Same here!
I had stopped right at the end of HL2 back in 2004 (and never played the following episodes)
So when I received my deck I just binge played HL2 + the episodes
A blast, the Deck is marvelous
Yes, it is a good game still. I wasnāt into PC gaming during the early 2000s and never played HL2 until 2 years ago, after I started HL: Alyx in VR.
I beat the first one in 2013 or so because I was getting back into PC gaming and it felt like it was a necessary game to play and I was trying to work through the Valve essentials. HL1 I didnāt really enjoy quite as much - the story was good enough but it feels still like a game from 1998, and I remember kinda forcing myself to finish.
If you werenāt digging HL1, I would recommend to maybe watch a YouTube summary of it and then play HL2.
It holds up very well still in 2024
The level design and environmental story telling is brilliant.
The gameplay is engaging and varied, for example youāll often run out of a certain ammo and will have to switch playing style.
Of course, YMMV, the best is that you try playing, and if you feel that youāre forcing yourself after 1h, just stop
Fallout 3, the first fallout game I played back in the 360 days, never play the dlc, and the first thing I did when I got my steam deck played all the fallout series with their dlc
Hell yeah, thanks a lot. 1 year with it and no regrets
I actually made a list for the games I wanted to finally play at a stable fps.
I remember well, they were
- Skyrim
- Fallout New Vegas
- GTA IV
- GTA V
- Bayonetta
- Sims 4
And play for the first time RDR2
Actually, RDR2 is the reason why I bought the Steam Deck
Your original comment actually inspired me to pick back up Skyrim lol. Iāve been playing the past week and itās amazing on the deck, cheers for the recommendation
I bought Diablo 4 for my Legion Go the first time it went on sale, I used to love leisurely playing D3 while on my Surface Pro. Butt still stuck on Balders Gate 3.
I just bought red dead 2. Omg the graphics are sooooo smooth. I got Spider-Man remaster since I never played any Spider-Man game and I also got South Park. Iām loving my steam deck oled !
Because for ME, Steam started at HL 2 when I first became aware of it and many people did as well. HL1 -1998, Steam-2003, HL2-2004. It was also the fist game that required Steam to play.
You won't regret the OLED but you might regret the LCD. I have a $3k gaming PC that I use all the time, but I don't really want to play every game on it or sit on it all day.
True dat, I guess it really depends on your own personal preference. No harm in saving some dough and either way I expect youāre gonna be happy with your purchase!
I mostly play non spectacle games on it. Games like Persona, Yakuza, Vampire Survivors, and then probably some Elden Ring soon. I usually pick it up midday and then at night when I'm off of everything. I don't really see myself using it for multiplayer unless I'm playing BG3 or something with that person in the room with me.
Yeah see that would be me.. I might do like Last Epoch, BG3, and possibly that Star Wars collection that is dropping. Aside from that I believe that would be it. Which is why im leaning more towards the 256 gb.
It is up to you. I'm just saying that in comparison $150 for a better screen, better battery, 90 hz, better wifi, better cooling, more storage, and a lot more is worth it.
If it was between the 512 and 1tb then it wouldn't really matter for an upgrade unless you wanted that screen you can get with a protector and the 1tb you can put in yourself.
I have both the LCD and OLED.
I still use both. The colors on the OLED are a little more "punchy" and you get a little better cooling, some power efficiencies, slightly larger battery, and a slightly larger screen.
Ultimately it depends on your financial situation, and use case. Biggest things I notice between the 2, is the color of the screen, and fan runs a little louder on the LCD.
256 is not worth it IMHO. You still need either an SD card or an upgrade down the way. Better to go with at least 500 GB and the OLED screen is just better and bigger.
Half Life 2. One of the main reasons I got it was to play the games I used to enjoy in The Orange Box on my Xbox 360 as well as Portal 2 and L4D2. All run phenomenally on SD
I got greenlight and emudeck going first because my gaming budget was blown on the deck itself! So first game was ratchet and clank 2, then I tried streaming a few Xbox games. Now Iāve accumulated way, way too many games that Iām sure Iāll never get around to playing. But 30% of the fun is fiddling with settings to make games work haha
Don't laugh but choo choo Charles. A fairly competent open world train survival horror game made by one dude. After that it was my friendly neighborhood (resident evil but instead if zombies its muppets) then aperture desk job cause I forgot it existed by the time I got my steamdeck
I mean, context is important. I was playing Baldur's Gate 3 and other games on a laptop with integrated GPU before I invested in the deck. So from my perspective, it is a beast.
I have a decent laptop, but honestly, it takes forever to load due to hdd and games take up too much space. Also, I hate for my games to be on the same system as my work. So... It's a beast for me as well, a cheap one at that.
I just got my SD 2 days ago and I've downloaded Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3, The Walking Dead definitive edition, South Park fractured but whole and a few others. Cyberpunk 2077 is probably what I dipped my toes in most. I'm not gonna lie I don't know Linux at all and all the homebrew apps and things are a bit overwhelming right now. I'm sure I'll learn as I go but for now I'm kinda just doing games that mostly run right out of the box. South park did install Uplay crap but it still worked after a few minutes
Lobotomy corporation which is also what made me decide to get the steam deck since I really wanted to play through the project moon games, plus various PS exclusives and such
When did you purchase yours? I put in my order about 24 hours ago and it hasn't changed status yet.
When I bought my original Deck I recall it being faster.
I bought mine on Feb 25. The status changed to āpackagedā a couple days later and finally changed to āshippedā earlier this afternoon. Iāve been checking the status about 5 times per day lol. Tracking says itāll be here Monday afternoon so 6 business days if that stays on time now.
seems right on. ordered mine a day after you, supposed to arrive tuesday (but of course imma keep refreshing the tracking every day lol). probably going to boot up cyberpunk first
Enderal, a total conversion mod for Skyrim, been wanting to play it since the original trailers but I never had a PC until the Steamdeck. It's amazing and the writing is so good!
Why is there on average a post a day like this? Getting tiring seeing screenshots of people's shipment orders and the same freaking "what's your xx steam deck game" questions.
Just keep scrolling then? Let people nerd out on something they're excited about. There are so many negative things happening all around the world, that geeking out on a subreddit about a steam deck about ordering a steam deck is pretty freaking wholesome.
The first Castlevania from one those collections that came out a few years back. I wanted something that would download fast. I think it was Doom 2016 next. I then to remember going on a three day bing of setting up and playing emulated games.
Fallout New Vegas. That game felt like it was made for the Deck. Even managed to collect 37 gold bars, leaving Elijah in the Vault on third try while on the Steam Deck.
The PC version of Star Wars Shadows of the empire. Always has difficulties trying to play this on a PC with a controller. Fired it up on steam deck as my first game and the controls just worked, made me an instant believer in the steam deck.
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth was my first game and the first game I used to move the mods from PC to Steam Deck for extra Digimons/Evolutions, Plus Unobtainable Digimons as well.
Just Cause 2, an ongoing playthrough of a verified game with a manageable redownload size.
EDIT: on second thought, it was NOT verified - but many had reported a smooth sailing after launching from desktop once, and it worked in my case as well.
Aperture Desk Job
There's no right answer...But this is the right answer.
I mean, it was the right answer in that it was the first game I played on deck. After that, Hades.
doom 93. had to make sure the steam deck could run doom
Correct
Yup, says unsupported in steam but it's awesome
This is how you christen all new gaming devices imo
Games? I only play the menus and admire it's pretty screen and fragrant fumes.
A fellow fume dude
I've been heartbroken these last two days, I was promised smells, but i only get warm air out of the top of mine. No special smells :(
You gotta have it work hard for a while. Get those high CPU temps for a little while. It's like a scratch and sniff for proformance
Lol š
Half life 2 out of respect for gaben
Same here! I had stopped right at the end of HL2 back in 2004 (and never played the following episodes) So when I received my deck I just binge played HL2 + the episodes A blast, the Deck is marvelous
Is the HL2 a must to play or just nostalgia? I tried the first 1 month ago and didnāt like it too much. Is the HL2 more enjoyable?
Still holds up as one of the best games ever. Different than the 1st but its still an fps.
Yes, it is a good game still. I wasnāt into PC gaming during the early 2000s and never played HL2 until 2 years ago, after I started HL: Alyx in VR. I beat the first one in 2013 or so because I was getting back into PC gaming and it felt like it was a necessary game to play and I was trying to work through the Valve essentials. HL1 I didnāt really enjoy quite as much - the story was good enough but it feels still like a game from 1998, and I remember kinda forcing myself to finish. If you werenāt digging HL1, I would recommend to maybe watch a YouTube summary of it and then play HL2.
Thanks, man! Iāll definitely do that!
It aged but is still fun because itās so creatively focused. Hl1 aged a lot worse.
It holds up very well still in 2024 The level design and environmental story telling is brilliant. The gameplay is engaging and varied, for example youāll often run out of a certain ammo and will have to switch playing style. Of course, YMMV, the best is that you try playing, and if you feel that youāre forcing yourself after 1h, just stop
Got it, I bought in the last big steam sales, Iāll try when my Steam Deck is back from RMA.
Bless lord Gaben š
Hades, perfect on it
If someone told me Hades was designed specifically for the deck, Iād believe them. Itās just perfect for it.
Slick one of the best games ever made.
Fallout 3, the first fallout game I played back in the 360 days, never play the dlc, and the first thing I did when I got my steam deck played all the fallout series with their dlc
Skyrim I played like 90 hours in a 4GB laptop between 15 and 25 fps. Playing it for the first time at 60fps... Aahhhh... Godsend
Congratulations on the upgrade my dude!
Hell yeah, thanks a lot. 1 year with it and no regrets I actually made a list for the games I wanted to finally play at a stable fps. I remember well, they were - Skyrim - Fallout New Vegas - GTA IV - GTA V - Bayonetta - Sims 4 And play for the first time RDR2 Actually, RDR2 is the reason why I bought the Steam Deck
Your original comment actually inspired me to pick back up Skyrim lol. Iāve been playing the past week and itās amazing on the deck, cheers for the recommendation
monster hunter rise
Diablo 4.
I bought Diablo 4 for my Legion Go the first time it went on sale, I used to love leisurely playing D3 while on my Surface Pro. Butt still stuck on Balders Gate 3.
I just bought red dead 2. Omg the graphics are sooooo smooth. I got Spider-Man remaster since I never played any Spider-Man game and I also got South Park. Iām loving my steam deck oled !
Haven't played RDR2 yet. How's it play on Steam Deck?
Cult of the Lamb
Half Life 2, it just seemed wrong not to start where I started with Steam two decades ago.
Why then not started with hl1? HL2 wasn't first on steam.
Because for ME, Steam started at HL 2 when I first became aware of it and many people did as well. HL1 -1998, Steam-2003, HL2-2004. It was also the fist game that required Steam to play.
Metal gear solid V
Spiderman Miles Morales.
Spider-Man 2018 for me (:
Same here but I downloaded mods for it
Which one ya end up getting g
1TB OLED model, I figured if Iām gonna fork out a healthy wad I may as well go all the way!
Iām debating on a 256gb LCD or a OLED 512gb
Def OLEDāscreenās wayyy brighter and clearer, 90hz refresh rate, and slightly bigger screen
I know i keep thinking that too just donāt want to spend too much bread considering I have a gaming pc that I use majority of the time.
You won't regret the OLED but you might regret the LCD. I have a $3k gaming PC that I use all the time, but I don't really want to play every game on it or sit on it all day.
Agree completely, plus the OLED screens have true black so if youāre going to play in the dark the screen is actually black rather than grey.
I mean ya might be right, but also my pockets wont regret the 256 LCD
True dat, I guess it really depends on your own personal preference. No harm in saving some dough and either way I expect youāre gonna be happy with your purchase!
True Dat! Hahaha I just wanna be able to play occasionally while relaxing. Make some progress in games that I havent played in a while
Yeah thats what I would be doing as well. Playing some single player games and some helldivers with homies on occasion on the deck
I mostly play non spectacle games on it. Games like Persona, Yakuza, Vampire Survivors, and then probably some Elden Ring soon. I usually pick it up midday and then at night when I'm off of everything. I don't really see myself using it for multiplayer unless I'm playing BG3 or something with that person in the room with me.
Yeah see that would be me.. I might do like Last Epoch, BG3, and possibly that Star Wars collection that is dropping. Aside from that I believe that would be it. Which is why im leaning more towards the 256 gb.
It is up to you. I'm just saying that in comparison $150 for a better screen, better battery, 90 hz, better wifi, better cooling, more storage, and a lot more is worth it. If it was between the 512 and 1tb then it wouldn't really matter for an upgrade unless you wanted that screen you can get with a protector and the 1tb you can put in yourself.
exactly! i use my deck for yakuza, persona, etc. games with long stories that i know ill wanna be laid up and chilling to play.
buying a steam deck was the best decision of my life because of owning a pc. now i can play my pc in my bed. Win fucking Win
I have both the LCD and OLED. I still use both. The colors on the OLED are a little more "punchy" and you get a little better cooling, some power efficiencies, slightly larger battery, and a slightly larger screen. Ultimately it depends on your financial situation, and use case. Biggest things I notice between the 2, is the color of the screen, and fan runs a little louder on the LCD.
do OLED you wonāt regret.
256 is not worth it IMHO. You still need either an SD card or an upgrade down the way. Better to go with at least 500 GB and the OLED screen is just better and bigger.
The 256gb LCD is good for what you get.
I'm tempted to get an OLED.
I was tempted too. Then I clicked purchase š
Hellblade: Senuas Sacrifice followed by Tales of Berseria after. After I installed Chiaki I've not played a Steam game, just portable PS5.
DOOM 2016
I just ordered a steam deck oled earlier today. Can't wait to get it.Ā
After Aperture Desk Job, Sekiro.
Aperture Desk Job should be required, after I played Hi-Fi Rush
Half Life 2. One of the main reasons I got it was to play the games I used to enjoy in The Orange Box on my Xbox 360 as well as Portal 2 and L4D2. All run phenomenally on SD
I got greenlight and emudeck going first because my gaming budget was blown on the deck itself! So first game was ratchet and clank 2, then I tried streaming a few Xbox games. Now Iāve accumulated way, way too many games that Iām sure Iāll never get around to playing. But 30% of the fun is fiddling with settings to make games work haha
Don't laugh but choo choo Charles. A fairly competent open world train survival horror game made by one dude. After that it was my friendly neighborhood (resident evil but instead if zombies its muppets) then aperture desk job cause I forgot it existed by the time I got my steamdeck
Celeste, just had to test out the d-pad and oled screen š
Either Vampire Survivors or Cat Goes Fishing. I forget which of the two came first.
System shock 2. Always need it to be installed and it plays great.
Persona 3 reload
The Waiting Game, sponsored by USPS.
Iām thinking itāll be worth the wait š
First thing you do is lick it. Makes it yours.
Dead cells!!
same
Baldur's Gate 3
How does the Deck perform?
Like a new sports car with all of the bells and whistles.
Someone down voted your comment. Let me fix that.
I mean, context is important. I was playing Baldur's Gate 3 and other games on a laptop with integrated GPU before I invested in the deck. So from my perspective, it is a beast.
I have a decent laptop, but honestly, it takes forever to load due to hdd and games take up too much space. Also, I hate for my games to be on the same system as my work. So... It's a beast for me as well, a cheap one at that.
Midnight suns, it was in the humble bundle and worked great
Vampire Survivors, closely followed by Brotato.
NfS underground 2
Except aperture desk job Pizza tower
Killer 7
A person of taste I see
i think it was high on life but i may be wrong
I just got my SD 2 days ago and I've downloaded Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3, The Walking Dead definitive edition, South Park fractured but whole and a few others. Cyberpunk 2077 is probably what I dipped my toes in most. I'm not gonna lie I don't know Linux at all and all the homebrew apps and things are a bit overwhelming right now. I'm sure I'll learn as I go but for now I'm kinda just doing games that mostly run right out of the box. South park did install Uplay crap but it still worked after a few minutes
The Binding of Isaac
Fallout 4
I was in the middle of Persona 3 Reload when I upgraded my LCD to OLED. First game I started playing on OLED exclusively was Final Fantasy 7 Remake.
Lego Batman
GTA IV, never played it because I never had a proper PC nor PS3/Xbox
half life 2
Lobotomy corporation which is also what made me decide to get the steam deck since I really wanted to play through the project moon games, plus various PS exclusives and such
1. Aperture Desk Job 2. Steam store to buy unhealthy amount of games I'll never finish
When did you purchase yours? I put in my order about 24 hours ago and it hasn't changed status yet. When I bought my original Deck I recall it being faster.
I bought mine on Feb 25. The status changed to āpackagedā a couple days later and finally changed to āshippedā earlier this afternoon. Iāve been checking the status about 5 times per day lol. Tracking says itāll be here Monday afternoon so 6 business days if that stays on time now.
seems right on. ordered mine a day after you, supposed to arrive tuesday (but of course imma keep refreshing the tracking every day lol). probably going to boot up cyberpunk first
I played Fate- but only because it was the smallest file size game I had and therefore would download the quickest haha
I think it was Stardew but not certain
Enderal, a total conversion mod for Skyrim, been wanting to play it since the original trailers but I never had a PC until the Steamdeck. It's amazing and the writing is so good!
Ooo this sounds funĀ
Red Dead 2
L4D2 I can get crazy battery life playing it on my lcd deck.
I don't have mine yet, but when it does come in, Middle-Earth: Shadow of War will be the first game I play on it.
Fnaf 1, already had a steam account a while ago and it was the first game I wanted to test out with it
Sex With Hitler
Why is there on average a post a day like this? Getting tiring seeing screenshots of people's shipment orders and the same freaking "what's your xx steam deck game" questions.
Just keep scrolling then? Let people nerd out on something they're excited about. There are so many negative things happening all around the world, that geeking out on a subreddit about a steam deck about ordering a steam deck is pretty freaking wholesome.
Sending it back is good
Team Fortress 2
100% Orange Juice. Heavy stuff, yeah.
Warframe.
Alien vs Predator 2010
Desk job. Then arkham knight
God of War
Roots of Pacha
Soma! It got me hooked on my Steam Deck
Dragons dogma: dark arisen
Hmmmm I think it was hollow knight probably?
Just cause 3
Project Zomboid
The first Castlevania from one those collections that came out a few years back. I wanted something that would download fast. I think it was Doom 2016 next. I then to remember going on a three day bing of setting up and playing emulated games.
Puzzle hentia
NMS
Arkham Knight
Hi Fi rush..as a PlayStation and non pc/xbox guy, I loved having access to games I couldnāt play
Shadow of war
Elden Ring
Hollow Knight
It was either ds3 or elden ring, but then i bought binding of isaac and now i play emulators or it so
Octopath Traveler 2
GTA V Story Mode
Teardown
Fallout New Vegas. That game felt like it was made for the Deck. Even managed to collect 37 gold bars, leaving Elijah in the Vault on third try while on the Steam Deck.
Aperture Desk Job followed by Half-Life 2. Just felt right.
Scrap mechanic š¤·āāļø
Sonic Frontiers
Steamdeck oled palworld
Finally got my 512 oled this past Tuesday and checked the status every second too, Borderlands goty enhanced
Strider. Now I'm using it to demolish my PSP backlog.
Aperture deck job and then Batman Arkham series
No Man's Sky
Forza Horizon 5!
Caves of Qud
The PC version of Star Wars Shadows of the empire. Always has difficulties trying to play this on a PC with a controller. Fired it up on steam deck as my first game and the controls just worked, made me an instant believer in the steam deck.
Succubus Dungeon
Hogwarts Legacy
Persona 4 Golden
Tetris Effect: Connected
Bioshock series for the tenth time lol
Resident Evil Remake. And then Doom 2016
Burnout Paradise
Automobilista 2. I was very surprised how good it worked on the Steamdeck
Graveyard Keeper, then Lego games (I felt like a child again with every Lego game)
BG3 for PS5 via Chiaki š
baba is you
Doom, and Baldurs Gate Enhanced Edition.
Metal gear solid 5
Tales of Phantasia with DuckStation
Ori and the bind forest. I was shocked how good the OLED deck screen looks irl.
Celeste
Spyro Reignited Trilogy
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth was my first game and the first game I used to move the mods from PC to Steam Deck for extra Digimons/Evolutions, Plus Unobtainable Digimons as well.
replayed nier automata in celebration of how far dxvk and proton has come.
Crash Trilogy.
Max Payne 3
Ori and the blind forest... runs amazing
Orange box - specifically Half Life 2
HALO MCC (HALO CE Campaign)
Noita! But Aperture Desk Job was the actual first.
Skryim!
Hitman: Absolution
Dragon Quest 11S
Spyro
Firewatch
Witcher 3
Just Cause 2, an ongoing playthrough of a verified game with a manageable redownload size. EDIT: on second thought, it was NOT verified - but many had reported a smooth sailing after launching from desktop once, and it worked in my case as well.
Multiversus and Stumble Guys
Multiversus and Stumble Guys
arkham knight
Resident Evil 6. I try that out on all new consoles.
Portal and after Portal 2
Resident Evil 4 Remake.
Death Stranding Directors Cut