•  pyrflie   ( @pyrflie@lemm.ee ) 
    21•4 days ago

    I have never felt as much envy as seeing someone play BG3 on an 8 hr flight. That was what sold me.

    To cap it off the SOB killed Scratch and the Owlbear Cub. That flight was actual torture for multiple reasons.

      •  pyrflie   ( @pyrflie@lemm.ee ) 
        6•4 days ago

        I think they were playing at a low res. 720p or maybe 480p. That said they didn’t even have stuttering. It was really impressive.

        Mine is still on order haven’t got it yet.

        •  TachyonTele   ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 
          2•4 days ago

          I’d be happy if it played Owlcat RPGs at near full settings. Those games are allot more fun than BG3, imo.

          I digress though. It’d be nice to be able to play recent games again. If the deck can do that on my TV, I’m down.

            •  TachyonTele   ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 
              2•4 days ago

              WotR for the win. never played Kingmaker. And I just got Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader. I don’t understand how these games aren’t more popular.

              I feel like BG3 is big just because the camera zooms in close to the characters.

              •  pyrflie   ( @pyrflie@lemm.ee ) 
                2•4 days ago

                Kingmaker is fantastic. I’m not that big a fan of Rogue Trader though. I kinda hate the Imperium of Man, in 40K I am Ork only.

                If you enjoy Owlcat then the Pillars and Tyranny from Obsidian are fantastic.

                •  TachyonTele   ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 
                  2•4 days ago

                  I’m going to look up all of their games eventually. They go hard on the systems and that’s a severely lacking quality these days.

                  Rogue Trader is cool, I’m only a few hours into it though. But man, the camera kills me. It’s got a weird rubber band effect to it that I don’t like.

                  But it’s mostly a nice improvement, or at least some different takes, on the WotR systems. My main complaint about their games is even with auto end turn on it never automatically ends any turns.

      •  Balthazar   ( @Balthazar@sopuli.xyz ) 
        6•3 days ago

        It is. From my experience a couple months back its crisp. Not the highest graphics, and it took a little getting used to from a high-end PC, but it was really nice. In certain aspects even preferable xD

      •  Blackmist   ( @Blackmist@feddit.uk ) English
        5•3 days ago

        It might do now. They’ve done a lot of improvements.

        Even on PS5 it was an absolute mess in co-op. 30fps (if you were lucky) all round, constant freezes (several seconds) when swapping characters, many many crashes. Whenever we told it to save, we’d have to both touch nothing to make sure it didn’t crash while saving. Oh, and there was a bug meaning only the player who chose to sleep for the day would get any companion progression.

  •  SuperSpruce   ( @SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip ) 
    18•4 days ago

    No joke, I’m tempted to buy a Steam Deck (or true Linux phone) because… It can run a local HTML/CSS/JS app on a browser with filesystem access and audio support. This is the power of having an OS that is not locked down.

    Speaking of which, what would you recommend for me to run a local HTML/CSS/JS app on a browser with filesystem access and audio support? (No, Android is too locked down to meet that spec) Other required specs:

    • Portable: Can fit in a pocket
    • 16GB or more usable storage
    • Bluetooth support
    • Ideally low-cost
    •  azthec   ( @azthec@feddit.nl ) 
      1•3 days ago

      You can probably encase a Raspberry PI with a battery and a touch screen, micro SD cards can go much higher than 16, and install Linux. Keep in mind that the Linux touch UIs aren’t really great imo, the best experience I’ve had so far is the steam deck.

  •  callouscomic   ( @callouscomic@lemm.ee ) English
    37•4 days ago

    Sales on PSN are appalling compared to Steam as well. Plus you can also get Steam sales on other sites like Fanatical.

    Steam also has better remote play, and Steam custom controller profiles with nearly any controller are amazing.

    Also nearly no backwards compatibility issues, whereas PS5 will only play/stream limited games from the past.

    •  scops   ( @scops@reddthat.com ) English
      20•4 days ago

      The PlayStation store is also a miserable shopping experience. If you don’t know what game you want or just want to browse, good fucking luck finding it there. No screenshots, no gameplay, no user reviews, no related games to compare to, no info about if your friends are wishlisting or playing it. Just a choice of buying the expensive version or the more expensive version, and good luck figuring out which DLC is already included in the deluxe editions.

    •  Blackmist   ( @Blackmist@feddit.uk ) English
      5•4 days ago

      Steam sales have been crap for years though.

      You used to be able to pick up games a year after they came out for like £5 on a flash deal. These days stuff is still full retail price years after launch just so it looks better during the few sales a year. We need to get back to the days of cut price re-releases (Playstation Platinum).

      I got a shitload of games from bundles though. That at least is cheap on PC, along with Epic delving into their Fortnite war chest to bribe us with actually free games.

      Think the best way to game cheaply on consoles is to pick up physical discs second hand (although a lot of games don’t even launch on disc any more), and be on the higher tiers of PS Plus for all the games. There’s some really good stuff on there, more than enough to keep me busy.

  •  Midnitte   ( @Midnitte@beehaw.org ) English
    31•4 days ago

    Cheapest OLED steam deck is $549.00 (USD) while the most expensive is $649.00 (USD).

    So really either way not only all those positives, but it’s also at least $50 cheaper (which you can use to buy several games on Steam…)

  •  HEXN3T   ( @HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
    12•4 days ago

    If the PS5 wasn’t my first PlayStation ever, I’d probably be pretty disappointed with it. Kinda wish I held off and waited for this one, since I’d rather have it, but financing this just doesn’t make sense in my current position. Would rather build a PC and use my Deck for remote play.

    This is an aggressively mid generation, I have to admit.

  •  Fubarberry   ( @Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ) English
    8•4 days ago

    Even if it’s priced too highly, the PS5 Pro will probably sell pretty well. The Playstation Portal is very overpriced for what it is, and yet it’s sold very well. There’s a lot of Playstation fans with money to burn apparently.

      •  Fubarberry   ( @Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ) English
        5•4 days ago

        Honestly I think it’s a stage of life thing. As I got older, got married, and had kids I found it increasingly hard to find time to play on my PC. The steam deck is perfect for short sessions you can stop and resume anytime, and I don’t have to fight the kids for the TV or abandon everyone to sequester myself in the office.

        •  fuckwit_mcbumcrumble   ( @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
          2•4 days ago

          I just straight up cannot do this. Either I’m spending time with family and giving them the attention they deserve. Or I’m spending time focusing on the game and the attention it needs for me to enjoy it. Multi tasking just leads to me ignoring both.

          If it’s a small child and you just need to make sure they’re not killing themselves then I can do that. But besides that, to me it’s one or the other.

  •  HouseWolf   ( @HouseWolf@lemm.ee ) English
    8•4 days ago

    Also the Steamdeck has games worth playing.

    If I was forced at gun point to switch back to console gaming I’d pick the latest Xbox just because of the backwards compatibility.

    •  xthexder   ( @xthexder@l.sw0.com ) 
      21•4 days ago

      You can still install whatever OS you want on it, unlike a PS5. It would be nice if you could get into desktop mode without signing in once, but that’s not the end of the world. You need a Steam account to even buy it in the first place, and they’re not tracking you nearly as much as say Microsoft.

  •  RxBrad   ( @RxBrad@infosec.pub ) English
    6•4 days ago

    I’m legitimately worried about next gen, since Sony is doing the same thing with their pricing as GPU manufacturers.

    That thing being, the increase in price is >/= the actual increase in performance. The PS5 Pro is a 75% price increase over the similarly disc-driveless $399 PS5 (hardware which is almost a half-decade old now).

  •  thingsiplay   ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 
    6•4 days ago

    The difference is that Steam Deck is actually cheap compared to what the competition does. It’s also the first generation of Steam Deck and the upgrade with an OLED (and lot of other stuff too) is actually substantial. And there are multiple versions of the Deck available to choose less drive space. Imagine this was an option on PS5 Professional too. Contrary, the PS5 Professional is the most expensive console compared to its competition. It’s so expensive, that it set a new bar.

    That’s the opposite of what Steam Deck does. Steam Deck is the only current generation game console that gets cheaper over time. Also one is a handheld format, which is hard to make cheap, especially because its compatible to PC hardware (and software).