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Qwaffle_waffle, do games w Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)

Subtitles. I wish I could have suuttiles for halo, the early games. It’s getting better these days, and should be a setting accessible before starting the game (not after the intro movie, I’m looking at you vanilla wow).

blimthepixie, do trains w The OG

It’s such a good museum

Dremor, do games w Day 499 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
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Damn, already almost at 500! 😃

MyNameIsAtticus,
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I almost considered doing something special to celebrate. It only feels like a few months ago i did a 1 year though

CelloMike, do trains w The OG
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missingno, do gaming w Which of the two would you purchase for someone who’s not so technical?
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Get whichever platform has the games she wants to play.

cerebralhawks, do gaming w Which of the two would you purchase for someone who’s not so technical?

Can you remote into a Steam Deck? I’m guessing yes but I’m not sure.

Switch 2 is an easy win in your mother’s case, though. People see emulation but they don’t see the hoops you have to jump through, and the Switch 2 is a solid machine, it just doesn’t have the breadth of games.

I kinda want a Deck (I only have a 3DSXL and Switch 1 for mobile gaming, not counting phones) but I’m also not discounting the Switch 2. On Switch, I almost exclusively play Animal Crossing, and the performance gains of the Switch 2 upgrade alone make it almost worth it for a game I play almost daily. But I’ve been playing for a year, I’m on my third island, and I’m afraid I’m starting to get tired of it. I know about the free hotel DLC/update coming in January, it’s basically a lite/free version of the Happy Home Paradise DLC (same mechanic), but I think it’ll be too little too late for me, let alone people who have been crossing since ACNH came out in 2020 — or longer, with previous titles. (I have the modded HShop version, Welcome Luxury, which supposedly fixes a lot of stuff, but I’ve had a hard time getting into it after being spoiled by New Horizons.)

Datz, do gaming w Which of the two would you purchase for someone who’s not so technical?

Once you setup the emulators (which does take me ages sometimes), the only problems I had were Gamecube and Switch emulators not letting me open emulator options in game mode without things getting fucked up.

But she probably won’t care, and I probably needed an extra 30 minutes to get it fixed, which’d be your problem. I grabbed NSO on Switch 2 because the setup was a pain and I am fine with paying ~4€ a month to skip it, but Steam Deck sounds better for you. (And is also just better in general)

Midnitte, do gaming w Which of the two would you purchase for someone who’s not so technical?

Emulation ≠ Piracy (pirating ROMs is another story…)

But if you’re using EmuDeck, if you install it for her, it’s pretty simple after that - all the games just show up as games in Steam Library.

You might just want to update it from time to time for her.

ModernRisk,

Emulation ≠ Piracy (pirating ROMs is another story…)

Oh yeah, I know hah. But considering the instance I’m on, you can, I assume already know how I obtain most of the games.

But if you’re using EmuDeck, if you install it for her, it’s pretty simple after that - all the games just show up as games in Steam Library.

Yeah, I use EmuDeck on my own Deck but there are some hiccups when it comes to using the emulators thru Gaming Mode (bit of laggy, sometimes the games won’t start). Usually start the games through Desktop Mode. Did not manage to get the game to show up on the Steam Library, for some reason I just could not get that to work and due not enough time (work…) got a bit lazy and thought ‘never mind’ lol.

Panties, do gaming w Which of the two would you purchase for someone who’s not so technical?

Has she tried playing on your steam deck?

I got the OLED Deck this year to replace my Switch, and the first thing I noticed was that my hands are not quite big enough. I can’t reach the Y button with my thumb quickly, and I cannot comfortably put my index and middle fingers on the bumper and trigger buttons. I ended up mapping the bumpers to the back buttons and got used to pressing trigger with my index finger, but it took a while to get over my muscle memory.

ModernRisk,

Has she tried playing on your steam deck?

Yeah, she plays a lot on it. But she usually wants me to turn on the games when it’s emulation.

She really likes how the Deck feels (ergonomically).

Panties,

As long as you’re comfortable setting up the emulations, Steam Deck seems like a better choice then.

helios, do gaming w Which of the two would you purchase for someone who’s not so technical?
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Using the deck to just play steam games is pretty straightforward. Sure you can do a bunch of advanced stuff with the deck, but you don’t have to.

ModernRisk,

True, true but most games she likes are emulation. The Switch games, a PS2 game and Cemu (Zelda).

umbrella,
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even better. i don’t think any other platform is as good for emulators.

TehPers, do gaming w Which of the two would you purchase for someone who’s not so technical?

Switch 2 will be a better user experience for someone who knows nothing. Steam Deck is great, but you’ll need to find which games work well on it. All Switch 2 games work on the Switch 2 (assuming they aren’t crappy ports).

Krompus, do games w Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)
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You just reminded me of a funny feature I found in Elite Dangerous (space MMO) to prevent combat logging (quitting suddenly during combat like a little b***h): if you press Alt+F4, the game doesn’t immediately exit, but shows you a Quit dialog (to main menu or desktop), and there’s a lengthy countdown if you’re near hostile ships. :)

Doesn’t prevent it entirely, but I thought it was pretty crafty.

BuboScandiacus, do games w Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)
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Save&quit at any time

So I can just boot up the game, play for 15 minutes and go do other stuff

Regrettable_incident,
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Yeah, the steam deck does this, it’s a great feature.

discostjohn, do games w Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)

Colorblind options that let me specifically choose the color of each HUD/UI element. I don’t want an overlay for the whole game, I just want to be able to distinguish icons in the UI that might have color-coding too similar for my eyes to perceive at a glance

REDACTED, do games w Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)

Windowed borderless mode

Hupf,
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Genuine question: what issue does this address? Are there graphics driver issues with regular full screen in some cases?

thermal_shock,

Some games minimize and try to lock your mouse to the game if you alt tab out. Windowed mode makes it pretty much seamless, pain free. No difference I ever found, just easier to alt tab out and check a map, take notes, pause and watch a video.

SystemL,
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I never understood why people prefer it over full screen.

filcuk,

It enables quick window switching with no flickering. This may be a strictly Windows issue.

cyberpunk007,

Yeah you’re probably right. On Linux I just Ctrl Alt right arrow to my next virtual desktop and it’s instant and seamless.

SystemL,
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No issues on linux

cyberpunk007,

I should probably know this, but what’s the deal with full screen vs windowed full screen? What’s the difference?

Also why do people wanna play windowed? Maybe depends on the type of game…?

thermal_shock,

Alt tab out to other apps without the game freaking out due to display settings

cyberpunk007,

Oh I see this makes sense. And theoretically better performance in full screen?

thermal_shock,

I never saw a major performance difference, but being able to switch windows without the game possibly crashing is great. Especially in single player games, sometimes you just need to pause and check laundry, or check email. Alt tab and good to go.

That’s the benefit I use it for. Some games force minimize when you tab off and they can crash when you try to tab back to them.

smeenz,

There used to be a noticeable graphics performance boost to an app when in full screen mode, but that was back in Windows 7 days and may not be true any more.

swelter_spark,
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Game in one window, other things open in other windows. Game and do other things at the same time.

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