Interesting, ive been OK lugging my deck around but i mainly travel for work so it just goes in my daybag for train use/hotel use. And as i work from home mostly thats not daily - it gets most of its use around the house plugged into various chargers i have scattered by every casual seating spot…

Different strokes for different lifestyles i guess.

Interesting, i love the size of the steam deck - its a positive for me not a con. Im tempted to check out one of the smaller ones for fun if the price is right, but i also love the ‘all in one’ solution (so i dont have to sync game saves between devices etc) My 5yo daugher got heavily into Mario Odysee too! We have a switch so we let her on it, but had to wind back game time as she got a bit too obsessed. She went from being barely able to jump on boxes (as jump + move at the same time was hard) and like 3 weeks later she bet the basic game, and now is nearly 400 moons… She keeps asking me for help finding them and im like ‘kid, you surpassed my knowledge of the game a month back’

9k USD, one steam deck in there, 20 year old account. Zero micrograms, all collecting games

I snazzled

Why would you go for these devices over a steam deck + emudeck? My steam deck is my powerhouse that plays all my Indies, sreams more demanding games from my gaming PC, has a massive retro library and works as a Plex media streamer for travel. It’s my dream all-in-one device. The only reason I could see to add this as well would be the form factor?

On one hand yes please.

On the other, I think I’d rather them do a reimagining like ss1 remake ended up being

This is good news, I’d go the DX version for the odd homelab Dev stuff I do.

Watching them in valves rear view mirror I suspect

Shrinkflation!

Not digital. I used to preorder popular games way back before digital was a thing as supply could be tight, but it makes zero sense in a digital world where they can’t run out of supply.

Especially with how the trend today is release and drop hotfixes (or in some cases just laugh to the bank) I won’t drop $$$ until its in a good state

This is shaping up to be shiiit. PLS make smaller games with less staff and stop chasing bigger is better.

I fucking loved doom 2016 and the tightness of SP design was a feature

We played in beta, pre-blueprints and will loop back around for another play now it’s 1.0 That said, it didn’t grab us as much as factorio did

Factorio - 1200hrs

TF2 - ??? But lots

Counterstrike source - ??? As above

Satisfactory - 150

Rimworld/hell divers 2 /wargame red dragon / both new xcoms - 100-150hrs

I would have high scores on other titles before steam started tracking playtime / pre-steam

But… just one more turn

Very much free space 2 here. 99 was a fine year for games.

Deus ex and system shock 2 should definitely be on a retro shooter/rpg list. Shock 1, you’d probably be better off playing night dives shock remake from last year… or perhaps a modified remaster of the OG. The controls from shock1 are outright painful

So in ~1,000hrs?

Yeah, yeah it really is

I will do a day one purchase despite being too busy with factorio expansion to actually start it just yet.

Ah yes, the game that made me get a Steam account, so looks like my steam account is days from it’s 20th anniversary.

God damn did I hate Valve for making me get steam back then, I was on dialup and getting Steam to launch was a utter nightmare, and I HAD to have it to play HL2? F you gaben!

Fast forward 20 years and I’m eagerly awaiting the AU launch of the steam deck and reminiscing of how good steam has been for me… EDIT: ACCT created 19th Nov 2004, Steam Deck AU release 29th Nov 2024, so I’m ordering on my accounts 20 year anni

Played the shit outta both as kid, can’t wait for a little nostalgia hit here

Really enjoyed it, only recently finished a run with expansion and some QOL mods. Excellent visuals (with RTX), and if your into the theme the story was fun and pretty good. Not perfect by any stretch but solid. Gameplay mechanics is fairly engaging after the 2.0 patch.

It is definitely sad it took so long to get to here though, it was broken on launch beyond bugs - the builds you could do pre 1.5 were plain broken.

That said, we should celebrate anyone making single player games these days seriously, it feels like they are getting very thin on the ground.

Smells like aneurysm posting

Thanks, I actually hadn’t fully realized I had to add wikis to the list of corporate run crap I need to avoid. Medium is way bad enough, let alone wikis too

I’m guessing the patch is working its way through Google/Apple store review process. It’s likely they released PC first, mobile after.

My body is ready. 1000+ hours wonders, heres to another 1000

Yeah I was trying to avoid importing one, I’ve been using steam link and a Razer kishi as a cheap replacement. Played one at PAX, I already can’t wait to buy a OLED when they launch here

The joke is we usually get outrageous markups on tech as we don’t have alternative avenues to source. We usually get gouged hard - I.e. the grey import steam decks have been often $300 more than what steam are launching at.

Bad news everyone! They’ve already shutdown the best emulators. One if the best ceased development yesterday after some Nintendo strong-arming.

Huh suddenly I actually have a interest in PAX AUS this year beyond board games!

Over 1000h hrs here, mostly with a mate Friday nights with modded worlds. We are ready for this