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Any weird/controversial opinions? I'll start. Before the remake, the best version of Resident Evil 4 was the Wii version. The Wiimote controls old Resi's tank controls better than any other controller at the time. The PC version had a bunch of little bugs and detractors that the Wii version just doesn't have.

I'll extend this by saying that the Wiimote is actually pretty damn good for shooters, and particularly good for accessibility. Not having to cramp up my hands to press buttons is awesome for having arthritis. Aiming with the Wiimote and moving with the nunchuck just feel really natural, you barely have to move your fingers for anything.

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[–] FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Windowed Fullscreen should not be the default!!!

[–] kioshi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is borderless always better? And why?

[–] FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Borderless Fullscreen and windowed Fullscreen describe the same thing, a window they resize to take up 100% of the screen. This shouldn't be default, and it is! This mode only utilizes a portion of your hardware, and is frankly only useful if you plant on tabbing out of the game without closing it (for streaming or chatting purposes I imagine). Every time I start a modern game I have to go switch it to exclusive fullscreen so I can get as much performance out of my PC as possible, and I am not even sure how it became the default or why, it just seemed to happen.

[–] kioshi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh I see, im a returning PC gamer (several years on consoles) and I've always been reading about how "borderless is the best way to play" but I have no idea why

[–] FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It's like there's some weird propaganda movement out there pushing borderless windowed mode, it's so weird and I don't understand

[–] tal@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I play Windows games on Linux and have a window manager that lets me flip to other workspaces while games are running. Some games do not deal well with being switched away from when they think that they are fullscreen.

[–] INeedMana@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah, this can be a pain. And on sway if the game was on non-native resolution, the windows looses fullscreen and I have to re-fullscreen it again :/

[–] emptyother@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Windows 11 had some pretty big improvements to borderless fullscreen in February. I cant tell the performance difference between borderless and excusive fullscreen on my rtx 3070 anymore.

[–] FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

It is still a performance cut. You simply can't get full control of your graphics card to an application without giving it exclusive full screen access. If that did, the whole concept of making it easier to switch between windows wouldn't even work to begin with. It has to take a performance cut in order for it to work. I would rather choose this by default than have the game assume I'm going to be tabbing out of playing it all the time to do God knows what.

[–] ddWolf37@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

That’s not a hot take, that’s just a fuckin fact. I hate this trend so much.