Personally, I didn't like physically holding the steam deck. In my opinion, it's much too heavy/bulky and even with a high quality comfort grip It just wasn't working for me. Ultimately, I ended up going with an Ayn Odin 2 instead and I've been enjoying my portable/lounging game time much more now. I do miss the ability to play my steam library though. Even though I can still do this with streaming, I just don't like streaming games as much. Other than the weight/size/ergonomics, which most people seem to be just fine with, the only other thing I'd mention is that steam's UI is buggy as hell when you're browsing around the store. I ended up doing most of my browsing on desktop as a result.
All that being said, you can't deny the draw of it. Even though it wasn't for me personally, I still like the system and I'd still recommend it to pretty much anybody. There's a reason Steam Deck is the champ.
Also, look up retro game corp if you aren't familiar. He just released a video today called 'dude, just get a steam deck'
For sure, I thought I was pretty much done with turn based. They just don't hold my interest the same way as they could when I was a kid. The active dodges and parries are pretty fun though, albeit difficult. I'm really surprised that they didn't implement timed attacks as well. There was another game that I played fairly recently, Sea of Stars, that did similar mechanics with timed attacks too.
I played BOTW on Wii U for a while when it first came out and (hopefully we can still be friends after this, lol) I couldn't get that into it. I didn't enjoy the weapon degradation system, which seemed to be a core concept. I don't know much about the modding scene for BOTW, but I wonder if there's mods that can change this and make it more akin to the traditional games in the series?
I bet the stamina mod helps a lot. I could see it being a really enjoyable experience, in a totally different way than the intended experience, with some of those basic changes like that.
I've been playing Clair Obscure a bit, definitely enjoying my time with it. I also played the Synthbeasts demo a little the other day. It's pretty good, but really needs a hotswap mechanic for controllers.
What mods do you have on BOTW?
Edit:
Almost forgot! Also, I played the Haneda Girl demo for a bit too, it's really good!
Personally, I didn't like physically holding the steam deck. In my opinion, it's much too heavy/bulky and even with a high quality comfort grip It just wasn't working for me. Ultimately, I ended up going with an Ayn Odin 2 instead and I've been enjoying my portable/lounging game time much more now. I do miss the ability to play my steam library though. Even though I can still do this with streaming, I just don't like streaming games as much. Other than the weight/size/ergonomics, which most people seem to be just fine with, the only other thing I'd mention is that steam's UI is buggy as hell when you're browsing around the store. I ended up doing most of my browsing on desktop as a result.
All that being said, you can't deny the draw of it. Even though it wasn't for me personally, I still like the system and I'd still recommend it to pretty much anybody. There's a reason Steam Deck is the champ.
Also, look up retro game corp if you aren't familiar. He just released a video today called 'dude, just get a steam deck'