Ooohhhhh!!! Free game!!! I am saddened to see things like demos be held in such a negative light. Steam does not like when you buy a game and return it because it was not fun. I was warned once that I would be banned if I continued the returns. However, there were no d3mos for those games I was returning! If there were, I probably would not have had such a hard time deciding whether to buy or skip. I did try Dynasy Warriors 9 demo Friday night. Found out I did not think it was worth the money. I will stick to the previous titles. But now, Steam employees won't be mad at me! Demos serve a purpose. We need to keep those around.
Been watching for a while, love your content and your input as part of the the nerdnest. Cool to see your part of Dudelings, your right Bills lines in this vid sound sooo good! Would be interesting to see Russ and Cary too
Shout-outs to Square Enix giving us a Demo for Dragon Quest 11 that is the whole first chapter, about 10h of gameplay. Plus you can continue your save with the main game.
@@MangoPanic you know they only prevent you from using ALL mmo like features in the mmo during the trial though soooooo i wouldnt call the actual content part of the trial all that good
Although to your point, now as an adult with an income, I bought the Tomb Raider remastered collection on steam, which I never would have done if I hadn't played all the Tomb Raider demos as a kid.
Demos should come back in full force. Allowing the player to continue after paying. It's so good to get a taste prior to purchasing Vs steam refunding.
Steam Deck and Valve have done so much for linux gaming. I just bought Cataclismo, an early access RTS, and it worked flawlessly on my Linux desktop PC. I didn't even consider the possibility that it might not work when I pressed buy. That's such a contrast to just a few years ago.
@downbtneverout while obviously I would never say no to more battery. I just upgraded from a base deck to an OLED and honestly that bump in battery alone is sooo good. Pro tip: most games run great at 11-12w, sometimes bumping it up to the full 15w sometimes only gives a few extra fps. I know Dave the Diver isn't the most intensive game, but at 15w I get like maybe 4 hours? Bump it down to 11w and it gets me through basically a whole day of playtime without any performance dip.
@FanTheDeck one of the best things about your videos is having the title of every game on the top right, it's like a little game discovery feature as a side benefit. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for covering Steam Deck news! I genuinely don’t know where else I get it. Seeing No Rest for the Wicked get significant optimization updates is very encouraging since so many developers neglect that part of a game post launch. Congrats on featuring in Dudelings! I don’t need a code.
Maybe an oldie here but Diablo was the demo that sold me completely on the whole series. I never liked this type of games up until I played demo of 1st diablo. And I'm a big fan of the series up until now for around 27years!!!
I’m excited that Valve is making it easier to get demos onto Steam Deck because I’ve tried fiddling to install demos with no success! Opens up so many more opportunities for me to try games since the deck is the only PC gaming option that I own.
On the demo thing with the 2013 DICE summit: If somebody doesn't like the demo, then selling the game to them would have been ripping the person off anyways. It's a perfect example of blindly following numbers and not processing what those numbers mean, and the general shitty anti-consumer attitude that a lot of large businesses have. I don't think that "selling a $70 game to customers who don't like the game and never play it again after a few minutes" is a business model that should be encouraged or emulated.
Love the fact that steam is growing through steam deck! Especially, because this means that they are actively working and reworking the software side of steam more and more. This is so beneficial for PC players like me that don't have a steam deck yet. Truly great!
Mgs2 had a full tanker mission demo on the ZOE double disc edition. I definitely was sold lock stock and barrel on kojima from that demo. I would have never been into metal gear or something like that had I not owned that demo.
I like the ideas of being able to sort on the Steam Store and the Steam Deck using 'Demo' as the criteria. I have been doing this by making a category on my games list and then selecting 'Add to' from the right-click menu (when I remember to do so....). I also agree that automatically adding the sort criteria to the demos would help me to clean up space on my Steam Deck when it is time to delete them.
Click Store > Click the search icon > Scroll down to "Show selected types" on the right > click "Demos". This is on desktop Steam though and I don't own a Steam Deck, so not sure if it has a similar feature.
Dudelings looks like the perfect party game on the go with the Deck gang and Bill sounds like he's one word away from LETS GET RRRRRREADY TO RUMBLEEEEE
Hey if you want a copy of Dudelings, you got it! Going to ask you to do something a little weird to keep someone from snatching your Dudelings key. Can you please comment on any random video of mine and I'll reply to THAT comment with a key.
I would love to see Valve take another swing at the Steam Controller. I loved the concept of the old one, though I felt like we didn't have the right software to match the technology of the touch pads. I'd be down even to see them do something like a steam deck set of controls that could be used with the deck when docked, or on other machines.
Also it's thanks to your group of reviewer's that I grabbed the deck. I did test out the others at stores in person and decided to go with the deck. I'm glad I did. I did iron a claw for about a day and a half 2 weeks ago. Sent it back and grabbed the deck
I can confirm that the recent update for No Rest for the Wicked has a better performance overall. Loading between the city and some buildings is like 1 second. There's less stuttering now too. FPS is more consistent
I absolutely love Steam Next Fest. It’s how I found the game Until Then, which may be one of the best, most emotional, impactful games I’ve played. If you’re into interactive fiction/narrative games/visual novels, I’d totally recommend checking it out, it’s absolutely incredible.
I really appreciate the "Rotate Joystick" option. While the shmups I play (namely touhou) won't profit from 90° rotations, I might play around with the setting to make it more comfortable to point North. Updates like these show that valve cares about the ecosystem, even in it's details. Already heard about you being in dudelings on Gardiners channel. Congrats, thats really cool! Not really my kind of game though, so don't need a code.
There's so many Next Fest demos now that it's utterly ridiculous that most of them "self-destruct" when the Next Fest ends after 7 days. Next Fest demos should only be removed if there's problems with the demo that can't be quickly fixed with a demo update or the game's development is abandoned before the full game comes out. It's also annoying that many games that had a Next Fest demo don't have any demo version return later on (the most obvious time for it to come back is when the full game launches). All in all, Next Fest is just too frustrating - over 1,000 demos that you only have 7 days to try before the vast majority of them vanish forever! I've given up with Next Fest until they make the demos stay up much longer.
>be me >be the year 2000 >be orderin Pizza Hut >get pizza hut PSX demo disc >play THPS1 and get mind blown for the first time in my 10 years life demos ftw
Wow, iam amazed that the no rest for the wicked devs were so serious to make it work on the SD. It was not on my wishlist before as it seemed to sluggish, but now? Straight to wishlist it goes! Thx devs! And yet again it shows that you can create an amazing looking game on limited hardware when you put in the effort. I know many people will disagree with me here, but having a common (minimum/handheld) performance target for PC devs to optimize their games for is good for all PC gamers, as devs now have to put in more effort instead of "well just buy a better PC then".
"We don't need you, but you need us" is a incredibly important lesson that more people need to understand. I learned this at a young age while working in the restaurant industry. The food distributors would often screw up and send the wrong stuff/bad stuff or the salesman would try to convince you to spend more on certain things. The boss would just absolutely rail the salesman that would come. He would call him up and expect him to drive 60 miles from the city to come correct issues. Because at the end of the day, we didn't need them, they needed us. There's plenty of other food distributors to go through. If they want our money, then they need to provide a service that is acceptable. Same thing goes with any business, including the games industry. If they aren't providing something that is worth our money, then we should all be moving on to something else and calling them out for their BS. These greedy jerks need to realize that we are the ones who provide their livelihood and without us, they would be nothing. On the other hand, people need to realize that you don't have to stand for this nonsense and it's your right to raise your voice and vote with your dollar. They shouldn't be allowed to just walk all over us.
11:04 Those folks are _absolutely_ serious about graphics. Their three games are running on increasingly customized version of Unity, with some _seriously_ impressive effects behind the scenes. NRftW in particular has already sent a few ripples through graphics programming circles with its impressive Radiance Cascades implementation
Hey if you want a copy of Dudelings, you got it! Going to ask you to do something a little weird to keep someone from snatching your Dudelings key. Can you please comment on any random video of mine and I'll reply to THAT comment with a key.
Thanks for another great video. Demo was a HUGE thing for me both before "fast" internet (relatively speaking as 1Mbit was fast in the late 90's). Without demos there would have been many games I would never have bought at all. I'm grateful that they are releasing more of them on Steam nowadays.
I have been playing more and more retro games on my anbernic SP lately, but I love keeping up-to-date with the Deck when I inevitably start gaming more on it again.
1:29 Penny's Big Breakaway. Decided to buy because it _looked_ fun, but then I saw that there was a demo. I played that and I have replayed the game 3 times since. Another one is an upcoming game, The Big Catch. I saw that it was a demo, The Big Catch: Tacklebox, and I now know that I'm 100% buying Big Catch on launch day.
Demo's that got me hooked: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Sonic Adventure Ready 2 Rumble Tomb Raider 2 Shenmue (the magazine trailers mostly but I have played and beaten What's Shenmue.) Demo's that put me off: Matt Hoffman's Pro BMX Luna Abyss Shenmue and Tony Hawk 1&2 still in my favorite games. My cousin and I used to play the THPS demo over and over and over trying to beat each others high score. He'd play all day and beat mine and then I'd play all night and beat his. I also bought MHPB (Matt Hoffman,) regardless of how much or little I liked the demo based on how much I liked BMX biking myself and XGames BMX events as well as THPS. Releasing demo's is a wonderful way to introduce a prospective buyer.
I still fondly remember my PS1 demo discs. And nowadays I think it’s important to at least get demos of VR Games so that you know exactly what you‘re getting
You and bill are such great picks for additional announcers! Congrats man! So excited to get my hands on my steam deck TODAY. I wish I wasn’t working cause I want to be home when it arrives to get it set up and running! Awesome vid, good updates all around.
I don't know if anyone had the same experience, but I spend more time tinkering with my Steam Deck, installing mods and extensions, or buying accessories. When I finally pick it up to play, I spend some time looking into my library and turn the deck off. I just don't have the drive to play anything anymore, I guess.
That's been me for the last 10 to 15 years. It's weird because I use to play video games (mainly JRPG/RPG'S) most of my awake hours and even gave up sleeping hours to finish a game during the weekend before the game had to go back to the store (rentails). Not exactly sure when or why it happened, sure, I still pay attention to new games coming out and love to tinker with the hardware, mostly PC hardware, but when it comes to play the games, I either just scroll through them and never pick one to play or I will start to play one but get board and quite either in the first few minutes or many hours into it. I'll go months in between games and out of like 10-20 games I'll be lucky if I play even one of them long enough to beat it. It takes a really good game to play and beat nowadays, where before it really just needed to be a JRPG/RPG for me to play and beat it, even several times over or like 15-20 times for games like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VII. Even though Final Fantasy VI is my favorite Final Fantasy, I only ever beat it like once or twice but played it countless times. Where Final Fantasy VII, I beat almost everytime I played it, I just never played it as much as part VI but thought was part III because I played it mostly back on the SNES. Wasn't till it was on PlayStation before I knew it was really VI. lol Well I'm really off track now, see, when I'm talking about video games I can go on forever, it's the playing them that's the problem and I wish I knew why. You're probably are about the same, are you?
@@randysalsman6992 YES, its like i love talking about games, see the new games but cant really play anymore, it bores me too fast or cant get motivated to start playing at all
1 1/2 yr later and more reason to still love my steam deck! Kudos to the dev for performance update with onscreen data. I'm glad as well that demo are making a comeback. Miss the time where almost all game had one. Demo CD with magazine anyone 😁?
I'll give you back the W on the Hori controller. You're right, 3rd party gamepads developed for Steam input is a major win and we should all celebrate. Great news roundup!
Rotating the control axis is actually a nice thing for me. I have found that on some controllers my thumbs "up" turns out to be "up and slightly right". Just due to my hands shape vs the controller shape. It's a mild annoyance that I have mostly trained out with those pads but now I can just set it to a more natural rotation for me.
Your narration in-game is also amazing from what I saw in the trailer, come on! Have you tried Circuit Superstars already? Did you know they're making a game with iRacing (provisional title "iRacing arcade")?
8:47 I worked on Tales of Kenzera: Zau and our game is published by EA and was released day 1 with a native steam port (no EA App login) and Deck Verified.
I forgot that was published by EA. Thank you for sharing. Think they'll keep their promise here? I'm crossing my fingers that they will. Really awesome game to have worked on btw!
@@FanTheDeck I think so. Seems to be the direction they are taking right now. And thank you! One of the best projects and teams I had the pleasure to work with! 😊
I got the deck way back as one of the preorder batches. And even way back then, first game I played was a vertical shmup with screen rotates. Steams controls were easy to set up for it, and as they are assigned for that game until I change them, really no problem. No sweat if they make an easier way (without cluttering the interface). Just saying it was already easy. Sounds like good news, just nothing we couldn't already do. Steam has the best controller customization, so this is an area I like to see continued improvement, as they don't need to for competition reasons.
I downloaded Fae Farm's Switch demo last week and ended up buying it two days later because I was having so much fun. Though the one thing I wish Valve would do, is make it easier to purchase the Steam Deck locally. I would love to walk into a shop (be it best buy or whatever) and pick the one I want, then take it home with me.
I learned about a lot of games through demos. I can't even count. I never even heard that DICE speech. Ooff. Off the top of my head, astlibra revision, if we're counting early access, whoo boy
I love that we can now play demo's even if we have the game as an achievement hunter cause a few games still have demo achievements. Plus in the case of The Stanley Parable the demo is an original little game made for the demo to not spoil the main game but is equally funny in it's own right and was so worth playing even if you already beat the game. So I highly recommend trying out that demo for a fun 20 minutes. And throwing my hat in the ring for that dudeling code haha, you've mentioned it before that you and Bill are in the game and I still think that is so awesome! Congrats again for being in a freaking video game man!!!
Shout out to Gardiner. That's a really cool update. I hope he gets all of you guys in the game. Would love to hear Tech Dweeb do commentary! Or Bob Wulff haha
I was going to say I haven't played a demo in forever but I remember two games I did play the demo for One was good boy Galaxy and the other one was gal guardians demon Purge which is basically a perverted version of Castlevania. The first game I have bought yet because I don't want to play it in an emulator but the second game My friend was super into so he bought it and I liked it too but I didn't buy it because I hardly ever do that anymore I have so many games my backlog I just play them instead. It's definitely on my wish list now though.
One day, maybe we'll get Steam Controller 2, upgraded Steam Link (as a more widely supported and efficient application), and a public release of Steam OS with plenty of hardware support. By then, maybe Valve can do Steam Deck 2 and Orange Box 2 with Half Life 3, Team Fortress 3, Left 4 Dead 3, and Portal 3. A perfect climax of all their work. The perfect showcase of both their abilities and efforts, as well as the same for their hardware and software on perfect display with beautifully crafted games. Games that could send shockwaves and change the entire landscape of things. Games that show everyone how it's done both with what Valve has provided them, and with the industry as a whole.
Wow! Better support for demos! What a great idea! Shareware and demo CDs were not something I experienced as a gamer, but I think that Valve promoting demos is a great and very pro consumer.
Regarding demos, I saw a trailer for this game DoubleShake recently... and despite its clearly being inspired by some things I was interested in (Klonoa, Mischief Makers), I just wasn't quite sure about it. But...! it had a free demo, and I gotta say, I LOVE the NPC interactions! The various ways you can interact with the world seem great too, and there's really nice animations and aesthetics! A few things like sound could use a little polish, but the game isn't out yet so I'm just hoping that gets ironed out. Regardless, still looks like a great game that also reminds me a lot of Shantae with its silly dialogue style! All that to say, a good demo can really solidify your faith in a project as well. Make demos!! They're good!!
@@FanTheDeck Demos are amazing! I'm all for it. But I have around 1 hour a day to play, so I don't want to "waste" that on demos. Then I will never progress the game(s) I actually am playing. Glad you got another game to add to your wishlist. Cheers.
Rotate output is a legacy thing from the Steam Controller. It's often ideal to rotate the trackpad outputs since a more natural swipe is like 45 degrees
That has actually been with the steam deck touchpads already since I think the launch, but it's new option for analog sticks. Ability to invert analog sticks on an axis is also pretty cool as a number of older titles might be using inverted controls that modern gamers are not used to and vice versa.
I really hope the soul reaver remasters are legit. They were so much fun when they came out and I would love to play them on my steam deck. Thanks for all the great news
Lets see, what game did I learn that I liked through a demo... just about every game from 1999+ PC Gamer magazine pretty much kept my library growing as a kid... so many iconic demos that lead to long term purchases, and franchise buy-in until the more recent dark ages took a reverse dump on all that good will.
Thanks for keeping us up on this stuff. Even as the Deck ages, it's still me go-to for any game (and I've even chosen NOT to buy games because they don't have Deck compatibility).
Demos where the F2P until the early 2000s it has been a while but I remember one game I definitely only bought because of the Demo: SB for the PS1. Can't give the title because of the magixs of this realm. And the Demo was literally just the tutorial level. And of course a lot of games I bought because they where randomly playable for a while in a store. Like Digimon World for example. Or Eye Toy. The game store put that in a window with the camera facing outside so you could play it from outside.
I do miss the old days of demos. I am glad to see them in the store when I am browsing games. I have tried a few and it has lead to me purchasing the game in full instead of not purchasing it. Side note: I keep meaning to check out Dudelings. Sounds awesome with the commentating.
Wish there was any sort of open code/hardware to make gamepads fully compatible with steam input. This way, more people would end up interested in trying out custom gamepad designs, as much as the keyboard scene at least.
The lack of rumble is such a disappointment on that controller. However it opens the doors on steam input on not having to emulate a dualshock/sense for motion controller. Back in the days Hollow knight didn't have vibration on the pc version, but switch version had HD rumble. Every time you pick those coins in the switch version is SO satisfying, on the pc version felt... empty.
I really need to try out more demos, I just often forget that they are a thing since so few games have demos. I'm glad Steam is trying to push them more with Next Fest
I fell in love with the Life is Strange franchise after they put out the first chapter of the first game for free years ago, and more recently I got into a 90s/00s inspired tech fantasy unicycle game called Street Uni X thanks to it's demo.
Demos are really important for sales. I thought I wasn’t into metrovania games even though I played some as a kid, till I tried blasphemous’s demo. As soon as the demo ended, I immediately bought the game and made me buy so many other games from the genre.
Back in the day, I got Metal Arms: Glich in the System on Xbox due to one of their demo disks. fun little game that I likely would have ignored if I didn't play the demo first
the demo for Lies of P sold me on the game i remember seeing the announcement of it but when the demo released I forgot everything about it and after playing the demo i was hooked it was hitting all my fromsoftware wants and needs. Demo's are great to know which games you really want to play another game that the Demo sold for me was RE:3 remake which I know a lot of people didn't like it because how short and how much content was cut. but gameplay wise i really enjoy and the shortness of the game was great for me to speedrun and still have a full night sleep.
I've played the Soul Reaver demo SO. many. times. as a kid, over and over and after years I've bought the whole series on GOG also cg on being featured in the game, looks as if it would be a bomb as a tournament game at LAN party :D
I'm giving away 10 copies of Dudelings! Check the segment @ 14:23 for more information. Thanks to everyone watching!
Oh wow! Thanks for your videos about Steam Deck!
I always like to watch them.
Ooohhhhh!!! Free game!!!
I am saddened to see things like demos be held in such a negative light. Steam does not like when you buy a game and return it because it was not fun. I was warned once that I would be banned if I continued the returns. However, there were no d3mos for those games I was returning! If there were, I probably would not have had such a hard time deciding whether to buy or skip.
I did try Dynasy Warriors 9 demo Friday night. Found out I did not think it was worth the money. I will stick to the previous titles. But now, Steam employees won't be mad at me!
Demos serve a purpose. We need to keep those around.
Been watching for a while, love your content and your input as part of the the nerdnest. Cool to see your part of Dudelings, your right Bills lines in this vid sound sooo good! Would be interesting to see Russ and Cary too
Thoughtful comment.
Love that game it's actually kinda tough.
Conclusion: It's easier to trick people with a trailer than a demo.
Bullshotting all the way to the bank!
Facts
Shout-outs to Square Enix giving us a Demo for Dragon Quest 11 that is the whole first chapter, about 10h of gameplay.
Plus you can continue your save with the main game.
there are games that i bought, completed and 100%'d in less than 10h. wow.
@@freedomgoddessfr a ten hour chapter 1 is only appealing to a maniac/high schooler with tonnes of free time
@@Atais_UKBM he was not complaining bro lmao
Not to mention the free trial for Final Fantasy XIV which gives you the base game + 2 expansions. Square Enix are so good for demos tbh
@@MangoPanic you know they only prevent you from using ALL mmo like features in the mmo during the trial though soooooo i wouldnt call the actual content part of the trial all that good
I probably never would have bought Overlord, Soul Reaver, or spyro without the demos back in the day.
I forgot Soul Reaver had a demo! So damn good.
As a kid from a poor family I had 1 game and a demo disc. Played the hell out of those demos.
Although to your point, now as an adult with an income, I bought the Tomb Raider remastered collection on steam, which I never would have done if I hadn't played all the Tomb Raider demos as a kid.
@@seeibe Demos paying dividends!
Demos should come back in full force. Allowing the player to continue after paying. It's so good to get a taste prior to purchasing Vs steam refunding.
Steam Deck and Valve have done so much for linux gaming. I just bought Cataclismo, an early access RTS, and it worked flawlessly on my Linux desktop PC. I didn't even consider the possibility that it might not work when I pressed buy. That's such a contrast to just a few years ago.
@downbtneverout while obviously I would never say no to more battery.
I just upgraded from a base deck to an OLED and honestly that bump in battery alone is sooo good.
Pro tip: most games run great at 11-12w, sometimes bumping it up to the full 15w sometimes only gives a few extra fps.
I know Dave the Diver isn't the most intensive game, but at 15w I get like maybe 4 hours? Bump it down to 11w and it gets me through basically a whole day of playtime without any performance dip.
I didnt see it steamdeck goood too know
@FanTheDeck one of the best things about your videos is having the title of every game on the top right, it's like a little game discovery feature as a side benefit. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for covering Steam Deck news! I genuinely don’t know where else I get it. Seeing No Rest for the Wicked get significant optimization updates is very encouraging since so many developers neglect that part of a game post launch.
Congrats on featuring in Dudelings! I don’t need a code.
Thanks for the kind words! Yes very happy about NRftW updates. FWIW, they're still in Early Access but I think it's shaping up to be really nice
I second this. I learn so much from this channel.
Maybe an oldie here but Diablo was the demo that sold me completely on the whole series. I never liked this type of games up until I played demo of 1st diablo. And I'm a big fan of the series up until now for around 27years!!!
I’m excited that Valve is making it easier to get demos onto Steam Deck because I’ve tried fiddling to install demos with no success! Opens up so many more opportunities for me to try games since the deck is the only PC gaming option that I own.
On the demo thing with the 2013 DICE summit: If somebody doesn't like the demo, then selling the game to them would have been ripping the person off anyways. It's a perfect example of blindly following numbers and not processing what those numbers mean, and the general shitty anti-consumer attitude that a lot of large businesses have. I don't think that "selling a $70 game to customers who don't like the game and never play it again after a few minutes" is a business model that should be encouraged or emulated.
Unfortunately the business side of our society, from the very top down, is entirely focused on the numbers to the exclusion of all else.
Do you think a corporation has any interest in you individually after you've given them money?
@@MeowtronStar do you think I was talking about myself individually?
The steam updates are always appreciated. Being an announcer voice in a game is cool. Congratulations!
Love the fact that steam is growing through steam deck!
Especially, because this means that they are actively working and reworking the software side of steam more and more.
This is so beneficial for PC players like me that don't have a steam deck yet.
Truly great!
For sure! I have a feeling they added game recording feature mainly for the steam deck
I still hope that there will be some kind of free, open and lean gaming OS in the future, to be able to get rid of Windows.
Mgs2 had a full tanker mission demo on the ZOE double disc edition. I definitely was sold lock stock and barrel on kojima from that demo. I would have never been into metal gear or something like that had I not owned that demo.
I like the ideas of being able to sort on the Steam Store and the Steam Deck using 'Demo' as the criteria. I have been doing this by making a category on my games list and then selecting 'Add to' from the right-click menu (when I remember to do so....).
I also agree that automatically adding the sort criteria to the demos would help me to clean up space on my Steam Deck when it is time to delete them.
Click Store > Click the search icon > Scroll down to "Show selected types" on the right > click "Demos".
This is on desktop Steam though and I don't own a Steam Deck, so not sure if it has a similar feature.
Dudelings looks like the perfect party game on the go with the Deck gang and Bill sounds like he's one word away from LETS GET RRRRRREADY TO RUMBLEEEEE
I may have to re-do my lines. Bill sounds so good man.
Hey if you want a copy of Dudelings, you got it! Going to ask you to do something a little weird to keep someone from snatching your Dudelings key. Can you please comment on any random video of mine and I'll reply to THAT comment with a key.
@@FanTheDeck awesome thanks! Will do!
Steam Input is Valve's secret sauce. Can't live without it.
I would love to see Valve take another swing at the Steam Controller. I loved the concept of the old one, though I felt like we didn't have the right software to match the technology of the touch pads. I'd be down even to see them do something like a steam deck set of controls that could be used with the deck when docked, or on other machines.
Valve did announce the steam controller 2 a while back. Not sure where it's at now or if it's still happening.
Also it's thanks to your group of reviewer's that I grabbed the deck. I did test out the others at stores in person and decided to go with the deck. I'm glad I did. I did iron a claw for about a day and a half 2 weeks ago. Sent it back and grabbed the deck
Steam Deck really needs to be in stores, it's been 2 years Valve.
I literally found your channel over the weekend and love the content you are putting out. Thank you!
Congrats on being featured in Dudelings! Always like watching your videos to learn about upcoming content for the SD!
I can confirm that the recent update for No Rest for the Wicked has a better performance overall. Loading between the city and some buildings is like 1 second. There's less stuttering now too. FPS is more consistent
Congrats on being in a game! I already have Dudelings, but I haven't updated it yet. Going to do that tonight
I absolutely love Steam Next Fest. It’s how I found the game Until Then, which may be one of the best, most emotional, impactful games I’ve played. If you’re into interactive fiction/narrative games/visual novels, I’d totally recommend checking it out, it’s absolutely incredible.
I really appreciate the "Rotate Joystick" option. While the shmups I play (namely touhou) won't profit from 90° rotations, I might play around with the setting to make it more comfortable to point North. Updates like these show that valve cares about the ecosystem, even in it's details.
Already heard about you being in dudelings on Gardiners channel. Congrats, thats really cool!
Not really my kind of game though, so don't need a code.
There's so many Next Fest demos now that it's utterly ridiculous that most of them "self-destruct" when the Next Fest ends after 7 days. Next Fest demos should only be removed if there's problems with the demo that can't be quickly fixed with a demo update or the game's development is abandoned before the full game comes out.
It's also annoying that many games that had a Next Fest demo don't have any demo version return later on (the most obvious time for it to come back is when the full game launches). All in all, Next Fest is just too frustrating - over 1,000 demos that you only have 7 days to try before the vast majority of them vanish forever! I've given up with Next Fest until they make the demos stay up much longer.
>be me
>be the year 2000
>be orderin Pizza Hut
>get pizza hut PSX demo disc
>play THPS1 and get mind blown for the first time in my 10 years life
demos ftw
Wow, iam amazed that the no rest for the wicked devs were so serious to make it work on the SD. It was not on my wishlist before as it seemed to sluggish, but now? Straight to wishlist it goes! Thx devs! And yet again it shows that you can create an amazing looking game on limited hardware when you put in the effort. I know many people will disagree with me here, but having a common (minimum/handheld) performance target for PC devs to optimize their games for is good for all PC gamers, as devs now have to put in more effort instead of "well just buy a better PC then".
Congratz on Dudelings. Bill is made for that role haha. Now lets get Russ in the game. :D
First time I won a giveaway on the internet was with Dudelings, kinda cool. I will have to jump in to hear the 2 new announcers
That's so cool!
"We don't need you, but you need us" is a incredibly important lesson that more people need to understand. I learned this at a young age while working in the restaurant industry. The food distributors would often screw up and send the wrong stuff/bad stuff or the salesman would try to convince you to spend more on certain things. The boss would just absolutely rail the salesman that would come. He would call him up and expect him to drive 60 miles from the city to come correct issues. Because at the end of the day, we didn't need them, they needed us. There's plenty of other food distributors to go through. If they want our money, then they need to provide a service that is acceptable.
Same thing goes with any business, including the games industry. If they aren't providing something that is worth our money, then we should all be moving on to something else and calling them out for their BS. These greedy jerks need to realize that we are the ones who provide their livelihood and without us, they would be nothing. On the other hand, people need to realize that you don't have to stand for this nonsense and it's your right to raise your voice and vote with your dollar. They shouldn't be allowed to just walk all over us.
Amazing that both you and Bill's voice are in a game , so so cool . Amazing content as always thanks for all that you do.
Ill be having my steam deck this friday. Hoping it gets more steam deck verified games
11:04 Those folks are _absolutely_ serious about graphics. Their three games are running on increasingly customized version of Unity, with some _seriously_ impressive effects behind the scenes. NRftW in particular has already sent a few ripples through graphics programming circles with its impressive Radiance Cascades implementation
So many Demos I used to play on X360 (Crackdown, Saint's Row, Frontline, Homefront, Bad Company) that made me buy 'em eventually.
It's so awesome that you are now in a video game!! Dudelings, of all things!! That is super fun, congratulations!!
Thanks so much!!
Love the Steam Deck updates. Congrats on becoming a part of Dudelings. Much love from India :)
Thanks for covering us since launch with updates for the deck and other devices! Dudelings looks very funny tho :)
That's awesome that you are in Dudelings! I have been loving my new Steam Deck, it's just such a fun device to use.
Can’t wait to try out dudelings. Been listening to you guys for so long it’d be great to hear the same voices in a game.
Hey if you want a copy of Dudelings, you got it! Going to ask you to do something a little weird to keep someone from snatching your Dudelings key. Can you please comment on any random video of mine and I'll reply to THAT comment with a key.
@@FanTheDeck done
Thanks for another great video.
Demo was a HUGE thing for me both before "fast" internet (relatively speaking as 1Mbit was fast in the late 90's). Without demos there would have been many games I would never have bought at all. I'm grateful that they are releasing more of them on Steam nowadays.
i just want to say thank you, love your enthusiasm and dedication to steam deck and steam input specifically
I have been playing more and more retro games on my anbernic SP lately, but I love keeping up-to-date with the Deck when I inevitably start gaming more on it again.
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Penny's Big Breakaway. Decided to buy because it _looked_ fun, but then I saw that there was a demo.
I played that and I have replayed the game 3 times since.
Another one is an upcoming game, The Big Catch. I saw that it was a demo, The Big Catch: Tacklebox, and I now know that I'm 100% buying Big Catch on launch day.
Demo's that got me hooked:
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
Sonic Adventure
Ready 2 Rumble
Tomb Raider 2
Shenmue (the magazine trailers mostly but I have played and beaten What's Shenmue.)
Demo's that put me off:
Matt Hoffman's Pro BMX
Luna Abyss
Shenmue and Tony Hawk 1&2 still in my favorite games. My cousin and I used to play the THPS demo over and over and over trying to beat each others high score. He'd play all day and beat mine and then I'd play all night and beat his. I also bought MHPB (Matt Hoffman,) regardless of how much or little I liked the demo based on how much I liked BMX biking myself and XGames BMX events as well as THPS. Releasing demo's is a wonderful way to introduce a prospective buyer.
I still fondly remember my PS1 demo discs. And nowadays I think it’s important to at least get demos of VR Games so that you know exactly what you‘re getting
You and bill are such great picks for additional announcers! Congrats man! So excited to get my hands on my steam deck TODAY. I wish I wasn’t working cause I want to be home when it arrives to get it set up and running! Awesome vid, good updates all around.
Congrats on your first(?) voice acting gig, Rich! Hoping I'll pan out as well as Bill's.
I don't know if anyone had the same experience, but I spend more time tinkering with my Steam Deck, installing mods and extensions, or buying accessories. When I finally pick it up to play, I spend some time looking into my library and turn the deck off. I just don't have the drive to play anything anymore, I guess.
That's been me for the last 10 to 15 years. It's weird because I use to play video games (mainly JRPG/RPG'S) most of my awake hours and even gave up sleeping hours to finish a game during the weekend before the game had to go back to the store (rentails). Not exactly sure when or why it happened, sure, I still pay attention to new games coming out and love to tinker with the hardware, mostly PC hardware, but when it comes to play the games, I either just scroll through them and never pick one to play or I will start to play one but get board and quite either in the first few minutes or many hours into it. I'll go months in between games and out of like 10-20 games I'll be lucky if I play even one of them long enough to beat it. It takes a really good game to play and beat nowadays, where before it really just needed to be a JRPG/RPG for me to play and beat it, even several times over or like 15-20 times for games like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VII. Even though Final Fantasy VI is my favorite Final Fantasy, I only ever beat it like once or twice but played it countless times. Where Final Fantasy VII, I beat almost everytime I played it, I just never played it as much as part VI but thought was part III because I played it mostly back on the SNES. Wasn't till it was on PlayStation before I knew it was really VI. lol Well I'm really off track now, see, when I'm talking about video games I can go on forever, it's the playing them that's the problem and I wish I knew why. You're probably are about the same, are you?
@@randysalsman6992 YES, its like i love talking about games, see the new games but cant really play anymore, it bores me too fast or cant get motivated to start playing at all
Im pretty sure the Cave shmup games usually have in-game options to switch the d-pad axis, but that’s cool for other shooters that don’t!
1 1/2 yr later and more reason to still love my steam deck! Kudos to the dev for performance update with onscreen data.
I'm glad as well that demo are making a comeback. Miss the time where almost all game had one. Demo CD with magazine anyone 😁?
I'll give you back the W on the Hori controller. You're right, 3rd party gamepads developed for Steam input is a major win and we should all celebrate. Great news roundup!
Awesome! So cool that you guys are in the game! The Nerd Nest guy should do voiceovers.
Rotating the control axis is actually a nice thing for me. I have found that on some controllers my thumbs "up" turns out to be "up and slightly right". Just due to my hands shape vs the controller shape. It's a mild annoyance that I have mostly trained out with those pads but now I can just set it to a more natural rotation for me.
Your narration in-game is also amazing from what I saw in the trailer, come on! Have you tried Circuit Superstars already? Did you know they're making a game with iRacing (provisional title "iRacing arcade")?
I DID NOT KNOW THIS! I love Circuit Superstars. Thanks for the heads up (and the kind words)
I need to get sportsball now. Bill was born for sports commentary 😂
I love games that have demos, always a good way to decide if I actually want to buy a game. Also Bill's voice is made for announcing.
Thank you for the Steam deck updates. Nice to hear honest reviews if certain games run well or not on the deck!
8:47 I worked on Tales of Kenzera: Zau and our game is published by EA and was released day 1 with a native steam port (no EA App login) and Deck Verified.
I forgot that was published by EA. Thank you for sharing. Think they'll keep their promise here? I'm crossing my fingers that they will.
Really awesome game to have worked on btw!
@@FanTheDeck I think so. Seems to be the direction they are taking right now.
And thank you! One of the best projects and teams I had the pleasure to work with! 😊
@@afcfonseca That's encouraging to hear - thanks for the comments!
I got the deck way back as one of the preorder batches. And even way back then, first game I played was a vertical shmup with screen rotates. Steams controls were easy to set up for it, and as they are assigned for that game until I change them, really no problem. No sweat if they make an easier way (without cluttering the interface). Just saying it was already easy. Sounds like good news, just nothing we couldn't already do. Steam has the best controller customization, so this is an area I like to see continued improvement, as they don't need to for competition reasons.
Still my favourite source for deck news 👌🏻 also you could create a collection for your demos in library although a automatic one would be great
I downloaded Fae Farm's Switch demo last week and ended up buying it two days later because I was having so much fun. Though the one thing I wish Valve would do, is make it easier to purchase the Steam Deck locally. I would love to walk into a shop (be it best buy or whatever) and pick the one I want, then take it home with me.
I never did the demos on my deck because of how odd they were to navigate, glad to see thats getring improvements!
I learned about a lot of games through demos. I can't even count. I never even heard that DICE speech. Ooff.
Off the top of my head, astlibra revision, if we're counting early access, whoo boy
I love that we can now play demo's even if we have the game as an achievement hunter cause a few games still have demo achievements.
Plus in the case of The Stanley Parable the demo is an original little game made for the demo to not spoil the main game but is equally funny in it's own right and was so worth playing even if you already beat the game. So I highly recommend trying out that demo for a fun 20 minutes.
And throwing my hat in the ring for that dudeling code haha, you've mentioned it before that you and Bill are in the game and I still think that is so awesome!
Congrats again for being in a freaking video game man!!!
Seems like there is a lot going on. Thanks for the update on the latest update. I didn't realize they added the analog stick rotation. That is useful.
Shout out to Gardiner. That's a really cool update. I hope he gets all of you guys in the game. Would love to hear Tech Dweeb do commentary! Or Bob Wulff haha
just look this demo : Escape from Ever After: Onboarding. You don't know this game, but after playing the demo, you will buy it !
IF Hori makes a version of that HoriPad steam controller with the Playstation stick layout i'll buy it from Playasia day 1.
Sportsball is like the Superb Owl. Just, the best owl one could ever hope to find.
I was going to say I haven't played a demo in forever but I remember two games I did play the demo for One was good boy Galaxy and the other one was gal guardians demon Purge which is basically a perverted version of Castlevania.
The first game I have bought yet because I don't want to play it in an emulator but the second game My friend was super into so he bought it and I liked it too but I didn't buy it because I hardly ever do that anymore I have so many games my backlog I just play them instead.
It's definitely on my wish list now though.
I definetly don't want to miss the controller review. You reminded me to activate the bell.
Good channel
One day, maybe we'll get Steam Controller 2, upgraded Steam Link (as a more widely supported and efficient application), and a public release of Steam OS with plenty of hardware support.
By then, maybe Valve can do Steam Deck 2 and Orange Box 2 with Half Life 3, Team Fortress 3, Left 4 Dead 3, and Portal 3.
A perfect climax of all their work. The perfect showcase of both their abilities and efforts, as well as the same for their hardware and software on perfect display with beautifully crafted games. Games that could send shockwaves and change the entire landscape of things. Games that show everyone how it's done both with what Valve has provided them, and with the industry as a whole.
Wow! Better support for demos! What a great idea! Shareware and demo CDs were not something I experienced as a gamer, but I think that Valve promoting demos is a great and very pro consumer.
Regarding demos, I saw a trailer for this game DoubleShake recently... and despite its clearly being inspired by some things I was interested in (Klonoa, Mischief Makers), I just wasn't quite sure about it. But...! it had a free demo, and I gotta say, I LOVE the NPC interactions! The various ways you can interact with the world seem great too, and there's really nice animations and aesthetics! A few things like sound could use a little polish, but the game isn't out yet so I'm just hoping that gets ironed out. Regardless, still looks like a great game that also reminds me a lot of Shantae with its silly dialogue style!
All that to say, a good demo can really solidify your faith in a project as well. Make demos!! They're good!!
I like Bill’s voice in that game and I would like to play it to check it for myself. Fingers crossed and good luck
I usually don't play demos, but I tried a few this summer.
ONE BTN BOSSES got me hooked.
Oh I didn't know about this game. Adding to my WL - thank you! See! Demos help spread word of mouth too.
@@FanTheDeck Demos are amazing! I'm all for it. But I have around 1 hour a day to play, so I don't want to "waste" that on demos. Then I will never progress the game(s) I actually am playing.
Glad you got another game to add to your wishlist. Cheers.
Rotate output is a legacy thing from the Steam Controller. It's often ideal to rotate the trackpad outputs since a more natural swipe is like 45 degrees
That has actually been with the steam deck touchpads already since I think the launch, but it's new option for analog sticks. Ability to invert analog sticks on an axis is also pretty cool as a number of older titles might be using inverted controls that modern gamers are not used to and vice versa.
I really hope the soul reaver remasters are legit. They were so much fun when they came out and I would love to play them on my steam deck. Thanks for all the great news
Happy to help Josh. I'm right there with you!
Huge fan of the channel and the NerdNest podcast
*"You Suck at Parking!"*
Thanks to the demo, I've bought the Complete Edition.
Lets see, what game did I learn that I liked through a demo... just about every game from 1999+ PC Gamer magazine pretty much kept my library growing as a kid... so many iconic demos that lead to long term purchases, and franchise buy-in until the more recent dark ages took a reverse dump on all that good will.
Dang I wish your friend the best of luck on that neat game concept!
Thanks for keeping us up on this stuff. Even as the Deck ages, it's still me go-to for any game (and I've even chosen NOT to buy games because they don't have Deck compatibility).
Demos where the F2P until the early 2000s
it has been a while but I remember one game I definitely only bought because of the Demo: SB for the PS1. Can't give the title because of the magixs of this realm. And the Demo was literally just the tutorial level.
And of course a lot of games I bought because they where randomly playable for a while in a store. Like Digimon World for example. Or Eye Toy. The game store put that in a window with the camera facing outside so you could play it from outside.
15:07 this looks kinda fun.
I do miss the old days of demos. I am glad to see them in the store when I am browsing games. I have tried a few and it has lead to me purchasing the game in full instead of not purchasing it.
Side note: I keep meaning to check out Dudelings. Sounds awesome with the commentating.
Wish there was any sort of open code/hardware to make gamepads fully compatible with steam input. This way, more people would end up interested in trying out custom gamepad designs, as much as the keyboard scene at least.
The lack of rumble is such a disappointment on that controller. However it opens the doors on steam input on not having to emulate a dualshock/sense for motion controller.
Back in the days Hollow knight didn't have vibration on the pc version, but switch version had HD rumble. Every time you pick those coins in the switch version is SO satisfying, on the pc version felt... empty.
haha the dudelings commentary is hilarious
I really need to try out more demos, I just often forget that they are a thing since so few games have demos. I'm glad Steam is trying to push them more with Next Fest
I fell in love with the Life is Strange franchise after they put out the first chapter of the first game for free years ago, and more recently I got into a 90s/00s inspired tech fantasy unicycle game called Street Uni X thanks to it's demo.
Demos are really important for sales. I thought I wasn’t into metrovania games even though I played some as a kid, till I tried blasphemous’s demo. As soon as the demo ended, I immediately bought the game and made me buy so many other games from the genre.
I bought No Rest for the Wicked months ago, havent even installed it, nice time to finally play it
Always happy to tune in for the news
Back in the day, I got Metal Arms: Glich in the System on Xbox due to one of their demo disks. fun little game that I likely would have ignored if I didn't play the demo first
I remember playing with some friends the demo of Fifa 2010 in a Xbox 360 and having so much fun with it
I love the big catch demo, it’s like a full fletched game !
Long time ago I tried a PlayStation Underground demo that had Tekken 3 on it. Decades later, the Tekken Series has been my favorite game.
the demo for Lies of P sold me on the game i remember seeing the announcement of it but when the demo released I forgot everything about it and after playing the demo i was hooked it was hitting all my fromsoftware wants and needs. Demo's are great to know which games you really want to play another game that the Demo sold for me was RE:3 remake which I know a lot of people didn't like it because how short and how much content was cut. but gameplay wise i really enjoy and the shortness of the game was great for me to speedrun and still have a full night sleep.
I've played the Soul Reaver demo SO. many. times. as a kid, over and over and after years I've bought the whole series on GOG
also cg on being featured in the game, looks as if it would be a bomb as a tournament game at LAN party :D