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@PerfectDark Those are some really good choices. I think I loved NFS: Underground 2 the most of those by far. I really loved the customization aspect of it, but also it gave a sort of semi-open world where you could just drive around the city doing what you wanted and just enjoying the custom vehicle in general without timers and etc.

@PerfectDark Oh wow, I love that this thing is slightly smaller than the Switch Lite. I sure wish I could afford this…

@PerfectDark I used to really like Lutris. Clean, simple, and very minimal (unlike, for example, Heroic.) But it has been kind of falling behind in a lot of ways lately. It still defaults to their ancient implementation of WINE instead of Proton (or did last I used it) and it seemed to be really hard even to get it to properly use a modern Proton/Wine-GE somehow. (I couldn’t say exactly why, but somehow it just doesn’t work as well.)

While they keep things small and mostly do the real work themselves it will be fine, but it seems people who push it like this ultimately go the “vibe coding” route. I hope not. I’d still like to see Lutris remain on the map, but if it reaches the point they start handing it off to Claude it will inevitably eventually become unsustainable. We’ll see.

@PerfectDark Oh wow. Somehow I never even heard about this. In its own crazy way it’s kind of fascinating.

I do actually kind of wish I had been there when that happened. I didn’t get to play WoW very much and not until much later.

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@jodanlime I always wondered why Nintendo never just did the whole thing that SONY did where the PSP could connect up to a PS3 and that sort of thing. I felt sure they would do that with the Switch when it came out, but they didn’t.

I can’t entirely agree that that was a defining factor that would make or break it though. The GB, GBC, GBA, NDS, and 3DS all were not dockable and they were all insanely successful for a really long time. The thing is, truly portable gaming is different. Each has its own purpose and use-case and allows for different gaming experiences. The Switch gave us full-scale games with full-scale graphics (within limits) and the full console experience in handheld, but the 3DS was small, light, and easily played hours and hours on end even lying down.

@jodanlime @PerfectDark I’m wondering about even this. It really feels like Nintendo almost entirely stopped caring about the Switch Lite not even that long after it came out. It should definitely have been a bigger focus IMO, but everyone seems to want everything bigger and bigger and bigger these days…

I too absolutely miss just sticking my N3DS in my pocket. (Also StreetPass. Why did that go away with the Switch??)

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@Zander @Eeveecraft @mozilla @firefox Yes, I’d say they’re fairly similar. It’s a fork of the mobile version of Firefox, so it’s kind of a different beast in its own way, but they take similar views and methods on privacy and security.

@Eeveecraft @mozilla @firefox What are you talking about? Mozilla saw that everyone was going to their browser to get away from Google, so naturally they did the intelligent thing and became more like Google. I mean, it makes perfect sense, right?

There is a setting in about:config to completely disable it, but I’d recommend that you switch to a fork like LibreWolf on PC or IronFox on Android to ensure stuff like that will be disabled to begin with even if later updates would turn it on.

@PerfectDark Got my HD hooked up. I need to reinstall some stuff among other things, so now was a good time.

Add to my earlier list:
Ico
Shadow of the Colossus
Dragon Quest VIII (don’t worry, zero connection between DQ games of this range, so it doesn’t matter where you start)
Drakan - kind of fun game, but don’t play on disc, use a harddrive
Need for Speed Underground 2
Odin Sphere (hard to believe this is a PS2 game graphically! But sadly gameplay does get grindy and repetitive. Heck of a story and graphics though.)
R-Type Final
Rule of Rose (might be hard to find)
Ys VI: Ark of Napishtim
Baroque translation
Breath of Fire V: Dragon Quarter
Phantasy Star Universe (undub)
Star Ocean 3 (undub)
Wizardry - Tales of the Forsaken Land
Rogue Galaxy

There are more!

@PerfectDark There are two Tenchu games on the PS2, but I loved that one because the one character (Rin I believe was her name) was a lot more fun to play somehow. Couldn’t say how, just was.

It’s a stealth game though, so if you don’t like stealth you probably won’t like Tenchu. You can technically play it without stealth, but it’s not going to be much fun…

Persona 3 is excellent. I think, depending on preferences, 3 and 4 are the best in the series. 5 had its moments, but it was like 75% of 4 to me story-wise. Between 3 and 4 it depends on what you like. 4 is a bit lighter-hearted and more “Japanese culture” whereas 3 is much darker and more directly “save the world” type stuff.

@PerfectDark (I’ve got a lot more and I want to remind myself, but sites like Mobygames are giving me a hard time. Anything good for just a simple list of games?)

@PerfectDark Oh man, I have so many… The PS2 was probably my favorite actual console before the Switch and even then I have so much nostalgia… I think I have a few recommends you may not hear as much elsewhere and a bunch you probably will. Should I dig out my HD and remind myself of things?

Here are what immediately come to mind:

Ar Tonelico 1 & 2 - beautiful RPGs, deep stories, music that blows the mind. Undub of course.
Persona 3 FES & Persona 4 (undubs preferable)
The Burnout games are good to work out some things, lol.
Katamari games of course.
Pop’n Music 11-14
Disgaea 1 & 2 (undubs)
Shin Megami Tensei III (Nocturne)
Melty Blood: Act Cadenza
Tenchu Fatal Shadows (best one in the series IMO)
Tales of the Abyss

Oh geez, I need to dig out the HD. I need to reinstall anyway

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@MHLoppy Oh wow… I haven’t heard this in so long…

It’s very good!

I should really be listening to more of Mumei’s covers. Just… I have a bad kneejerk against anyone with big money backing them, lol. But there are exceptions! Mumei should be one of those exceptions for me.

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