A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
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Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
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Rules:
Old games I recently played:
I play plenty of old games. They don't get worse with time. Of course nostalgia also plays a big role for me. But Diablo is not a game I know from back then. Only in a negative light, when I tried it once, couldn't figure it out and never touched it again.
Combat Evolved is nice
I replay the original halo trilogy, occasionally with Reach or ODST as well, every year or so, they are all so much fun still
If you don’t play the Halo trilogy at least once every year the flood wins
Playing through MCC? How does it run on the deck? I have it installed but waiting to start playing through 2 3 and reach again became it will take all my time
Its smooth. Just finished CE legendary and going to start 2 on heroic.
I play SSX 3 Gamecube like it's my 2nd job.
Yes I have. I switch between older AAA and current indie games. I have tried some recent AAA games as well. I play anything I want at the time I want to play something.
What old games do you play?
Oldest one I boot up regularly is Super Mario World I would say. On a less frequent occasion I do also play Tecmo's Deception (PS1). I do like going back to Gradius for the SNES as well.
Contra and Contra 2 are fun, but very challenging games I will occasionally bust out.
PC gaming wise I have been playing City of Heroes and Diablo 1.
The Steam Deck has been kind of my introduction to PC gaming. The newer AAA games haven’t caught my attention.
I’ve played quite a bit of Neptunia and Senran Kagura. I might as well catch up with what I missed and can get for cheaper. Newer games like BG3 shock me with how much storage they consume, so I’m starting with older titles.
I feel that. The newer games are fun and look beautiful, but the storage requirements sting a bit.
Can the Deck do on-demand file compression/inflation to save space?
It can, but it's not trivial to set up. First you have to reformat/convert to btrfs, then you have to chattr everything, and defrag to do a compression pass on the existing stuff. And after all that, Steam does every download and patch with a preallocate that blocks out the online compression, so you have to subvol and anti-cow its downloading folder to defeat that.
Already using btrfs, since I'm on Bazzite, but I think I'll just upgrade the SSD before I bother doing all that 😂
Because everyone has time to 7z a -m”x=9” an entire game that might be hardly compressible due to drm, whenever they want to unzip and play a different game! /s
… unless the deck has some kind of built in compression I don’t know about.
I recently revisited fallout new Vegas and it was an excellent experience.
Outside of that I tend to remain in the indie space, but I'm not against the occasional old triple a
It's one of the primary reasons I bought I deck. I game pretty much on PlayStation and do my work on a Mac, so the PC catalog has be largely unavailable to me until now. Anything built for PS4 forward (or ported from PS3) I don't mind buying on PS5 and streaming through Chiaki. Anything PS2 backwards (that never got a PC port or isn't already available on the PS+ subscription) is just easier to emulate. However, PS3 had a lot of gems that are only really available through the PC now, so I bought a deck to play those. Fallouts 3, NV, Final Fantasy XIII and the sequels I never actually had a chance to play, GTA IV. I hope I'll get to play the Killzone trilogy again someday.
If you include remasters, I've been playing Shenmue I, which I think I originally played on my friend's Dreamcast in about 2001. Think it was one of the most expensive games ever made when it first came out, so I guess that'd make it pretty AAA?
There's a lot that feels a bit dated in it, like slightly clunky controls, annoyingly long sequences for tiny things (i.e. taking your shoes off every time you go in/out the house), emotionally stunted voiceovers etc - but it also holds up as a good mystery, and such a beautifully realised game world that the clunkiness just becomes sort of joyously nostalgic. I think it's great.
Also, the creepy little kids that shout "HEY MISTER! DO YOU WANT TO PLAY... soooocccerrrr?" are still hilarious.
Yes, although I'm mostly playing games 4-8 years old. I have a lot of great games I missed during that period, and they both feel modern and run pretty well.
Does Nier Automata count as an old AAA game?
Not as old as the games OP is talking about, but it is over 7 years old so I would say yes.
7 years is a long time in the gaming world.