Speaking of a 60fps switch 2 game, I've been playing more Yakuza Kiwami.

As I suspected it does have Shenmue level jank

Not in a bad way but it does feel very Japanese and old school in a number of ways. The invisible walls and fixed camera angles are annoying.

I like open world games and being able to explore a modern Japanese downtown district is highly compelling to me. But you can only enter very few shops. You often ca t walk down alleyways, cant open doors, cant walk up and down stairs they don't want you too.

The stuff you buy in the shops is all random Japanese foods and its not always clear what they do.

The combat is okay but now Im out of prison I lost all my skills and have to upgrade a skill tree and start from the bottom.

Combat is not brilliant, mostly because you can be pointing yourself at a character to attack and Kiryu will attack open air instead without you being able to cancel his animation.

I like the story, but everything boils down to fight, fight and fight again. Can get a bit tedious.

Still a fun game, just feels like it could offer the player more freedom, more detailed exploration and more responsive combat.

Started the Octopath Traveler 0 demo and looked at the clock and I'm 1 and a half hours in.

Damn, another one I need to buy. Not sure if I like the silent protagonist. Everything else is in line with other games so you can just start playing without reading tutorials.

There's a sale on Octopath Traveler 1 and 2 bundle if anyone's interested. Savage discounts.

Valve classifies the Steam Machine as more powerful than 70 percent of gaming PCs

11/17/25 -

Valve classifies the performance of the Steam Machine as comparable to and in many cases even higher than 70 percent of the PCs surveyed in the Steam Hardware Survey.

Hardware Engineer Yazan Aldehayyat explains that the device should offer enough computing power to make the existing game catalog usable without restrictions.

At the same time, Valve is aiming for an entry-level model that reaches a wide range of buyers through a lower price. The performance level of typical home computers serves as a technical reference point. The Steam Machine uses a commercially available chip, whose firmware and software have been adapted for SteamOS. According to previous information, the performance ranges between Xbox Series S and PlayStation 5, with the RAM of 8 GB of VRAM being considered a limiting factor. Release: Early 2026 (Europe)

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Wait, 8gb RAM? Is this correct?

Some Arab insider says Ubisoft has been acquired.

Red Steel 3 incoming?

Why does it even need 8Gb,there's no screen on it.  😋

I do agree with GG though, it should have been more. They're promising raytracing just like sony and ms did, but 8Gb won't cut it. Even more so since this is 'just' a PC and not bespoke hardware devs will spend time optimalizing for.

It'll be fine competing with 5 year old systems. For a non upgradable pc I'm not sure that's enough. Unless it sells cheaper than PS5 and XsX.