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The Steam Frame's "Great on Frame" Page Is Now Live (steamdeckhq.com)
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[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What I want more than anything is a billion dollars, but second to that is a top-down VR Zelda game. I fucking love A Link Between Worlds, and I can imagine a VR game like that where you look down at the world from above, and actually look behind objects. The idea of looking down on a tiny world and controlling a character like Link is so appealing.

The game could hide secrets behind things in this way, or use it in puzzles. Maybe you would be able to spin the world around and look at it from different sides.

Are there any existing games like that?

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't know of any VR specific games like that. You should play Tunic if you haven't, because it's clearly Zelda inspired and makes use of perspective breaking your vision of hidden items and paths. Only other games I kinda of know of that have mechanics like that are Fez and and Screenbound, but they're both more platformer than Zelda-like.

[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 2 points 4 days ago

Tunic was fantastic. It's not a unique perspective I want. I want a cute action adventure game 3D VR. 😄

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Anyone not wanting to buy Meta Quest 3, is looking to Frame for a stand alone VR gaming option.

[–] agentTeiko@piefed.social 23 points 1 week ago

All I want is vr at the portability of the meta quest 3 minus Facebook from a company that has earned my truat.

[–] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

I'm looking to use it for both options. Lighter games I would love to use in standalone mode. Then if I want heavy VR like racing games, I can use my desktop for extra power.

[–] Hazzard@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Honestly, I might be huffing hopium, but I'm holding out some hope for Monday. There's been a lot of movement for weeks now, shipments to warehouses, drivers being marked as released in SteamDB, games getting marked as Steam Frame Compatible, stuff like this.

Honestly, I expected it to become available right after the Steam Machine reservation process finished, but that was interrupted by the Summer Sale, which wrapped up on Thursday. They say never to release anything on a Friday, so... I'm hoping they're just waiting until Monday to announce the price and open reservations.

[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They tend to start sales and release products on Tuesdays.

[–] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Steam Controller and Steam Machine were both released on Mondays. Most people are expecting the same for Frame.

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

Funny enough, tuesday is also patch day

[–] Hazzard@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago

Good to know! That'll extend my copium another 24 hours nicely, if need be. If it doesn't come out then, I'll really be back to having no idea when it might drop.

[–] LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Yep. I ordered a steam machine the second it was available, and I'm counting the seconds till the frame arrives. I'm a bit of a fanboy

[–] trd@feddit.nu 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cant wait to see "This item is not available for purchase in your region"

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Poor ICC officials

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

direct link https://store.steampowered.com/greatonframe

sadly I don't see The 7th Guest VR on here, maybe it just needs some testing or a patch

[–] artyom@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago

Now if only there was a Frame...

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What's your prices guess? The Index was 1049€ (incl. VAT) here in Germany and that was long before inflation and AI. My guess is it will be 1200€+.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Index also had more hardware with the lighthouses tho.

I am guessing less than 1.5k€.

[–] ericwdhs@discuss.online 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Index also didn't have what's basically a full ARM device inside, but yeah, I still think anywhere from $1200 to $1500 is most likely.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Frame was originally intended to be cheaper than the Index kit, Quest 3 was $499-$650, so maybe $700-850 depending on storage. Steam Deck got a $300 price hike just recently, so there's a possibility it could still be closer to a grand than one and a half.

[–] ericwdhs@discuss.online 1 points 1 week ago

That's possible, but I believe that Valve employee's exact wording was something like "we're trying really hard to beat the original Index price ($999)." To me that reads like beating the Index price wasn't a guarantee and that if they did beat the Index price, it wasn't by much, so I'm assuming the pre-RAMpocalypse price was $900 to $1000. The Steam Machine saw a 40% price increase due to the current market. RAM and storage is a lower percentage of the Frame's hardware, so I think it'll probably see a 20% to 30% price increase. That gives an approximate range of $1100 to $1300, but I'm guessing on the higher end to either not be surprised or pleasantly surprised. I don't think they're factoring in the (heavily subsidized) Quest 3 price much at all.

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This just lists two games?

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It shows 5 for me, but hopefully they're going to be constantly adding more as their testing expands.

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah. It shows me Titan Isles, Into Black, Portal 2, The Lab, and Aperture Hand Lab, with the last two being free tech demos. Adding this since it seems like the list may be somewhat location dependent, so those seeing fewer titles can tell what's missing.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

And one is portal 2. Maybe it runs great on it, but i cant imagine it will be a pleasant experience.

Soar through the air like an eagle piloting a blimp and itll be autobolemia

[–] FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I wish you guys knew how important this page itself is, more than the steam frame.

As soon as that steam verification system gets going and fex gets more and more matured its going to be crazy for arm devices.

Like im talking arch based arm OS's are going to become more popular. You can already run red dead 2 at 720p at 60fps on a midrange modern pocco phone.

When the steam deck released pretty much only native Linux games ran well, or small indie games worked with proton. The whole verification system and valve working on proton at the same time really kicked up the speed at which games "just worked." These days I do not even have to look at proton GE I can just blindly buy new games and expect them to work. For example I bought "RV there yet" the day it was released and there was no indication anywhere that it was playable, but I bought it anyways and it ran fine.

When I first started Linux so much of getting a game to run was making wine prefixes and guessing what thing in winetricks you needed to get it to work. I don't know what miceosoftsppack2006 is but I can tell you thats one of the first things I threw in my prefix because it worked for a game before. Fex is going through that same phase right now, you can play these games on your phone right now but its a series of toggling on and off comparability layers, or what APIs like vulkan work for this game, but not that one, etc. The whole process of having it on the market, and the verfication system, etc need to be in motion.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kinda weird not seeing Alyx on there.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

I think that list is just for games that will run on the Frame hardware directly, without a PC. Alyx is too beefy for that.