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Ulrich Steppberger

@steppberger.bsky.social

Opinions & Tweets are my own / Editor at M! Games & MANIAC.de (@maniaconline.bsky.social)

46 Followers  |  27 Following  |  35 Posts  |  Joined: 10.07.2023  |  1.9607

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Immer wieder eine Freude, wenn man seine Freizeit fΓΌr ein optionales Projekt einsetzt und also erste Reaktion dann "Mach was anderes!" und "Wehe du bist nicht angemessen unterwΓΌrfig und dankbar, wenn jemand drΓΌber meckert!" aufgetischt wird. Motivitation pur.

23.12.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And what I'd really like to know is why there is no option to pick between Quality/Performancy on PS5 Pro (assuming PS5 Base also doesn't have that) when Switch 2 has it.

09.12.2025 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Performance mode on Switch 2 seems reaonsonably decent fps wise from what I have seen so far, vertainly much better than the current Pro state. Xbox no one knows because there is no Xbox version.

09.12.2025 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I also are puzzled how the first few PS5 reviews up on MC/OC fail to mention the technical performance issues at all - you really can't miss them in this particular game.

08.12.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In regards to the Switch 2 version, that one actually does have the option to use quality / performance and from the (so far very little) bit I played at least performance actually did keep to 60 fps where PS5 Pro already had drops. So I do have some hope left for that one.

08.12.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just sent a mail - honenstly didn't see a roll-call, though?

28.11.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I believe The Swindle got console versions at launch back in the days? I'd like to imagine your current publisher would help you achieve that now as well as I actually have no clue why else you'd actually need them.

14.10.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'd be pretty surprised if this is still going to happen unless it's already printed as well.

05.10.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Classifying King of Dragons and Knights of the Round as RPGs pretty much would have told enough of what to make of that as well.

03.10.2025 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Funnily enough I did not see (the press release, that is) because years ago, your glorious publisher decided to blacklist me and the entire team I work with on oour magazine for the crime of... actually wanting to review one of his games. Oh well.

29.09.2025 09:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Having just contributed my required poking for Henry (and looking forward to reviwing it, of course), I hope you will forgive me for poking about what's happening with codes for Is This Seat Taken on Switch?

11.08.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I suspect that also depends on the outcome? Having someone say they like it despite usually not being into VNs clearly must feel great, but someone going straight to "this sucks because there's no action/gameplay" (I've seen such "reviews" for e.g. Steins;Gate) on the other hand...

18.06.2025 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To put an obvious example, handing somebody who hates reading a Visual Novel for a review surely most likely won't result in a something useful for anyone.

18.06.2025 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I respect that, though I find it problematic if reviews are written by people who show an active dislike to the source material or a genre. While they might provide an interesting second opion, I feel it's more suitable if the main review is done by someone who doesn't have negative preconceptions.

18.06.2025 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm curious, if I may: How do you feel about people reviewing your game while repeatedly claiming that Legacy is a crap movie, therefore showing they are not really that qualified to judge TRON-related things?

18.06.2025 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Darf ich mich ein bisschen wundern, warum mir wohl jemand auf LinkedIn eine Vernetzungseinladung schickt, der mich vor nicht allzu langer Zeit mit einem Burner-Account (nicht endgΓΌltig beweisbar, aber die Indizien waren doch recht eindeutig) wΓΌst in einem Forum beschimpft hat?

16.06.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind is apparently really good. Definitely has a lovely pixely look and as added bonus for people who still care about this, it also just got a non-FOMO physical release for PS5 & Switch as well.

01.06.2025 09:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'd like to hope on Switch 2 it's running with 60 fps while Old Switch pretty surely will stick to 30, which would make quite a bit of difference imho.

Personally, I almost always stick to PS5/Xbox over Switch for multi-system releases whenever performance comes into play.

27.05.2025 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Only if technical performance doesn't matter at all. Which I assume what many Switch users actually feel about that because portable use is the only thing mattering to them.

I'd still prefer better framerates and so on.

27.05.2025 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No, they are not. As also shown by Switch 2 releases that are actual codes in a box like Split Fiction or Civ 7.

27.05.2025 08:14 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Assuming I'd want to stick to a portable version (as in there's no PS5 version around, which in this case obviously there is) and actually play it, I would go for the one with better performance even, so that's still making sense.

27.05.2025 07:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Tommy Cash was robbed.

17.05.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kaum noch zu glauben, dass man sich früher mal auf Google-Infos einigermaßen verlassen konnte.

14.05.2025 11:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ohne Übertreibung die mit Abstand beschissendste Interaktion, die ich mit irgendwem auf Publisher/PR-Seite in den letzten 15 Jahren (mindestens) hatte. Seitdem natürlich auch nix mehr von denen gestestet, was nachvollziehbar sein dürfte.

27.04.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Erst abgewiesen nach dem Motto "Nur wer bei MC auftaucht, ist fΓΌr mich ΓΌberhaupt relevant" und weil man es eine Woche spΓ€ter nochmal hΓΆflich probiert hat, seitdem sogar vom Verteiler der Pressemitteilunge gestrichen (alle in der Redaktion, nicht nur ich). Mittelkleiner Indieschuppen, wohlgemerkt.

27.04.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Da juckt es mich ja schon in den Fingern, wenn in meine Timeline jemand reingequotet wird, der jetzt um mehr Aufmerksamkeit für sein gerade verâffentlichtes Spiel bettelt, das wegen Oblivion keiner beachtet, aber uns vor Jahren nach einer Musteranfrage dermaßen großkotzig-aggressiv abgekanzelt hat.

27.04.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The disc (or cart) is there so you can put a box on your shelf and to work as a dongle. Obviously not what we'd ideally want it to be, but still much better than a code-in-a-box or just no physical avilability at all.

18.04.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'll run a review pretty much instantly the moment you send me Behold the Kickmen: Revenge of the Ball for Switch 2.

27.02.2025 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You conducted the interview, helped making it possible for us to use it and provided the fotographs of Carol, thatβ€˜s plenty in my opinion.

23.01.2025 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@bitmapbooks.com Hi there! Is it really not possible to change my email adress use for my account on the web shop by myself? In that case, hopefully you can change it from our end?

07.01.2025 19:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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