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.

  • supremedalek925@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’ve been playing more ROMs and older titles lately than AAA games. There’s a few great ones lately of course, but a lot of PC releases have definitely been disappointing.

  • vaikunth1991@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    if most of AAA releases are broken i can play all of these games you mentioned on PC itself. Steam deck is great but AAA releases being broken is definitely not a compelling reason to buy it.

  • Tumifaigirar@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Why would I play any “AAA” game, 95% are garbage, 5% is ok after 2 years of patches and will be played once HEAVILY discounted :)

  • Bazirker@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I never play new games. Why pay $70 to play a game while it’s getting tuned up etc, when I can just wait a year or two and play the exact same game with the exact same fun factor at a fraction of the cost, and often after all of the problems have been fixed?

    • ClikeX@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      The only games I play close to launch are games I play with friends. I always buy single player games much later on sale.

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    10 months ago

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  • ClericHeretic@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    So true, same for me. I got the deck to play older AAA games I never got around to playing originally. Nowadays I feel like I am paying someone else to alpha test their unfinished product. I’ve had enough of it. Now I wait a year before buying a premium game. TBH, I would rather just support indie developers.

  • Sea-Garlic9074@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Luckily, not everyone is buying AAA games on release day and waiting for discounts instead. That’s the rule I usually follow for the AAA games I buy because that’s been the trend for some time now, where it goes full price and then, it’ll get cheaper months later.

    I still own a PS5 and Steam Deck and don’t see any reason not to have both since not every AAA game on Steam Deck runs great because there are compromises in performance or graphics while at the same time, the PS5 would run those same games better. Also, you could remote play from the PS5 to Steam Deck if you wanted to, which makes it nice to have both.

  • KlingonBeavis@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Exactly why I bought one. Especially considering how many of my older titles that are now broken in windows have become so easy to get running great on Steam Deck!

    I could have bought a new GPU instead, 2 weeks in and I’m really glad I made the choice I did.