This may overlap a lot with the discussion on what people are buying during the Steam sale discussion, but here it is anyways.

  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    After finally upgrading to a 1TB ssd yesterday, I can finally splurge on some bigger games.

    So right now I’m mostly playing vampire survivors

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      6 months ago

      I get what you’re saying, but the sentence order definitely sounds like you needed to upgrade to 1TB of storage in order to play bigger games like Vampire Survivors.

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    6 months ago

    Tunic. This game is beautiful and sessions on a full battery can last a while without charging. Highly recommend.

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    6 months ago

    Monster Hunter: World + Iceborne was on sale so I snagged it and I’ve enjoyed it quite a bit. Runs just fine on the deck and even though the game is clearly intended for multiplayer it works totally fine as a solo game.

    The main issue I had with the game is that there’s no pause button (as mentioned, it’s a game oriented towards multiplayer) which isn’t really compatible with my current life but with Decky Loader and the Pause Game plugin installed I can easily pause the game mid-quest without worrying about failing the time limit.

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    6 months ago

    Palworld when I want to focus a little bit

    BG3 when I want to focus a lot bit

    Balatro when I want to focus none bit

  • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’m still mostly playing doom 2016.

    I had a twenty year break from gaming and I’ve been trying to catch up since I got the steam deck but I remain pretty crap. I’m playing doom on little bitch mode and still finding it a challenge. I’m about half way through, I don’t get a lot of gaming time.

    I keep starting other games but not getting into them. But I think I’m gonna give dishonoured a try too.

    Steam deck is probably the best machine I’ve bought in years.

  • Gristle@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I spend hours setting up mods for games I’ve never played before so I can play the “best” version of it just to either get it working and play for a hell of a lot less time than I spent setting it up or giving up and going back to one of my comfort games.

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    6 months ago

    Mad Max, snatched it for 2 bucks during the sale. Pretty good and chill game and well worth its price.

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      6 months ago

      Whoa. It runs on deck? I just finished it on desktop. Completionist wise it was such a burden and I wish it didn’t have any achievements. Hopefully your sand trip is awesome!

  • ErableEreinte@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Mouthwashing, which I should finish tonight, Selaco - this one required a bit of tweaking but can mostly hold 60 now - and Balatro.

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    I broke down and bought Baldur’s Gate 3. I really tried to like it, but I did not.

    So now I bought Horizon: Forbidden West, but the Deck can’t play it, so I’m playing that on my desktop.

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      6 months ago

      with the latest 1.5 patch you can easily reach 60fps during normal gameplay (all low settings, FSR3 frame gen enabled). you can even reach 90fps incertain cases. its honestly impressive what they were able to squeeze out of the steamdeck.

      https://www.protondb.com/app/2420110?device=steamDeck

      I’m sure your desktop plays it better, but it should now work on the Deck despite the unverified status (this is the case more often than not).

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          6 months ago

          You can always stream from your desktop to your Deck too if the performance on the Deck isn’t great.

          I do this with my PS5 sometimes. I played the majority of Miles Morales that way.

          Hey, what was it that you didn’t like about BG3? I haven’t played it yet because my patience for RPGs is low these days.

          • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.ca
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            6 months ago

            BG3 is a pretty impressive game really. It’s clear that they poured a lot of effort and talent into it. It just feels… pointlessly complicated to me. There’s like, 200 different spells to cast, each with their own effectiveness based on a dice roll, a multitude of different configurations for character development which all feel both too similar and like I’m closing the door on something I might really like. The story is… okay, but really not that interesting to me, and the pacing in combination with the very open world and constant fiddling with gear with a multitude of only slightly different attributes… it’s just too much. The game feels more like a job than something I’d do for fun.

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              6 months ago

              That’s exactly why I avoided it. It’s a second job rather than fun (to me, plenty disagree of course). Thank you for confirming that. I’ll stick with more action heavy games.

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    6 months ago

    Space Marine 1, A Good Snowman is Hard to Build, Slay the Spire, Cross Code, and Droplitz.

    • AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org
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      6 months ago

      This one is such a banger. Look up guides on how to parry consistently if the game didn’t explain it well enough. It’s crucial to the enjoyment of the game, yet it is explained oh so poorly.