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I wish I knew about Steam alternatives earlier...
10 months ago
It's a bit late but now I think I'm regretting buying a Steam deck. I mean it's useful at time and runs smoother when I hook it up to a dock and connect it to a TV than when I hook up my gaming laptop. Sometimes I'm worried the thing is going to overheat simple running SD Gundam, at least when it was able to. Don't know why it doesn't want to run the game now. But I bought lots of Steam bundles over the last few months, and like always only got to play just a few of them. I don't know why I do this all the time, buying games but never playing them. It's as bad as my unwatched dvd/blu ray and digital collection. And now I've been reading that the games I've been buying on Steam are only 'licenses' to play them and not the actual games, which means if for some reason they decide to get rid of them I'm SOL. It's just like with the issues I had with PSN and Nintendo years ago.
But what really bit me in the butt was that there were alternatives besides Steam that I could have been getting for free! I recently discovered that with my Amazon Prime subscription that there was a gaming section and that they occasionally give out free copies of games every month. Granted that I had to get accounts for Epic and GOG but hey, free shit is always good. In the past few months since getting back into computer gaming I got over 50 different free games for Epic, GOG and Amazon. It's a bit of a pain that I haven't found out how to play them on the Deck but some of the games need a screen bigger than what the deck has. And apparently GOG doesn't use DRM so whatever game I get, I keep.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't GOG supposed to be "Good Old Games" in the past? When did they become "Galaxy of Games"?
Busy playing Lego: Lord of the Rings right now. Still upset they never did the final part for the Lego: Hobbit game though. Hope to one day complete the Star Wars: Lego games though, even if I have to force myself to play the Sequels...
EDIT: Forgot to ask, are there any other ways besides Steam or the launchers I mentioned to play games on your computer? I also play some NSFW ones via Nutaku, Kagura, JAST and DLSite. ^_^
Better yet, what's your favorite game that you're playing currently? I'm still trudging along in a modded Fallout 4 PC run.
Oh! I forgot about Humble Bundle! I can't believe how many games, and books and comics, I can get for just a fraction of a price. Granted the games it lets me redeem are only on Steam, but I got almost all the Civilization games for just over $10. I even got a bundle for a friend's wife for Xmas. And if I already have some of the games, I can give the extras away to friends on Steam. I freaking love Humble Bundle. Still not subscribing to it though, but the bundles are great.
But what really bit me in the butt was that there were alternatives besides Steam that I could have been getting for free! I recently discovered that with my Amazon Prime subscription that there was a gaming section and that they occasionally give out free copies of games every month. Granted that I had to get accounts for Epic and GOG but hey, free shit is always good. In the past few months since getting back into computer gaming I got over 50 different free games for Epic, GOG and Amazon. It's a bit of a pain that I haven't found out how to play them on the Deck but some of the games need a screen bigger than what the deck has. And apparently GOG doesn't use DRM so whatever game I get, I keep.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't GOG supposed to be "Good Old Games" in the past? When did they become "Galaxy of Games"?
Busy playing Lego: Lord of the Rings right now. Still upset they never did the final part for the Lego: Hobbit game though. Hope to one day complete the Star Wars: Lego games though, even if I have to force myself to play the Sequels...
EDIT: Forgot to ask, are there any other ways besides Steam or the launchers I mentioned to play games on your computer? I also play some NSFW ones via Nutaku, Kagura, JAST and DLSite. ^_^
Better yet, what's your favorite game that you're playing currently? I'm still trudging along in a modded Fallout 4 PC run.
Oh! I forgot about Humble Bundle! I can't believe how many games, and books and comics, I can get for just a fraction of a price. Granted the games it lets me redeem are only on Steam, but I got almost all the Civilization games for just over $10. I even got a bundle for a friend's wife for Xmas. And if I already have some of the games, I can give the extras away to friends on Steam. I freaking love Humble Bundle. Still not subscribing to it though, but the bundles are great.
I was also surprised when I got a copy of Hardspace: Shipbreaker. It is so addicting tearing apart a space ship and chucking it's pieces into furnaces, in spaaaaace! Makes me wish I had a VR headset playing that.
Right now playing Baldurs Gate 3
I haven't even gotten Baldur's Gate 3 yet. I was pretty hyped for it for so long. I'm kind of hoping NMS ends support soon, though I like how they've kept updating and adding new stuff to the game, but I am so done with it, I keep it installed just to get some of the new exclusive stuff during the expeditions, though I've missed the past couple of them already... I really should just uninstall it—I'll probably have to once the next giant time-suck comes out.
Still pissed off at the old PS4 though, bought an external drive to get additional space. It finally died on me not too long ago but damn I hated when it kept crashing on me and I had to rearrange and sort out all my titles. Glad I don't have to do that on the 5.