Double Dragon Neon has an absolutely banging soundtrack. I wish I could get it on Spotify, but it’s only on Bandcamp. Mango Tango is amazing.

runs great on Deck, really enjoyed it.

Elite was released in 1983. It was originally made on and for the BBC model B, which had 32Kb of RAM!

It really is like the wild west out here

… Albert Einstein.

just joking, it was Descartes.

it’s really easy, I spun up my own instance in a morning. Ok, I am a sysadmin and programmer, but it really wasn’t very difficult and didn’t require much beyond creating a VPS and DNS entry along with basic abilities at the command line to use the ansible playbook.

Pfff, all the cool kids were on DALnet

Prey is pretty great, really enjoyed that.

been playing it via Yuzu EA builds. It runs just fine on the Deck at around 30fps, dipping to 20fps in some of the harder to render areas but it’s certainly playable. I play on my gaming rig as well where it can easily keep a consistent 30fps.

So it’s missing all the things that made Mass Effect good

I’d say that’s fair.

The graphics are pretty good and combat is enjoyable for about an hour, but the game is incredibly repetitive - drive around the planet, peril will be provided by cold/heat/gas, solve the exact same boring puzzles, fight one of two kinds of bad guy, go to a new planet and do it again, etc.

The story was almost in danger of being interesting at times, but the plot is cliched and predictable. I didn’t like Andromeda and I loved ME1-3