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I would love to play this game at some point, as I am a big fan of the Alien franchise, but to be honest I've been too scared to play it. I started playing Avowed a couple of days ago when it came out on gamepass, and I really like it so far. The combat system feels very satisfying. So far I've been using a gun in one hand and sword in the other, I think I'm gonna go with a build like this going forward an spec towards ranger

I bought and played though Mouthwashing this weekend, and I really liked it. I won't say too much about it, but this is the kind of horror game that I like. It was creepy enough to always keep me on edge, but not so much that I was too terrified to keep playing it. It takes place in space, on a long haul cargo ship, and some shit goes down, that's about all I want to say for the story. Gameplay wise it's more or less a walking simulator, with some pretty light point-and-click gameplay, I wouldn't quite call it puzzles. If any of this sounds like it might be up your alley, I would recommend just playing it without looking too much into reviews. It cost me about $10 on sale and I got about 3 hours of gameplay out of it. Worth it in my opinion.

I've actually beaten a few games over the last few days, all on the Steam Deck. I've been playing Nier: Automata for a couple of weeks, and beat it on thursday. I did enjoy the game, but to be honest I kinda expected more. It's been hyped up by some people as one of the best games ever made, and I didn't feel like it delivered on that. Overall good game though. I also played through all of Mouthwashing this weekend, and I really enjoyed it. I don't want to say too much about if for fear of spoling it, I would rather recommend going in blind like I did. I will say, if you're like me and kind of enjoy horror games, but don't like getting jumpscared, this game has some great atmospheric horror, but is very light on the jumpscares. It's a very short game, according to Steam it took me about 3 hours to play through, so I absolutely think it's a game I will play again just to get a better grasp on exactly what is going on. Thirdly, I picked up Stubbs The Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse along with Mouthwashing, as they were both on sale. I started it on saturday after I was done with Mouthwashing, and finished it on sunday night. This is a really fun, lighthearted game. In short, you play as a zombie, and the main point of the game is basically just to run around town wreaking havoc and eating brains. It originally came out in 2005, but has definitely had some pretty major updates in the last few years. It looks and runs great on Steam Deck.

It's been a racing-heavy weekend for me. I went to visit my parents and brought my Steam Deck. I mostly played Dirt 5 and Hot Wheels Unleashed 2, both really fun arcade racing games.

Though overlooked by many, I personally think Nintendo's most revolutionary controller was the Wii U gamepad. Being able to play whole games on the controller itself was pretty groundbreaking for me. The Wii U walked so that the Switch could run.

Considering how cheap and readily avaliable handheld emulators have become in the last 5 years or so, I don't quite see how you would convince people to buy something like a Gameboy Classic. Do you want to pay $100+ for a Nintendo branded Gameboy with like 20 games on it, or do you want to pay $50 for a very similar product that can play every single video game ever made up to the PS1? I'm not gonna advocate for piracy, but I can't really say I feel guilty for downloading a ROM of a game that hasn't been for sale for 25 years.

I absolutely do not grasp the concept of Americans walking around with shoes on inside their homes. To me, that's pretty insane. I definitely prefer beeing barefoot at home, but I live in Norway, and my house is 45 years old, so when it gets cold I will usually put on socks, slippers or both.

I recently played through Firewatch in a weekend, and I really enjoyed it. It's one of those games I've always heard good things about, but never got around to playing. I also really enjoyed Oxenfree when I played it, I remember the plot being really exciting.

I agree, one of the only viable ways of becoming a "professional gamer" these days is to become either a streamer or a youtuber, both require a ton of dedication and hard work. And even if you put in all that work, it still requires a ton of luck to break through and actually become successful enough to make a living from it. I also believe that making a hobby your full time job is a very effective way of draining all of the joy and passion out of said hobby.

Quitting an online match because your team is losing is the coward's way out. Stand your ground and accept defeat with honor!

I have three cats, and they all have very different personalities. One of them, Celeste, loooooves to drink water from the faucet. Whenever my wife or I go into the bathroom, she will run ahead and jump up on the sink before we even enter the room. A few days ago I gave her water in the downstairs bathroom, then I walked up the stairs to my office. She then sprinted up the stairs in front of me, and sat down in front of the upstairs bathroom door demanding to be let in. When I let her in, she of course wanted water there as well, not even a minute after she finished drinking downstairs.

For me it's actually Diablo 3. When I first played it back on the Xbox 360, I remember having a much harder time beating The Butcher, one of the earlier bosses, than actually beating Diablo himself.

I'm sure there has been a thread for this subject before, but I tried looking and couldn't find one. Right now I'm reading the third book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, called The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook. I started this series a few months ago, and I'm really enjoying them. It's basically like reading a video game. The characters have stats, skills, they level up and get new equipment. The plot is basically that an alien species invades earth, killing most of the population. The remaining people are transported to a dungeon world where they need to survive, kill monsters and bosses and move from floor to floor. The whole thing is a televised intergalactic show watched by trillions for entertainment. It's a really enjoyable read, I've rarely been this invested in a book series before. I would say that the third book might be my least favorite so far, but only because the setting is deliberately confusing. I'm definitely planning on finishing the whole series, there are 7 books so far. I'm also listening to the audio book of Onyx Storm, the third book of the Empyreon/Fourth Wing series. Although I do enjoy the books, it's not normally the kind of thing I would seek out myself. I started listening to them when my wife started reading the books and fell in love with them. It's been really nice having our own little book club and talking about these books.

I actually did finish it, but the worst book I've ever read was Ready Player Two. I absolutely love the first book, Ready Player One, I have read the book, listened to the audio book multiple times and watched the movie, but the sequel was just insulting to read. It really felt like Ernest Cline just wrote it as a cash grab after the success of the movie, and it really just felt like reading bad fan fiction of the first book. The plot is basically a rehash of the first book, except this time the protaganist needs to find 7 macguffins instead of 3. One of the parts that made me the most angry was when the characters arrives at one of the locations where one of these macguffins (I don't even remember what they're called in the book, maybe shards?) are supposed to be located, and they're presented with a quest by the queen of this kingdom, that they need to complete in order to get the shard. Then the main character just straight up says "Oh yeah, I already did that", and the queen just gives him the thing. It's so fucking stupid, I hate it. I am in general a quite positive person, I mostly focus on liking the things I like and usually don't put a lot of energy towards things I don't like, but Ready Player Two is one of the few things I hate with a passion. As a fan of the first book it just felt like getting spat in the face by the author.

I finished Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip last night. It was a fun little game, took me about 5 hours to do everything in the game, the only thing I haven't done is get the "100% Completed" achievement, which requires finding every single collectible. When I finished the game I had about 2100 out of 2400, and I really can't bothered running aimlessly around the map looking for 300 tiny collectables. After that I started Nier: Automata, which is a game I've been meaning to play for years. I've heard a lot of good things about it, but I've only played about an hour of it previously. Seems like a good game so far, it runs and looks great on the Steam Deck, and the combat feels really good.

When I started my current job a few years back, I was chatting with a coworker and the subject of gaming came up. She mentioned having played and really enjoyed Return of The Obra Dinn, which was a game I had heard very good things about, but never played it. I pretty much immediately started playing it on her recommendation, and I really loved it. I would definitely say we bonded over talking about it.

What accessories, if any, do you use with your handheld? I've only had my Steam Deck for about 2 weeks now, and so far the only accessories I use are an SD card and a pair of thumb stick grips from Kontrolfreek. They're made for Xbox controllers, but I fould that they fit almost perfectly on my Steam Deck OLED sticks. Apparently the stick grips on the OLED are ever so slighly larger than on the regular Steam Deck, so they fit a lot better on the OLED. I have also ordered a Dbrand Killswitch case for it, I'm quite extited for it to show up. The Deck is already very comfortable, but from what I hear the Killswitch case is supposed to make it even more comfortable to hold.

If you haven't played The Witcher 3, you definitely should. It's still one of the best games I've ever played. One of my favorite things about it is how they've managed to make every side quest unique and interesting, which is a rare feat for an open world RPG.

Damn, 4TB of storage on the Steam Deck is pretty sick! I got a 1TB SSD in mine along with a 512gb SD card. I've been playing quite a few games this weekend. I played through all of Firewatch, and I really enjoyed it. I've had it in my steam library for years but have never played it, so I decided to finally start playing it on my Steam Deck. It was a pretty short experience, I'd say I spent about 5 hours on, which is kind of perfect for a game like this if you ask me. I also picked up a few games on a Steam sale, so I've been playing a bit of Diablo 4 and Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip. Diablo 4 is just perfect for the Steam Deck. I've played it on Xbox, but it was totally worth buying again to play on the deck. Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip is a pretty charming indie game, it reminds me a lot of The Simpsons: Hit & Run, which is one of my all time favorite games. In addition, I've also started playing Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth on the Xbox. I'm a few hours in, and just arrived in Hawaii. I do like it so far, but I'm kind of surprised by just how much of the game is cutscenes instead of gameplay. My only previous experience with the Yakuza/Like A Dragon-series is a few hours of the last game, Yakuza: Like A Dragon. I've heard that Infinite Wealth is one of the best games of 2024, so I though I would give it a shot.

The first thing that comes to mind, although I've never actually played the game myself, is Barry from the original Resident Evil, spesifically the english version. Who can forget such excellent lines as "That was too close, you were almost a Jill sandwich" and "Jill, here's a lockpick. It might come in handy if you, the master of unlocking, take it with you"

Has anyone here played the game Mouthwashing? I came across it while browsing Steam and though it looked really interesting. It's an indie sci-fi horror game with PS1 era graphics. I don't know much else about it, but the screenshots and trailer on Steam definitely have me very interested. Probably gonna pick it up soon and play it on my Steam Deck.

Link Between Worlds is in my opinion, not only the best handheld Zelda game, but it's probably my overall second favorite Zelda game behind Breath of the Wild.

I wouldn't say I like rain, but I really don't like snow. In small amounts, snow is fine, but the problem is that I live in Norway, and we often get snow in very, very large amounts, which is a colossal pain in the ass. A couple of weeks ago we had a very thin layer of snow, which was perfectly fine, but the next day it started snowing quite heavily, and it did not stop snowing for 3 days. During periods like that you have to go out to shovel snow at least two or three times a day, and since my driveway is pretty big it can be quite a bit of work.

Personally I can only speak on the Steam Deck, as that's the only PC handheld that I've actually used, but at least in my hands, the Steam Deck feels extremely comfortable. Before i ordered mine I debated whether to get the Steam Deck or the ROG Ally X, as they both cost exactly the same in my country. Both have advantages and drawbacks, but the thing that ulitimately made me go for the Deck was the ergonomics. The Deck has some pretty beefy grips on the back that fit perfectly in my hands, while the Ally X looks a lot more flat. I also like the placement of the thumb sticks a lot better on the Deck. On the Ally X, the right tumbstick looks like it's placed similarly to the Switch joycons, which means that your right thumb will constantly be curled, which to me at least feels really uncomfortable after a while. On the Deck both thumbsticks are placed so that both your thumbs can be fully extended

I just got a Steam Deck OLED and so far my opinion is that it is the perfect balance between power, size and battery life. The problem with something like Acer's new Nitro handheld is that it's more powerful, sure, but it's so big that you can't really bring it with you without a dedicated bag. It also has a 4K screen, which in my humble opinion is absolutely stupid. At 11" 4K is way overkill. The Steam Deck OLED has a 7,4" screen at 1200x800, which in 2025 sounds like a really low resolution, but honestly at 7,4" it feels and looks great. The Nitro's battery is also the same size at the Steam Deck's, and shockingly, a 4K display will draw a lot more power than 800p will. In short, if you want ultimate power, get a desktop. If you want perfectly decent perfomance in a handheld that will actually fit in your hands, get something like a Steam Deck or an Ally X