I used to be same but I stopped doing it. I just started going through games as I wanted and stopped following hype trains.
I’m in the same boat, but am realizing that I do miss the conversations around the hype train. When you play a game that came out several years ago, it’s harder to have a conversation about it.
Still trying to find that happy medium, but not buy games I won’t play.
The great irony is that minutes after I posted this my 9yo son came in to ask about buying another Switch game with his allowance. I had the audacity to comment that he never finished most of the other games he's bought. 😅
And then I realized my blunder and let him buy the game.
I have years worth of backlogs 300+ games maybe played 100. Most of which came from various bundles.
But the deck has made going back to these games awesome.
Bought like 8 games I'll never finish before the next sale. With my 3 month old and all the left over games from the last one... I feel, you
Steam Deck
A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.
Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to the Steam Deck in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.