I have been gaming on my PS5 since release. I usually play AAA games and since a few months I stopped buying them. Nowadays they arrive with loads of problems and take forever to fix. Once they are fixed, DLC arrives and the games get big discounts. All publishers are guilty of this, even Sony games now suffer from problems. Considering 2024 looks like a bit weaker and I have a big Steam library full of titles I haven’t played in years I ordered myself a Steam Deck OLED. I want to avoid buying new AAA games that now cost €80 and aren’t even finished. My plan is to replay a lot of following games before I buy a new game:

  • Witcher 3

  • Cyberpunk 2077

  • Red Dead Redemption 2

  • Portal 1 + 2

  • Resident Evil 3 + Village

  • Mirror’s Edge

  • Max Payne 2 + 3 (1 has seemingly vanished from my Steam account?)

  • Mafia 1 + 2 Definitive Edition

  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance

  • GTA San Andreas + 4 Complete

  • Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

  • Far Cry 2

  • Fallout: New Vegas

  • Doom + Eternal

  • Skyrim

  • Death Stranding

  • Dead Space 1 + 2

  • Dark Souls III

  • Crysis 1 + 2, Warhead

  • Control

  • CoD Black Ops

  • Bully Scholarship Edition

  • Borderlands GOTY Enhanced

  • Bioshock 1 + 2 Remastered

  • Arkham Trilogy

  • Assassin’s Creed Ezio Trilogy

  • Alien Isolation

  • Alan Wake + American Nightmare

This also made my reconsider buying physical games on Playstation by the way. I usually sell my games after I beat them but because of that I also have a tiny Playstation library.

  • Boone_Slayer@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I bought two AAA games this year, and regretted them both. Mortal Kombat 1 released buggy, with frequent crashes, poor optimization, a scummy dlc model where you don’t get everything with the season pass, and (what I believed) was a slightly disappointing story.

    Black Ops Cold war was the other one. Hey wait, isn’t that game like 3 years old? Yep. It still has crashes MOST times I boot up the game, with some really strange workarounds that are a pain to fix. I lost my campaign progress TWICE due to these crashes, and it’s hilarious how much the seasonal content and dlc is shoved in your face after years of being outdated and irrelevant. Its truly unacceptable how issues like this were never fixed, despite the game being rated ‘very positive’ on steam.

    For clarity, I was playing these on my big bad gaming desktop PC, not the steam deck.