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 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