Hey all, I'm interested in playing some emulated games on my steamdeck, but I'm not sure where to start.

I've been having fun with Super Mario World, but a good chunk of that is because I played it a lot as a kid, so much of my enjoyment is from nostalgia.

Problem is, I didn't play many too many games when I was a kid...

What older games out there would you say hold up in 2025? So that regardless of the nostalgia factor, they can be enjoyed by someone like me

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the Metal Gear Solid games on the PS1 and PS2 are still wonderful games. The controls may be a bit clunky, coming from modern games, but you get used to it after a while. (There's some things you will have to look up on the internet in MGS1 because they require information from the CD case lol)

I always liked the Megaman X games on the SNES as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    What about the pressure sensitive buttons from PS2? Those MGS games really needed that feature.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Some emulators should let you assign a button as the pressure modifier, so on the Deck I guess you could assign one of the rear buttons to it and hold that button at the same time as any pressure sensitive input.

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