To celebrate homing my attention span to one game for a week I decided to play Crash Bandicoot Warped on my Deck AND on my Desktop! That’s another game that runs extremely well on the Steam Deck, which is no surprise since under regular Linux it runs as if it were a native build! I’m thinking of chilling in Okami tomorrow. I made a bunch of progress last time and wanted to continue my adventures through the joy of painting. 😛
Sifted through what seems to be my eternal collect ion of Skyrim videos, and got almost an entire two minutes of footage harvested from an almost two hour livestream… hooray!…? I’m transferring another Skyrim livestream over to my video editing SSD for the next time I have time to hack n slash some footage. Heck, I might even go over it tomorrow after work to make up for yesterday’s lost time.
For better judgement, I’ll have to sleep on it. 😛
It was too warm to work on any video footage today, or to even hide myself away at my workstation. It was the perfect day to go outside, chill in the shade and play more Dust: An Elysian Tail on my Deck of Steam. I’ve uncovered new places, found more quests, and have been enjoying whirling my chaos through the air!
Years ago, during my last attempt to play though this game, I found an underground cavern that had underground cherry blossoms followed by giant mushrooms followed by the poisonous semen forest (that’s not what it’s actually called, but I can’t be the only one thinking that) that will eventually lead you to a village populated by a community of cold blooded creatures.
Friendly, cold blooded creatures. 😛 I’m probably going to press on further tomorrow. I’ve already been playing it on and off since Monday. It’s been fun to play on my all time favorite hand held!
There I was… Enjoying some cocoa and sifting through some video footage (as is tradition) when suddenly I reach a point where I can export a video! I went back to some more of the Skyrim footage, and fashioned together a small montage of crazy moments from one of the livestreams. Sadly this is another video without any animation, but I’m ok with going classic for this one! Then there was the NieR footage, and looking that over again I didn’t see much to really animate… so I finished that one up too! Two more videos added to the massive lineup!
The Steam Deck has over 5,000+ verified and playable titles at the time of writing this, and for some reason Dust: An Elysian Tail is not one of them! I’ve thrown a few hours into it on my Steam Deck between now and yesterday, and I haven’t had any issues. It looks fine at native resolution – I can read everything on the screen, and it has a native Linux build. My only other guess would be that it came out in 2014, and the developers haven’t looked back at it since. Verified or not, it works and I’ve been having fun slashing my sword in the air and collecting all the Wall Chickens I can eat!
Some footage of us goofing around from 2019! Stay tuned next week for another one!
After five days of surviving stupid, it was nice to have one of nothing but rest! I made an egg and bacon sandwich with some miso soup, and I got some fresh air outside while playing a little bit of ICEY! It’s still as hard as I remember it being, though I’ve uncovered another area I haven’t been to yet. I got my ass kicked enough that I decided to break for now.
Also progressed further in Shadow Of The Tomb Raider on desktop! Though it was mostly back tracking for items, I did manage to solve a tomb I missed. Plus I got an achievement for completing 8 side quests! It felt nice to just have a day of play in any way. 😛
Gave my desktop some much needed gaming love this evening with some Crash Bandicoot. This is another title that runs really well on the Steam Deck, and Linux in general. After one week of playing aboard the Steam Deck I think I’ve made a good purchasing decision! The battery life is good (depending on the game, don’t expect 4 hours out of Elden Ring), the system is lightweight and fast, and I’ve only had two games fail to run on it. Every lunch break is an adventure again! It’s also nice to just sit outside after work to get some fresh air, and goof off in a game for a few minutes before snapping back to reality.
It’s kind of funny to think about. I can play games on a TV with a controller, play on a laptop, a hand held, and at the comfort of my desk. All with one game library! No need to buy the same game on other platforms over and over again!
I’ve been playing with my poor neglected computer. I’ve been playing more on the Steam Deck since it arrived, and I’ve only been using my desktop for video work… until I decided to take a break and play an indie game I haven’t played AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! A Reckless Disregard for Gravity in quite awhile. It’s a fancy little falling simulator with a half baked storyline. It was a fun little distraction while moving video files back and forth. I deleted the last of the TF2 footage, deleted some Borderlands 2 footage, and now I’m moving some Broforce footage over to an SSD I use for video editing. I might even pick up on it over the weekend, if I’m up for it.
Despite all of the posts I’ve been making about the Steam Deck, I’ve actually been going through quite a bit of footage! I have several videos lined up to release all the way thru now and October! Within just the last couple of night’s I’ve managed to rid my storage of over 400GB! I can almost fit my footage onto one drive! I might get to a point where I feel like livestreaming someday!