Half-Life 2 and Portal now on Nvidia Shield
Half-Life 2 and Portal are now available natively on Nvidia Shield, the company announced today.
Nvidia is aiming to sell Project Shield to gamers with two highly-regarded classics. Half-Life 2 and Portal are now available natively on the device. In a short promotional video, Nvidia announced the pair of games and says it worked with Valve to bring them to Shield.
This follows a recent update that introduced remote streaming. The video also reiterates the temporary $199 price point, which a retail source told Shacknews will be available through June 1.
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replySteve Watts posted a new article, Half-Life 2 and Portal now on Nvidia Shield.
Half-Life 2 and Portal are now available natively on Nvidia Shield, the company announced today.-
Every time I read news about the Shield I'm surprised at how many people like first-person games using gamepad controls. To me it always feels like trying to clean a bathtub with a toothbrush.
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Oh I'll admit that. I'm not saying it's WRONG to play with a gamepad, just that it seems like a PC gamer would be far more likely to prefer Mouse+WASD instead of gamepad. And yet the Shield is a PC-oriented product incorporating a gamepad.
Still, can't argue with the reviews or the sales figures. Maybe there's a large subset of PC gamers who cut their teeth on console FPSes? I dunno. Just a strange thing to me.-
This whole anti-gamepad thing is so PC neckbeardesque from 1997, this isn't the Quake 1 days anymore.
The new Tomb Raider is on PC, Dark Souls, Mass Effect - all these games are not only good on a controller, they are in many ways superior.
Sure, hardcore twitch FPS games, I get that key and mouse is better, SC2 - yep mouse is better, DOTA - mouse is better - but Diablo 3 is even on consoles and totally playable. PC gamers really need to get over this fear of controllers, they work really well in a heap of games.-
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For the most part yeah pretty much - the thing is a lot of FPS games are more than playable and fun on a controller. If you prefer mouse and keyboard then obviously use them - but I mean a controller is better for third person games and it's better for several other types of games - so to totally deny the option of using a controller just seems odd to me. It's the kind of dumb thing I would have said over 10 years ago before I accepted console games are good too.
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People keep saying this- controllers are better for third person. Why?! Where are you guys getting this? Nothing changes from first person! If you're going to use eg Dark Souls then understand that it's better with a controller because it's a fighting game, not because it's third person. Also, racing games are better with it because they're racing games, using the first person cockpit camera doesn't change that either.
Any third person game that is a shooter is still always better with a mouse.
Or just any game where you need to aim is better with a mouse. Even if it's just to rotate the camera, doing so with a controller is less immersive and so I prefer playing eg Batman with a mouse.-
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Sorry, I knew that was a fuckup as I posted it.
Controller isn't "best" for third person but it's really fucking adequate how's that? It's more than just adequate infact. Some games are ... easier perhaps with it? More relaxing? Lay back in a good PC chair or PC game on the couch.
There's a lot of games now on PC (Pixel Junk Games, third person games, fighting games, racing games) which all seem to control well with the controller. They are even made without having to fiddle, the Xbox 360 controller (or emulation) "just works"
I don't care for twitchy fps games anymore personally - so the majority of the games I play, on console - their PC adaptations also work well with a controller, obviously.
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Fair point. Can't really have a micro keyboard and tiny mouse. A trackball maybe, but trackball gamers mostly died out in the 90s.
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Uh, this was meant to respond to the other poster. No idea how shack screwed that up.
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I have like 30 hours of Titanfall played on PC, only infront of my couch on an xbox controller. It really does just fit certain games.
PC's strength isn't M+KB. Its the option to use the best tool for the job.
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Like trying to wipe your bum with dental floss.
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You can use KB+M with the Shield
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How does it compare to the xbox original classic?
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How about portal 2? And why Half Life 2 and not the episodes?
