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Comment on low spec gaming looking pretty sunny right now gang

I just bought a steam deck, and bought hogwarts legacy when it was on sale a while back on a friend’s recommendation.

Decided to give it a try - such a great game! I tend to compare opens world’s to Skyrim, and the detail in the quests is so much better. It’s not just ‘clear this dungeon’. Plus they’ve really thought about what sucks about those other games and really tried to avoid them. Plays great on the steam deck too, I’ve got it capped at 45fps and it never skips a beat.

I don’t think I’ve had this much enjoyment from a gaming device ever. I’ve done the console and game pass on the phone mounted controller, and that was not very consistent. The instant pause/resume button is a game changer with young kids waking up in the night.

Not at all bothered by performance - in fact I’ve seeing articles about how ‘this windows handheld beats the steam deck in tflops’ but an constantly thinking - 'yes, but it’s a handheld. Is it good at that? Battery life, pick up and go etc are super relevant, not just performance.

Bit of a tangent there, but I am having a great gaming time.

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st3ph3n@midwest.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The Windows ones need the extra horsepower to actually run windows and the games at the same time!

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bri@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Downvoted for supporting J.K. Rowling :(

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- otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Downvoted for announcing a downvote and also for downvoting based on something only tangentially related to the comment.
  
  Downvoting is for unhelpful comments that don’t contribute to discussion.
  
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  - bri@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Upvoted, because those are very valid, well-made points.
    
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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ve been playing it as well, and it really is quite good. It’s not very challenging though, which is a bummer, but they’ve done a great job on the world.

Some nitpicks:

lots of collectibles

broom isn’t very fast, and upgrades are lame

no quidditch, and fast travel makes the broom kinda pointless

way too much pointless loot (lots of trips to sell stuff), and the whole gear system is dumb

But those are pretty petty things. Quest design is pretty good, casting spells is fun, and side content is largely worth doing. I think it’ll age pretty well.
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- youngalfred@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I do like that you can keep the stats of gear you’re wearing but change the appearance of it to anything you’ve collected before. Nice to actually be able to look good and have good gear.
  
  One thing I’ve done is turn off the Minimap. It’s made it more interesting - I actually pay attention to the landscape details and the golden path thing is actually useful. Just wish you could keep a compass visible.
  
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  - sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    change the appearance of it to anything you’ve collected before
    
    I like that too. I don’t like the limited inventory space for gear though, which means I keep having to go sell stuff if I don’t want to destroy things. I should be able to just sell it any time with an owl or something, doing a bunch of collectibles to get more space doesn’t feel great.
    
    That’s a pretty small nitpick because money is rarely an issue. It just feels bad to destroy stuff to open a chest.
    
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