• @Blastasaurus@lemm.ee
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      I played about 8 games in a row that I couldn’t get into until I found this one. It is definitely enjoyable.

  • @M500@lemmy.ml
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    32 years ago

    Out of those 20, 10 of them are either already on my deck or match my queue of games to play. Any reason to play skyrim special edition over legendary edition? I plan on playing the game without mods. I thought legendary edition would give better battery life. I do not remember is special edition has any worthwhile upgrades.

    • @9715698@lemmy.world
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      I think they both have the same battery life, but Anniversary has bundled Creator Community content with it.

      • @M500@lemmy.ml
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        I watched a video on the differences, but it didn’t really seem like it was anything other than graphical. Since battery is the same, maybe I’ll just install special edition then.

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      Pure vanilla, the differences arent much. The only one i recall was better water rendering.

      Theres a difference now if you consider mods, but vanilla is (mostly) the same

      • @M500@lemmy.ml
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        Thanks, I played it before any dlc came out for the game and I was not blown away by the graphical improvements. I’m just going to stick with legendary edition. Maybe it won’t be any different but I just feel like it will be more performant.

      • @M500@lemmy.ml
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        Thanks, I played it before any dlc came out for the game and I was not blown away by the graphical improvements. I’m just going to stick with legendary edition. Maybe it won’t be any different but I just feel like it will be more performant.

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      Slay the Spire?

      Binding of Isaac?

      Fucking Stardew Valley!

      What are you talking about? Nearly half of them are indie games.

  • Rouxibeau
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    I think these would be better if they worked like ratings charts and showed relative changes since last month.

      • Owl
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        But how can a steamdeck run starfield ?

        • interolivary
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          It looks a bit🥔 and requires some ini file tweaking, but I can get get playable FPS out of it, 30-ish for the most part

        • Dudewitbow
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          Keep in mind, theres a giant community behind yhe steamdeck, and if a game allows mods(especially bethesdas), theres always a modder who has a modlist for tweaks specifically for the deck.

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            I think it runs almost playably out of the box, so I would imagine it would work actually playably with a few mods, e.g. to adjust settings not accessible through graphics presets and to enable disk I/O cache.

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          The benefit of a smaller screen is that you need less resolution to make it look half decent and with all the optimizing valve does with proton i imagine its quite playable. But the way graphics where implemented in star-field is shit and there are no excuses.

  • @kootepe@sopuli.xyz
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    People really play this many games in a month? Even when I played a lot I mostly focused on very few games.

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    I feel good for CDPR. They fumbled the launch of Cyberpunk, but people are still playing the crap out of it, so I guess they handled it well in the end. It must be horrible to have worked on a game for years, only for it to blow up the way Cyberpunk did.

    Edit: Though I suppose the launch was only “fumbled” on last gen hardware.

  • @answersplease77@lemmy.world
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    So proud of Skyrim, GTA-V and Fallout-4 holding strong decades after their release. They could be the most played games of the century

    • @Freestylesno@lemmy.world
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      I think their age is also an advantage on the Deck. Since the requirements are lower they run better then new AAA games.

    • @JDubbleu@programming.dev
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      It’s a handheld, standalone computer. It can do game streaming from a PC as well, but it’s powerful enough to run games like Fallout 4 at 40 FPS.

      • @SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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        Is 40 acceptable? All I ever see is people complaining if it’s not 120 and I can’t tell if it’s just a meme or not. I play on console primarily for ease of use (I have toddlers), but I do have a pc that’s mid range that does well but I just feel so isolated from my family every time I sit at the computer. Thinking about the steam deck but I know next to nothing of it.

        • @moody@lemmings.world
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          Framerates are mostly a personal preference.

          The Steam Deck has roughly the same gaming performance as a PS4, but it’s an actual PC so it can run all kinds of other software without hacky mods. It runs a version of Linux by default, but you could install Windows on it if that tickles your fancy.

        • Redeven
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          What you find acceptable is entirely based on your personal preference, how much you’ve already been exposed to higher specs, and how privileged you are in hardware, so some people are memeing and others are serious based on these. If console and mid-range pc gaming is all you know, the Steam Deck provides similar performance, and it’s a full on pc (with all the customization potential and non-gaming software availability you’d expect from a pc) in a handheld form factor, and a fairly console-like stock OS, if that’s appealing to you. But if you want 120-240 fps on latest AAA games, no, you won’t find the Steam Deck’s performance acceptable, but then also you wouldn’t be the target audience.

        • Steam Deck is only a 60Hz display (which your TV almost certainly is too) so anything over 60 fps isn’t actually going to make a difference visually. That being said, if you’re playing on a display capable of 120Hz, 120 fps will absolutely make a difference visually.

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          40 is a sweet spot between 30 and 60: feels much more smooth than 30, is much less demanding than 60. And by the way, 30 is acceptable too as long as it’s stable. Sure it will almost certainly feel less smooth than other options, but especially as you say you’re playing on console mostly… chances are you are already used to 30 fps. I, for example, feel the difference between 30 and 60 in Forza Horizon 5 (and the magic 40) but that’s not preventing me from doing well.

          The one thing that I’m not sure has been mentioned yet, is that the Steam Deck targets 720p. The screen is small enough for that to work out fine.

          • Dudewitbow
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            The reason why 40 fps feels better is because even though its only 10 fps higher, the frame latency is half(25 ms) compared to 30(33.3 ms) and 60(16.6ms) on the two ends. So you work 33% harder for half the latency.

            To put in perspective, the drop in latency (8.3 ms), is the same for example going from , 40 to 60, or 60(16.6) > 120(8.3 ms)

        • @PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works
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          I use mine for indie games, mostly. I have a gaming computer for AAA titles. You can stream games from steam on your pc, but I haven’t fucked with that much.

          It performs way better than I expected, but I am one of those that requires higher frame rates for some titles so.

    • @Blastasaurus@lemm.ee
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      Yeh I played it for 4 or 5 hours upon release and then threw the disc in the garbage when gamestop wouldn’t give me a refund or take it as a trade in.

      Great to see all the updates but I still feel robbed and refuse to pick it up again because I’m stubborn.

      • Thassodar
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        I tried it when it hit Game Pass years ago and had the same experience. Although people tout the expansions as game changing I found it incredibly dull.

    • @magnesium@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      NMS works really well on Steam Deck! Low/med settings limited to 40 fps, getting 2 to 2.5 hrs battery life and the fan is barely spinning.

      • @piskertariot@lemmy.world
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        I am absolutely some of that NMS time. I just run it at default, and I get about an hour. Which is great, because after that I really should take a break.