I've bought maybe 40 new games since I got my Steam Deck a year ago. I've played maybe a dozen of those, and only played two of them to completion.
I had to start with the Witcher 3, which is finished the main story for but never got around to the DLCs (because my parenting instincts are apparently so bad I got the worst ending possible on my first playthrough, which kind of soured playing any further).
Then I had to play the Mass Effect trilogy, because the Legendary Edition had just dropped and it had been so long.
Then I discovered Horizon Zero Dawn, and couldn't put it down.
Ever since then I've been bouncing back and forth between games and franchises I simply never got around to in my teens and 20s — Assassin's Creed, the Arkham series, Bioshock, Dishonored, Halo (God bless the Master Chief Collection) Kingdoms of Amalur, Portal (duh), Prince of Persia...
I'm slowly getting caught up on not just my Steam backlog, but 15 years worth of gaming I missed out on because I didn't have the money.
Not sure how much that would be in other currencies, but if you’re happy with the price drop, I’d say: go for it! I’ve just played through the main story line and am currently working my way through Nuka world after the whole Fallout bundle was on sale last month. Enjoy!
I have to wonder about the games I play arc rising above the games I have arc in the early part. Is this going to friends’ place to play their NES or piracy or borrowing your buddy’s AD&D hardbounds to make a character?
Over time, I’ve noticed I like first-person base-building survival. Before we had those, I had to get all my jollies in microdoses by playing different games and tolerating the parts I don’t like so much. Now that it’s not only a thing, but there are a few really good, well polished ones, those few are the ones I play.
The main reason I don't play a bunch of games is that my PC specs have actually gone down a few times...
I had a very nice gaming laptop that died, Got my PC running again, and then had to move, now I only really have room for a laptop, and my backup laptop is... bad. I've ordered a new gaming laptop that's better than anything I've had in years... I might actually get to play modern games again. Kind of looking forward to it.
Same, same. I bought my system well over a decade ago and the only thing I’ve upgraded is the GPU. System still works great for general computing, but it’s missing some of the CPU features newer architectures have like SSE[?-4] and AVX.
I have a huge number of hours logged in PikuNiku because after completing the tutorial I forgot to close it and so it just ran in the background 24/7 for a couple of months
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