That’s true, I played many games that were great on the deck but marked as unverified. But that’s exactly my point you can’t really know how many games are actualy playable. When on the deck there is a tab called “great on deck” with games suposedly great to be played on the deck, but in reality these are games that theoretically works… They don’t test for the quality of the experience of playing them on the deck as oposed to another platform.
Yeah they don’t compare against other platforms, but why would they? They only care if the experience on the Deck is good, not whether it’s better or worse than another platform.
I didn’t mean they should compare it with other platform, I’m saying some games that are great on other platform are difficult to play on the deck, often when the mouse is required for the game it’s very hard to play it on the deck. For exemple: Papers please is an awesome game that is marked “great on deck” I encourage you to try playing it on the deck, I tried and it was very hard to play, maybe you can play it putting the deck on a table and using the touchscreen, but I don’t think people are happy playing on the deck using only the touchscreen, and even then I’m not sure that particular game (which again I love on pc) is particularly good on the deck.
I’d like to add that Iown a deck, I play daily on it, and I love it, I feel like people are gatekeeping because I dared say something not 100% positive about steam.
I could never play Papers please on PC because dragging things with the mouse was horrible, and always felt that a touchscreen was the way of playing it. Now that you mentioned it I remember that I never installed it on the deck, thanks for reminding me of it. Btw this also illustrates my point in the other thread that usability is subjective, for me touch screen is the ideal way to play Papers please, and the deck gives me that.
Good example. I actually tried that game on my Deck and bailed.
However, I played through Human Resource Machine on my Deck and loved it. Both have a similar control scheme, but I think the difference is the amount of interactivity vs thinking. But maybe the next person will have the opposite experience.
However, the verified stamp doesn’t mean playing it with the built in controller is the best UX, it just means it works well enough to access all content. Whether using the controller is ideal for you is up to you. I still watch the gameplay videos to get a feel for whether it’ll be a good experience on the Deck.
That said, there are certainly things I don’t like about my Deck. For example, I wish the screen was OLED, the charging port doesn’t feel solid, I randomly get the performance overlay stuck and need to reboot, and the charging cable should be detachable. The Switch is still a way better overall experience, but the Deck isn’t competing directly against the Switch, it’s competing with other PC handhelds, and I think it holds up pretty well in those comparisons, warts and all.
I also get the perf overlay showing getting stuck there sometimes, it is really annoying.
Don’t understand what you mean about the charging cable that should be detachable ? I charge my deck via usb-c so the cable is detachable, is it not what you use ? Or did you mean something else ?
The main reason I love the steam deck, is that it can theoretically run almost any games, I hate platform exclusives, with the deck I can emulate most console, including the switch
I mean I can’t separate the USBC cable from the brick, which means I can’t just replace one or the other. Also, the USB port is kinda loose, though it still works.
That’s true, I played many games that were great on the deck but marked as unverified. But that’s exactly my point you can’t really know how many games are actualy playable. When on the deck there is a tab called “great on deck” with games suposedly great to be played on the deck, but in reality these are games that theoretically works… They don’t test for the quality of the experience of playing them on the deck as oposed to another platform.
They do test for quality of the experience, that’s the whole point of the stamp. They manually review each game across a spectrum of areas and that stamp says whether the out of box experience is confirmed good.
Yeah they don’t compare against other platforms, but why would they? They only care if the experience on the Deck is good, not whether it’s better or worse than another platform.
I didn’t mean they should compare it with other platform, I’m saying some games that are great on other platform are difficult to play on the deck, often when the mouse is required for the game it’s very hard to play it on the deck. For exemple: Papers please is an awesome game that is marked “great on deck” I encourage you to try playing it on the deck, I tried and it was very hard to play, maybe you can play it putting the deck on a table and using the touchscreen, but I don’t think people are happy playing on the deck using only the touchscreen, and even then I’m not sure that particular game (which again I love on pc) is particularly good on the deck.
I’d like to add that Iown a deck, I play daily on it, and I love it, I feel like people are gatekeeping because I dared say something not 100% positive about steam.
I could never play Papers please on PC because dragging things with the mouse was horrible, and always felt that a touchscreen was the way of playing it. Now that you mentioned it I remember that I never installed it on the deck, thanks for reminding me of it. Btw this also illustrates my point in the other thread that usability is subjective, for me touch screen is the ideal way to play Papers please, and the deck gives me that.
Good example. I actually tried that game on my Deck and bailed.
However, I played through Human Resource Machine on my Deck and loved it. Both have a similar control scheme, but I think the difference is the amount of interactivity vs thinking. But maybe the next person will have the opposite experience.
However, the verified stamp doesn’t mean playing it with the built in controller is the best UX, it just means it works well enough to access all content. Whether using the controller is ideal for you is up to you. I still watch the gameplay videos to get a feel for whether it’ll be a good experience on the Deck.
That said, there are certainly things I don’t like about my Deck. For example, I wish the screen was OLED, the charging port doesn’t feel solid, I randomly get the performance overlay stuck and need to reboot, and the charging cable should be detachable. The Switch is still a way better overall experience, but the Deck isn’t competing directly against the Switch, it’s competing with other PC handhelds, and I think it holds up pretty well in those comparisons, warts and all.
I also get the perf overlay showing getting stuck there sometimes, it is really annoying.
Don’t understand what you mean about the charging cable that should be detachable ? I charge my deck via usb-c so the cable is detachable, is it not what you use ? Or did you mean something else ?
The main reason I love the steam deck, is that it can theoretically run almost any games, I hate platform exclusives, with the deck I can emulate most console, including the switch
I mean I can’t separate the USBC cable from the brick, which means I can’t just replace one or the other. Also, the USB port is kinda loose, though it still works.
Ho right, got it