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10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened

Here’s the thing most people still miss about the Steam Deck—and I’m saying this as someone who’s been yelling about it since forever—is that for decades, the PC had countless exclusive games that never set foot on a console. No ports, no Nintendo love, no Sony handshake—nothing....

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And trust me, I begged. Pleaded. Lit prayer candles.

Why would you do that?

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The Steam Deck brings about a conversation about what a console is. To me, it’s something that plugs into the TV and doesn’t require KBM, and in that regard it very much is.

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Where did you find that information?

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So you made it up.

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Ah yes, the classic “everyone who disagrees with me is a troll”

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It’s very likely that the Switch 2 will far outsell all other PC handhelds combined. And that is very much a loss. Not just to Valve, not just to PC gamers, but to everyone.

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All the reasons listed in OP

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…well that’s an interesting (bad) presumption.

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I honestly don’t even know what you’re trying to say.

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I sure as hell am glad I bought my Switch and and several games second hand

I had a Switch but I sold it after realizing that even second hand games sell for 90% of new. I’ve no idea how the economics of that situation works out…

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Physical goods are no different in that when you pre-order something you really have no idea what you’re getting. You’re counting on the reputation of the company to deliver on their claims. Which is often a bad idea.

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I am constantly in awe of how many people want to watch this cringy dude ramble into a 1080p webcam mounted on the ceiling.

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The only reason you should buy a Switch is if you have no self respect, don’t give a shit about being in an abusive relationship with Nintendo, and don’t care about sending thousands of dollars to a company that hates you to get an artificially limited device, and absolutely MUST play Nintendo first-party games, in the intended fashion.

The Deck is such a better device in nearly every way.

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“Deck verified” is an absolutely useless metric and very often wrong. I pay no attention to them and neither should you.

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The OLED is the same size as the OG but lighter.

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“Although users own the hardware, the software that’s needed to run it is subject to a license agreement,” attorney Jon Loiterman told Ars. “If you violate the license terms, Nintendo has the right to revoke your access to that software. It’s less common for software makers to revoke access to software in a way that disables hardware you bought from them, but the principle is the same.”

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They refer to Sony’s ToS:

If SIE Inc determines that you have violated this Agreement’s terms, SIE Inc may itself or may procure the taking of any action to protect its interests such as disabling access to or use of some or all System Software, disabling use of this PS5 system online or offline, termination of your access to PlayStation Network, denial of any warranty, repair or other services provided for your PS5 system, implementation of automatic or mandatory updates or devices intended to discontinue unauthorized use, or reliance on any other remedial efforts as reasonably necessary to prevent the use of modified or unpermitted use of System Software.

Although I’ve never heard of any reports of that, and I’d love to see it tested in a courtroom. Deliberately bricking someone else’s hardware because YOU believe for some reason that they’re not using it properly is on a whole other level than just disabling online accounts. It’s vindictive.

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That’s why the first thing I do when I buy a new game is to turn off the internet and boot the game. If it doesn’t boot or work offline, I refund it. And I just don’t buy games that have Denuvo.

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I usually start on easy mode and then steadily increase difficulty as I go. Nothing will make me refund a game faster than being 20 minutes in and dying 74 times in an impossible encounter. LoP is one of those games.

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The difficulty is not a problem for me so much as the very slow movements. It takes like 2 seconds to swing a sword. Meanwhile the opponent is still attacking. Just can’t figure these games out, myself 😮‍💨

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But look at the typical apple user. Do you think they’re going to be happy without the apple experience?

Oh my God, they’re going to have to make decisions for themselves!? The horror!

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Its recurring news going back multiple years at this point. And probably into the future.

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But I don’t like the loot goblining. Constant hunt for ever higher damage numbers.

I honestly don’t know how people play this game. Every 12 seconds coming across new gear. Can’t do it.

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It’s a combination of a huge variety of attributes and an endless supply. I just get anxiety about walking past a super powerful weapon or dropping it in exchange for something else without realizing it.

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It presumably works with a normal TOTP app.

E: confirmed it works

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They have TOTP but only in their app.

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Not exactly, no

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I’m pretty sure it doesn’t but I’ll bite: How did you set that up?

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Okay, let’s say there’s currently no native support for normal TOTP, mostly because Steam doesn’t give you access to your TOTP key.

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Could be worse. GOG’s approach is super annoying, and a lot of platforms (like fucking Apple) actually require the use of insecure and invasive SMS verification. And as far as I know Steam hasn’t been hit with any data breaches since 2011.

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Interesting. My copy of Half Life from 1998 never got an upgrade for new hardware 😞

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Oh, which hardware was this upgraded for?

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Didn’t answer my question.

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Weird, considering it came out several years after Steam Deck and it works just fine on my desktop PC…

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I mean that makes sense, considering they’re Nintendo games and it’s a Nintendo console.

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Generally, yes. But Epic is not competitive in any way.

Their idea of being competitive is not to deliver an amazing product, it is to buy exclusivity for games so they can’t be sold on other platforms, which benefits no one except themselves.

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It’s a great game but it runs like ass and uses Denuvo so I can’t recommend it.

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The fun thing about PC is everyone is using different hardware.

I dunno what DF is but I assume they’re running Nvidia cards on Windows, in which case you probably won’t have a problem.

My 6800XT doesn’t go above 40 FPS.

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you may have some other performance issues?

The game has forced Ray Tracing and FSR is broken. Both of which lead to terrible performance on AMD machines. Those are the issues I’m having.

he reports a rock solid 60FPS targeting native 1080p

…am I supposed to be impressed by that?

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It’s better than you’re getting

It’s not. I’m running in 4k.

DF recommends using XeSS

Which also does not work. I am not alone here. Tons of people are reporting this. It’s not on my end.

If you’ve maxed out every setting

I haven’t. It’s the same settings I use for most games.

I have no sympathy for you or your performance complaints.

I’m not here for your sympathy. I’m here to answer OP’s question.

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I’m not sure that qualifies as “runs like ass”

As I said, I’ve had this card for years, I run tons of other games at 4k/60 high and they all work just fine. But it usually requires FSR.

there’s no mention of XeSS issues

Do a search for “DOOM Dark Ages black screen” and tell me there aren’t dozens of reports. Switching to TAA solves this issue but obviously strangles performance.

I wouldn’t recommend frame generation in any circumstance

Nor would I.

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Any links for Linux gamers?

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That hasn’t been my experience 😞

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I’ve been unable to get the repacks to unpack with Bazzite.

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Aside from screwing Linux users, they’re also screwing AMD users with forced ray-tracing + broken FSR, and I’d imagine there’s also a lot of overlap there.

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How did you get it working? I’m getting like 40 FPS over here.

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Oh I don’t have Windows. But I’ll look into the HDR stuff, I usually leave it off.

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