The Plucky Squire recently came out, and used the Steam Deck to represent PC
The Plucky Squire recently came out, and used the Steam Deck to represent PC
Here's a link to the game's store page
And here's a link to their X post with the animated Steam Deck art.
Is that DJ GabeN dropping beats on the Deck’s screen?
It definitely is.
Why are half of the comments in this thread talking about how the steamdeck isn't a computer? What the fuck are you all on about? Do you just need to be contrarian to be different? It's a fucking full computer, like has all the parts and functions a computer has....
And the top meme when it was announced was "Yes, it's a PC".
Lol Im not sure I ever saw those.
I see one comment like that, and they couched that opinion in so much praise for the steam deck that your reaction to it seems way over the top.
My up votes suggest otherwise.
It's the year of the handheld desktop
this is the weirdest political compass I've ever seen
*tries to navigate it and gets lost in the abyss of... whatever is 90° perpendicular of the Gaming-Platform-Compass
What does your whole compass look like for you? Cause Nintendo needs to be auth-left. And I'm assuming lib left for steam, and Xbox takes lib right.
Nintendo's well-known record for being litigious makes it firmly auth-right imo
Finally I can call myself a centrist
The steam deck arguably does a very good job at representing PC Gaming, hopefully more developers do this
As much as nice it sounds, this is not entirely true. Because Steam Deck is not just a PC and cannot share the same enjoyment and benefits of a regular PC, because its a handheld. I believe the Steam Deck should be handled as its own class of hardware, like a console is and do a PC showcase on its own.
For a small game that runs easily on the Deck and is mainly played with a gamepad, this is probably fine. But for lot of other games this cannot be said. I love my Steam Deck and my local PC, but they need to be treated separately for effective marketing.
It plays PC games, runs a PC OS, has a PC DE (KDE Plasma), includes standard PC ports (with a dock that includes even more standard PC ports), has a standard PC uefi bios, uses a PC APU, and has a PC like trackpad along with a virtual keyboard. Also if a game works well with controllers itll work well with Steam Deck (even if it doesn't it usually works well). Functionally speaking how is this different then a tablet PC with a controller? (In terms of if its a PC)
Just connect it to a monitor and you have a regular pc, I have seen a lot of people use it as one with no issues.
I get what you’re saying - some games aren’t fun on steam deck controls, or just run like a dog.
But, look at it differently - It’s a PC by virtue of the fact you only have to buy it once to use it in both. My 10 year old XPS laptop and my gaming desktop are very different classes of hardware as well, but they’ll both run Plants vs Zombies that I bought once.
I can’t say that about the stuff I bought on Switch and want to keep playing on Steam Deck.
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For transparency, I have a gaming PC. I have a Steam Deck. I love the Steam Deck to death and would never give it up. For many people, it is the closest thing they will see to PC gaming. I can say without a doubt that the Steam Deck is a PC in the same way a chicken is a wild bird. Can you do 90% of PC related tasks with the Steam Deck? Yes, but with a lot more work, and much more required knowledge. It's not even because of the OS, which is great because it's just Linux based. It's because the Steam Deck does not put necessary parts that average PC users need as forward facing concepts.
The Steam Deck is a console first, and a PC in a pinch and I wouldn't have it any other way. It's the reason I love the device, but also use it less. A good example is modding Elden Ring for Seamless Co-op. You can do it, and it's not HARD per se, but you may have to find files in the OS to make sure Steam knows to open them, and because of how the file tree works in Linux vs Windows it isn't really a simple case of "type the file name in search".
Look, if they're gonna use a device running Linux* instead of Windows to represent "PC," I sure as Hell ain't gonna complain about it even if it is a handheld!
(* legitimate Linux, as opposed to some bastardized and Tivoized thing like Android or what they put on TVs)
I just want to say I'm right there with you, and I was trying to make that clear while still explaining my thoughts on why the Steam Deck isn't really a "gaming PC". It could just be the old man in me, but the Deck PRESENTS itself as a console on startup, and to do anything beyond that you have to restart the device. For the general public restarting the device is a huge barrier. Again though, I'm happy the Steam Deck exists and hope that game companies in general will get their head out of their ass and start making more games run natively on Linux. Even with devices that have better performance and look like an upgrade I immediately discount them as an option the moment I see they are running Windows.
It seems to me like most PC gamers don't touch mods unless there's an easy automated way to install them, something like steam workshop or maybe a mod manager if they're feeling adventurous. It's true that mods are harder to do on linux/deck right now, but I'm hoping with the rise of official mod managers that support linux it won't be any harder. Games that use steam workshop or have built in mod support (like BG3 and Deep Rock Galactic) are already just as easy to install mods on deck compared to windows.
I think the Deck is in a nice place where it streamlines the gaming experience for most people, but still gives you the option to do more advanced things if you want.
My post was not meant to take away your points, and honestly I tend to forget about the Steam workshop because, as you said, I and many other general PC gamers don't mod games that much. I'm not trying to be negative about the Deck, just realistic. Unfortunately for me, my general lack of optimism can be seen as inherently negative. The Steam Deck has already succeeded in its goal as evidenced by the, inferior in my opinion, knockoffs from Asus and Lenovo. The main point I was trying to make is the very fact that if or when people try to install a mod they immediately run into the barrier of having to reboot the device. This isn't a bad thing, but it does tell many people this is not the main way to use the device. Remember that for the general public defaults are the most powerful thing on their device.
It's a personal computer. Being in a different form factor does not change that.
I mean, I agree that the form factor isn't what matters, that's not what I was saying. When you boot the Steam Deck it actively hides that it is a computer. Let's be real here, all consoles are basically just dumbed down PC's at this point. They have slightly modified AMD chips with AMD GPUs. The only difference is that you can't access the file system. You can on the Steam Deck if you want to, but Valve tries to simplify the experience by presenting it as a console. My argument has nothing to do with the form factor and everything to do with the default presentation.
I think it's more so that it's releasing on steam, Deck/GabeN is more a representation of that. In your case you can buy once and install on both. The image also has the added benefit to show its steam deck compatible.
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I love this animation of Gabe! Thank you for sharing!
This is so exciting, gives me hope. Rockstar making gta5 not playable on deck for no good reason made me lose hope. So I guess this balance the scales
That libredirect still has no check for 429: too many requests?
playing it on my desktop. the game is gorgeous.