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warmaster, do games w Steam Deck Gaming News

Oh man, thank you so much for doing this !!! I’ll devour every post you make.

PerfectDark,
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*ma’am!

You’re so welcome! It’s a bit of awful thing, writing up something like this and wondering if it’s going to go down okay (for me anyway!), but that might be a lot of the typical Reddit user responses tainting my previous experiences doing this kinda thing!

I’m glad the responses are positive here, you can count on this being a regular thing <3

Brumefey,

Same ! Thank you @PerfectDark.

PerfectDark,
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moosetwin, do games w Steam Deck Gaming News
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MattKC

The Lego Island Guy mentioned

CosmicCleric, do games w Steam Deck Gaming News
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This was a good read, thank you for doing this!

As far as the shutdown of the Epic game Dauntless, was any reason given for the shutdown?

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.en

PerfectDark,
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Thank you so much!

It was bought by a crypto company that pushed aggressive monetization, and fired most of the original staff.

Constant nerfs to the original gameplay, invalidating months of users’ grind by removing (‘improving’) core mechanics.

This is why the popularity dropped, but as to their official announcement, it was very short on details. Just another failed game, sadly.

Winged_Hussar, do games w Steam Deck Gaming News
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I enjoyed this, thanks for posting!

st3ph3n, do games w Steam Deck Gaming News

Great post! I appreciate your work.

I looked up the Epic iPhone app, only available for EU users. Huh. Guess that’s due to the Apple cut in other territories.

PerfectDark,
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I believe you need to scan the QR code to install it on Apple phones!

store.epicgames.com/en-US/mobile/ios

(and thank you, its kind of you to say!)

Flagstaff, do games w Steam Deck Gaming News
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Hail, fellow ex-redditor!

I had no idea until now that Junk-Store existed, probably because I’m part of the PC master race. It sounds like it’s entirely for the Deck.

That is really cool that you know the Heroic devs. Tell them that it really needs a last-added sorter so we can see what was most recently added to our collective libraries.

PerfectDark, (edited )
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Hello!!!

Junk-Store is a wonderful piece of software! Eben (the dev) has a background in the same field of work I am in, pen-testing. He’s also a talented programmer! JS runs on the Deck, but also on Bazzite, after Kyle (Bazzite dev!) noticed his work and how well it suited things there.

Its no secret the upcoming version won’t be Decky Loader dependent however, so make of that what you will!

I’ll literally tell Paweł that you’re a Heroic fan! And I’ll pass on a link to this comment so he can see that I am praising his work wherever I go! <3

(I shared the link, hi Paweł!!!)

mesamunefire, do games w Steam Deck Gaming News

nice!!

seathru, do games w Steam Deck Gaming News
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The sad thing is at least on Reddit I’d go crazy with images for each point I found, GIF’s, etc.

If you’re talking about embedding images in the post you can with www.imagelink.here

Sivilian, do games w Steam Deck Gaming News

Thanks for the good post

stevedice, do games w Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations!

How’s PCSX2 performance on the Deck? I somehow get much better performance on my Ryzen 5 4500U laptop than I do on my Ally and that makes absolutely no fucking sense.

PerfectDark,
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It’s perfect!

Performance is tied to framerate, or at least was a loooong time ago. I notice a lot of users on EmuDeck write about this. Like…a lot! Not your issue, but I read a lot who think the game is playing in super slo-mo, but this is all tied to the framerate. Keep it at 60 Hz or above, and all is fine.

PCSX2 has a huge range of tweaks you can make, but there’s also HD texture ‘packs’ you can download and apply, which re-do all the textures (yeah, I know you guessed that). Some of these can be huge like Silent Hill 2’s coming in at 29GB, and some can be teeny-tiny like MGS2’s which only re-textures the HUD and menu (because PCSX2 can upscale the native game’s resolution well enough on its own!)

Long reply, for me to say it performs perfectly for me!

Denjin,

It’s not perfect. Most games emulate absolutely fine, with only minor slowdown. One game I can point to which absolutely does not work fast enough to play is The Getaway which gets about 6 fps.

PerfectDark,
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Hmmm, maybe you should try your resolution and texture settings, I’ve had not one issue playing games, no slowdowns for me.

But, never say never!

prole,

I haven’t used PCSX in a while, but I remember those settings being obscure af if you’re not like an expert on VRAM and shit. I would just try everything until I found the best settings for the game lol. Thankfully you can save settings per-game I believe.

njm1314, do games w Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations!

Any of the Suikoden games really. Legend of legaia 2

Ephemeral Fantasia for an extremely underrated gem.

prole,

I believe a Suikoden 1 & 2 remaster is coming out soon.

KingThrillgore, do games w GOG's billboard in Times Square, NYC
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Imagine people go to a part of NYC to be advertised to.

dependencyinjection,

I despise adverts and see them as an attack on my eyes, especially irl.

That said it’s odd that I find the ones in Times Square or Piccadilly Circus (London) quite fascinating when near them. Kind of don’t mind them as they’re concentrated in those areas and well known for them. Just an interesting thought I had.

SgtAStrawberry,

It’s a bit like a concrete vs random noise.

If you had to listen to a random rock song on high volume at random times in your videos, and having 100 of different songs screaming at you when you go about your day. You would find that annoying and disorderd.

On the other hand if you went to a rock concert or festival you would be fine with it and even expect that to happen.

I view this similar. Time Square and Piccalilli Circus are just festival grounds for adds.

shadshack, do games w Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations!

My entire childhood was Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 on the PS2.

SourDrink, do games w Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations!

There are two amazing super hero games that I would recommend: Spider-Man 2 and Hulk: Ultimate destruction.

Spider-Man 2 was easily one of my favorite games of all time. This game essentially set the bar for what a Spider-Man game should be.

Hulk: Ultimate Destruction was an open world game where you were the Hulk and did all the Hulk things. I can’t think of a recent game where you play as the green giant.

stardustsystem,
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Ultimate Spider-Man scratched a very similar itch to Spider-Man 2 if you ever want more of that kind of gameplay.

Not a PS2 game, but the PS1 Spiderman games are not to be slept on either.

stardustsystem, do games w Emulating PS2 for my Steam Deck, would love any recommendations!
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Some good ones that are not yet mentioned

  • Ribbit King is Golf game with frogs for balls which get strategically shot around a map littered with bonuses and obstacles. Players alternate shots and try to have the most points after both players reach the hole. It’s extremely cute and great local multi-player fodder
  • Stuntman is tough as nails. You are a Hollywood stuntman pulling off increasingly complex stunts for movies being filmed. At the end of each shoot you get to see the movie trailer filled with clips of your own driving.
  • Black is a big dumb loud shooter, and it has zero reservations or shame in that. That’s what makes it so much fun to play
  • Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is excellent 3D brawling. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King is excellent 3D brawling with co-op
  • Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy is a 3rd person shooter where you have guns and psychic powers you use in and out of combat.
Pirky,
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The only issue with Stuntman on emulators is it’s one the last remaining games not playable on PCSX2. There’s been consistent issues with the AI pathing on one of the levels and they haven’t been able to patch it after all these years.
I’m not saying it won’t ever be, but it may continue to be unplayable on non-native hardware for a while longer.

stardustsystem,
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Actually did not know this. Truly sad to hear it. Guess I can’t get rid of my dusty PS2 just yet

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