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:
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Witcher 3
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Cyberpunk 2077
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Red Dead Redemption 2
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Portal 1 + 2
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Resident Evil 3 + Village
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Mirror’s Edge
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Max Payne 2 + 3 (1 has seemingly vanished from my Steam account?)
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Mafia 1 + 2 Definitive Edition
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance
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GTA San Andreas + 4 Complete
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Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
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Far Cry 2
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Fallout: New Vegas
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Doom + Eternal
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Skyrim
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Death Stranding
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Dead Space 1 + 2
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Dark Souls III
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Crysis 1 + 2, Warhead
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Control
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CoD Black Ops
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Bully Scholarship Edition
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Borderlands GOTY Enhanced
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Bioshock 1 + 2 Remastered
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Arkham Trilogy
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Assassin’s Creed Ezio Trilogy
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Alien Isolation
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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.
I bought Steam Deck specifically for my old already purchased game which were NEVER on handheld devices like Fallout 1 2 3 New Vegas, Deus Ex games, Mass Effect games, first 2 Witchers and also old Need for Speeds. While Nintendo is doing subscribtion service for their 8bit games (lol), companies like EA and Bethesda probably hate money (/s) so they never ported their games on Switch and Steam Deck just filled this hole on the market with additional bonus I dont need to pay again for all these games I already own on PC.
Plus you are right, new games are very bad and expensive. Look at Witcher 3 or RDR2, one is 8 years old, second 5 years old game and new releases from this year can’t compete with them in terms of size, content, even graphics is still better in these old titles than in New Games. Look on overhyped Hogwarts for example. Running on Unreal 4 and looks worse and plays worse than RDR2 and Witcher 3 (while stealing gameplay elements especially from RDR2 like distributing side quests during main quest line).
And Hogwarts is one of better games this year together with RE4, Dead Space (both are just remakes), then we have Baldurs Gate 3, which is amazing game and it will sure win GOTY or something is wrong with world and Lies of P was really nice surprise, but it is just rip off of Dark Souls/Bloodborne. But all these games except BG3 are not as epic as legendary titles from last 10 years.
I also like to pick up games from indie studios which turn out to be epic. Kingdom Come is prime example, or Hades or Dead Cells. But I am not aware something great and surprising like this was released this year, maybe Lies of P is that game.
I have many many old games that I didn’t play yet and newer games don’t seem worth it that much. So yeah I mostly bought it cause I have a second job where I have nothing to do.
Next weekend I will do 13 hours Sat and 14 hrs Sunday with nothing to do. All alone… I will kms. Even with the deck it gets sooooo boring. I tend to eat a lot those shifts out of boredom…
Have you managed getting stable 60 in Borderlands?
TBH, I mostly got the steam deck to play Holocure and that Coffin name game.
Goated into unnecessary negativity.
I haven’t bought any AAA game at full price in probably 15 years at this point. The only AAA games I’ve played anywhere near launch day recently have been ones that are on Game Pass, so mostly first-party Microsoft titles.
I have a pretty hefty backlog of mostly indie stuff on Steam, so that was my main reason for getting the Deck, as well as it being a more convenient way to play emulated games on the go than the Android tablet + Xbox controller combo I used previously.
No, but I buy heaps less release day games. I might by 20 older games a year or so but very few new ones.
Bought BG3 which I 100% dont resent.
Bought Pre release Starfield which on its own reminded me never to buy games on release or even early. Fuck them and bullshit reviewers that support them.
It’s funny, by the time the game is actually stable it may very well be sold at a discount.
Everyone buying a AAA at launch just to be beta testers!
Even better if you wait until all the DLC is released in a special bundle during a steam sale.
I’m playing games from the late 90s on my steam deck and it’s great.
“AAA” are usually bloatware so it is rare that I play them…been like this for a decade or more.
I bought SD (today) because I notice I enjoy indie games the most these days.
And yes, too many AAA games are bloated and release broken.
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AAA games are not more expensive than ever btw
I bought it because it’s easy to use, cheap and I like to play games
I’ve been playing more ROMs and older titles lately than AAA games. There’s a few great ones lately of course, but a lot of PC releases have definitely been disappointing.
Exactly why I bought one. Especially considering how many of my older titles that are now broken in windows have become so easy to get running great on Steam Deck!
I could have bought a new GPU instead, 2 weeks in and I’m really glad I made the choice I did.