Most of the time yes. I've been playing the shit out of Dragons Dogma 1 lately and loving it.
That being said, some games are definitely on-release buys, like the upcoming Monster Hunter Wilds
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Most of the time yes. I've been playing the shit out of Dragons Dogma 1 lately and loving it.
That being said, some games are definitely on-release buys, like the upcoming Monster Hunter Wilds
I have been enjoying the original console I designed and built myself running a raspberry pi 5 and a fully built and compiled retropie that can crank out some dolphin and redream with full 60fps. I have plenty 90s gaming I need to catch up on.
For everything moderately modern, I have a steam deck. If it doesn't or cannot run on my retropie or my deck then I'll wait till the next hardware refresh. If it takes half a decade, all the better.
Are you using your Deck only as a portable system or also with a monitor or TV? I've done this a few times, but not very often, mostly because I rarely see the need (but I have a PC as well, so my situation isn't the same).
I hook it up to TVs all the time! It looks great on my 1080p projector on a 95" screen and perfectly acceptable on my girlfriends ginormous 4K TV.
Some games I'm excited enough for to want to spend full price on release. Some games I'll wait for a sale on. Just depends on the game.
for games that are single player , or games that i dont intend to play online, verry much yes.
with multi player games i struggle a bit more but i try.
In terms of pve, I am not patient at all. I would have not made it through elden ring without bleed. If I have to go through a 15 hour long quest to increase my efficiency in something by 1.5%, sign me up.
I am just so underwhelmed by most games these days that I’ve stopped buying them. I didn’t play BG3 until someone bought it for me as a gift, and then I really enjoyed the shit out of it. It probably made it even more fun that I didn’t plan to play it and had very low expectations. So I guess that’s part of the fun for me now - waiting for a sale or free game and hoping that it’s better than I imagine it to be.
Excessively patient. I've noticed there's basically a 50/50 chance of any game I find interesting showing up for free on Epic eventually, so I mean, fine, I'll wait a couple of years to save $60. Why pay for something that'll eventually be given to you, paid for by some vulture capitalist's dragon horde?
I take some of their money, get a free game: win/win.
...at this point, I'm pretty sure my Epic games library is way bigger than my Steam library, simply from the 3-5 free games a month that Epic tosses at you, of which like 1/3rd are actually pretty good.