I love it. The key is setting the triggers as the left and right clicks though. I find clicking the trackpad not great for precision. There is a certain level of tinkering/customizing that will be needed to get the most out of the controls.
I've played several 20 year old FPS games with absolutely no native controller support and completed them all. If you put in a little work in getting the controls how you like them it makes it hard to play stuff without all the Steam Deck options.
I'm sure I'll pick it up eventually. One of my friends had to have a talk with her husband about how much she was playing that game.
I also got that game for free from Amazon and I'm planning on playing that next! The premise is pretty cool!
I wanted to check out Pillars because I think Avowed looks cool, but I do see Divinity Original Sin 2 on sale pretty frequently so I might pick it up. I'm still trying to take a big bite out of my backlog before buying more games I won't end up playing for years. (I finally played GTA5 last month.)
I loved the original Fallout games. Pillars is a lot like the original two Baldur's Gate games and the other games like it. Icewind Dale and Planescape Torment. Though I haven't really earnestly played any of them. I did play the Dark Alliance games when they were new and I was a kid, but those are action RPGs.
I installed it today on my computer and then set up Sunshine so I could stream from it to my Steam Deck easily.
I mostly game on my Steam Deck and assumed Heroic was only a Linux thing, but recently learned it's available on Windows too. How's it do? I've been collecting the free games from Epic and Prime Gaming, but barely touch them. Being able to open a single launcher for everything non Steam in Windows sounds amazing!
The continued use of Next Gen for what is definitely the current console generation does make me pretty annoyed
I mean like the little secret areas that you have to puzzle out how to get to. Or maybe I haven't. It feels like I must have missed stuff, but maybe Valve didn't do as much of that kind of stuff.
F.E.A.R. and I thought it was pretty fun.
Looks great for when it was made and the lighting was pretty impressive. The story was kind of dumb and super cliche. The scares mostly didn't work, but they got me with a few jump scares. The music and atmosphere were pretty eerie and effective. Decent shooter!
I'll eventually check out the sequels and now I really want to play that studio's spy games. I think they are called No One Lives Forever or something like that.
Man, I wish this wasn't a survival game because it's giving me Dinoriders vibes and I loved those dumb toys.
Sega is giving away Steam keys for the Dreamcast era game Sega Bass Fishing here: https://games.sega.com/bassfishing/?lang=en
You have to verify your email which will sign you up for their email newsletter and they aren't going to send out keys until Aug 1. But still free game!
The game has a Platinum rating on ProtonDB and I've read that the Dreamcast Fishing Rod unfortunately won't work with the Steam version very well due to how the rod is set to emulate the analog stick. It makes the menus impossible to use.
If you really want to blow your mind, look up the ad campaign when they introduced Chicken Nuggets in the 1980s. It was very much inspired by tempura fried chicken, so nuggets are literally the fast food version of the kind of chicken underneath the orange chicken sauce.