Just interested to see what y'all like playing portably!

  • hypercracker
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    4 months ago

    Came back to Slay the Spire to beat the game with some of the other characters. It’s great on steam deck and the iOS app is nice too. The whole card game concept has finally clicking with me as I realize I should endeavor to make my deck as small as possible, not as large, so have started skipping most card rewards and removing cards from my deck as much as possible. This means the cards I actually want to play will come up more times.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      It really took me a while to figure out that removing cards from your deck is a good thing most of the time. Balatro works the same way.

  • mechwarrior2 [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Creating custom wrestlers in WWF No mercy (N64)

    Got a huge crusty guy that I named "General Strike"

  • Packet [none/use name]
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    4 months ago

    The Legend Of Zelda TOTK using an emulator, with some mods for optimization to get quasi stable 25-30 fps

  • Beaver [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    I'm playing Castlevania Symphony of the Night for the first time on my phone. I do connect my Bluetooth controller for boss fights, because the touchscreen controls are jank if I really need fine control. It's crazy how much stuff is in this game, and the sprite work is unreal.

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    4 months ago

    Elden ring still. About to tick into my 500th hour of playtime

      • Romkslrqusz@lemm.ee
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        4 months ago

        Yes!

        Mostly low/medium settings, drop the resolution to 1024x960, enable FSR in the Deck’s settings, cap the framerate to 45 FPS and it’ll mostly stay there.

        I’m usually really sensitive to anything below 60fps but for some reason it feels very smooth and playable this way.

      • Infamousblt [any]
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        4 months ago

        It plays okay ish on low settings in docked mode. I wouldn't try it in handheld. 20-30fps usually. All my 500 hours are not on deck although a healthy portion of them are.

        • Roonerino
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          3 months ago

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          • Romkslrqusz@lemm.ee
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            4 months ago

            Try dropping the resolution to 1024x960 and using FSR, game will run at 45fps most of the time.

          • Infamousblt [any]
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            4 months ago

            I've seen a difference in some games handheld, but I haven't tried elden ring so good to know it runs fine there.

      • Infamousblt [any]
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        4 months ago

        I just really like the genre. If you add up all my time in the souls games it is in the thousands. I'm not even that good I just really like them

  • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]
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    4 months ago

    There are tons, haha, but I'm currently playing Fear & Hunger. MAJOR CW on that one, of every type, but it's a dark mess I can't help but want to push deeper into the dungeon.

    Signalis was amazing, the anticommunism was cringe but the personal story being told made me ball my eyes out.

    Next up on my list is Crosscode, but it has bugs with OLED screens. Also going to play Disco Elysium, Cassette Beasts, and maybe Monster Hunter: Rise to prepare for Wilds.

  • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Balatro, although I wish there was a mobile version, because it seems like a waste to play it on the Deck.

    I got Skater XL from a recent Humble Bundle, and it runs really well. If you've ever played the Skate series, the controls are really similar where you do almost everything with the sticks, so I've unfortunately kinda stopped playing it on the Deck after someone online made a good point that it'll probably wear the sticks out really fast. I also got Bomb Rush Cyberfunk recently, and it's a good facsimile until Sega releases a new Jet Set Radio.

    Other than that, a bunch of shmups and emulated games, especially MAME.

    • Tom742 [they/them, any]
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      4 months ago

      For what it’s worth, the stick’s are really easily replaceable. Maybe 15 minutes for the whole procedure and that’s just time spent unscrewing it.

      I was surprised how expensive those replacements were though

  • ashinadash [she/her]
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    4 months ago

    Bad answer but the DS version of Shiren the Wanderer. Great game to poke at, easy to pick up and put down.