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 use my PS5 only for exclusives since the Steam Deck arrived
is portal one and two playable? does it run well or needs to be optimised?
I bought it mostly for indie games and emulation If there’s anything more demanding, I use the ROG Ally (Cyberpunk, GTA, etc.). Now, if it’s an AAA I’ll probably play on PS5/PS Portal or my laptop (if it’s a FPS).
But my focus is also on my backlog first before I buy a new game, unless I really want to play it, like Spider 2 or Alan Wake 2.
All great games.
Triple A, I am so tired of this phrase. Triple A you mean beta release games with season passes.
Doesn’t quite fit the phrase of triple A. Like cyber punk was broken AF for until about now
I got mine because of a lack of self-control and a tendency to impulse buy cool tech stuff. Don’t regret it, but I’m gonna kid myself either :)
Why would I play any “AAA” game, 95% are garbage, 5% is ok after 2 years of patches and will be played once HEAVILY discounted :)
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I moved from a country full of software engineers to a country full of sangrias. The cost of electricity went from about 30 dollars from a big apartment to 100+ for a smaller apartment with rates that are highest in the evenings when I’m free to play games. So I bought a steam deck earlier this year and I believe it has already paid off for its price. The only thing I miss is being able to play FPS effectively. But rest has been quite good. And of course I can also play when I’m traveling or in the 10-15 minutes breaks
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.
Fair warning you’ll need to do some workarounds to get assassins creed working properly
Goated into unnecessary negativity.
It’s funny how devs keep yelling “game development becomes more and more expensive”, but i rarely see those expanses reflect on game quality in a good way.
More like the opposite!
Because most of those expenses go to expensive things like motion capture, voice acting, art, and marketing. And it’s pretty much an arms race in pushing the boundaries.
Devs and artists get pushed pretty hard to deliver bigger and better every time. Unfortunately, they don’t always get the time and means to do so. There’s a big disconnect between upper management and the actual devs/artists making the game.
Luckily, not everyone is buying AAA games on release day and waiting for discounts instead. That’s the rule I usually follow for the AAA games I buy because that’s been the trend for some time now, where it goes full price and then, it’ll get cheaper months later.
I still own a PS5 and Steam Deck and don’t see any reason not to have both since not every AAA game on Steam Deck runs great because there are compromises in performance or graphics while at the same time, the PS5 would run those same games better. Also, you could remote play from the PS5 to Steam Deck if you wanted to, which makes it nice to have both.
For the last 5 years I haven’t played any new AAA releases other than elden ring. For some reason I find myself preferring unique or relaxing video games, or an RPG I can get lost in. Broken and overpriced games have certainly not convinced me I should return to AAA games anytime soon.