I think the Deck’s killer feature is really just having a library already ready to go when you buy it. Compare this to having to rebuy duckhunt wrapped in an emulator again on the Switch, or whatever.
The touchpads are such a nice controller innovation too.
Steam controller :D I grabbed one for like 5 $ when they were going out of production. It’s not exactly the same but…
I wasn’t really impressed by the touchpads, until I actually used them. Been playing stellaris on my bed every day now and I can’t imagine a portable PC like this not having pads.
Clickbait cringe video or no: this is my honest take also. Only reason I don’t own a steamdeck right now is I’m still convinced there’s going to be a Steamdeck 2 sooner rather than later. My PS4 basically just sat for the past year and a half gathering Dust while I’ve been shifting back and forth between my PC’s depending on whether or not I want to play on my TV or my desk after work is done. Only reason I ever booted the ps4 up in the past two years was to play god of war ragnarok and that just hit PC also along with the valhalla DLC i’ve been wanting to try.
Steam Deck has all the benefits of portability that the switch has combined with even more ways to play on your TV since you can use either a dock or the cloud saves features to swap back and forth almost seamlessly. Also: 3 cheers for piracy and emulation if you want nintendo content also.
Consoles are dead to me. I’m PC exclusive for the foreseeable future.
Same vibes here. I actually started having issues with my TV gaming PC where it would crash under load so started using moonlight/sunshine to stream over my LAN. The results were so much better than expected that I bought a cheap tablet off aliexperess that I use to game around the house and my backyard like a giant switch/deck, is great.
Only read the title (as is tradition) but this is how I feel too. Main reason is that the device is not locked down at all. Having high end hardware like PS5 only for it to be so locked down that there is no way to use it as a Jellyfin client (for example) feels like ass. With no lock down, Steam as a platform adds value to the Deck with their work on proton and dxvk etc. rather than just hold a gun to your head and demand money. I don’t even play games through it most of the time. I rather use Lutris because I can wrap my head around it easier. But being able to do it on a console you paid money for feels nice.
Honestly I’ve been emulating everything I wanted from the switch (not on a steam deck though) and the only thing I even want from the PS5 is demon souls
I’m not going to watch a click bait title.
I’m wondering if there should be a guideline about this on this comm at the very least, and maybe on hexbear in general. Some sort of requirement for a minimal description or commentary. Maybe timestamps for excessively long videos so that people can skip to the relevant part.
I don’t want to name names, I’m not interested in drama. But there’s an awful lot posting of videos by a few very specific people who just use the original video’s title and never provide context in text form.
I’ve thought the exact same thing. At least have the YouTube channel in the name. At least on my end there’s no thumbnail embed or anything, just a text title and the small embed thing below saying it’s a YouTube video. Not a lot to go on.
I don’t get thumbnails at my end either. And I fully agree on requiring the Youtube channel name to be mentioned at the least. I almost never engage with this comm because I have no idea whose metrics I’m going to be contributing to. A drop in a bucket in an ocean in a water-rich solar system to be sure. But it matters to me.
A lot of sites with YouTube embedding have rules about posting videos where you have to comment about the video and why people should watch. I don’t click any of the videos on hexbear or lemmy because I’m not going to sit down for 20 minutes to watch something by someone I don’t know.
I don’t think people need to write more than a sentence or two and I wouldn’t expect there to be anything on stuff like music or 10 second comedy sketches. But holy hell could we use something for video essays and political commentary.
