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Kirios posted:I mean y'all are obviously joking but these reviews aren't that great. Seems like there's a lot of caveats. Like menus are lovely? yeah that sucks I guess but I don't need to browse the store on my steam deck, I just need it to play games and in that category it seems great.
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I wish they would have splurged for a better screen. Not gonna lie, I think Switch OLED looks better.
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Kirios posted:I mean y'all are obviously joking but these reviews aren't that great. Seems like there's a lot of caveats. Who'da thunk this thing that has been consistently marketed as a computer in a handheld form factor turned out to be a computer?
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Feb 25, 2022 19:45
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It would be better for adoption if they had a flawless "console" experience, but to me it does not matter.
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Feb 25, 2022 19:45
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I'm reading most of these reviews as quite positive if you're the sort of person that doesn't mind dicking with your autoexec.bat to get something running, which is absolutely a huge caveat for some people but for me it's basically fine. Mainly a question of how much you trust Valve to continue rolling updates and if there are specific games you wanna play. Sounds like it's coming in very hot but also that Valve knows this. Question is how much will be fixed by the time the actual pre-order pops which could be another month or two anyway so feelin' pretty posi I think.
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NmareBfly posted:Sounds like it's coming in very hot but also that Valve knows this. Question is how much will be fixed by the time the actual pre-order pops which could be another month or two anyway so feelin' pretty posi I think. Yeah that's kind of my thought (and hope!). It looks like there's some kinks that need to be ironed out that can be resolved via patches.
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:Who'da thunk this thing that has been consistently marketed as a computer in a handheld form factor turned out to be a computer?
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Looks like cancelling your preorders will be the best course, based on the reviews.
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Feb 25, 2022 19:51
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Looks like cancelling your preorders will be the best course, based on the reviews. Pretty much. Ya'll better do that.
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Looks like 30 fps mode works wonders on Digital Foundry’s review
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Kirios posted:I mean y'all are obviously joking but these reviews aren't that great. Seems like there's a lot of caveats. everyone is saying it's an amazingly powerful handheld with great controls, amazing support, and mediocre battery life. The screen is decent and does its job, and there hasn't been a bespoke gaming device that was so truly open (i.e. users can change around basically everything with regards to controls, performance, battery usage, etc). However, you will need to do some tweaking and some restarts now and then to get some stuff running properly, and not everything works smoothly out of the box. The OS has some great points but it's definitely not perfect. So yeah, it sounds like a gaming PC in a console form factor to me, which is great for a certain group of people. Once/if valve makes the experience smoother it will actually be great for people who want a true frictionless console-like experience. But even now, lots of general outlets are literally calling it best in class, far beyond any competitor in this space (handheld pc gaming) and a possible paradigm shifter if the kinks are ironed out. e: what i meant to say is please everyone cancel your preorder it's the only way to go really
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this sounds good https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-deck-emulation-installation/quote:Holding down the power button on the Steam Deck brings up a small menu that includes a "Switch to desktop" option. This leaves behind the SteamOS interface and plops you down on a classic desktop running on top of Arch Linux. I started looking up terminal commands to install programs in Arch before finding out I was completely wasting my time. This desktop comes with a pre-installed app store just like macOS and Windows (except everything here is free). It's called Discover, and it's conveniently pinned to the taskbar.
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Feb 25, 2022 19:55
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RandomBlue posted:WHERE'S MY EMAIL VALVE????
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valve's definitely going to get raked over the coals for saying something people interpreted as "all games ever will work out of the box" and then being very slow to actually verify games by launch while the former was a little bit of an overhype-reading from people, the latter is definitely a hubristic misstep, they clearly underestimated how long it would take to go through nearly ALL OF PC GAMING HISTORY 2001-2021 (i'm being a little jokey but only verifying 1200 titles is not good enough when their catalog has nearly 65,000 games on it, and even if half of those are asset flip/hentai games, that's still less than 4% of their catalog verified for the other half)
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The 7th Guest posted:valve's definitely going to get raked over the coals for saying something people interpreted as "all games ever will work out of the box" and then being very slow to actually verify games by launch they shouldn’t be raked over the coals for people being loving morons and not doing the bare minimum research on their $500 purchase
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or you can pick up retroarch for free directly from steam (although it's made by a complete piece of poo poo but at least you're not monetarily supporting anything by using the product)
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Quantum of Phallus posted:they shouldn’t be raked over the coals for people being loving morons and not doing the bare minimum research on their $500 purchase the reality is probably half the storefront's catalog does work out of the box already, but at around 1000 games run through the verification process per month (at least going by this past month that we've seen via steamDB or whatever you use), the community will end up verifying/non-verifying faster than valve The 7th Guest fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Feb 25, 2022 |
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Feb 25, 2022 20:04
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I was terrified to this I somehow hosed up my preorder, glad to see Steam just forgot to send them out!
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Feb 25, 2022 20:17
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Someone I know has gotten their email but i haven't gotten mine, we both are Q1, what the hell steam?!
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Not interested in this but it’s giving me the idea to maybe build a little tv computer for gaming. How does that work these days for SteamOS?
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The 7th Guest posted:valve's definitely going to get raked over the coals for saying something people interpreted as "all games ever will work out of the box" and then being very slow to actually verify games by launch Games don't have to be verified to play them.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Looks like cancelling your preorders will be the best course, based on the reviews. Or just buy it and flip it for 100% profit.
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valve will release the new steamOS as an image later (no date known yet). The old steamOS can be found here https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown but it's not recommended to use, it's ancient by now, the last update was 6 years ago. Windows 10 is definitely your best bet at the moment for your usecase.
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still no email  i need to play elden ring on the couch, gabe!
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Kwolok posted:Someone I know has gotten their email but i haven't gotten mine, we both are Q1, what the hell steam?! still have a month of q1 left to go
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For what it's worth, here's my review: https://www.geekwire.com/2022/review-the-real-star-feature-of-valves-steam-deck-is-its-price-tag/ My editor took out the part where I was asking why games like Genital Jousting and Treasure of Nadia got into the first wave of officially Verified titles, which is apparently because some of the first-wave sign-ups for a Deck were really into porn and/or weird games. Wanderer fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Feb 25, 2022 |
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Wanderer posted:My editor took out the part where I was asking why games like Genital Jousting and Treasure of Nadia got into the first wave of officially Verified titles, e: it's also a Devolver game
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Wanderer posted:For what it's worth, here's my review: Great article. Thanks for sharing it.
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I watched three of those reviews, sounds like a PC to me with all that entails. I have a beefy rig connected to a TC and half the time I turn it on no sound comes out until I spend 5 minutes tinkering. It’s just what it is in the PC world, nothing here sounds any worse. It’s impossible to have a console-like experience with a PC. Unless, and I really hope they do this, they start releasing game-specific profiles where you can choose if you want graphics or battery or whatever and then it just works. Since the hardware is standardized, this would be possible. I mean, it sounds terrible and everyone should cancel their preorders immediately. I placed my pre-order 8 minutes after they went live and no email. Sigh.
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NmareBfly posted:I'm reading most of these reviews as quite positive if you're the sort of person that doesn't mind dicking with your autoexec.bat to get something running, which is absolutely a huge caveat for some people but for me it's basically fine. Took me many years to realize that I actually enjoy hacking recalcitrant systems more than actually doing anything with them. In fact as soon as they do what I want I lose interest and walk away. Fortunately with modern technology that also means that a few months of not touching it in any capacity will cause it to require a new round of tweaking. Except this time the internet guides will be out-of-date.
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Hammer Bro. posted:Took me many years to realize that I actually enjoy hacking recalcitrant systems more than actually doing anything with them. In fact as soon as they do what I want I lose interest and walk away. Come to the retrogames forum, you were meant to be there. Fantastic Foreskin fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Feb 25, 2022 |
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PS3 on the deck https://youtu.be/fMxVO_eUgEY
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MarcusSA posted:PS3 on the deck preorder cancelled I suggest everyone do likewise
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The 7th Guest posted:probably because people enjoy it op for real. wait until mother superior here finds out about pornhub
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I placed my pre-order on the exact minute of it opening and I got the email and paid for the thing so they're coming I guess
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Blade Runner posted:I placed my pre-order on the exact minute of it opening and I got the email and paid for the thing so they're coming I guess same im stoked
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No wonder they are having trouble with these emails with everyone cancelling their preorders... Can 't believe I am refreshing my email and my steam app on my cel lphone ever y c ou ple of minutes to t r y see if I my preorder has come through !
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Still waiting for mine in the UK. My store page still says Q1 so I'm hoping it'll come in later today or over the weekend.
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MarcusSA posted:PS3 on the deck he also has Switch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmmmZwk01CY
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Blade Runner posted:I placed my pre-order on the exact minute of it opening and I got the email and paid for the thing so they're coming I guess When did you get your email?
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