For me, it’s all quality of life stuff. There are quest mods that people seem to like but I haven’t tried any. The mods I use all all stuff like infinite stamina horse running. Zero inventory weight limits. Full experience from every quest regardless of how overleveled you are. No weapon degrading. No fall damage so I can jump down from heights in novagrad. That basic stuff I grab off steam workshop so it’s always ready for my new game+ saves where I have an insane inventory. Nexus when I feel like trying the cooler stuff

Here’s the quest mods sorted by endorsements on nexus

https://www.nexusmods.com/games/witcher3/mods?categoryName=Quests+and+Adventures&sort=endorsements

I hope the new expansion sparks a new mod era for witcher 3. Would love witcher 3 as the base game for quest mods rather than skyrim. Witcher 3 graphics just so nice to look at

Cheap 90s era induction stoves in apartments that are still kicking give induction a bad name. New ones are the closest thing you can get to temperature control and speed of a full burner stove. My ideal would be an induction stove with one zone rounded for a round bottom wok. For a home kitchen, it’s the best choice because you’re not going to get the amazing jet burner stoves you get in commercial kitchens

Besides the high end gacha games and a handful of PS3 era ports, it’s all about emulation. PC gaming with Gamehub improves as FEX/proton/wine improve along with graphics drivers

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7v40tYqPYmiS-eDzrTnmpaAvebJsJfdz

Open source graphics drivers for the snapdragon 8 elite GPU’s should be hitting early next year but is pretty good now. There are early emulators for android for PS3 and X360 just even worse compatibility than on PC so right now the high end and pretty good compatibility platforms for android are Nintendo Switch and PC

It’s a moving target. Everything I care about video game stores now I did not care when it was new. Steam itself in 2003, need it to update to latest counter strike. By 2014 years later, I’m done managing updates for individual games by looking on websites online for downlads. I want a store client like Steam to handle that. Didn’t care for the first half of Steams life. I was still buying physical PC games when I could up to 2014. That’s why I said 2014

Didn’t care about linux Steam because it sucked until Proton. Since Proton I care. Didn’t care about big picture mode because steam machines bombed the first time and I didn’t use remote play. Now I use remote play and regularly use big picture mode because I buy big phones with OLEDs and remote play is great now because of that. Phones are why I care about 21:9 support as much as I do now.

Didn’t care about Steam Input because I was kb/m all day type of person. I play with gamepads more now. Steam Input is major. Indie games were less common in 2008 and a lot less complex than they are today. Easy to get the good ones because everyone talked about them. Now most good indie games have no reviews on open/metacritic. Steam reviews and curators point me to the majority of my purchased indie games. Also even the studio/publisher pages that Steam has now showing what they have released. That’s the other way I find games. Steam has brand pages for a while now. I actually use those like here for koei tecmo

https://store.steampowered.com/developer/KOEITECMO

Or smaller game XD. Played Icey and ended up trying a couple games under them through the publisher Steam page

https://store.steampowered.com/developer/XD

Library organization. Did not care about the collections feature until this year. Same with the user submitted store page tags. The collections feature can create from those tags and I make custom collections too to organize my big library. I just recently learned you can drag and drop rather than right click add to collection.

Sounds simple but it sucks on pretty much every PC store platform software besides steam. Managing multiple drives. Moving game folders between drives and the store client handling it well

numerous other things that come in handy from time to time. Like user created guides. SteamOS is more featureful than the OS’s on a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series before even exiting out to the desktop mode. Remember Mixer on Xbox. Steam has broadcasts and has had it for a long time now and it’s never been popular but they never killed it and now I occasionally use it to check out how a new game looks. MS would have killed broadcasts like they killed Mixer when it didn’t become a mega hit. Steam keeps it’s niche features ongoing and generally improves over time even if at a snails pace. MS and other companies, they just kill the feature

Latest thing that is just as much Valve as it is community. PC gaming on Android. Valve initiated funding for Fex emu and it’s paying dividends now that you can run a lot of Steam games on Android now. Same with recent versions of Proton/Wine that now have ARM builds for them. Major boon to Android PC game emulation. Eventually going to be a major plus for Steam in user friendliness compared to the storefronts not putting resources towards easy x86 to ARM translation support

TV show isn’t on any different trajectory than Fallout has been since Fallout 2. Ya it’s still a big jump in goofiness from 2 to Bethesda 3. But fallout 4 to TV show, that’s not huge leap into over reliance on 50s commercial aesthetic and goofiness and snark. I’d be more worried about elder scrolls 6. Skyrim didn’t dump out weird lore like oblivion which also had less weird lore than morrowind. Still solid though. Post Fallout 4, 76, Starfield, Fallout TV - I can see the next elder scrolls being a big up in goofiness for entertainment over weird lore that’s entertaining. Like lots of “until I took an arrow to the knee” attempts at meme-able characters

I bought an RX 9070 since I’m expecting bad for PC parts (consoles too) for the next year and a half at least

Worst physical hardware and software sales since 1995 so far. Switch 2 won’t be its first holiday next year and potential price hikes from storage and ram next year

That’s pretty much all the feedback indie devs that barely get any wishlists on their steam pre-release pages get on the gamedev subreddit.

A lot of, “I have no idea what the game is supposed to be from the trailer. Is their a narrative? Can’t tell from the trailer. Not much going on in the screenshots. That name isn’t very google-able. You barely have a description and there’s no media in the description either to flash it up. Do you not have any tiktok/Instagram/YouTube presence? YouTubers/Steam curators/Twitch? Did you submit for the Steam Indie Game/Next Fest? Have you submitted to any indie publishers and received feedback? You may be better off with a publisher if you’re not willing to do social media and help with trailers and screenshot selection and writing your Steam page.”

Netflix gaming has existed to support it’s streaming business. I imagine the WB catalog being used for that. At best maybe some native Android and iOS ports of WB games. But I think the highest potential is a GeForce Now competitor except a Netflix catalog rather than Steam

Displayport needs to start showing up on TVs and eventually get standards for stuff like eARC and HDMI CEC

When Mozilla first made a mastodon instance was the first time I tried it and didn’t like it. Tried it recently and it’s meshing better with me than before. Just need more people on it

Switch exclusive games. Fire Emblem, Zelda, Pokemon. PS3 there’s some games not on PC like Eternal Sonata

It’s an all time great mod that’s pretty harmless with the IP

The people that own Lara Croft really try to market the franchise constantly in anyway they can. Maybe the UK in general. Like when that British awards group awarded Lara Croft as the world’s most famous female video game character and the rest of the world was confused but understood the home cooked voting. Guinness world records don’t excite like they used to once the book stopped being relevant because of the internet and the steady stream of things being announced as a guiness world record