I have been gaming on my PS5 since release. I usually play AAA games and since a few months I stopped buying them. Nowadays they arrive with loads of problems and take forever to fix. Once they are fixed, DLC arrives and the games get big discounts. All publishers are guilty of this, even Sony games now suffer from problems. Considering 2024 looks like a bit weaker and I have a big Steam library full of titles I haven’t played in years I ordered myself a Steam Deck OLED. I want to avoid buying new AAA games that now cost €80 and aren’t even finished. My plan is to replay a lot of following games before I buy a new game:

  • Witcher 3

  • Cyberpunk 2077

  • Red Dead Redemption 2

  • Portal 1 + 2

  • Resident Evil 3 + Village

  • Mirror’s Edge

  • Max Payne 2 + 3 (1 has seemingly vanished from my Steam account?)

  • Mafia 1 + 2 Definitive Edition

  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance

  • GTA San Andreas + 4 Complete

  • Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

  • Far Cry 2

  • Fallout: New Vegas

  • Doom + Eternal

  • Skyrim

  • Death Stranding

  • Dead Space 1 + 2

  • Dark Souls III

  • Crysis 1 + 2, Warhead

  • Control

  • CoD Black Ops

  • Bully Scholarship Edition

  • Borderlands GOTY Enhanced

  • Bioshock 1 + 2 Remastered

  • Arkham Trilogy

  • Assassin’s Creed Ezio Trilogy

  • Alien Isolation

  • Alan Wake + American Nightmare

This also made my reconsider buying physical games on Playstation by the way. I usually sell my games after I beat them but because of that I also have a tiny Playstation library.

  • eclipse0990@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I moved from a country full of software engineers to a country full of sangrias. The cost of electricity went from about 30 dollars from a big apartment to 100+ for a smaller apartment with rates that are highest in the evenings when I’m free to play games. So I bought a steam deck earlier this year and I believe it has already paid off for its price. The only thing I miss is being able to play FPS effectively. But rest has been quite good. And of course I can also play when I’m traveling or in the 10-15 minutes breaks

  • agameraaron@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I bought the Deck because it’s a good value, a hybrid portable-console and I love to see Linux gaming move forward.

  • SupposablyAtTheZoo@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’ve always been a r/patientgamers because I like games to be complete/fixed and on sale. So it sure doesn’t hurt to pick up my library on SD.

  • Oftenwrongs@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    “AAA” are usually bloatware so it is rare that I play them…been like this for a decade or more.

  • DrPeterVenkmen@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    You’re right about games being broken, but they are objectively cheaper than they’ve ever been. In the US for example, in the 90s, games were $50 (PS1)-$70 (N64). With inflation, games should be near $100. Games also have so much more content than they ever had back then.

    So while I’m with you on the “games releasing unfinished” thing, they are absolutely not more expensive than ever.

  • ttenor12@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Same, got it for cleaning my backlog and emulating. And damn is it doing an amazing job. I’ve even been able to play some new games such as RE4 Remake with decent graphics and performance, though I played it on my PC first for the highest possible fidelity. Thanks to my Deck, I’ve played the following:

    • Half Life
    • Half Life 2
    • Portal 2
    • Zelda BOTW (Would have never finished it on my PC)
    • Cyberpunk 2077 (streamed from my PC, would have never finished it either)
    • Little Nightmares
    • Metroid Prime Remastered (Replay)
    • Super Metroid
    • Metroid Zero Mission
    • Metroid Fusion
    • Finally got 120 stars on Super Mario 64 (Render 96 port, Replay)
    • Ghost Recon with the Heroes Unleashed mod (Replay)
    • Conker’s Bad Fur Day
    • Finally finished Banjo Tooie.
    • Max Payne 3 (Replay)
  • gretnothing@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I still love playing latest Triple-A games, but not on release. Playing games on launch day is pretty much participating in payed Beta. Especially with developers asking you to raise technical support tickets, as if it was your job. What a joke.

    I bought my Deck because I travel a lot, and there is nothing worse than boredom during travel. There is a lot of older games that can’t be played on Deck anyways. Cyberpunk being 3-years old game and being borderline unplayable on Deck, for example.