What does your battlestation look like? PS4/5, XBox, PC or some oddball Chinese retro handheld?
Steamdeck took over most of my gaming. It’s by far the best gaming device ever made imo.
I’m playing on my Steam Deck like I was playing on my Switch 6 years ago. I prefer my indie games on handheld devices, so a good half of my playtime is spent on the Deck.
I have a full gaming rig, but mainly play on my Steamdeck - it’s so much more convenient to just be able to pick it up and play.
What games have you been playing?
Metroidvanias recently - Dead Cells, Blasphemous, Hollow Knight, that kind of thing
PS5 for me! I’m basic :)
+1 fellow PS5 (& Switch) gamer here. It has to be quick and easy.
After zero PC gaming in forever I got myself a Steam Deck and have been loving how it performs!
Series X has been my focus but the lack of decent games made me move elsewhere before Starfield drops.
But also have a Miyoo Mini V2, and a jailbroken Switch.
I only play on my Steam Deck and/or on my Desktop running Arch(btw)
Desktop Specs: OS: Arch Linux CPU: Intel i7-9700K GPU: Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition RAM: 2x8GB 3600 MHz
Primary is now Steam Deck.
PC is pretty much used for work and installing games to move to the Steam Deck.
Local transfer is a nice feature!
I mainly play https://geoguessr.com in a bog standard web browser. Ubuntu. No console or advanced gaming pc rig.
They also have a map quiz game I quite enjoy. It’s mostly about memorizing maps and capitals https://www.geoguessr.com/seterra/en
Yeah, I know. I have the android app on my phone. Currently practicing on african countries. Asia up next.
Ps4, pc and mobile.
Obligatory “Fuck Google” for killing Stadia.
Stadia was great. No monthly fee. Good enough selection of games. If they had put literally any effort into it, they could’ve done amazing.
It was cool of Google to give me my money back for my games.
Sadly I came late to the Stadia party, I originally only bought the controller to use for my PC, but I got far cry 5 as a freebie and I was considering buying some more games, then they announced that it was getting shut down.
I don’t play games with much frequency, but I play on some combination of Steam Deck and a desktop running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, a Linux distro.
Edits/Changes: Forgot to specify Tumbleweed.
Linux desktop running Manjaro - mostly use Steam Games and Veloren
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Oh wow that’s a bold statement. Personally i think the PS3 is better than the PS2 though. The move to online and HD graphics (for the average consumer) was huge. I know it had been a thing for a while, but that’s when it became mainstream
How come you’re such a big fan of the PS5? Is the game selection as good as the PS2?
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Mostly PC (Linux), sometimes Switch. I also have a Raspberry Pi as a retro console emulator for old stuff like the original The Legend of Zelda.
Steam Deck, it’s been great for working through my backlog.
I have my main PC, plus a retro gaming / emulation machine for the living room, and an anbernic RG 351 MP (handheld) that can emulate just about everything up to the N64. All GNU/Linux.
I mostly play steam games, plus Xonotic, Beyond All Reason, and Veloren. I’ve been playing Animal Crossing with my partner lately, and Windwaker on the living room machine.
I just don’t see much value in mainstream consoles these days when you could instead have a proper computer and all the versatility that brings.
for me it’s one of:
- PS5
- Xbox Series X
- Steam Deck
- Switch
- Analogue Pocket
- Analogue Super Nt
- PS Vita
- PS3
- 3DS
not really by order of preference, but i guess how much i’ve used them recently
I’ve wanted those Analogue consoles for so long, but I just can’t quite justify the price tag on them.
whether i can recommend either would really depend on your use case, but in my case:
- the Super Nt made sense, coming from a 1chip SFC with OSSC, because I wanted to absolutely get rid of jailbars and didn’t mind the high price tag - as well as that I have a small but growing cart collection (mostly NTSC-U/C)
- the Pocket was really more of a splurge, because i found it used on ebay about a year ago and it was roughly what it would cost me to get it brand new (whenever that would have been, who knows). openFPGA has been a godsend since then, but Analogue has been slow on all fronts (distribution, communication, software updates)
I have a small-to-medium collection of games from most consoles (especially the cartridge generation) and being able to play original games over HDMI without any artifacts just really speaks to me. I’ll definitely have to intentionally save up for them to allow myself to splurge, though.
Right now, I have a few plugged into a composite switcher going through a RetroTink2X, which lets me play well enough, and I do kind of enjoy the RCA composite look, I’m more in the camp of “give me the raw pixels clean” than “RCA signal is how it was meant to look”
it is certainly a budget! i was somewhat considering both the Mega Sg and Duo, but seeing as i have no collection to speak of for either of those (and i’d rather not start now, even though i especially love the PC Engine, it’s getting very pricey out there… anyways), it wouldn’t really make sense vs getting a MiSTer (or just the dock for the Pocket i guess).
i’m sure the difference would be night and day for you, coming from composite, but you might already get great results simply with upgraded cables. iirc the 2X doesn’t do SCART, but you could do component (could be pricey, depending on the console) or S-Video (usually a great step-up and in the same ballpark as composite)
