Replaying Final Fantasy 8 because why not :D
Just messing about with some dos classics using dosbox-pure on retro deck.
Cyberdogs, Tyrian 2000, Hocus Pocus, Desert Strike, God of Thunder, Abuse, Mortal Kombat 2, Sango Fighter, Raptor. A few others.
I tried Vampire Survivors and despite how fun it was to see the game played, I am not sure I actually enjoy playing it. Then again, I have put quite a few hours on Time Wasters, and that may just be more my jam.
Otherwise? Playing Infested Planet. The control scheme is serviceable, if awkward, but I can also just pick it up whenever which is the use case for the Steam Deck.
Started Sea of Stars and finished Four Last Things.
I am considering if I should work on The Procession to Calvary or Thimbleweed Park. Probably neither and fall back on Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams and 2024 Mosaic Retrospective
Subnautica! Holy cow that game is absorbing
Simpsons hit and run. I am playing ps2 on the deck but wonder if I should try and get the modded version for pc going instead. Any tips? I have the rars the would let you play from a USB on windows…
Risk of Rain 2! Still haven’t beat it…
I showed my girlfriend how to stream Baldur’s Gate 3 from the PC three weeks ago. Haven’t been able to play anything since, but I guess this is what’s being played on the deck currently.
Only really have time for a dew rounds of Slay the Spire 2!
Just got my steam machine a few weeks ago, I’ve been playing the plucky squire and combolands. Both run well despite some minor issues I’ve been having with it.
I just finished Silksong again, so right now I’m playing Memoria. It’s pretty decent, not amazing, but I’m having fun with it all the same.
Hollow Knight is an amazing game and I can’t spend the time on it I need to get good. It is sad
I’ve been playing through Panzer Dragoon Saga for the first time. My god what an incredible game.
oh I love this game! maybe my favorite JRPG, or Grandia 2 (can you tell I don’t like straight turn based games? lol)
Im grinding on Noita, but without a mouse and keyboard its probably impossible more so than normal.
You say this but then there is this streamer named LetsSufferTogether that has done 34 orbs, no hit, sun quest or something like that playing only on the controller.
Never give up.
I’m still mostly playing Dragonsword Awakening. Really fun game, and a great value for it’s asking price. Plus the devs have been quick to patch bugs (including steam deck specific bugs) and add in quality of life changes. There’s also a lot of free content updates planned.
Also have been playing through Castlevania Symphony of the Night. Pretty good game, although I had to look up advice on some of the puzzles/breakable walls I missed.
I’m holding off on getting into any other games that are too large at the moment, want to make sure I’m not tied up when Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter releases later this month.
Also have been playing through Castlevania Symphony of the Night. Pretty good game
As a Rather Old Person, you shut your damn mouth. That game is a masterpiece.
To be honest it was a weird hole in my gaming history. I’ve played later Castlevania’s, and I’ve always been a huge Metroid fan.
I think I’m largely judging it by comparing it to Super Metroid. Both games were ones I returned to after playing newer titles in their series (mainly on GBA and DS).
Playing SotN for the first time, I find it good, but it feels like it hasn’t held up as well as super metroid. When I went back and played super Metroid for the first time, I found it to be a great metroid game with slightly outdated controls. Going back to SotN after playing newer Castlevania games has felt rougher. SM is famous for how it guides players with an invisible hand, but SotN progression often seems more obscure, I’ve been trying to play without guides, and while I’m doing great at finding health/heart upgrades, I’ve been struggling to find the actual abilities for progression. The game also likes destroyable ceilings/floors for a game that doesn’t give great options for attacking up or down.
Anyways it’s good, I’m enjoying it, but playing it with no nostalgia and no prior knowledge on patching/puzzles has involved a lot of meandering around the map.
Fair enough. I always felt like it was just tricky enough that it didn’t feel like you just railroaded from one upgrade to the next and instead needed to put some effort into finding the next move. And honestly none of the later ones ever stuck with me the same way. I found that by the end of SotN, I knew the map pretty well. In newer Castlevania games, I was checking the map constantly.
Metroid has always felt like a different beast to me, and weirdly a little less compelling despite my preference for sci-fi over fantasy. No hate, they’re great games and I’ve finished several. Just less transformative to me.
I always thought it was both unfair and a hilarious testament that SotN was so good it spawned the genre “Metroidvania” when the formula was basically just “Metroid” to begin with.
Tangentially related: I put GameNative on my phone, and Caves of Qud plays great through Steam using the same FEX translation layer that the Frame will have. What an awesome game to always have on me.
Oh that’s tempting, they’ve been teasing the CoQ mobile version forever now (7+ years?), and I’ve always wanted to play it on the go. I’ve got it on my Deck always, but I need good game on my phone much more than on my deck.
