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.

  • ClikeX@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Anyone else bought a Steam Deck because new AAA games release broken and are more expensive than ever?

    Kinda? A lot of new AAA games just don’t interest me as much. EA does release some good games, but their the EA app on PC is dogshit. And Ubisoft just only releases open world busywork that I dislike, and their launcher is shit too. That already cuts down on a lot of games. Unfortunately, it also limits older games since they forced them into the new launchers as well.

    I’m mostly going back through “old” games I never really had time for due to adult life. Just finished Rise of Tomb Raider, which was great. Plenty of side content to dig my teeth in, but still just a 20-hour game, which is perfect for me.