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Managed for the first time since "Prime Days" started to not buy a single thing electronic even holding off on the gen 4 Samsung M.e NvME 4tb drive I've been wanting since I bought the PS5. That's actually a HUGE deal for me. I did but a medium sized tiller for my 3 Acres of grass I have on the property. This will make tilling dead patched and reseeding so much easier every spring. It was $190 off 469.99. Just something I have really been needing, other than that I even managed to spend just 11 bucks during the Steam Sale. Scary thing is how I will subconsciously make up for all this "Non-spending" in the VERY near future I'm sure of it!

Especially this one, COME ON MAN! I'm not buying game, maybe next years ultimate directors cut. I'm a sucker for most shit but MK11 is a fantastic game. I'm good on MK for 2023 at least!

Right now the most expensive price bracket and I'm not even playing my PS5 or ps4 AT ALL THE LAST 3 months especially. I still have all the big AAA titles to play and I mean them ALL!! I could buy nothing for the console for over a year and play no other system period and be good for over a year easily. If I had to guess I say I have less than 45 hours total on the system. Only games this year i've beaten on any system is Dead Space remake and Re4 remake. Sad really. I've kept up with the ps+ super top tier offerings all installed ready to go along with Games like God of War: Ragnorok, Deathloop, Ratchet & Clank: Rift, Dying light 2, Both Spidermans, Demon Souls remake, Elden ring, Horizon zero dawn, Death stranding, only 4 hours in. Returnal, Stray, even Ghost of Tsuthima and I could go on all bought day one! Except Stray it was free (free yea that's what it was.....lo.). Sad really......:

Bottom line I'm keeping it damnit!! Just got a glass screen protector for it and it's really grown on me. I went to the coast to get away from the 100degree heat that was coming and only took the Steam deck. I really missed the ROG Ally while I was in the Hotel room and not splashing around in the ocean. It's really NOT perfect but it hits so many boxes. Somehow double that battery and you really have a great handheld windows PC, I have really high hopes for the ROG Ally 2 now,,,,

Their stunning TV's and fantastic to game on. I have a 65" LGCx in my game room and a 83" LGC1 in my Home theater room. We are consistently impressed by both TV's both in watching TV content, 4k movies and especially gaming. YOU WILL NOT BE DISSAPOINTED!

No way I'm paying that price, my Samsung Evo Plus 512g was 49.99 but I had a $35 in reward certificates!! making it only $14.99. Love getting stuff at Best Buy because of the 5% back in rewards and no tax here in Oregon really saves quite a bit. Ill get $40 back from the ROG Ally after the return period passes, [45 days for total tech members] plus being a totally tech member I have 2yr warranties on every product I buy there so this saves me tons of money in warrentiies not bought.

I have a Samsung Evo pro 512g micro SD and have had no problems as of yet. I installed over 200g's worth of games and non-issues knock on wood! it's not as fast as the internal 512g ssd but t's not bad at all. installing I've seen nonissues nor running / loading, etc! I did have Need for Speed: Unbound installed on it and it would not save while gaming no matter what I did. was that an SD card issue? that I don't know as the other games all are running and saving fine so......?

.................Also Charging? I have seen multiple people stating on Youtube that you can not charge this and play with any other that the one supplied or maybe more so 65 watts. I'm having no issues using the Steam deck charger in my gameroom while playing both Need for Speed Unbound and Diablo IV and it easily keeps up. Sp just a heads up on that. The SD charger is 45watts if I'm not mistaken and works fine too. So no need to run out and but a second one unless you want another 65watter that is.. Got frustrated playing Need for Speed Unbound after about 2 hours as I constantly was getting the unable to save error 9! Very annoying and also makes the game unplayable on the Ally for me and I uninstalled it. It did run well at 30fps Medium settings motion blur off fidelityFX super resolution set to performance and vsync off

totally forgot to mention this as you did above, but this have awesome speakers. Just love them. There loud and clear at 40%, best I have ecer heard in a device like this.

Like I said is not a Steamdeck killer at least for me, but it really does have a bit more horsepower especially if near an outlet. Battery sucks there no sugarcoating it, but it really really does a lot right and it's growing on me. Having fun with it and that is all that matters really in the end. I'm positive that there will something out in the next 2 years that is 25-50% more powerful, full windows 11 experience but in a handheld with an oled screen 1080p w/ hall effect joysticks but with 50% more battery!! There are things like that out there now but there really heavy and bulky like the OneXPlayer 2. If they can pack what I just said into something like this in weight I'll jump on it! Even at $1000-1200 {800-1000 would be the sweet spot though!}, but the Player2 is just to big, I LOVE THE WEIGHT OF THIS THING it's really a great feeling handheld when playing....

So............................. Been putting Diablo IV to the test quite a bit on the ROG Ally and I have to say I'm quite impressed over all in the Performance. On battery set to performance It runs a pretty constant 50-60fps with FidelityFX Super Resolution 2 enabled set to balanced. On battery you'll get just 90 minutes though with medium settings. It still looks quite good though and I'm pretty picky with settings this low. The smaller screen makes it easier as we all know. Plugged in though and it really does a pretty damned good job. Same settings plugged in it will default to Turbo TDP/30 watts and even in crowded areas, shit flying all over the place you'll get 65-80fps {and even mid 90's!!} so easily can be locked to 60. Now of course this is still at 60htz not the 120 it's capable of. I have seen very few drops under 60fps on power. Sometimes in town for what ever reason it'll show 30-80 but doesn't stutter, kinda weird but not a game breaker. I'm having a good time with it even though I have the game on PC though just an aging 2080Ti / I7 6700k and Series X. I just wanted to give another quick update on a NEW AAA title though really this isn't earth shattering graphics with DIV anyways. Still going to really push this thing the next 3 weeks before I make the Return / Keep decision. The wife keeps saying that she knows I'm keeping it as I've really surprised myself and played the better part of 25hours with this already and that's a shit ton of gaming for me these days. New tech and all aside I rarely put multiple hours sessions in daily let alone day after day like I used too....... New 512 Gig Samsung Evo Plus comes tomorrow and I'll be comparing load times and maybe give an impression on that though that sort of thing rarely matters to much to. The difference between the 1 TB Micro I have installed in the SD over the internal 512 really isn't that much of a difference game over game. Maybe for some but that's never going to be a deal breaker unless it was horridly slow and I doubt that seriously. There you guys have it for this week second impression of my ROG Ally............

Putting a good amount of time into Diablo 2R on my ROG Ally, and a bit of Diablo 4 on Series X

I've been playing a shit ton of Diablo 2R on this thing, and as many above asked/said the buttons and there issues are a non problem on retail units. I do not think this is a Steam Deck killer though either as this is 699.99 and a Steam Deck is 399.99 / 64G non NvME SSD - 649.00 for the 512G NvME. I have the most expensive one but if I had it to do over I'd buy the 399.99 version and put the fastest 1Tb Micro SD card in it! The 399.99 Steam Deck is a fantastic deal IMHO after owning one since launch. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now for my Impressions: It's actually growing on me after having it a full week. I actually wasn't impressed out the gate as a Portable handheld as the Battery is just pathetic! I will not complain about the SD Battery ever again. I guess we are still not quite there AAA gaming on a handheld and "Portable" Once you get over that It's pretty great. I'm still not sold on keeping it and I'm going to go as close to the Finish line {BB's Return line for Total Tech Members is 45 days} as I can and make my decision then, so I have 3 more weeks+ to really give it a solid "Do I Have to have this" run. The screen Is wonderful, and we have all heard this already. Being able to switch from 120/60Htz on the fly is great. It actually took me a few days to get used to the UI and W11 as I only have Windows 10 with no hands on with W11 until now. This thig is just chalked full of bloat ware from Microsoft at the start and actually takes a good hour to 1 1/2 hours to even get into gaming at boot up. Mine wouldn't even start up until it was plugged in and charged a few minutes. NBD though. I have a 512Gig Samsung Evo Plus Micro SD card coming TODAY to further my hands on impressions so that will be cool. Not a fan of the Sticks on this thing. There really really loose feeling. I have done the GuliKit Hall Effects Stick swap on my Steam Deck and I just love them, so compared to these I'm not a fan. Don't get me wrong though they work it's just a preference thing here and I like a little bit more "Stiffness?" Maybe it's just me but I had a very frustrating experience getting Chrome on this thing! I mean it was just hair pulling and I can't afford to pull any hairs if you know what I mean guys? Microsoft will bombard you with popups stating you don't need to download a browser yadda yadda in many frustrating ways. I just use Chrome for everything and I just want it over edge is it that hard MS? Buttone are all very responsive, the analogue triggers are great but again there a little to smooth/loose feeling hard to explain like the sticks. Maybe just to smooth making me feel like there loose maybe? Also not a fan of the flat white as it's gets dirty easy and hard to clean. Gaming has been where it shines as it should and it's a great gaming experience over all. If though you think your going to play AAA games at 1080p / 120 htz easily your mistaken. Diablo 4 runs well at 720p / 60Htz low settings at around 40-60FPS well enough though to be enjoyable. It's just that the Battery in games like this will only give you 60-80 minutes unplugged drawing 20 watts {Performance mode}. if you were to set it to TURBO 30 watts I can't see over 45 minutes but I don't do that. Plugged it this thing really is a great experience but that isn't very "portable" so at least know know what your getting and make decisions accordingly. Games I've played range from Pacman 256 { I just love this game, it's my go to for toilet to doctors visits lol } and Vampire Survivor to Forza 4&5 and Borderlands 3 and everything in between. I did Try Halo Infinite but it really ran like shit unplugged, I really need to play and beat this game soon. Deathloop played well so did Fallout 4, so it varies depending on the game and windows optimization I guess. Hoping MS comes out with a stripped down version of W11 for systems like this. It's ships with MS Excel / Teams / Etc, etc and I just do not see how anyone would buy this for stuff like that, it's all there as it's a full Windows 11 OP. So......... Very good gaming experience, very good buttons and Userface. Fast with a beautiful screen. Gamepass in the palm of your hands is really great and is the #1 reason why I bought this thing. as like I said I have a SD. Personally I'd pick the SD over this if you can't justify just throwing 700 dollars at things like this, but for me that is not a problem. I does run AAA games better than the SD at higher settings, better resolution but also poor battery life so demanding games will make this very portable "UNFRIENDLY" to most. Near an outlet and plugged it this is pretty fantastic and is at least worth looking into. 7.5/10

Supposedly I have 45 days to return it being a total tech member from Best Buy. Says It'll be here tomorrow. Really looking forward to putting it through it's paces. Hearing about the battery life though has me worried but I will not keep it if I can't live without it, I have to love it or I'm out. Still have my Steam deck and it's been great, just want access to my Gamepass library and this just might fit the bill. We shall see. 45 days is easily enough time to push it to it's limits and make a decision....

Just bought Diablo 4 for Series X, bought and loved Warhammer: Boltgun and next to play is Zelda BotW2

Gladly take a pilot wings day one!

RE: Code Veronica and Dead Space 2 would be fantastic

Have The new Zelda installed and ready to go but for some reason I'm not to keen on jumping in right now. Just bought Warhammer 40,000 Boltgun for steam to have yet another brainless old school shooter to play on my Deck. Installing that right now. Really I'm most interested in the new Diablo and that will be it for awhile!

Just preordered this thing to see just how much I like it. I play my Steam deck ALOT and am interested in seeing just how well this compares. Being a Total Tech member from Best Buy I have 45 days to return anything so I'll be seriously running it through it's paces. The 1080p / 120hz has me drooling I must say. I really want this for a more stream line Game pass handheld. If this crushes that, I'll be a very happy camper......

Arriving from Best Buy tomorrow morning, it's been quite a long time since I dusted of my Switch. This will be a winner i'm positive of that. Probably at least 80 with possibilities of well over 100 depending on how much of a completionist or explorer you are. Loved Breath of the wild, I'm predicting all 9's & 10's

An hour and a Half? 7.5? LOL Man just give it another 1.5 hours you'll see. It's really really bad. I was excited to play this game and eagerly installed and spent 4 hours with it and it's a total let down. It's so bad it leaves you/ me {sorry} scratching my head. Gameplay it unexciting, controls are mediocre at best and exploration though cool at first {within an hour or so} but then you'll see why EVERYONE is down on this game. The combat is so breakable is laughable and missions are painfully repetitive and the sheer lack of action in between everywhere is the worst part, AI is some of the worse I have seen in over a decade. Maybe this game checks all your boxes but it's just NOT a good game at all! ......and i LOVE LOVE ARCANE I will never put a score on a game after 4 hours, but I can tell weather or not it's worth continuing. It's uninstalled and I will never revisit this game. PLZ know this is not an attack, though I do feel you just need more time to see what it staring you in the face. That said if you play this game and enjoy it that is awesome and I really hope it has staying power with you sir, ENJOY!

I feel you and I are quite similar in gaming preferences and play style. I own them all except for Sekiro 2 but only beat Demon Souls {Way back when it was released and I had a hard time too} and Bloodborne. I tend to try and over level to get through these games as my reflexes have never been up to what these games demand. I still have Elden Ring installed and never played one Series X. I started Demon Souls on PS5 though just about an hour ago and I am already getting owned. Kinda like I remember it anyway! Best of luck to you sir. As for Dark Souls 1, 2 & 3 I own them, and I did attempt them but sadly the just kicked my ass way to much to stick with them. Sucks as I wanted to be able to say I played and beat them but I know better even though I own them. That's because though, I own pretty much everything. Owned pretty much everything, correction. You know that FUCKING fire and all.......

Finishing Resident Evil 4 Remake, bought GOW: Ragnarok and Breath of the Wild 2 {Preordered of course} and will be buying Diablo 4 when that day comes. Starting Demon Souls remake when finished with RE4

Bought GOD of War: Ragnarok and also while I was there online on Best Buy bough The new Breath of the Wild 2 to surprise when it just shows up when ever. Lat game I will be buying is Diablo 4 day one. That there is a shit ton of hours in just 3 games, with D4 being rather limitless.

Man I'm a bit behind everyone here as it takes me at least 2 weeks to finish a 12 hour game, but "Rad fire" yes and then some. I'm playing this on a Series X on an LGC1 83" Oled and the Fire both regular and the Merchant \'s blue flames are fantastic looking. I really can't fathom all the Washed out talk on Series X, it's a FANTASTIC looking game and then some. I just made it to the Ashley section where Leon is locked in the cage, but the events before had me in photo mode quite a few times. The Chandeliers in HRD are mind boggling fantastic looking !! Loving the Hour or two every other night I'm playing this game. I played the game on PC the latest remake before this one to get a feel for the game and so I could compare the differences to them when playing this version! They really are two different games. So much as been changed, and I'm really loving it alot. I have to say, starting out on hard I Die a lot, I mean more than I like to admit. Especially when reading about how you all feel the game is chalked full of ammo and healing items...lol I'm just not as good I guess. I should be finished by the end of next week, this game is a fantastic remake along with RE1 and 2's remakes. Re3 not so much but I do own it and I like knowing I have them all now. This is the only Remake I have on console as I bought them all on PC except for tis one. Not a bad thing in the slightest, my 2080Ti is aging a bit though much better than I originally feared, but this in a show piece on Series X and I'm blown away by the quality of these string of remakes, that is except for Re3 that is...lol