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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Really surprised to see Diablo IV so high. I think it's a fine game (minus the laughable MTX), but considering you can't transfer a license from Battle.net to Steam, that represents a fraction of the total player base that has apparently gotten smaller since launch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I'm surprised how normal this looks. I've been avoiding a lot of AAA games in favour of games that feel more appropriate for handhelds.

I can't imagine wanting to play Elden ring on my steam deck, feels more appropriate to play something like Marvel's Midnight Suns as a maximum fidelity

[–] giantofthenorth -1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Bg3 just looks so bad on deck, how do y'all play on it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried it with FSR2? Oddly enough, the game sticks to FSR1 by default, but it looks a lot better with FSR2.

[–] giantofthenorth 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'll have to try that out, what settings are recommended?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I set it to the Medium preset and then set FSR2 to Balanced. You might want to try Quality mode, but I found that Balanced gave the best balance (no pun intended) between performance (cap it to 30 in the Steam/performance menu settings), looks and battery life.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Honestly the looks didn't bother me, but playing with a controller is just so awkward compared to KB+M.

[–] Nima 1 points 7 months ago

I feel the opposite. I don't understand how y'all can play without a controller. it feels too janky without it.

[–] Nima 2 points 7 months ago

looks ok on mine. they have two different fsr options now and fsr2 is seriously so much better than 1.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Don't see the point of these when it's always the same popular things, and some don't drop off the list for a decade. Many of these games are not as good as people suggest. They all just copy each other and play the same crap. Same issue as highest grossing movies, that's more a product of hype than quality.

The Witcher 3 is an excellent example. Incredibly overrated slow moving dreary game with poor gameplay and controls.

GTA V is super misleading too. This is just one giant PvP map and idiots killing each other. Most of them never actually played the story.

Skyrim is more that people love mods.

[–] Zyrxil 16 points 7 months ago

You sound like an absolutely exhausting person. If you don't see the point then you can just glance at the post and not open the link. It's not some deep analysis, it's just a quick list for people to glance at for a few seconds. Your contrarian critiques don't even make any sense. You think a game is overrated so...it shouldn't count? And if story mode isn't being played it also shouldn't count? And if mods are being used it also shouldn't count? In summary, you enjoy nothing and believe no one else should enjoy anything either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I agree, it's just a list of popular games that work reasonably well on Linux. There are a couple surprises, but it's otherwise about what I expect.

I honestly wouldn't play most of these games on Steam Deck. I prefer games like Little Nightmares and Hollow Knight, i.e. games where I expect to get decent battery life and that I can easily put down and pick up. I use my desktop for longer play sessions, and my Steam Deck for shorter play sessions around the house (and occasionally on trips).

But that doesn't mean this list shouldn't exist, it just means it's not particularly useful to me. I'd really like to see a list of games people play on Steam Deck far more often than on desktop.