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The Switch has gyro aiming?
Sure does! Best use of it is on the Zelda games, IMO. Aiming the bow with the stick works fine when out of combat, but if you want to manually aim e.g. while riding a horse, doing the broad strokes with the stick and the fine tuning with the gyro works great.
I got my first real introduction to first person shooters with Quake II. I used keyboard only, with page up/down keys for vertical look. When Half-Life came out my friend would only let me play if I looked with the mouse instead. I thought that was so dumb. Why not just use both sides of the keyboard? Why split controls across two devices? But I relented and picked up this wonky control scheme pretty quickly. Then I…
It's funny that two decades later, basically the only games Valve still actively develops are Half Life mods (Counterstrike and Team Fortress).
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It's funny that two decades later, basically the only games Valve still actively develops are Half Life mods (Counterstrike and Team Fortress).
Is Dota 2 not actively developed?
Edit: maybe just acquired
It's also free until Monday (as in free to get, not just limited free play) https://store.steampowered.com/app/70/HalfLife/
Interesting. I do have a steam account, haven't used it for a long time, it doesn't seem to be in my password manager So I went to reset my password, but got thwarted by the captcha. To email me a password reset link. I think Ill just torrent it.
Is it finally available at 64bit so I can play on my Mac?
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Half Life 3 already happened and it was called Half Life: Alyx.
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In the 90s you might have needed to buy a graphics card or sound card to play a game, but it was still a PC game.
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Because Valve does whatever it feels like doing and honestly, I love them for it. I wish more companies would follow in their footsteps (e.g. not going public), but few have the luxury of being founded by someone who was already set for life financially at the time.
Valve isn't beholden to any external shareholders, and Steam is as close to a money-printing machine a private company can have. Combine that with the fact that Gabe and company seem to have pretty decent values in line with their customers' interests, and you get nice outcomes like this.