Over the past year I’ve been losing interest in playing anything whatsoever, everything I’ve touched I almost drop instantly or play very little.

I have took many breaks, I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I’m willing to give trying the deck a shot to see if I can find some spark of enjoyment again. Has anyone formed a love for gaming again after being out of touch with it for a long time?

  • No_Description_8477@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    I play a lot less on my PC. Mostly being because I have 1 desk setup I share for working and playing and mentally feels a slog after a long day of work because of the lack of separation.

    I even tried 2 different desks at one point but it did not make a lot of difference.

    I bought the OLED deck specifically to play shorter titles and indies like blasphemous, cult of the lamb etc and enjoying it a lot so far. Being able to relax on the couch and play for an hour or so is massive.

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      10 months ago

      Funny enough my most play games on Deck are Indies that have mobile ports:

      Slay the Spire

      Brotato

      Binding of Isaac(I think)

      No ads is great. Mobile games used to be great before the greed.

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        10 months ago

        You are me!

        I might also add to the list:

        Stardew valley

        Dave the diver

        Whip the deck out wherever vs going to a separate room to play desktop/ console away from my wife and kids.

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    10 months ago

    I’ve started chunking away at the backlog and playing old childhood games. I used to just play the same 2 MMOs, and got bored of gaming.

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    10 months ago

    I’d say yes. Beforehand my deck of pretty much only plaid COD with my brother. But now I play a lot more story driven games.

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    10 months ago

    I was a Switch player for years, love handheld gaming. I like to have a movie or something on the tv in the background instead. After 2 years of religiously playing Animal Crossing New Horizons I sort of just ran out of things to do. No game really captured me. When Hogwarts Legacy was coming out I was super hyped for it, but just didn’t want to play it on Switch so I bought a Steam Deck just for the game. I really enjoyed the game, but more than that I finally was excited about gaming again. The Deck really opened me up to a ton of games I couldn’t play handheld before. Always seem to have something to play these days.

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    10 months ago

    Deck got me into loving handhelds all over again. I enjoyed my time with the og deck and then a bit with the ally…but I sold that ally and got that OLED deck cause man I was just missing that clean console vibe in the palm of my hands so much.

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    10 months ago

    Yes. Been gaming a lot more and more importantly for valve, buying a metric fücklódë of games

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    10 months ago

    Yeh.

    I’m playing death stranding.

    I have literally no idea what I’m doing, how to do it, or what’s going on.

    I love it.

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      10 months ago

      That game got a lot of hate but I loved it. I also played it in the most perfect time in my life to play it. Most of my friends were moving away to college while I was too broke to do that and too stupid to get scholarships. It was a very lonely experience and death stranding was extremely cathartic. Just me, my packages, and the post apocalyptic wilderness connecting a broken world. Very fun.

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    10 months ago

    once you get the hang of everything it’s pretty seamless yeah I’d say it’s making me want to game more than I already was

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    10 months ago

    I never fully stopped but played a lot less frequently. The ease of use of the steam deck and being able to pick it up and put it down with pretty much no delay has gotten me back into both longer gaming sessions and short 15-30 minute plays

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    10 months ago

    Has anyone been playing less since the oled was announced? Loved my lcd. Now it’s sad in the corner and I’m just pondering life.