I was on the edge buying the thing and told myself that if I use it 50 hours it’s a reasonable purchase. Now I’m sporting closer to 200h within one year I could not be happier.

Did you have any (self made) goals when buying Steam Deck? Did you achieve those? Or did you buy it and now it’s collecting dust? I’m curious

  • curiousaur@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Oh my God, maybe 500 hours or more in a year. I actually stopped gaming on my PC. It was aging anyway, and I still think I’ll get a new PC to play starfield and armored core. But I have put some serious time into my deck.

    I beat: Horizon zero dawn Breath of the wild Kingdom come deliverance Wasteland 3 Assassin’s creed black flag Dredge Children of morta

    I almost beat: Tunic Outer wilds Hades

    And sunk hundreds of hours into the roguelikes vampire survivors risk of rain 2.

    I credit the suspend / resume feature as much as anything else. When playing through a big game, being able the press a button and instantly pick up where you left off, vs: booting your PC, launching steam, maybe launching a 3rd party launcher, loading the game, loading your save, then playing. It’s one second to start playing vs 5 - 10 minutes? So when you only have 20 minutes to play, you actually play.

    I hope steam os becomes available on more powerful or custom hardware honestly, because going back to windows or even Linux feels like a chore after getting spoiled by suspend / resume on the deck.