My steam deck has become an RPG machine for laying in bed. Wife and I tend to go lay in bed right after dinner, and since she falls asleep quick, I game. Always play a bit of ESO, and I'm currently playing Chained Echoes, which is a great modern take on 16bit RPGs. The writing is a little rough since it was made by one guy (he's German) and translated to English by his composer but it's got a really fun battle system and a great aesthetic.
This is the way for me as well. Long story-driven RPGs, particularly older titles, really shine in a mobile format due to being able to play in any position on any furniture, and the small screen hides the dated graphics. I've been going through all the Final Fantasy series, and the Pixel Remasters of 1-6 were fantastic on the Deck.
Diablo 4 is my go to right now, it runs really great (constant 60fps with FSR and medium details). I'll probably buy Casette Beasts when I get bored with D4, I've heard good things about it.
I mean, I'm not on Beehaw if thats what you're getting at but I'm currently working my way through Boltgun. Switch to a gyro control profile and it's heaps of fun.
Im currently enjoying Peglin, a lot more fun than card-based roguelikes like Slay the Spire, you get more valleys (good and bad moments) compared to cards, since card based gameplay has no mechanical skill to them, you either get your cards or not, but in Peglin you have to aim and pray :)
I've officially reached the whatever you call the phase where you spend all your time on the Steam Deck tweaking emulators, setting up roms, tidying everything up and not play any of it.
Lately I've been playing Farthest Frontier and NIMBY. Before that it was Crusader Kings III and FIFA '23. The latter mostly for some quick dumb downtime. But I'm a bit uncertain with what game I should play and what I'm enjoying.
Haha, NIMBY rails is a game where you design a railway network on a real life map. So you can start in your home town and build from there.
I think it's quite detailed with all the timetable settings and ways to route traffic. But you must be into these kind of games, otherwise it's redious and boring.
D4's itemization/builds arent as deep as in Grim Dawn but if you can, i would recommend waiting until they reveal what their Season 1 entails.
There are some annoying grinds in the game and depending on how they decide to flesh out season to season may make the game more enjoyable for a longer period, because right now, as a veteran ARPGer, you start winding down in interest pretty quickly after finishing the campain.
Any good tutorial how to get D4 installed on the deck? The ones i found are quite outdated with referincing old Proton versions and the setup is somehow different now for me compared to the guides.
Besides installing Battle.net in Desktop mode with the "add non-steam game" thingy there's not much to it really. I also installed the Proton-GE tool from Discover and used the latest version because it apparently increases performance but honestly, the game runs great so I don't know if that's even needed.
It’s a tool that hooks into Vulkan applications and allows for postprocessing effects (shaders) to be implemented on top. For me; I use it to enable FXAA, smaa, and FidelityFX Contrast Adaptive Sharpening on games which don’t support those features for whatever reason. (As an example, I’m using DXVK with GTA IV, then vkBasalt on top of that to add antialiasing and sharpening)
It’s a bit annoying to use as you have to add a vkBasalt.conf file to the directory of the game you want to use it with, or edit the system vkBasalt.conf file to reflect what you want to apply system wide.
It is comparable to what Reshade does for DirectX applications.
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