I’m the same age and the screen size is mostly ok. Some games are unplayable because of tiny text, but that’s really a minority. My main problem with it has been learning to use a controller, as I’d never gamed on a console and never really used one on my various PCs.
Apart from that, the system is really solid, and the whole thing works great. It’s really a great little machine. It’s saving my life at the moment when I can’t use my main machine (home being basically rebuilt) and I have nothing else to game on (laptop isn’t at all suited to it).
I’m finally going to finish Fallout 4… It seems like it was designed for it.
if the small text isn’t an UI thing where you have to be able to read it while doing something else in-game (like reading lore or item stats), the steam deck has a button chord for a magnifying feature (Hold Steam button + L1 for default, but can be mapped as a toggle to one of the back buttons or wherever you like) which is enough for a lot of titles.
My sister struggles, I don’t (not the Apple Watch, the small screen) . I have a decent set of glasses, she cant be fcuked… I’m 58.
Steam Deck is on my list for '25
I’m the same age and the screen size is mostly ok. Some games are unplayable because of tiny text, but that’s really a minority. My main problem with it has been learning to use a controller, as I’d never gamed on a console and never really used one on my various PCs.
Apart from that, the system is really solid, and the whole thing works great. It’s really a great little machine. It’s saving my life at the moment when I can’t use my main machine (home being basically rebuilt) and I have nothing else to game on (laptop isn’t at all suited to it).
I’m finally going to finish Fallout 4… It seems like it was designed for it.
if the small text isn’t an UI thing where you have to be able to read it while doing something else in-game (like reading lore or item stats), the steam deck has a button chord for a magnifying feature (Hold Steam button + L1 for default, but can be mapped as a toggle to one of the back buttons or wherever you like) which is enough for a lot of titles.
True. I know about that. It’s ok in menus for example.
I was thinking of a game like Lobotomy Corporation which really has a font problem.