I mean old like Sega Rally Revo. This is not my video, but it sums up my experience playing in deck. The graphics doesn’t feel too old when compared to today’s games and I’m not sure why but I always get above 100fps even i limit deck settings to 60.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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