I mean old like Sega Rally Revo. This is not my video, but it sums up my experience playing in deck. The graphics doesn’t feel too old when compared to today’s games and I’m not sure why but I always get above 100fps even i limit deck settings to 60.
If you include remasters, I’ve been playing Shenmue I, which I think I originally played on my friend’s Dreamcast in about 2001. Think it was one of the most expensive games ever made when it first came out, so I guess that’d make it pretty AAA?
There’s a lot that feels a bit dated in it, like slightly clunky controls, annoyingly long sequences for tiny things (i.e. taking your shoes off every time you go in/out the house), emotionally stunted voiceovers etc - but it also holds up as a good mystery, and such a beautifully realised game world that the clunkiness just becomes sort of joyously nostalgic. I think it’s great.
Also, the creepy little kids that shout “HEY MISTER! DO YOU WANT TO PLAY… soooocccerrrr?” are still hilarious.
Yes I have. I switch between older AAA and current indie games. I have tried some recent AAA games as well. I play anything I want at the time I want to play something.
What old games do you play?
I recently revisited fallout new Vegas and it was an excellent experience.
Outside of that I tend to remain in the indie space, but I’m not against the occasional old triple a
The Steam Deck has been kind of my introduction to PC gaming. The newer AAA games haven’t caught my attention.
I’ve played quite a bit of Neptunia and Senran Kagura. I might as well catch up with what I missed and can get for cheaper. Newer games like BG3 shock me with how much storage they consume, so I’m starting with older titles.
I feel that. The newer games are fun and look beautiful, but the storage requirements sting a bit.
Can the Deck do on-demand file compression/inflation to save space?
It can, but it’s not trivial to set up. First you have to reformat/convert to btrfs, then you have to chattr everything, and defrag to do a compression pass on the existing stuff. And after all that, Steam does every download and patch with a preallocate that blocks out the online compression, so you have to subvol and anti-cow its downloading folder to defeat that.
I play SSX 3 Gamecube like it’s my 2nd job.
Does TF2 count as old?
Yeah it is old, but would prefer if something before 2010 like the sega rally example which still looks great
TF2 is from 2007
Sorry, i thought you meant Titan Fall 2
Does Nier Automata count as an old AAA game?
I guess Cyberpunk and BG3 are counted as such so yes. But mostly I play indie and older games.
Umm… I don’t think many consider BG3 an old game yet. Many people still have yet to finish the story…
Combat Evolved is nice
I replay the original halo trilogy, occasionally with Reach or ODST as well, every year or so, they are all so much fun still
If you don’t play the Halo trilogy at least once every year the flood wins
Playing through MCC? How does it run on the deck? I have it installed but waiting to start playing through 2 3 and reach again became it will take all my time
Its smooth. Just finished CE legendary and going to start 2 on heroic.
Yes, although I’m mostly playing games 4-8 years old. I have a lot of great games I missed during that period, and they both feel modern and run pretty well.
Old games I recently played:
- Sim City 2000
- Gothic 1-3
- Might and Magic 4-5
- Diablo 1
I play plenty of old games. They don’t get worse with time. Of course nostalgia also plays a big role for me. But Diablo is not a game I know from back then. Only in a negative light, when I tried it once, couldn’t figure it out and never touched it again.
It’s one of the primary reasons I bought I deck. I game pretty much on PlayStation and do my work on a Mac, so the PC catalog has be largely unavailable to me until now. Anything built for PS4 forward (or ported from PS3) I don’t mind buying on PS5 and streaming through Chiaki. Anything PS2 backwards (that never got a PC port or isn’t already available on the PS+ subscription) is just easier to emulate. However, PS3 had a lot of gems that are only really available through the PC now, so I bought a deck to play those. Fallouts 3, NV, Final Fantasy XIII and the sequels I never actually had a chance to play, GTA IV. I hope I’ll get to play the Killzone trilogy again someday.
