Steam Deck, a perfect companion to your Steam Ant - The Bear and Badger

Dark Soldier

Yeah PS2 emu is really good now. Demons Souls runs near flawless.

afgavinstan

That came out on PS2? Damn, it is good.

Raiziel

I did wonder.

Dark Soldier

Ah ffs, the heat is scrambling me.

afgavinstan

I feel ya brother. I've still to enter the Mario Galf tourney thinking "Ach, plenty of time" before I know it another week has passed. The heat is ruining me.

Facewon

Ima buy it and run cities with all mods on. See if it loads before 2030.

GurtTractor

Cities: Skylines would probably work ok up to a point, a very large complex city is probably going to chug a bit as it's quite CPU heavy. It's going to be a nice system for top down strategy and building games I think, Civilization etc. The CPU is probably on par with most low/medium end gaming laptops out there.

Being able to use any PC game mod in a handheld is huge.

GurtTractor

And I guess if you have a good PC in the house you can stream games to the device and get the benefit of the control setup while you chill on the sofa, which would minimise the processing the Deck has to do so you get great battery life.

regmcfly

Despite the honking pad layout I'm getting more and more enticed by this. Play Alpha Protocol in bed! Play Mass Effect in bed! Play Binary Domain in bed!

afgavinstan

PORTABLE YAKUZA.

Raiziel

Portable Civ? I’m not sure how that’ll work.

GurtTractor

@reg Out of curiosity how would you arrange the controls on the Deck?

GurtTractor

Raiziel wrote:

Portable Civ? I’m not sure how that’ll work.

Why not? Between the touchpads, touchscreen and gyro it'll be pretty easy to make a very good control setup. Maybe UI scaling could be an issue, hopefully there's sliders for that sort of thing. I know Civ 5 has a tablet mode also, not played 6 yet.

Civ would be great for a handheld because that's the sort of game I could spend years of my life playing, and being able to just do a turn at a time in between doing other things or while sitting comfortably would be excellent.

Raiziel

GurtTractor wrote:

Raiziel wrote:

Portable Civ? I’m not sure how that’ll work.

Why not? Between the touchpads, touchscreen and gyro it'll be pretty easy to make a very good control setup. Maybe UI scaling could be an issue, hopefully there's sliders for that sort of thing. I know Civ 5 has a tablet mode also, not played 6 yet. Civ would be great for a handheld because that's the sort of game I could spend years of my life playing, and being able to just do a turn at a time in between doing other things or while sitting comfortably would be excellent.

Well you’ve sold me, Gurt.

Scout

I reserved the 64gb model. As others have said I wouldn't be too bothered playing huge AAA games on it. I have a Steam library from years ago that's full of Dooms, Quakes etc... I'd probably mostly play games from that era on this and also newer indie games. I've almost pulled the trigger on a Switch multiple times but it's always the price of games that puts me off. This thing, on the other hand, is perfect in that department.

[Deleted User]

For the record I'm out. I have a Series X and a Razor Kishi controller for my phone. I can already stream GTA V to my phone. Tried once and it was garbage, because most AAA games simply aren't designed for screens this small.

GurtTractor

How big is your phone screen?

Blue Swirl

yourfavouriteuncle wrote:

RE Village is not something to be concerned about being able to run.

How so?

Tempy

It’s well optimised, Deck hardware seems more than up to it.

GurtTractor

Here's someone playing Resi Village on an Aya Neo, which is somewhat comparable in power -

Seems aight to me, and the Deck has a much better control setup.

GurtTractor

The Aya Neo has a somewhat better CPU, but a less powerful GPU on the SoC compared to the deck, I think. So it's not a bad baseline by which to gauge how well the Deck is likely to handle a range of games.

Here's someone playing; Halo 3, Overwatch, Dauntless, Genshin Impact, Rocket League, WarFrame, World Of WarCraft, Borderlands 3, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Cyberpunk 2077 and Red Dead Redemption 2 on the Aya Neo -

GurtTractor

Flight Simulator, Cyberpunk 2077, and Red Dead 2 are all a bit rough, but the other games are really pretty solid. Anything current that's very well optimised (like Doom Eternal) should be possible to run great too.

It's impressive that Flight Simulator runs at all though tbf, and if the upcoming perfomance update lives up to the hype it might actually be surprisingly reasonable to chill out in on the Deck.

AndCallMeCharlie

afgavinstan wrote:

PORTABLE YAKUZA.

Hello

regmcfly

GurtTractor wrote:

@reg Out of curiosity how would you arrange the controls on the Deck?

I genuinely don't know and I'm not a UI designer. That B button just feels like it is falling off. I would go with as close to the Xbox pad as possible I guess.

yourfavouriteuncle

Blue Swirl wrote:

yourfavouriteuncle wrote:

RE Village is not something to be concerned about being able to run.

How so?

Sorry, it was a vague attempt at me passing on my views that it’s a fairly turgid game. I didn’t enjoy much of my time with it, so I wouldn’t be looking for anything that could run it.

GurtTractor

An Xbox style layout might work if the thing had similar big handles coming out each side, but that would be silly. I think because of the weight of this thing the layout they've chosen makes the most sense, constantly adjusting your grip to get at controls lower down on each side would be really fatiguing.

Facewon

Lol, warframe runs like lightning on everything. C'mon.

Paul the sparky

Deffo warming up to this. In fact my initial reaction way positive, then I started picking holes in it, now I'm going back to thinking it could be right up my street. Not jumping in at launch mind, I want to see how it performs first.

I'd only be getting it for the non-demanding indie stuff that doesn't see a console release, no AAA stuff as I've got both consoles for that

Yossarian

That’s pretty much my feeling too. Still waiting for reviews, mind.

Paul the sparky

Is it going to work like I hope it is though? Pick up and play, no faff? Or am I going to be updating drivers and whatnot?

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