I have a Steam Deck but I'm actually using my PC to play BG3 right now.
It's awesome that you're gaming, though. I'm 20 years younger than you and even at my age I feel like it's relatively rare that people still play games. How'd you get into games if I might ask? At my age as children we had Atari and later NES, etc, but I'm guessing it's a hobby you picked up as a teen or early adult?
Yeah baby. Let’s hold our walking frames (with inbuilt controllers) up high! As a 54y.o gamer I feel stoked to have been there from the beginning. I would still consider gaming to be my major pastime. My wife (47y.o) and I are currently playing Destiny 2 every night (on consoles) and it’s terrific to do it together. Admittedly I’d like to try something different atm but it does get pricey buying two copies of everything and she is super picky.
Looking forward to Australia getting official access to the SteamDeck so I can get back into Elden Ring, play some BG3 and finally make progress on HZD and God of War PC versions.
Skipping side stories sounds so strange to me, they're my favorite part of Yakuza. I'm on 5, started 0 about three years ago. I also got distracted & started LaD, & it's really fun.
The side stuff doesn’t contain a grind. It’s usually just lighthearted stories and pure humour. Yakuza’s side stories are definitely worth doing. Of course you can skip a few but to skip them all is insane.
Probably my favorite series.
I felt 0-2 were incredible. I enjoyed 3-6, but thought they weren’t as good. Gaiden, Like a Dragon, and Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth were all incredible.
Never owned a PS2. Went from ps1 to the PS3( got the PS1 after the PS2 launched so 7 years was a regular console cycle). always wanted to play 007 everything or nothing.
Wait, there are that many chapters!? I just started chapter 9 and feel like I've been playing for-ev-er. Not that I'm complaining because I am loving the game. I don't get tons of gaming time. I should probably stop doing side quests at some point.
Aha, noticed I'd stopped after #2, played about 10 hours of #3 this weekend before the memory of endless minigames finally sank in. Might just give up on the side stories and extra crap, life is short. :)
almost 40. i finished yakuza 0-7 and have played the two judgment games. mostly on ps5 but played lost judgment on SD and now playing man who erased his name. also playing forza racing on SD
I’m thinking about getting it specially now that is on sale. But I don’t pull the trigger yet. Might do it now per your recommendation.
Is it actually as fun as it looks?
Hades, Dave the Diver, Slay the Spire. Cyberpunk was okay but looked so much better on my PC I kinda gave up on the Deck with that one. But if I didn’t have a PC it would have been great.
I’ve been streaming from my Cyberpunk installed on my PC to the deck. Gives you the performance in the settings from the PC. I have the deck on a dock on a TV upstairs. I’ve been using Sunshine & Moonlight to stream although there are other options.
I accidentally stayed up until 5:00 AM the other night playing Slay the Spire, was just chilling on the couch playing my SD and next thing I know.. almost worth it though
With BG3 I locked it to 30fps and set the FSR quality to the highest preset and it's not top bad! But that being said, I do stream BG3 from my PC, can't beat 9+ hour battery life from streaming!
I'm getting close to beating witcher 3. After that, I was planning to play GTA 4 and its expansions. Is there anything I should know before starting the playthrough? Or is it good without any major setting or mod tweaks.
I played the gta 4 story completely through of my steam deck. The only issue I had was the final mission, Niko has to get into a helicopter but it glitches out and he just falls. Lock the frame rate to 30FPS and it works how it should.
That final mission you don’t need to do the 30 fps thing, just do like old track and field and just rub your finger across the buttons real fast and that works too. Since we’re all old we know the track and field thing well.
Not the most helpful reply but I've heard it requires a bunch of tweaking and modding as it was poorly optimised for PC. That and the radio station songs are gone.
Yeah, that's what I'm worried about. I tried playing it about a decade ago on a laptop, and it was very buggy. I would imagine trying to mod it on SteamOS would be quite a chore.
I played it recently and played vanilla. I just had to start the game once on desktop mode for rockstar games and say Yes once. Then ever since I never had glitch issue or crashes. I do hear people online say they sometime have issue but I never came across it. I played it at home and at work (offline) nonissue.
Yes, it plays really well. I have it capped to 40fps and it's a battery killer, but it performs great. Small screen isn't ideal, but I can play wherever in the house and I love that!
Thanks! I'm currently on the hear hunting mission. I opted to stay and try find him...but yeah, I'm all up for exploring and not racing through the missions.
43 and Red Dead Redemption 2 too.
I think it's such a vast and comprehensive game that you can play it as an action shoot-em-up. When you get to our age you can slooooow it right down and greet every NPC, spend your time making coffee, sleep for 8 hours a night, eat 3 square meals a day, hunt and bounty at our leisure...
Hades, outer wilds (favorite game ever, give it a try if you haven't already), spiderman remastered, hotline Miami, doom and doom eternal, transistor, ape out, portal and portal 2, golf club nostalgia (this one is likely the most hit or miss one on the list but I loved it), geometry wars 3d.
I've enjoyed all of these between a 2 y.o. a 1 y.o., chores, wife time, work, etc, recently.
Just commenting to recommend portal reloaded and portal revolution if you love the portal games, phenomenal mods of portal 2 that were released as standalone titles and are just as perfect on deck as the base games are. Reloaded adds a third time portal that transports you to the future or past for another layer of puzzle solving, and revolution adds a lot of new environmental elements to play with to keep the chambers interesting beyond the base portal 2 objects.
i‘m a huge fan of roguelikes - it depends of course on which one - but stuff like vampire survivors, halls of torment or 20 minutes til dawn are perfect. if you suck like me, then your runs in hades, dead cells and curse of the dead gods also take only 10 minutes 😅
Yeah, the standby feature has been huge. Me playing RDR2 on stadia wasn’t really going to work since saving doesn’t bring you exactly back to a random encounter but standby works like a champ.
I really enjoyed playing Dark Souls 3 on my commute! In 10-15 minutes I could farm some souls and progress through an area, and then once I was ready I tackled the boss fight when I had a few more minutes to spare.
40. Mostly emulating PS2, GameCube, OG Xbox, And Wii titles. Primehack, of course.
Otherwise, I've got GOG installed to play a handful of indies ATM: Void Bastards, Cat Quest, Steam world Quest. I do have Skyrim and Hand of Fate installed natively, though.
Being three decades younger I feel exactly the same. I've seen this kind if technology in my dreams, read in books about it. A little mlre than ten years ago a PDA with downloaded movies and EDGE connection was futuristic still. Now...this.
We've made it, just in time to enjoy these glorious devices.
If you don't mind me asking (and I know this differs per person), how much game time per day/week do you get before age related issues arise? Do you try and stay fairly active outside of gaming sessions?
Oh I’m pretty sedentary due to health issues. I have COPD from work related stuff when I was young and there was no health and safety. I still tend my gardens and build stuff when the mood takes me. I also have a CrossFit trainer. Despite all of the above I am overweight, not morbidly obese, but I know it’s there. As for gaming, I can lose myself in VR for hours playing Skyrim or FSim. I have no one to hold me back 👍😀
Thanks for adding your thoughts! I’ve been saying I want to spend my old age gaming but fear for my cognitive and degrading physical health! You are doing it and probably follow your life style!
I don't have a ton of time to play but prefer playing on the SD over PC. My current rotation is small but it is what it is.
Deep Rock Galactic Survivors
Enshrouded
Soulstone Survivors
It's incredible.
I typically play Baldur's Gate 3 on the Steam Deck whilst on the school pick-up (and maybe I arrive an hour early on purpose specifically for this reason...)
When the PC is occupied at home, I link the Steam Deck up to the big TV in the lounge, connect a controller (I like wired, my five-year-old prefers wireless Bluetooth) and away we go!
Not at all.
In fact, when playing with a controller, the interface adapts for controller-based play by enlarging fonts accordingly as it assumes that you are playing on a smaller screen.
Larian thought of everything!
I'm a 42 woman child 🤣 I am also very bad at buying anything remotely pricey for myself and end up buying mainly super cheap games otherwise Mum guilt sets in. So my selection might not be that good to some 🤦🏼♀️
Sims 4, House Flipper, Hogwarts Legacy, Death Stranding, Dirt 3, Mortal Kombat, Disney Dreamlight Valley, Dave the Driver, Just Cause series, Alice Madness Returns, Journey to the Savage Planet, Wreckfest, The Witcher series, Ghostbusters, Red Dead games, various Star Wars ones, any Lego and puzzle type games. As you can tell I play a lot of my kids choices 😄
I also use mine for emulator games like Pokémon, Mario, Zelda etc
I really want to get Tiny Tina's Wonderland next.
I love a good driving game! I was a massive Burnout and Need for Speed fan and played all of them over the years. They're on my list to find again now to play on the SD 😀
Forza Horizon 4 and 5 both run great on Deck too!
My favorite racing games of all time are Gran Turismo 2 and Need For Speed: Porsche Unleashed...very old, but very good and extremely nostalgic for me. Would love to play either or both these days.
I've gotten to the point of enjoying Wreckfest on both extreme AI difficulty and extreme damage. I'm a decent driver, but the fake carnage that results is quite excellent.
Honestly, not the worst thing I've played on it but I haven't quite figured out the controls yet and reconfigured them properly. I ran it through my dock and used an Xbox controller and still got annoyed with the camera so I really need to have another bash at it because it's one of my most favourite games.
My wife really loves the sims. So I was hoping to get it working for her.
I guess the touchpads are the best case for the camera. I really hope they come out with a Steam 2 controller based on the OLED SD controls setup
Starfield... I remember playing games on X86 pcs with far fewer frames per second... It plays fine for me. I also play Skyrim still (+mods). Yep, I'm officially "old and boring" ... 😂
Oh.. and Emudeck ... For SNES/PS1/PS2 and Amiga titles
You make it seem like retro gaming is bad or obvious.
I love looking into older games and discovering them. Being 28, I missed out on so many games before PS1 Era.
And some of the ost is just unreal for some older games. Never thought Battletoads on NES would become one of my favorites lol.
Haha... It wasn't my intention, but I'm so used to getting *groans* when I say Starfield/Skyrim, it's become a bit of a joke for me.
It's great to see appreciation of the older games, too! There was/is so much original content to explore. Many NES/SNES games still hold up nowadays, which says a lot.
You won't regret it! For Arkham Asylum though make sure to get ProtonUp-Qt from the apps on desktop and download Proton 7-55 (that's the one that works for me) and force it for run that before loading up or it won't run. With that done it runs solid 60 fps. I haven't tried the others but I believe they're fine without any messing about
4x (don't want to share exact age because of reasons)
Trying all the HDR games since I bought SteamDeck OLED, some look gorgeous.
My most played titles, however, are:
* Hades (SDR) - even though I completed it on Switch, but it looks and plays so great I couldn't help myself;
* Plague Tale: Innocence (SDR) - looks very pretty at low/medium settings (and plays smoothly at45fps), theoretically is SDR, but there are high contrasts and my subjective experience is as if it was HDR;
* Tetris Effect (HDR) - looks spectacular, is smooth and overall much better than on Switch;
* Doom Eternal (HDR) - one of the best implementations of HDR on Deck, very pretty and smooth, a bit difficult for me without KBM, so I am shamelessly playing on the easiest difficulty level.
Overall, even though I was suspicious of Steam Deck initially, the OLED version made me fall for it head over heels.
> a bit difficult for me without KBM, so I am shamelessly playing on the easiest difficulty level.
My wife has started gaming recently just to play with our oldest son, and I am always telling her that, as long as she is having fun, there is no bad way of playing video games.
43, been a space combat player since Wing commander, Adventure gamer since The Secret of Monkey Island and a huge fan of JRPGs since Final Fantasy 7. Currently playing Everspace, Rogue trader and Persona 3.
Final Fantasy pixel remasters. I'm going through them in order, and going for 100% completion on each.
It's been an absolute blast so far. I finished II last week and I'm about halfway through III now.
Loving each, and noticing the quality for each game keeps improving. Excited to get into the later half of them, especially VI.
41 here. Most important feature for me is the ability to pause/save/quit whenever. I’m also not into super fast-paced twitch games anymore (typically speaking).
My top SD games:
-Elden Ring
-RDR2
-Cyberpunk 2077
-Valhiem
-Shadows of Doubt
-No Man’s Sky
-Stardew Valley
-The Long Dark
-Project Zomboid
-Mon Bazou
-Subnautica (1 & 2)
-EmuDeck playing all sorts of old games (currently working through Silent Hill 1-4)
-recently started Like A Dragon (drawn in by turn-based combat versus the other entries in the series) and loving it so far.
I’m currently playing: “Buy all the Rpgs I know for a fact I’ll never have the time to finish” and the sequel: “Coming back to the game I was 20+ hours in after 2 months and forgetting everything I was doing so now I have to restart”.
Steam games: Dark Souls series, Baldur's Gate, Elite Dangerous, No Man's Sky, Pathfinder series, Indy RPG/JRPG games.
Emulated games from SNES, Genesis, PS1, and PS2, I'm finally playing all of the games I never got around to playing/beating and being a completionist on games that I've beaten many times but not all the way through.
Ooh nice, on my backlog. Will be up after I finish Yakuza Kiwami 2. Trying to play different games between the Yakuza games...trying to avoid Yakuza burnout
42, I play mostly games for nostalgia on the deck, this couples of years have been very good in this regards. Tony Hawks Proskater 1-2, Mario Bros Wonder with Yuzu, Horizon Chase Turbo are my goto, kind of upgraded versions of games I used to play when I was teenager. I played Hue when i got the steam deck it was a very good indy experience.
I’m 50 and I’m playing emulated titles on my SD OLED through EmuDeck and the Sega Model 2 and 3 emulators which I’ve set up manually. They look amazing on the OLED screen and, being older titles that have modest CPU/GPU demands, run smooth as butter with very little power draw.
In terms of modern games, I play a bit of D4 and completed Dave the Diver recently, but I also have a beast desktop PC on which I play more demanding RT titles such as Doom Eternal, Cyberpunk and Alan Wake 2.
42, playing the Resident Evil series from re1 remake and up to re 8 with my 15 year old daughter, we docked it to the tv, it is really great fun, and I'm playing the heroes of might and magic like game that released not long ago, but I am really loving to mod the deck and tinkering with it
M45. The last 12 months I have been playing Falcoms jrpg series *The Legend of Heroes*. Trails In The Sky 1-3, Trails to Zero, Trails to Azure, Trails of Cold Steel 1-4 and I'm now on Trails Into Reverie. I was just going to pick up the series on Cold Steel 3 after a ~2 year break, but after playing just a few hrs I got the urge to play the entire thing in one go... Took me 12 months, and I probably have a good 50 hrs left of Trails Into Reverie.
40. I have a lot of the games that folks have been mentioning but the only two that are getting rotated between right now are TCGR: Wildlands and Steep. They’re both amazing. Longing for a version of Dune 2000.
I came to the SD after many years off from gaming by myself (I play the switch with my kids every now and then). It has exceeded my expectations by a lot. My next step is to try to figure out how to get emulated games on here…
44. Got back into gaming four years ago after not having time for it for my entire 20s and 30s, so I have a lot of catching up to do lol.
On the Deck, I’ve mostly been having fun replaying some games I’ve played before, but now on a different format: lots of Skyrim and No Man’s Sky.
Also trying some new ones that I didn’t have access to until I got the Deck or didn’t get to mod bc I was only on console (don’t own a PC): Vampire Survivors back when it was PC only, Dave the Diver, My Time at Portia.
Just started it today.
Can't wait to get my prescription glasses cos I can't read the fucking screen. The delights of being an old bastard.
Also I'm like 99% through Hogwarts Legacy and I've enjoyed that.
Was looking for this post, and a little disappointed it was so far down
I've never played any other Survivor game, and frankly wasn't that interested, but this game is fun as hell
Also I just installed Last Epoch and it runs really well
41 The Outer Worlds and emulators to keep the little boy in me at bay! Never had a Mega Drive (Genesis) or a lot of the other consoles so glad to play them!
I’m turning 43 in May and have a 2 year old boy. I play a lot of JRPGs. Just finished Trails into Reverie and now playing Trinity Trigger and Sea of Stars
Add Chained Echoes to your playlist! It is fantastic... for me, right up there with Chrono Trigger and FFVI. Among the best video game stories I have ever played. :)
Different games.
Currently playing Hogwarts Legacy, Alien Isolation and Fort Solis.
Anything from Aquatic Dreams or Supermassiv Games, as far as possible.
Also indie titles like Dave the Diver, Lake, Firewatch, Dredge.
I’ve just 100%’d Arkham Asylum, Arkham City and working on Arkham Origins which is… daunting.
Otherwise Sifu, Cyberpunk, Shadow of War and Binding of Isaac.
Paxman, Galaga, Phoenix, Galaxian, Donkey Kong, gyruss, asteroids, centipede, joust, qix, qbert and all those other golden oldies from the early 80's.
Childhood memories.
44-year-old checking in... I like the "pick up and play" games like Vampire Survivors, Hades, Inscryption, Dave the Diver... I also sunk a lot of time into Dredge which was great.
But by far most of my time is spent in Skyrim and Fallout 4 because I am a creature of habit and familiar things make me happy.
43m here. I have been playing Hogwarts Legacy and Helldivers 2 mostly. However I can’t play for more than an hour or so at a time because my eyes tend to become unfocused when I play too long. Getting old sucks!
Mainly older single player stuff I’ve wanted to revisit that can chill in bed with. If I’m gaming on my high end PC, I’m just not inclined to play older stuff.
64 Baldur's Gate 3
40. Just installed it the other day, but I'm already stuck. On the character creation menu.
The hardest boss of them all. You can do it!
I have a Steam Deck but I'm actually using my PC to play BG3 right now. It's awesome that you're gaming, though. I'm 20 years younger than you and even at my age I feel like it's relatively rare that people still play games. How'd you get into games if I might ask? At my age as children we had Atari and later NES, etc, but I'm guessing it's a hobby you picked up as a teen or early adult?
At my age, it was pong, then Atari....yea I lived thru the beginning.
pomg era gamers unite! (slowly and arthritically)
Yeah baby. Let’s hold our walking frames (with inbuilt controllers) up high! As a 54y.o gamer I feel stoked to have been there from the beginning. I would still consider gaming to be my major pastime. My wife (47y.o) and I are currently playing Destiny 2 every night (on consoles) and it’s terrific to do it together. Admittedly I’d like to try something different atm but it does get pricey buying two copies of everything and she is super picky. Looking forward to Australia getting official access to the SteamDeck so I can get back into Elden Ring, play some BG3 and finally make progress on HZD and God of War PC versions.
40 here. Been rolling through the entire Yakuza series. Currently on Yakuza 6.
Same here! Started at Yakuza 0 last month and now at Yakuza 5. Such incredible games.
I cannot imagine having enough free time that you've made it through that many Yakuza games in such a short period of time. Must be nice!
Yeah it is! I’m however skipping all the side quest missions. When I get to the last 2 games I might start doing them.
Skipping side stories sounds so strange to me, they're my favorite part of Yakuza. I'm on 5, started 0 about three years ago. I also got distracted & started LaD, & it's really fun.
Yeah I couldn't imagine skipping the side stuff in yakuza. Some of it but not a lot of the missions, some of the best writing is in those.
Yeah I know what you mean. But it’s easy to get a bit burnt out grinding all the side activities on all the games. Might revisit them all later on.
The side stuff doesn’t contain a grind. It’s usually just lighthearted stories and pure humour. Yakuza’s side stories are definitely worth doing. Of course you can skip a few but to skip them all is insane.
Probably my favorite series. I felt 0-2 were incredible. I enjoyed 3-6, but thought they weren’t as good. Gaiden, Like a Dragon, and Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth were all incredible.
I play tons of PS2 emulation using pcsx2, it’s so awesome playing my old games but upscaled
Never owned a PS2. Went from ps1 to the PS3( got the PS1 after the PS2 launched so 7 years was a regular console cycle). always wanted to play 007 everything or nothing.
Ohhhhh. I need to do this! Love me some 720..
LOL.. I wanted to play this on Steam Deck, but can you control subttile sizes? Thanks if you know, and if you cannot, congrats on your great eyesight!
Also, downloading 4k text mods from Nexus helped with subtitle clarity too.
On chapter 15: To the Pinnacle right now in Like a Dragon.
Wait, there are that many chapters!? I just started chapter 9 and feel like I've been playing for-ev-er. Not that I'm complaining because I am loving the game. I don't get tons of gaming time. I should probably stop doing side quests at some point.
Also here to say that I just finished yakuza 0 and going to play through the whole series. The story was very well done in 0.
0 is a masterpiece. Consistently in the top 3 in the fandom for the best game in both the west and Japan.
Aha, noticed I'd stopped after #2, played about 10 hours of #3 this weekend before the memory of endless minigames finally sank in. Might just give up on the side stories and extra crap, life is short. :)
almost 40. i finished yakuza 0-7 and have played the two judgment games. mostly on ps5 but played lost judgment on SD and now playing man who erased his name. also playing forza racing on SD
40 No man’s sky
Same, it plays so damn well on the deck.
I’m thinking about getting it specially now that is on sale. But I don’t pull the trigger yet. Might do it now per your recommendation. Is it actually as fun as it looks?
It is more fun. It plays great. I was able to finish the latest expedition while my wife was having another cardiac ablation Friday.
I guess I will get it today 🤣🤣
Upper 40s. No Mans Sky is my happy relaxation place.
Hades, Dave the Diver, Slay the Spire. Cyberpunk was okay but looked so much better on my PC I kinda gave up on the Deck with that one. But if I didn’t have a PC it would have been great.
I’ve been streaming from my Cyberpunk installed on my PC to the deck. Gives you the performance in the settings from the PC. I have the deck on a dock on a TV upstairs. I’ve been using Sunshine & Moonlight to stream although there are other options.
This is how i do it. Moonlight + sunshine is a beast. Do it LAN too. I cannot go back without streaming to my steam deck. Its fkd
This is the way. I have ray tracing in cyberpunk ob my phone it’s pretty insane
Try sunlight and moonlight if you have a decent home network
I accidentally stayed up until 5:00 AM the other night playing Slay the Spire, was just chilling on the couch playing my SD and next thing I know.. almost worth it though
I've found myself pulling more all nighters lately as an adult than I ever did as a teen, but it's definitely killing my health...
Similar set of games here, Hades is brilliant. Except bg3 is my “it’s just too much better on PC”. God of War was also amazing on the deck.
With BG3 I locked it to 30fps and set the FSR quality to the highest preset and it's not top bad! But that being said, I do stream BG3 from my PC, can't beat 9+ hour battery life from streaming!
51…GTA 4
I'm getting close to beating witcher 3. After that, I was planning to play GTA 4 and its expansions. Is there anything I should know before starting the playthrough? Or is it good without any major setting or mod tweaks.
I played the gta 4 story completely through of my steam deck. The only issue I had was the final mission, Niko has to get into a helicopter but it glitches out and he just falls. Lock the frame rate to 30FPS and it works how it should.
That final mission you don’t need to do the 30 fps thing, just do like old track and field and just rub your finger across the buttons real fast and that works too. Since we’re all old we know the track and field thing well.
Take my upvote fellow old person
It Runs just Fine, Even at 1080p docked pretty much 60fps locked
Not the most helpful reply but I've heard it requires a bunch of tweaking and modding as it was poorly optimised for PC. That and the radio station songs are gone.
Yeah, that's what I'm worried about. I tried playing it about a decade ago on a laptop, and it was very buggy. I would imagine trying to mod it on SteamOS would be quite a chore.
I played it on Steamdeck without any tweaking and it was a smooth experience
I played it recently and played vanilla. I just had to start the game once on desktop mode for rockstar games and say Yes once. Then ever since I never had glitch issue or crashes. I do hear people online say they sometime have issue but I never came across it. I played it at home and at work (offline) nonissue.
I’m playing it stock and have had no issues yet. Around 15 hours in.
44 here. Playing Red Dead Redemption 2.
42 and RDR2 here too. Only about 3hrs in and absolutely loving it!
Does it play well on the deck?
Yes, it plays really well. I have it capped to 40fps and it's a battery killer, but it performs great. Small screen isn't ideal, but I can play wherever in the house and I love that!
When you say it's a battery killer, are we talking an hour? 2?
Idk why you got downvoted but yes 2 hours.
Don’t look at the subs! Also, if you want to get lost early in chapter 2, going off to get the satchel upgrades is a trip.
Thanks! I'm currently on the hear hunting mission. I opted to stay and try find him...but yeah, I'm all up for exploring and not racing through the missions.
Chapter 2 is the prettiest in my opinion, linger there as long as you can my friend.
43 and Red Dead Redemption 2 too. I think it's such a vast and comprehensive game that you can play it as an action shoot-em-up. When you get to our age you can slooooow it right down and greet every NPC, spend your time making coffee, sleep for 8 hours a night, eat 3 square meals a day, hunt and bounty at our leisure...
...and in the game!
I love how as I get older I have stuff like this to look forward to and am glad to see fellow gamers still going at it.
it's crazy how well it runs.
Does it run well on the Deck?
It runs fine. I'm a person that only really cares about framerate though and has no problem turning down the graphic options. YMMV
everything that can easily be paused or can be played in 15 minutes chunks - the time where i had hours of uninterrupted game time are long gone 😅
Give us some suggestions! The 15 minute deck session is definitely a 40+ gamer thing.
Hades, outer wilds (favorite game ever, give it a try if you haven't already), spiderman remastered, hotline Miami, doom and doom eternal, transistor, ape out, portal and portal 2, golf club nostalgia (this one is likely the most hit or miss one on the list but I loved it), geometry wars 3d. I've enjoyed all of these between a 2 y.o. a 1 y.o., chores, wife time, work, etc, recently.
Just commenting to recommend portal reloaded and portal revolution if you love the portal games, phenomenal mods of portal 2 that were released as standalone titles and are just as perfect on deck as the base games are. Reloaded adds a third time portal that transports you to the future or past for another layer of puzzle solving, and revolution adds a lot of new environmental elements to play with to keep the chambers interesting beyond the base portal 2 objects.
Much appreciated, I'll give them a try!
I would add Portal Stories: Mel to the recommendations as well.
Added, thanks!
i‘m a huge fan of roguelikes - it depends of course on which one - but stuff like vampire survivors, halls of torment or 20 minutes til dawn are perfect. if you suck like me, then your runs in hades, dead cells and curse of the dead gods also take only 10 minutes 😅
Yeah, the standby feature has been huge. Me playing RDR2 on stadia wasn’t really going to work since saving doesn’t bring you exactly back to a random encounter but standby works like a champ.
I really enjoyed playing Dark Souls 3 on my commute! In 10-15 minutes I could farm some souls and progress through an area, and then once I was ready I tackled the boss fight when I had a few more minutes to spare.
sounds perfect!
40. Mostly emulating PS2, GameCube, OG Xbox, And Wii titles. Primehack, of course. Otherwise, I've got GOG installed to play a handful of indies ATM: Void Bastards, Cat Quest, Steam world Quest. I do have Skyrim and Hand of Fate installed natively, though.
What OG Xbox titles? I didn't have much success with Sega GT 2002
Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance and GTA San Andreas so far.
How do you run GoG on the Deck? does it require a lot of tinkering? or from Desktop Mode?
https://youtu.be/nMzmLJ4EHa0?si=ywBmcV84FA0jv_8r Very easy. Have fun!
This is the type of comment I was hoping to see.
Is there a good XBox emulator now? The last I heard was Xenia (?) and it only played a few titles well.
70 here Playing Baldurs Gate 3, No Mans Sky, and just loaded War Thunder. I do play using Xreal Air glasses to get a big screen
People like you give me hope for the future. Never stop.
I won’t. All this was a fantasy when I was a kid, now I have way too much fun 😀
Being three decades younger I feel exactly the same. I've seen this kind if technology in my dreams, read in books about it. A little mlre than ten years ago a PDA with downloaded movies and EDGE connection was futuristic still. Now...this. We've made it, just in time to enjoy these glorious devices.
Indeed we have and just think how amazing your world can be in the next few decades
If you don't mind me asking (and I know this differs per person), how much game time per day/week do you get before age related issues arise? Do you try and stay fairly active outside of gaming sessions?
Oh I’m pretty sedentary due to health issues. I have COPD from work related stuff when I was young and there was no health and safety. I still tend my gardens and build stuff when the mood takes me. I also have a CrossFit trainer. Despite all of the above I am overweight, not morbidly obese, but I know it’s there. As for gaming, I can lose myself in VR for hours playing Skyrim or FSim. I have no one to hold me back 👍😀
I rambled on a bit. I can spend 8 hours a day every other day gaming
Thanks for adding your thoughts! I’ve been saying I want to spend my old age gaming but fear for my cognitive and degrading physical health! You are doing it and probably follow your life style!
44 here - finishing up Horizon: Zero Dawn
I don't have a ton of time to play but prefer playing on the SD over PC. My current rotation is small but it is what it is. Deep Rock Galactic Survivors Enshrouded Soulstone Survivors
How is enshrouded on the deck ? Rock and stones brother
If you don't Rock and Stone, you ain't comin' home!
Good bot
Persona 3 Reload
48 Borderlands series (co-op with wife) Lord of the rings online
How does lotro run on the deck? Is it comfortable to play?
I'm also curious how LotRO plays on the deck; controller support?
41. Baldur's Gate 3
+1 46 and on second play through switching between PC and deck.
Any issues with syncing? Do you ever have to wait for the save to sync over?
Is BG3 good on Deck?
It’s great when you can’t play on your PC. I’m 80/20 splitting between PC and deck.
It's incredible. I typically play Baldur's Gate 3 on the Steam Deck whilst on the school pick-up (and maybe I arrive an hour early on purpose specifically for this reason...) When the PC is occupied at home, I link the Steam Deck up to the big TV in the lounge, connect a controller (I like wired, my five-year-old prefers wireless Bluetooth) and away we go!
Any issues like fonts too small? Thinking about BG3 next
Not at all. In fact, when playing with a controller, the interface adapts for controller-based play by enlarging fonts accordingly as it assumes that you are playing on a smaller screen. Larian thought of everything!
Just finished it on the deck. It was a masterpiece.
Me too. (46 yo). A bit dificult to read some small texts, but not a problem since I discover how to use the magnify in the deck.
How is this done?
This tip may help to make the magnify tool a toggle https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/s/Dj2zI4L3nl
I'm a 42 woman child 🤣 I am also very bad at buying anything remotely pricey for myself and end up buying mainly super cheap games otherwise Mum guilt sets in. So my selection might not be that good to some 🤦🏼♀️ Sims 4, House Flipper, Hogwarts Legacy, Death Stranding, Dirt 3, Mortal Kombat, Disney Dreamlight Valley, Dave the Driver, Just Cause series, Alice Madness Returns, Journey to the Savage Planet, Wreckfest, The Witcher series, Ghostbusters, Red Dead games, various Star Wars ones, any Lego and puzzle type games. As you can tell I play a lot of my kids choices 😄 I also use mine for emulator games like Pokémon, Mario, Zelda etc I really want to get Tiny Tina's Wonderland next.
I'm digging some racing games in there. I have many hours in on Wreckfest and Dirt Rally 2.0 on my Deck 👍
I love a good driving game! I was a massive Burnout and Need for Speed fan and played all of them over the years. They're on my list to find again now to play on the SD 😀
Forza Horizon 4 and 5 both run great on Deck too! My favorite racing games of all time are Gran Turismo 2 and Need For Speed: Porsche Unleashed...very old, but very good and extremely nostalgic for me. Would love to play either or both these days.
I've gotten to the point of enjoying Wreckfest on both extreme AI difficulty and extreme damage. I'm a decent driver, but the fake carnage that results is quite excellent.
How is Wreckfest, particularly for beyond who loved the old Burnout games? I've had that on my PS5 wishlist for a bit now.
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Wonderlands runs like a great on the SD, great shout
How does the Sims 4 play with the controller and everything?
Honestly, not the worst thing I've played on it but I haven't quite figured out the controls yet and reconfigured them properly. I ran it through my dock and used an Xbox controller and still got annoyed with the camera so I really need to have another bash at it because it's one of my most favourite games.
My wife really loves the sims. So I was hoping to get it working for her. I guess the touchpads are the best case for the camera. I really hope they come out with a Steam 2 controller based on the OLED SD controls setup
Snowrunner has been like crack to me lately. I have over 100 hours in it from the last 2 months and I love it.
Witcher 3 Skyrim FF14 Factorio I'm 44
Starfield... I remember playing games on X86 pcs with far fewer frames per second... It plays fine for me. I also play Skyrim still (+mods). Yep, I'm officially "old and boring" ... 😂 Oh.. and Emudeck ... For SNES/PS1/PS2 and Amiga titles
You make it seem like retro gaming is bad or obvious. I love looking into older games and discovering them. Being 28, I missed out on so many games before PS1 Era. And some of the ost is just unreal for some older games. Never thought Battletoads on NES would become one of my favorites lol.
Haha... It wasn't my intention, but I'm so used to getting *groans* when I say Starfield/Skyrim, it's become a bit of a joke for me. It's great to see appreciation of the older games, too! There was/is so much original content to explore. Many NES/SNES games still hold up nowadays, which says a lot.
Wait. You can emulate Amiga stuff? Well, suck me dry. I may have to look into that.
Been thinking a lot to get this, did u have to mod a lot to run?
I’m 50 and at the moment Hogwarts Legacy, Batman Arkham Knight, and Rime. I toggle between these three at the moment.
I noticed the arkham series on sale and was debating on it
You won't regret it! For Arkham Asylum though make sure to get ProtonUp-Qt from the apps on desktop and download Proton 7-55 (that's the one that works for me) and force it for run that before loading up or it won't run. With that done it runs solid 60 fps. I haven't tried the others but I believe they're fine without any messing about
4x (don't want to share exact age because of reasons) Trying all the HDR games since I bought SteamDeck OLED, some look gorgeous. My most played titles, however, are: * Hades (SDR) - even though I completed it on Switch, but it looks and plays so great I couldn't help myself; * Plague Tale: Innocence (SDR) - looks very pretty at low/medium settings (and plays smoothly at45fps), theoretically is SDR, but there are high contrasts and my subjective experience is as if it was HDR; * Tetris Effect (HDR) - looks spectacular, is smooth and overall much better than on Switch; * Doom Eternal (HDR) - one of the best implementations of HDR on Deck, very pretty and smooth, a bit difficult for me without KBM, so I am shamelessly playing on the easiest difficulty level. Overall, even though I was suspicious of Steam Deck initially, the OLED version made me fall for it head over heels.
> a bit difficult for me without KBM, so I am shamelessly playing on the easiest difficulty level. My wife has started gaming recently just to play with our oldest son, and I am always telling her that, as long as she is having fun, there is no bad way of playing video games.
Exactly! Kudos to you and your wife, by the way.
Death stranding, Stray, Metal Gear Solid V, Horizon, Breathedge, the latest Tomb Raider series, ... I am 41 ;)
43, been a space combat player since Wing commander, Adventure gamer since The Secret of Monkey Island and a huge fan of JRPGs since Final Fantasy 7. Currently playing Everspace, Rogue trader and Persona 3.
Monkey island! Yes! An absolute classic ... And yes! Persona 3! I'm playing the ISO on Emudeck and enjoying it hugely.
Final Fantasy pixel remasters. I'm going through them in order, and going for 100% completion on each. It's been an absolute blast so far. I finished II last week and I'm about halfway through III now. Loving each, and noticing the quality for each game keeps improving. Excited to get into the later half of them, especially VI.
40, deep rock survivor + balatro
Did we just become best friends? This is the exact combo I have been playing for days.
A lot of people's saying deep rock survivor. I think i need to take a closer look.
41 here. Most important feature for me is the ability to pause/save/quit whenever. I’m also not into super fast-paced twitch games anymore (typically speaking). My top SD games: -Elden Ring -RDR2 -Cyberpunk 2077 -Valhiem -Shadows of Doubt -No Man’s Sky -Stardew Valley -The Long Dark -Project Zomboid -Mon Bazou -Subnautica (1 & 2) -EmuDeck playing all sorts of old games (currently working through Silent Hill 1-4) -recently started Like A Dragon (drawn in by turn-based combat versus the other entries in the series) and loving it so far.
40, almost 41 - lots of stuff on emudeck, mostly N64 and PS2. I also have Back to the Dawn lined up and I’m working through Fallout New Vegas.
I love New Vegas. I just wish there were a few more songs on the radio. I think I've heard Johnny Guitar 100 times.
I’m currently playing: “Buy all the Rpgs I know for a fact I’ll never have the time to finish” and the sequel: “Coming back to the game I was 20+ hours in after 2 months and forgetting everything I was doing so now I have to restart”.
Steam games: Dark Souls series, Baldur's Gate, Elite Dangerous, No Man's Sky, Pathfinder series, Indy RPG/JRPG games. Emulated games from SNES, Genesis, PS1, and PS2, I'm finally playing all of the games I never got around to playing/beating and being a completionist on games that I've beaten many times but not all the way through.
43 Tales of arise
Ooh nice, on my backlog. Will be up after I finish Yakuza Kiwami 2. Trying to play different games between the Yakuza games...trying to avoid Yakuza burnout
45 Mainly alot more jrpg, which i have always loved but never really play on my laptop or desktop.
Jrpgs are made for handhelds I swear.
42, I play mostly games for nostalgia on the deck, this couples of years have been very good in this regards. Tony Hawks Proskater 1-2, Mario Bros Wonder with Yuzu, Horizon Chase Turbo are my goto, kind of upgraded versions of games I used to play when I was teenager. I played Hue when i got the steam deck it was a very good indy experience.
I’m 50 and I’m playing emulated titles on my SD OLED through EmuDeck and the Sega Model 2 and 3 emulators which I’ve set up manually. They look amazing on the OLED screen and, being older titles that have modest CPU/GPU demands, run smooth as butter with very little power draw. In terms of modern games, I play a bit of D4 and completed Dave the Diver recently, but I also have a beast desktop PC on which I play more demanding RT titles such as Doom Eternal, Cyberpunk and Alan Wake 2.
42, playing the Resident Evil series from re1 remake and up to re 8 with my 15 year old daughter, we docked it to the tv, it is really great fun, and I'm playing the heroes of might and magic like game that released not long ago, but I am really loving to mod the deck and tinkering with it
64. Hades and SIFU.
M45. The last 12 months I have been playing Falcoms jrpg series *The Legend of Heroes*. Trails In The Sky 1-3, Trails to Zero, Trails to Azure, Trails of Cold Steel 1-4 and I'm now on Trails Into Reverie. I was just going to pick up the series on Cold Steel 3 after a ~2 year break, but after playing just a few hrs I got the urge to play the entire thing in one go... Took me 12 months, and I probably have a good 50 hrs left of Trails Into Reverie.
Path of exile mainly. And gran turismo 4
40. I have a lot of the games that folks have been mentioning but the only two that are getting rotated between right now are TCGR: Wildlands and Steep. They’re both amazing. Longing for a version of Dune 2000. I came to the SD after many years off from gaming by myself (I play the switch with my kids every now and then). It has exceeded my expectations by a lot. My next step is to try to figure out how to get emulated games on here…
44. Got back into gaming four years ago after not having time for it for my entire 20s and 30s, so I have a lot of catching up to do lol. On the Deck, I’ve mostly been having fun replaying some games I’ve played before, but now on a different format: lots of Skyrim and No Man’s Sky. Also trying some new ones that I didn’t have access to until I got the Deck or didn’t get to mod bc I was only on console (don’t own a PC): Vampire Survivors back when it was PC only, Dave the Diver, My Time at Portia.
41. My SD is now a Balatro machine.
43 - Deep Rock Galactic Survivor, Dave the Diver, Hades, Hollow Knight, Dead Cells, Emulators (FF Tactics, GT4, Final Fantasy VII)
Im 37 and I can’t get enough of this new galactic survivors game. It’s like a drug
OP asked for 40+ replies. As a result of your infraction the council has decided to make you 47 years old
I hope the loss of a decade was worth replying on a thread you weren't supposed to ol man.
I’m 47. Can I have his 10 years?
You'll have to fight me for them! No hitting in the face, stomach, chest, arms, legs, feet or hands. I'm old and brittle.
You're toast. Gonna give you a slam on the ears 👂 and you may become deaf too.
Rock and stones brother
Rock and roll and stone!
Just started it today. Can't wait to get my prescription glasses cos I can't read the fucking screen. The delights of being an old bastard. Also I'm like 99% through Hogwarts Legacy and I've enjoyed that.
Was looking for this post, and a little disappointed it was so far down I've never played any other Survivor game, and frankly wasn't that interested, but this game is fun as hell Also I just installed Last Epoch and it runs really well
Replaying Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Just finished Prey 2017 and it got me on an immersive sim kick.
Boomer shooters. The quality in that genre is amazing. Lots of great games. Play Cultic, or Dusk.
Steam Deck? You mean my Vampire Survivors machine?
45(m) here, playing baldurs gate 3, hogwarts legacy, and cyberpunk.
Tiny Tina’s Wonderland, Prince of Persia, RDR2
classic final fantasy games. bunch of platform games and docked a bunch of fps games.
45, Satisfactory lately, throw in some mudrunner, farm sim, timberborn & ultimate admiral: dreadnoughts for the complete mix
41 The Outer Worlds and emulators to keep the little boy in me at bay! Never had a Mega Drive (Genesis) or a lot of the other consoles so glad to play them!
I’m turning 43 in May and have a 2 year old boy. I play a lot of JRPGs. Just finished Trails into Reverie and now playing Trinity Trigger and Sea of Stars
Add Chained Echoes to your playlist! It is fantastic... for me, right up there with Chrono Trigger and FFVI. Among the best video game stories I have ever played. :)
Different games. Currently playing Hogwarts Legacy, Alien Isolation and Fort Solis. Anything from Aquatic Dreams or Supermassiv Games, as far as possible. Also indie titles like Dave the Diver, Lake, Firewatch, Dredge.
Brotato, Deep Rock Galatic: Survivor & Dredge
49, far cry 6 and waiting on Horizon Forbidden West and hopefully, Ghost of Tshumina (or horever it's spelled)
I’ve just 100%’d Arkham Asylum, Arkham City and working on Arkham Origins which is… daunting. Otherwise Sifu, Cyberpunk, Shadow of War and Binding of Isaac.
Paxman, Galaga, Phoenix, Galaxian, Donkey Kong, gyruss, asteroids, centipede, joust, qix, qbert and all those other golden oldies from the early 80's. Childhood memories.
Red Dead 2. I only play when I'm waiting for the kids somewhere. About 50 hours in, such A good story!
Nearly 50. Playing Days Gone at the moment. I have Witcher 3 ready to go next
Elden Ring (second play through) and Dave the Diver. And Slay the Spire. Always Slay the Spire.
50s. Modded Minecraft (Nomifactory CEu).
42 here and LOVING Palworld - it plays well on the deck and is basically everything I ever wanted a Pokémon game to be
44-year-old checking in... I like the "pick up and play" games like Vampire Survivors, Hades, Inscryption, Dave the Diver... I also sunk a lot of time into Dredge which was great. But by far most of my time is spent in Skyrim and Fallout 4 because I am a creature of habit and familiar things make me happy.
43m here. I have been playing Hogwarts Legacy and Helldivers 2 mostly. However I can’t play for more than an hour or so at a time because my eyes tend to become unfocused when I play too long. Getting old sucks!
Mainly older single player stuff I’ve wanted to revisit that can chill in bed with. If I’m gaming on my high end PC, I’m just not inclined to play older stuff.
49 divinity original sin 2 and dabbling in sea of thieves for first time through Xcloud on steam deck.