on with my life.

Finasty 2023-06-17 18:28:48

@jthrash When you said like this, i remember a game called Genshin Impact or Honkai: Star Rail

jthrash 2023-06-17 21:27:09

@Finasty Oh yeah, the mobile versions of those games had just as many graphical settings as the PC version, it was fantastic.