Today, Valve will launch the beta of Big Picture mode, a version of Steam designed for your television. That's right. The de facto central hub of PC gaming is now designed to run while you're lounging in your living room—and with a controller, no less. I've tried out Big Picture. It's sleek, intuitive, and groundbreaking in several ways.
by Jason Schreier
Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.
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Players can pay to edit their character, resurrect the dead and other actions.
Yet Helldivers 2 gets a pass? Y’know a GotY contender by the name of RE4 had them and so does Devil May Cry V. The funny thing is I enjoyed both of those games thoroughly without having to buy a single microtransaction.
What I do consider a valid complaint is not being able to start a new game or being able to edit your character. That’s kind of a seriously baffling decision, but then I think how I played Dragon’s Dogma 1 and I never edited my character and I just did a 100% playthrough on a single file and didn’t start a NG since. So, I don’t think these are really going to impact me, but I can see how it will others.
I was going to pay full price to support this game because I've been waiting for it for forever but I think I'll wait until I get it for free from Epic or a Humblebundle monthly.
I am not defending Capcom, as I am not a fan of MTX in single player games. I do however belive they were open to reviewers about having MTX in their game. The reviewers just decided to leave that part out. Which is very disingenuous. There are some companies that get away with these things. Image if this was done by EA, Ubisoft, or even Activision? I am positive those defending Capcom, would have had their pitchforks ready if the companies listed above did this
"watch out, consoles"..... really? common you have to get real here consoles arnt going anywhere for alongtime yet. Im a console and pc gamer so i do use steam and yes its a great platform but i do prefer XBL, then you look at the games for instance steam does have a huge choice but they dont have all the huge AA exclusives consoles have, although their choice of indie games is rather nice :P.
Basically in my opinion can stream compete in the home with consoles? yes, will it replace consoles? no.
I hope this works great. i want to get into pc gaming, but after failing so miserable at trying to run pc games in the 1990's, i gave up. so hopefully this will give me a second chance.
Wow this sure is exci...Zzzzzz
Its amazing that people forget that consoles originally came into existence because PCs were both too expensive and too complex for the average consumer. That's changed to a degree, they're more accessible at least, so of course consoles are eventually going to be pushed aside.
This is nothing new, I have been playing steam on a 46" Sony Bravia for a few years now, with a 360 PC controller. The only difference is the simplified interface.