cRazi_man

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve now require UK Steam users to verify their ages with a credit card, thanks to the Online Safety Act⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t know what Steam is going to do, but most sites don’t do age verification themselves. They have a 3rd party company that takes your card details and verifies your age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New rumor suggests Valve's Steam Deck 2 is much further away than we thought⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It will never be “end of life”. There are retro consoles that people are buying just for running SNES or GameBoy Advance games. Even those are perfectly functional for their purpose. Even if the Steam Deck got hard locked to only run games released up till 2025, it will still have enduring value. EoL can mean the battery is too degraded, but the battery is replaceable.

  A “soft EoL” will realistically come when much much faster hardware is cheaper, the Steam Deck is out of production and it starts struggling to play even indie games. At this point, buying a secondhand Deck for £100 is still going to be a bargain and get recommended for emulators, retro gamers and patient gamers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaks again hint at Valve doing a proper Steam Machine Console⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The answer to making something mainstream accessible and acceptable is the experience for normies. This is where the Steam Deck really shines. Valve gets it. You say you don’t get it. I don’t fully understand peoples’ tech anxieties either. But people won’t install Bauxite or Steam OS themselves. Normies consider that to be akin to black magic. The Steam Deck doesnt even need the tiniest bit of tinkering. You literally start it up and go. And this is what has made it mainstream acceptable (even though the majorities of normies in my social group still need explanation…“PC games on a handheld? Is it like a laptop?”).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on what your usecase is.

  My brother wants to play demanding AAA games on a big screen. He doesn’t see the point of a Steam Deck and is about to sell his.

  I play indie games and emulated retro games. The Steam Deck is perfect for me to play. I can sit with my kids when they play in the back yard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you love Brotato you should check out Noobs Are Coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “If you love Brotato”

  I’m convinced

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you all using for game/library tracking, on Steamdeck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do this with movies in IMDB. Bookmark movies I’m meaning to watch. Rate the movies I have watched. You need to find a website or ap that let’s you track games in this way. I can see there’s IGDB.com, but have never tried it.

  Game suggestions are more difficult. Sites tend to suggest sponsored content and AAA expensive suggestions. The better way to find new content is from user forums or trusted reviewers/publications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Any idea of this guy made any significant impact when he installed Linux recently?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What emulated games hold up in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the current list I have that I’ve played/playing/plan to play through.

  3DS: New Super Mario Bros 2, Kirby Planet Robobot, Super Mario 3D Land.

  Gamecube: Legend of Zelda, The - The Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine

  GBA: Advance Wars (1+2), Super Mario Advance 4, Kirby - Nightmare in Dream Land

  Mega Drive: Earthworm Jim (1+2), Streets of Rage 2, Lost Vikings, Micro Machines 2, Sonic and knuckles, Jungle Strike

  N64: Golden Eye 007, Super Mario 64

  PS1: Castlevania - Symphony of the Night, Grand Theft Auto 2, Legacy of Kain - Soul Reaver, Final Fantasy 7+8+9

  PS2: Crazy Taxi, GranTurismo 4, Metal Gear Solid 2+3, Okami, Ratchet & Clank - Up Your Arsenal (all the Ratchet and Clank games actually), Shadow of the Colossus, Tony Hawks Underground 2, Sly Cooper, Jak and Daxter

  PS3: Everybodys Golf 6, Ratchet & Clank Future - A Crack in Time

  PSP: Rock Band Unplugged, Blast Off, Disgaea - Afternoon Of Darkness, Final Fantasy Tactics - The War of the Lions, Grand Theft Auto - Chinatown Wars, Half-Minute Hero, Hotshots Tennis, LittleBigPlanet, Lumines 2, Mega Man - Powered Up, Mercury Meltdown, Patapon, PixelJunk Monsters - Deluxe, Puzzle Quest - Challenge of the Warlords, Space Invaders Extreme, Wipeout (Pulse+Pure), Daxter

  SNES: Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World, Tetris Attack.

  PS Vita: Gravity Rush, Wipeout 2048, Geometry Wars 3

  Wii: Bully, Cave Story, Donky Kong Country Returns, Geometry Wars Galaxies, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, New Super Mario Bros Wii, Rhythm Heaven Fever, Super Mario Galaxy (1+2), Super Paper Mario, Tetris Party Deluxe, Zack and Wiki

  Arguably one of the best genres that retro games excelled at were longdrawn RPGs and I haven’t even started with those…if that’s your thing then I’ve missed off that entire genre here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What emulated games hold up in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a world of options out there and you need to be more specific with what sorts of games you enjoy. I’ve been emulating on my Switch for a while, but also recently bought a dedicated retro emulation console so I have quite a few recommendations.

  For games that are literally still up to modern standards, you can go back to Wii, 3DS, PS Vita, PS3 and beyond and you’ve basically got games that will still hold up just fine.

  For older games: PSP, PS2, SNES and GBA are gold mines of content.

  I’ve found it difficult to get into PS1, N64 and Dreamcast gaming. This was a time when 3D graphics were just starting to be widely used and are so very dated. It’s difficult to look past the terrible graphics without nostalgia goggles. I’ve had more success in going back to SNES and Mega Drive games… At least they have great pixel graphics with suitable games (side strollers, platformers, etc).

  For specific games, I find it best to go to metacritic and look at their list of all time best games, and limit by console and then work through the best every reviews. This does miss a lot of games though and if you say what sort of games you like then people can make recommendations. There are tons of hidden gems and niches… Rhythm games, block drop, quirky puzzle games, etc. E.g.:

  Everybody’s Golf 6 (PS3) - excellent arcadey golf game

  Mercury Meltdown (PSP) - puzzle game about manipulating mercury blobs. Great to play entirely with the Steam Deck gyroscope.

  GTA China Town wars (PSP) - top down GTA game, modernised beyond the GTA2 controls

  Rhythm Heaven Fever (Wii) - excellent rhythm games

  Super Mario 3D land (3DS) - 2.5 D Mario. Really solid platformer.

  Wipeout 2048 (PS Vita) - solid combat racer

  Micro machines 2 (Mega Drive) - quirky top down racer. Excellent for multiplayer.

  Crazy Taxi (PS2) - taxi driving, really crazy though