Funny story: I started playing this on the PlayStation back in the day, a couple of years after it had come out and cemented its reputation. I did the intro mission in the reactor and then all of the characters were stood in a room doing exposition and what not. I was quite enjoying it.
Then the doorbell rang. I must've only been gone for a couple of minutes but when I got back everyone had vanished and I had no idea where they'd gone or what I was supposed to be doing.
Rather than replaying that first 30 minutes I just turned it off and never played it again. Truly the best of times.
I love it everytime I see a big company trying to ensure their game runs well on Deck. Companies caring about performance on a linux device at all is wild.
On the other hand, it’s a lowest common denominator they can target. “It runs well on the Deck! We’ve done our job.” and the fact that it sold a lot means it’s a market that it’s probably worth the investment (can’t imagine it’s that much) in making a game work. After all any optimization for the Deck also translates into similarly modest hardware being able to run the game…
Not that I complain! Completely gave up on Windows a few months ago lol
Well I did some research when I purchased ff7 rebirth on PS5 and I tried everything on the troubleshooting page to get it to work, I would launch the game and it would immediately crash. I went down the rabbit hole and found similar symptoms on reddit and people had posited that the GPU was failing resulting in a game crash. Now I didn't dig into what specifically caused it to fail but it seemed to revolve around games that were graphics hogs. Which lines up with the fact that the GPU could be failing.
i've been fight the urge to play it again/watch videos because i want to go into next week being able to experience it again for the first time. i know it won't be the same but i loved it so much <3