My first machine was a commodore 64, then Nes, SNES, Master system, Megadrive, N64, OG Xbox then Stopped gaming after the Xbox 360 end of life. Don’t have time to get setup in front of a TV or monitor or the inclination.
The switch came out and I got a chance of one cheap. Bought it loved that I could pick it up put it down and lock it so it was exactly where I left the game last time. BOTW was great played Skyrim again then got bored of the gimmick games with not many adult titles and Nintendo’s poor updates. And the joycons are completely shit.
The switch languished in a drawer for ages then I gave it to my 7 year old nephew.
I heard about the deck taking preorders so got my name down.
As someone who primarily plays 5 year or older RPGs it is an absolute dream machine. I can play it at work when I’m quiet, I can play it with the TV on in the background, I can lie in bed with it.
Put it this way if I broke the deck right now I’d go out and buy another tomorrow.
I really hope there will be updates to get starfield playable.
I will never go back to consoles that aren’t handheld again.
I went from buying and never playing PC games to playing them pretty often.
My gaming PC is in the basement. I rarely find the time to hole up down there with kids and family life. But I can hang in the living room on my couch and play now. Game changer.
Ironically enough, it’s led to me playing more games on the living room television! The steam deck helped me adapt to playing with a gamepad, as opposed to mouse and keyboard.
Until they come out with a Steam Controller 2, I will say the best gamepad for steam is the Dualsense (a Dualshock 4 also works). It’s got one touchpad instead of two, but Steam lets you map the left and right half separately, which covers my primary use cases. I also installed the RISE4 remap kit, a hardware mod that adds paddles on the back of the controller which can mimic any face button. Not as good as having actual new buttons, but it does mean I can run and jump without taking my thumb off the right stick.
I play so many more platformers and 2-d bullet hells. I never enjoyed the latency of a wireless controller, or the inaccuracy of wasd inputs, and wired controllers are a pretty big no no in my house (we love our animals more than our electronics, but electronic loss is so hard to handle), the steam deck is great with most games native controller support, and the community layouts make most non natively supported games work wonderfully.
I just wish it had a built in kick stand, I bought a little stand for it but the deck is just a bit too heavy when it’s almost vertical.
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I’m playing a whole lot more GameCube games again
My first machine was a commodore 64, then Nes, SNES, Master system, Megadrive, N64, OG Xbox then Stopped gaming after the Xbox 360 end of life. Don’t have time to get setup in front of a TV or monitor or the inclination.
The switch came out and I got a chance of one cheap. Bought it loved that I could pick it up put it down and lock it so it was exactly where I left the game last time. BOTW was great played Skyrim again then got bored of the gimmick games with not many adult titles and Nintendo’s poor updates. And the joycons are completely shit.
The switch languished in a drawer for ages then I gave it to my 7 year old nephew.
I heard about the deck taking preorders so got my name down.
As someone who primarily plays 5 year or older RPGs it is an absolute dream machine. I can play it at work when I’m quiet, I can play it with the TV on in the background, I can lie in bed with it.
Put it this way if I broke the deck right now I’d go out and buy another tomorrow.
I really hope there will be updates to get starfield playable.
I will never go back to consoles that aren’t handheld again.
I take over the TV less on weekdays when I need me time after work. Means more time with my wife so it’s a win.
I’ve been playing on planes, airports, beach, outdoor.
But not much at home. There I still use the PC.
I went from buying and never playing PC games to playing them pretty often.
My gaming PC is in the basement. I rarely find the time to hole up down there with kids and family life. But I can hang in the living room on my couch and play now. Game changer.
Games are same and playtime is same. Linux gamer even before steam deck.
My neck is more often sore.
I play way more retro games due to packages like EmuDeck being so slick.
Ironically enough, it’s led to me playing more games on the living room television! The steam deck helped me adapt to playing with a gamepad, as opposed to mouse and keyboard.
Until they come out with a Steam Controller 2, I will say the best gamepad for steam is the Dualsense (a Dualshock 4 also works). It’s got one touchpad instead of two, but Steam lets you map the left and right half separately, which covers my primary use cases. I also installed the RISE4 remap kit, a hardware mod that adds paddles on the back of the controller which can mimic any face button. Not as good as having actual new buttons, but it does mean I can run and jump without taking my thumb off the right stick.
That does sound really good, I avoid some games when playing docked because of missing back buttons/touchpads.
Currently I’m using stadia controllers, which work pretty well but don’t have any extra input options.
I play so many more platformers and 2-d bullet hells. I never enjoyed the latency of a wireless controller, or the inaccuracy of wasd inputs, and wired controllers are a pretty big no no in my house (we love our animals more than our electronics, but electronic loss is so hard to handle), the steam deck is great with most games native controller support, and the community layouts make most non natively supported games work wonderfully.
I just wish it had a built in kick stand, I bought a little stand for it but the deck is just a bit too heavy when it’s almost vertical.