How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games

Re:How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games by rlex on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @05:09PM (#34166671)

>I've finished more games during this fall on the deck than my PC during the last two years.

I can say the same, but about single-player games. I play games very often (you can call me addict if you want), but every time i get to my PC i always get dragged into some coop/multiplayer game by my friends. While with deck, i can just drop to bed, fire up some game i've been delaying to play for 5 years, and finally complete it. Almost without distractions.

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Re:How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games by theshrike79 on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @05:28PM (#34166885)

There's something magical about a single-purpose device.

There is no web browser, Discord, Spotify, IRC or anything. Just you and a thousand games you promised yourself you'd finish some day =)

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Re:How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games by rlex on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @05:45PM (#34167053)

Well it isn't single-purpose, you can get browser, discord, spotify, irc or anything just by swapping to desktop mode... But i'd rather use my phone or pc for that and leave deck for games.

Also, on steamdeck subreddit i saw people using it as their main PC (not much power, but definitely more than enough for majority of day-to-day tasks, especially with external monitor). I recall motorola razr (android one) had dualboot (android + ubuntu), and when plugged to external monitor you was able to use it as a small PC. But due to pretty weak hardware back in 2011, this idea never took off.

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Re:How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games by theshrike79 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:47AM (#34170470)

Of course you _can_, but in Steam Mode they're not readily available and won't entice you to check hackernews just this once =)

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Re:How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games by Zekio on Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:46AM (#34171370)

huh, I have all but IRC in steam mode though, just gotta add them as an "External Game" to steam while in desktop mode and it becomes available in steam mode

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Re:How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games by deergomoo on Thursday December 29, 2022 @06:39AM (#34171658)

> There's something magical about a single-purpose device.

A couple of times a year I think about whether I should ditch music streaming and pick up an old iPod

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