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I Guess I'm Done Playing Vidya Games (lemmy.world)
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I liked playing games on my gameboy, but long gone are the simple days of "insert cartridge, turn on, play". Even the 3DS is kinda bloaty and games dont really feel luke they were designed for the medium.

I liked playing games on my N64 and xbox, but now that I know about modding games it's hard to live with the QoL issues that I know could be fixed.

I liked playing games on my PC, but windows gets worse each generation and finally I had to switch to Linux, where even minor changes take hours. Some people love when their computer has a problem because it gives them something to do -- they get to fix it. I have enough to do, I'm just trying to play games.

I feel like I've been elbowed out of the past time. The user experience is so poor that I end up unhappier for trying. I guess I'll buy a dart board?

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Some games are better than others for this equipment. Its not a hig end gaming PC so yeah, tone down the graphics, go 2D, and games that work well in short sessions, you will probably have a better time. Things to try on it:

Slay the spire 1 and 2

Into the Breach

Dead Cells

Hollow Knight 1 and 2

Blasphemous 1 and 2

Ball X Pit

Dome Keeper

Katamari (any)

30XX, 20XX

Tunic

Mewgenics

XCOM Enemy Unknown, Xcom 2

Deep Rock Survivor

Cult of the Lamb

Stardew Valley

Hades 1 and 2

Dave the Diver

Cuphead

The Outer Wilds

Some longer session or more demanding things that work:

The Alters - I felt like medium graphics was fine on this one.

The Witcher 3 - remaster has a steam deck preset.

Valheim - switch to classic controls, default is nonsense but otherwise runs fine.

HiFi Rush

A Plague Tale (1 and 2)

God of War ran surprisingly well

Clair Obscure, sort of. A little rough sometimes, but playable

Subnautica

Sekiro

Control, if you turn down the graphics

Elden Ring runs. I dont like multiplayer on wifi though

Monster Hunter Rise and World

Resident Evil 8 and earlier

Theres really no shortage of good choices for the deck. Like sure, most of that stuff didnt come out this year... But neither did the deck.

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