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:

  • Witcher 3

  • Cyberpunk 2077

  • Red Dead Redemption 2

  • Portal 1 + 2

  • Resident Evil 3 + Village

  • Mirror’s Edge

  • Max Payne 2 + 3 (1 has seemingly vanished from my Steam account?)

  • Mafia 1 + 2 Definitive Edition

  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance

  • GTA San Andreas + 4 Complete

  • Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

  • Far Cry 2

  • Fallout: New Vegas

  • Doom + Eternal

  • Skyrim

  • Death Stranding

  • Dead Space 1 + 2

  • Dark Souls III

  • Crysis 1 + 2, Warhead

  • Control

  • CoD Black Ops

  • Bully Scholarship Edition

  • Borderlands GOTY Enhanced

  • Bioshock 1 + 2 Remastered

  • Arkham Trilogy

  • Assassin’s Creed Ezio Trilogy

  • Alien Isolation

  • 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.

  • Strong_Craft9225@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I dual boot into windows with my steam deck. I sail the high seas until a game becomes worthy and then I buy it. Buying a game at launch is way to hit and miss and way to expensive. Learned my last lesson with forspoken. Never again.

    The exception to this rule is multiplayer games, but typically for multiplayer there’s enough evidence if it’s gonna be good or not due to betas and the like.

    Anyway the SD dual booted into windows to be able to do whatever you deem necessary at your budget, that’s the way to go Imho. Don’t let the boyscouts on this thread tell you otherwise. Developers have lost the trust of the people for a reason, loot boxes, micro transactions, releasing unfinished games, dlcs, forced console choices for the same software, the inability to share physical copies of anything anymore, the loss of rentals ect. You get my hard earned money when you show me you worked hard enough to earn it and not a goddamn second before. And I’ll be damned if I’m paying for the same game I paid for on a ps5 again just to play it on another device. Same goes for switch or Xbox.

    How the sheeple have let the world get this far I dunno.

    Bg3 is a great example of a company earning my money, and the game is now sitting pretty in my library on Steam AFTER I put 40+ hours into it already.

    I am remorseless and unashamed.