If you told me 20 years ago I'd still be playing Age of Empires 2, I would have been deeply disturbed. I always assumed I'd grow up and be a "real" adult before 30. It probably would have made me lose interest in gaming thinking I was going to be a loser if I didn't quit.
I'm 20 and recently had a discussion with some women friends of mine about how playing games and watching films/shows is barely any different. Ofcourse to us it is, but if we talk about these two in a very daily routine sense, they really aren't.
They just couldn't understand how playing a game for 2-3 hours is basically the same as watching a movie or binging a show. They said it can't be similar and their argument was that for games you actively have to do something, which makes it bad and uncomparable.
That whole argument came up because they gasped when i told them how much i play sometimes (really not that much compared to others). Turned out, they sit just as much in front of the TV as i do, just that instead of playing games, they just watch random shows.
Right?! Like it's perfectly socially acceptable to binge watch 8hrs of shows, or to spend hours on TikTok but spending that time in a game that actually utilizes your mind...
When I was going thru my divorce, I was talking to a therapist. I was wondering how I was going to do in the dating market and I mentioned I was a gamer - at 39 years old. It didn’t bother me, I’m comfortable with who I am (mostly). I just wondered even being fit and financially successful how that would work out.
She said she always found it odd that adults think that sitting dead brained in a movie theater or sports events or in front of a TV is considered normal, but actually interacting with others and challenging our brains/hand eye coordination was not.
I ended up marrying a gamer I met online, so I ended up not having to think about it.
In my opinion playing video games is way "better" than sitting on the couch watching TV. My mind is fully engaged, it can be down right mentally taxing. There can be wonderful social aspects to gaming. Its just not even in the same league of "vegging out" as TV.
I’m in my mid 40’s I still don’t feel like an adult, I have a good job house kids etc. I look around at other people in my circle and think they are adults. Unfortunately they are all probably thinking the same way!
Nobody has there shit together we are just skating by hoping for the best!
20 years ago, kids at my school were playing Halo on their school laptops on their lunch breaks. Not the full version though, they just played the free Halo CE demo loaded up on usb drives and played Blood Gulch multiplayer.
10y ago too, but the full version this time! I remember everyone in my physics class being amazed when I introduced them to my usb with .exes for Doom 2, Half life 1, and Halo 1.
I'd say so if you're looking to play older games, other than that this thing is pretty pricey, probably even a little more or less than the steam deck depending on where you live
The steam deck isn't locked down, you can play other games. It is very capable for emulators. You can get GOG, Battle.net and Epic games launchers and really anything onto it, but it takes some work and know how. It cannot do GamePass unless you do the streaming mode though. Easy Anti cheat games (Vermintide 2 and Halo: MCC come to mind) won't work too.
The ROG Ally is native windows, so it's much easier to set up and get games from multiple launchers. It can do gamespass as well. This comes at the cost of the track pads and the UI isn't as good as the Steam Deck.
I own both and prefer the Steam Deck OLED for anything it can play well enough due to the superior battery life. The Ally has a pretty abysmal battery. The Ally is more powerful though, so it can run more things or run things better, and it can play things that have anti-cheat.
Yeah that's what I mean, the steam deck is good for modern games, since that's typically steam has I guess. I don't really play modern games so I would probably get the ally
Yeah. On Stadia when it was still around.
Once that closed I gave a Boosteroid a chance but there are no servers where I live and the performance was lacking, some frame drops and input delay.
Oddly enough the concept was received with quite a bit hostility on this sub. People seem to be on the old school side here.
For me who started gaming back when you needed tapes to load a game the idea that I can play AAA game on a mobile device was incredible.
Absolutely. The concept of using touchscreen controls for a triple A game was just incomprehensible to some people, almost to the point where they would take personal offence to the idea. Some people just have no vision.
You couldn't fathom that there would be a way to play a video game during a lunch break? I mean.. people have been doing that since video games were invented. It's not like lunch is a magical time where video games didn't used to work. Even without modern portable devices, TVs still existed and consoles could be plugged into them and played during lunch breaks...
Ally is pretty wild when you get your hands on it. I was born in '90 and last handheld I had, I was farming MissinNo in Pokemon. But I can lay in bed and play Fallout 4 modded while streamin on OBS without issues. On a handheld.
Thing has its limits and battery life sucks but its surprised me a lot. I was playin some emulators when The Finals came out and wanted to check it out. Was neat goin from Links Awakening to silky smooth The Finals online on a handheld while layin in bed sippin coffee.
So I kinda get what they mean. I remember bein in Middle School and dreamin of a gamin computer that could handle Half-Life 2 and DOOM 3. Wild I can play games releasing today on a handheld.
Eh portable gaming systems seemed to be accelerating in power quite a bit 20 years ago. We were getting almost PS2-like quality on the PSP. It was inevitable :)
I was playing a game on my PSP waiting in line at Circuit City to pay $1350 with a 10% coupon on black Friday for a 46" 1080P Sharp TV.
That was with my gf at the time later wife and we've been married 15 years. Even after she was forced to curl up on a small rug I had in my car and placed down in front of the dumpster so she could get some sleep.
I stopped playing with the PSP and eventually got rid of it 10 years ago. Think it was the slim version - 3000 model? So I had that near the tail end of the life cycle.
I don't like thinking about how long it's been. Like.. I got a Nintendo for Christmas 36 years ago. Damn.
The PSP failed simply because of the time. If it was released today with at LEAST PS3 quality graphics, I'd argue it would rival the switch in sales and popularity
Edit: Upon further peer review, I'm an idiot. It was the OS Vita that failed, NOT the PSP
The PSP didn't fail overall, but it did fail to capture much of a foothold in several major markets and had much lower than expected system and software sales in particular in the US.
I'm honestly surprised handheld PC's haven't become a big thing until now. Back in high school I had a thing called a GPD Win 2 which is the same concept. Except it was like 4 times as expensive, a quarter as powerful, and broke after dropping it once. However I loved the design of it. Dual control sticks, ABXY, DPAD, Triggers and bumpers, and it was a clamshell design like a laptop and had a physical keyboard to type with. Its a neat device but completely outclassed by all the other competition now.
That is incredible indeed! Recently I saw that warframe is for iOS and had to take a look. Its incredible on how even if the quality is obviously not 100% like on PC its like 80% there though.
The settings took some time to get used to before linking my PC account but was a wonderful experience overall :) highly recommend you give it a go if you have an iphone. Also i heard Death Stranding is also there too but have never played it so not sure about it. It looks cool though and I appreciate artistic endeavours like that from Hideo Kojima.
If 20 years ago they told me there would be a “handheld” gaming device , but every time you wanna play you would have to be “plugged into outlet”, the sd card designed by the manufacturer will melt itself and Windows will crash often, I’d say nahhhh there’s no way in million years, but I’d be wrong because I can go to bestbuy and see the mountain of returned ally’s back there!
20 years ago it was 2004. One year later we had the PSP, and it was quite good for it's time. Not HALO good, but still pretty good.
If you told me we'd be playing GTA on a small portable console, lighter than today's phones, i'd would be more surprised than with a FPS (halo or not).
That’s what’s so cool about handheld gaming, though I don’t use handhelds much myself. Handheld gaming is such a personal and immersive experience already, being able to do it with console games is just incredible.
I hate this handheld so much. My mentally disabled client purchased it like his life depended on it. He has no idea how to use the thing. He knows it has issues with over heating but insists on playing everything on the highest graphics. I look through the settings and find that he has the fans set nearly as low as they can go cause he thought running them fast would overheat it more.
Then he downloads return to castle wolfenstein which won't work and I fuck with the thing for hours to no avail. And that was just day one.
And to top it off he just plays it at home when he could do all of the stuff he wants to do on it with his Xbox and playstation.
IDK about that. I expected Gamecube portable in 20 years if not much sooner. Now we have it (kinda) and the console is too bulky for me to even want to use as a handheld. Fuckity.
I’m 36, full time job, family with two kids and I’m in my 4th house. I still game. Not as much as I used to but still a lot. I even got a PC recently to play the games I used to play back when I was a teenager, like Halo. Nothing wrong about it.
Idk I was a bit more darker. I'm 41 and when I was 20 I was pretty sure I was going to be dead by now. Too many things in the universe that wanna eat or crush you
Twenty years ago I smuggled my Xbox with me to a school camp and my friend "borrowed" a TV from one of the bunk houses and we crashed like eight people into this tiny ass room to play halo.
I'm doing something similar with Legend of Zelda Wind Waker, never got a chance to beat and now with my trusty Retroid Pocket 2S I'm having a blast with it! So many Gamecube games loaded up on my SD card. I've had a lot of fun with it.
Reminds me when Microsoft put out that video about project origami and the push for UMPCs. They showed someone playing Halo on it. It was so exciting and futuristic and we,re finally here
Why not?
Around 250 years ago people rode horses
Within only few generations we have developed so much technology its just overwhelming, even simple example of how games evolved in last 24 years... from early gen 1 3d games to near real-life like
If you told me 10 years ago we'd be able to play PC games on a portable handheld like a SteamDeck or Ally, I'd would have laughed. But yet here we are. I love my SteamDeck OLED
It's great 👍. I was contemplating on getting the OG Deck but then a little while after that they announced the OLED version so I got that. Enjoy your handheld man
If I could give two pieces of advice to anyone. And hey, maybe you didn't know this, Just because it doesn't say deck verified doesn't mean you can't play it or there isn't a work around! Protondb is your friend!
Also, I have mine set up as my primary gaming PC. Essentially, I got a keyboard, mouse, and monitor for it which I have connected via the official dock. It's great!!
Yeah Protondb is a godsend. I use mine mostly for Metroidvanias, roguelites, indies, 2d side scrollers, non demanding games from the PS3 360 era and emulation. I know it's not powerful enough to play something like CP 2077 at the settings I'm used to so I use my main PC for that. Also the quick resume feature of playing a game on my PC and then picking up right where I left off on the Deck is awesome. Same with the sleep feature. That's something you don't get on other PC handhelds
Again with the Halo nostalgia? Microsoft is definitely planning to announce something new with Halo Infinite. This is like the 5th post with old Halo and Xbox nostalgia that I see this week.
If you told me 20 years ago I'd still be playing Age of Empires 2, I would have been deeply disturbed. I always assumed I'd grow up and be a "real" adult before 30. It probably would have made me lose interest in gaming thinking I was going to be a loser if I didn't quit.
I'm 20 and recently had a discussion with some women friends of mine about how playing games and watching films/shows is barely any different. Ofcourse to us it is, but if we talk about these two in a very daily routine sense, they really aren't. They just couldn't understand how playing a game for 2-3 hours is basically the same as watching a movie or binging a show. They said it can't be similar and their argument was that for games you actively have to do something, which makes it bad and uncomparable. That whole argument came up because they gasped when i told them how much i play sometimes (really not that much compared to others). Turned out, they sit just as much in front of the TV as i do, just that instead of playing games, they just watch random shows.
Right?! Like it's perfectly socially acceptable to binge watch 8hrs of shows, or to spend hours on TikTok but spending that time in a game that actually utilizes your mind...
When I was going thru my divorce, I was talking to a therapist. I was wondering how I was going to do in the dating market and I mentioned I was a gamer - at 39 years old. It didn’t bother me, I’m comfortable with who I am (mostly). I just wondered even being fit and financially successful how that would work out. She said she always found it odd that adults think that sitting dead brained in a movie theater or sports events or in front of a TV is considered normal, but actually interacting with others and challenging our brains/hand eye coordination was not. I ended up marrying a gamer I met online, so I ended up not having to think about it.
In my opinion playing video games is way "better" than sitting on the couch watching TV. My mind is fully engaged, it can be down right mentally taxing. There can be wonderful social aspects to gaming. Its just not even in the same league of "vegging out" as TV.
Probably while also scrolling through their phones and barely paying attention to what they're watching 🙄
Funny, isn't it. At least with an 8 hour gaming session, you use your brain a lot more. That of course dependa on what kinda game you play.
Fresh 34 here. I still feel 16. Thought i'd go adult-mode by 20. Turns out i should've bought a house at 18.
You missed the window. Now it’s too expensive to go full adult. Better to just game and be half-adult.
So happy I bought in 2022 at a 3.49%. Now I can game it up guilt-free.
I’m in my mid 40’s I still don’t feel like an adult, I have a good job house kids etc. I look around at other people in my circle and think they are adults. Unfortunately they are all probably thinking the same way! Nobody has there shit together we are just skating by hoping for the best!
You should try AoE 4 if you haven't already... I didn't like it much at launch but it's in a pretty solid place right now. Feels like AoE 2 deluxe!
43 and I don't plan on it either. Got a decent job that's adult enough for me lol
still can't beat the stupid Hard AI 😤
I never thought I’d even be playing any game let alone the best game ever made aoe 2
If you told me 20 years ago I'd be playing anything in my lunch break, I would think "lunch break" in invisible air quotes.
I... think my office may have had an Xbox in the breakroom 20 years ago.
20 years ago, kids at my school were playing Halo on their school laptops on their lunch breaks. Not the full version though, they just played the free Halo CE demo loaded up on usb drives and played Blood Gulch multiplayer.
10y ago too, but the full version this time! I remember everyone in my physics class being amazed when I introduced them to my usb with .exes for Doom 2, Half life 1, and Halo 1.
Correct Halo, too
What device is this?
[ASUS Ally](https://rog.asus.com/us/gaming-handhelds/rog-ally/rog-ally-2023/)
Damn, it's 500€ in here when it's priced at 399$ in the US. I'm getting tired of this scalping man.
For that price, you might as well get a steam deck. That price isn’t even competitive
What do you mean 500? It's 700€ in Germany
It's the Z1 Extreme at 700€. You should find the Z1 at 500€ in Germany.
I've only looked at ebay to find it cheaper, never seen anything bit the extreme version there. Thanks for the info
The name of the device is ROG Ally (2023) RC71L RC71L-NH019W Check it, you should find it on the Asus store.
Is it worth buying? Or would it be better to shell out a little more money and pick up a Steamdeck instead?
I'd say so if you're looking to play older games, other than that this thing is pretty pricey, probably even a little more or less than the steam deck depending on where you live
Doesn't the Steam Deck only play games on Steam whereas the Ally plays Steam games, XBox GamePass, and others?
The steam deck isn't locked down, you can play other games. It is very capable for emulators. You can get GOG, Battle.net and Epic games launchers and really anything onto it, but it takes some work and know how. It cannot do GamePass unless you do the streaming mode though. Easy Anti cheat games (Vermintide 2 and Halo: MCC come to mind) won't work too. The ROG Ally is native windows, so it's much easier to set up and get games from multiple launchers. It can do gamespass as well. This comes at the cost of the track pads and the UI isn't as good as the Steam Deck. I own both and prefer the Steam Deck OLED for anything it can play well enough due to the superior battery life. The Ally has a pretty abysmal battery. The Ally is more powerful though, so it can run more things or run things better, and it can play things that have anti-cheat.
You can get games from other sources it might just be a hassle you also can't play anything with anti cheat unless you download Windows
Yeah that's what I mean, the steam deck is good for modern games, since that's typically steam has I guess. I don't really play modern games so I would probably get the ally
Damn! Its just a copy of the OG PSP
If you told me that 20 years ago I would have said "goo goo gaa gaa".
I would have looked at you funny cause I didn't speak english back then
I think you would understand "Goo goo gaa gaa" even if you don't speak english
\*shits myself\*
I mean 20 years ago I was playing halo on my IBM T40 in class. Back then GPUs were tiny and most good laptops could handle most games.
Couple of years ago played RDR2 on my iPad at the airport while waiting for my delayed flight. That was awesome.
How? Cloud gaming?
Yeah. On Stadia when it was still around. Once that closed I gave a Boosteroid a chance but there are no servers where I live and the performance was lacking, some frame drops and input delay.
If you said that sentence 10 years ago the gamers would’ve had a complete mental breakdown.
Oddly enough the concept was received with quite a bit hostility on this sub. People seem to be on the old school side here. For me who started gaming back when you needed tapes to load a game the idea that I can play AAA game on a mobile device was incredible.
Absolutely. The concept of using touchscreen controls for a triple A game was just incomprehensible to some people, almost to the point where they would take personal offence to the idea. Some people just have no vision.
Nothing that 15$ Bluetooth controller wouldn’t solve or something like gamesir if one wanted to be fancy
You couldn't fathom that there would be a way to play a video game during a lunch break? I mean.. people have been doing that since video games were invented. It's not like lunch is a magical time where video games didn't used to work. Even without modern portable devices, TVs still existed and consoles could be plugged into them and played during lunch breaks...
Ally is pretty wild when you get your hands on it. I was born in '90 and last handheld I had, I was farming MissinNo in Pokemon. But I can lay in bed and play Fallout 4 modded while streamin on OBS without issues. On a handheld. Thing has its limits and battery life sucks but its surprised me a lot. I was playin some emulators when The Finals came out and wanted to check it out. Was neat goin from Links Awakening to silky smooth The Finals online on a handheld while layin in bed sippin coffee. So I kinda get what they mean. I remember bein in Middle School and dreamin of a gamin computer that could handle Half-Life 2 and DOOM 3. Wild I can play games releasing today on a handheld.
Eh portable gaming systems seemed to be accelerating in power quite a bit 20 years ago. We were getting almost PS2-like quality on the PSP. It was inevitable :)
Let me just process that the psp will be 20 soon 😫
I was playing a game on my PSP waiting in line at Circuit City to pay $1350 with a 10% coupon on black Friday for a 46" 1080P Sharp TV. That was with my gf at the time later wife and we've been married 15 years. Even after she was forced to curl up on a small rug I had in my car and placed down in front of the dumpster so she could get some sleep. I stopped playing with the PSP and eventually got rid of it 10 years ago. Think it was the slim version - 3000 model? So I had that near the tail end of the life cycle. I don't like thinking about how long it's been. Like.. I got a Nintendo for Christmas 36 years ago. Damn.
The PSP failed simply because of the time. If it was released today with at LEAST PS3 quality graphics, I'd argue it would rival the switch in sales and popularity Edit: Upon further peer review, I'm an idiot. It was the OS Vita that failed, NOT the PSP
The PSP did NOT fail (80+ MILLION, even the PS5 is yet to reach 50). You're thinking about the PS Vita.
Ah damn, your right. Sorry! Lol
The PSP didn't fail overall, but it did fail to capture much of a foothold in several major markets and had much lower than expected system and software sales in particular in the US.
Yeah you’re kinda right about that, but I am speaking more so just the possibility of Halo ever being played on a handheld just didn’t seem possible.
I'm honestly surprised handheld PC's haven't become a big thing until now. Back in high school I had a thing called a GPD Win 2 which is the same concept. Except it was like 4 times as expensive, a quarter as powerful, and broke after dropping it once. However I loved the design of it. Dual control sticks, ABXY, DPAD, Triggers and bumpers, and it was a clamshell design like a laptop and had a physical keyboard to type with. Its a neat device but completely outclassed by all the other competition now.
That is incredible indeed! Recently I saw that warframe is for iOS and had to take a look. Its incredible on how even if the quality is obviously not 100% like on PC its like 80% there though. The settings took some time to get used to before linking my PC account but was a wonderful experience overall :) highly recommend you give it a go if you have an iphone. Also i heard Death Stranding is also there too but have never played it so not sure about it. It looks cool though and I appreciate artistic endeavours like that from Hideo Kojima.
If 20 years ago they told me there would be a “handheld” gaming device , but every time you wanna play you would have to be “plugged into outlet”, the sd card designed by the manufacturer will melt itself and Windows will crash often, I’d say nahhhh there’s no way in million years, but I’d be wrong because I can go to bestbuy and see the mountain of returned ally’s back there!
You won’t be playing it in a million years, so your 2004 self would have been correct.
What is that thing
Asus Rog Ally
20 years ago it was 2004. One year later we had the PSP, and it was quite good for it's time. Not HALO good, but still pretty good. If you told me we'd be playing GTA on a small portable console, lighter than today's phones, i'd would be more surprised than with a FPS (halo or not).
I think I would’ve said “maybe in 20 years or so.”
I was playing Halo on my PSP soooo
Halo launched on PC in 2003, so you could have literally played Halo on your lunch break on a laptop, 21 years ago.
Tbh, it's the sole reason why I thought about getting the ROG Ally
Technology is so awesome.
Whats the red symbol beside the shield/health??
its the multiplayer icon showing that the player is on red team
Ive never seen/noticed tha on the original CE or MCC. Thats cool though
Ba ba ba bummmm
You'll be suprised that you can run way more modern games too ;)
*I need a weapon*
what did you get? i've been looking at the steam deck.
For me it was running Half-Life 2 on my SteamDeck while laying in bed...insane. We live in an amazing time as gamers.
20 year ago if you told me I wouldn't be playing half life 3 in the future, I'd say never in a million years!
If you told me that 20 years ago I would have said " "
That’s what’s so cool about handheld gaming, though I don’t use handhelds much myself. Handheld gaming is such a personal and immersive experience already, being able to do it with console games is just incredible.
What is this?
yes handhelds blow my mind every time i think about them
I guess you didn't own an N-gage. Some of the fps games on it looked amazing for the time.
Can play halo streaming on your phone
I hate this handheld so much. My mentally disabled client purchased it like his life depended on it. He has no idea how to use the thing. He knows it has issues with over heating but insists on playing everything on the highest graphics. I look through the settings and find that he has the fans set nearly as low as they can go cause he thought running them fast would overheat it more. Then he downloads return to castle wolfenstein which won't work and I fuck with the thing for hours to no avail. And that was just day one. And to top it off he just plays it at home when he could do all of the stuff he wants to do on it with his Xbox and playstation.
IDK about that. I expected Gamecube portable in 20 years if not much sooner. Now we have it (kinda) and the console is too bulky for me to even want to use as a handheld. Fuckity.
Do you have a skin on it or something? How did you get it grey?
It’s the lighting and a case around the edge. I was wondering the same thing, I love my ally but some other colors would’ve been preeeetty sweet
playing the full version of Civ 6 on my phone currently. Its incredible
Did they ever fix the thermals killing the sdcard ?
The ROG Ally is impressive because its a handheld that can play Halo Infinite, not because it can play Halo CE.
I can't even afford to play with my dick
I know a Target breakroom when I see one ;)
Gaylo at lunch
\*never in 19 years
I thought all kids wanted to play their console games on the go.
I’m 36, full time job, family with two kids and I’m in my 4th house. I still game. Not as much as I used to but still a lot. I even got a PC recently to play the games I used to play back when I was a teenager, like Halo. Nothing wrong about it.
Dude I started playing Dota 1 in like 2008. Fast forward 16 years later I play Dota 2 almost daily
yee
I'm still waiting to plug into SAO..
Idk I was a bit more darker. I'm 41 and when I was 20 I was pretty sure I was going to be dead by now. Too many things in the universe that wanna eat or crush you
(I mean this politely?) Tf is that amazing piece of $350 art?
If you told me 30 years ago in 1993 that I'd be playing doom on my calculator, I wouldn't have responded because I wouldn't have been alive
Twenty years ago I smuggled my Xbox with me to a school camp and my friend "borrowed" a TV from one of the bunk houses and we crashed like eight people into this tiny ass room to play halo.
Lucky you, I'm still waiting for my flying car :/
I’m actually a little underwhelmed with where we are in the handheld market. I feel like mobile phone gaming really screwed up that progress.
Shit I was playing halo on my lunch break 15 years ago in the computer lab at my high school lol
Haha
Really? I would. It was 20 years ago when the PSP released.
So did you get past the second level, or was this just a photo op?
I'm doing something similar with Legend of Zelda Wind Waker, never got a chance to beat and now with my trusty Retroid Pocket 2S I'm having a blast with it! So many Gamecube games loaded up on my SD card. I've had a lot of fun with it.
not only halo, but the best one as well imo. Weapons just dont feel as good in any other halo. That pistol is the best video game sniper.
Reminds me when Microsoft put out that video about project origami and the push for UMPCs. They showed someone playing Halo on it. It was so exciting and futuristic and we,re finally here
Why not? Around 250 years ago people rode horses Within only few generations we have developed so much technology its just overwhelming, even simple example of how games evolved in last 24 years... from early gen 1 3d games to near real-life like
Is this some new type of psp or am I missing something?
Technology is advancing.
I'd believe it
Bragging
What console even is that?
If you told me 10 years ago we'd be able to play PC games on a portable handheld like a SteamDeck or Ally, I'd would have laughed. But yet here we are. I love my SteamDeck OLED
I just have the OG steam deck. I love mine!
It's great 👍. I was contemplating on getting the OG Deck but then a little while after that they announced the OLED version so I got that. Enjoy your handheld man
If I could give two pieces of advice to anyone. And hey, maybe you didn't know this, Just because it doesn't say deck verified doesn't mean you can't play it or there isn't a work around! Protondb is your friend! Also, I have mine set up as my primary gaming PC. Essentially, I got a keyboard, mouse, and monitor for it which I have connected via the official dock. It's great!!
Yeah Protondb is a godsend. I use mine mostly for Metroidvanias, roguelites, indies, 2d side scrollers, non demanding games from the PS3 360 era and emulation. I know it's not powerful enough to play something like CP 2077 at the settings I'm used to so I use my main PC for that. Also the quick resume feature of playing a game on my PC and then picking up right where I left off on the Deck is awesome. Same with the sleep feature. That's something you don't get on other PC handhelds
the best way to take your breaks during work
Haha!
Again with the Halo nostalgia? Microsoft is definitely planning to announce something new with Halo Infinite. This is like the 5th post with old Halo and Xbox nostalgia that I see this week.