Short answer: no. Even the newest expansion relies heavily on seasonal content from the prior year - content that’s no longer available.

Yeah, I think Bungie themselves have done a good job not making the higher difficulty ‘mandatory’ (in the way that solo Legendary Lost Sectors can feel, since there hasn’t been a new exotic armor in, I believe, two years that hasn’t been gated behind those).

I’m a little confused, here: are we talking about FFXIV - the MMO - which is PS exclusive, but is already out, so isn’t really ‘next gen’... or are we talking about FFXVI - the (presumably) single player game, which, if I recall correctly, is only a timed exclusive for Playstation? (This is what Square gets for…

I think GamePass, specifically, kind of encourages it: I tend to have one ‘main’ game (usually something I’ve actually paid for) that I’m playing start to finish, but I’ll also dip in and out of new GamePass additions to see if anything ‘clicks’ with me. If it does, I’ll either keep playing it opposite my main game,…

Absolutely. I wasn’t all that excited about the feature before I picked up my Series X, but then, along with GamePass, I found myself keeping up with a handful of games I would have otherwise given up on, just because they were easier to play in relatively brief bursts - five minutes or less, usually - that wouldn’t re…

As I said elsewhere, I haven’t taken a stopwatch to it; my resistance - and my desire to have a way to ‘opt out’ on a game-by-game basis - is based more on that fact that if the game’s going to sign me out for non-engagement anyway, I’d rather Quick Resume didn’t work at all, and I didn’t have to read vaguely chiding…

Absolutely! Valhalla in particular confused the hell out of me as to why anyone would ever want the feature enabled in the first place with that specific game, given its caveats. Like, just give me a toggle in the ‘Manage game and add-ons’ menu: ‘allow Quick Resume’, on or off.

Thank you! I was inordinately proud of that.

I tend to bounce back and forth between two games, usually something ‘big’ (currently Destiny 2's new expansion) that’ll take me a month or more to chew through, and then I’ll also play something smaller, usually indie in nature, as sort of a palate-cleanser. I’ll usually go through several of those in the time it…

So do I, but generally speaking, I’d say that ‘booting up/exiting this game now requires an extra step’ isn’t the direction you want quality-of-life improvements to be moving, you know?

It’s definitely weird how scattershot ‘what games work well and what don’t’ feels; something like Aliens: Fireteam Elite - a relatively mid-budget, third-party title which belongs firmly in the ‘always online, can’t be paused, requires contacting servers for play’ camp - is perfectly happy to let you use Quick Resume…

I’ll admit that my (relatively mild) annoyance might be coloring my perspective - it’s not like I’ve taken a stopwatch to it - but in Destiny 2’s case, I think getting back into the game from an error message actually takes a little longer than getting back from a ‘cold start’, given how fast the splash screens load…

Yeah, I realize I - and the friends I play with - represent a ‘below average’ level of Destiny player skill (I’m the only one of the three of us capable of running a Legendary Lost Sector solo, for example), but the notion that seems to have taken hold in the Destiny community that you should go straight to Legend…

This is a lovely little addition. What I’m most looking for, though, is a way to let you ‘opt-out’ certain games from the feature; I’ve never understood why titles like Destiny or Warframe - titles with ‘always on’ online requirements that boot you to the title screen if you’re not constantly pinging their servers -…

Interesting; like I said, the big thing that’s stopped me from pre-ordering a Deck is ‘I want to actually, physically get my hands on one’ before I do, and that’s not just testing the weight or the comfort of the sticks: reading the text on a random sample of games is definitely a big part of what I want to test.

And I totally get that - it’s definitely just a question of preference, no different than ‘I prefer pancakes’ or ‘I prefer waffles’. I grew up playing PC games as well, mostly Sierra point-and-clicks or flight sims in the early/mid 90s, but I swapped over to consoles around the N64/PS1 era, and now, like the original…

Yeah, it’s a WHOLE lot of grinding in support of a system whose theoretical purpose is to cut down on grinding. (I do think the Wellspring-specific patterns have lower requirements, on average, than the ‘world drop’ patterns, though.)

I believe Bungie said that they’re going to patch the Wellspring drop rates for the weapon rewards - both Deepsight and (ugh) regular - but yeah, as it stands, that’s the MAJOR bottleneck on the way to the Exotic glaives, for sure.

Absolutely valid point. Generally speaking, I was more trying to compare ‘the Deck as handheld’ versus ‘playing at a desktop’, rather than ‘the deck docked to a TV’ versus ‘a desktop wired to a TV’ - I probably wouldn’t dock the Deck, simply because that brings me right back to ‘well, I sure as hell can’t read that…

This is me exactly. I’ve probably spent the last ten years buying up games on Steam during sales for ‘when I get a gaming PC sometime down the road’ (which I haven’t done, at any point, in that last decade, because gaming PCs are expensive, and I don’t actually love the idea of playing at a desk).