What gaming stuff do you bring with you while traveling / on vacation?

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I'm going to be traveling for a few weeks, and I'm currently packing up the stuff I'll be taking with me. Just curious what GAF brings with them.

I'm not planning on gaming much while I'm gone, but I've got about three days of sitting in airports and hotels before I arrive at my destination - so I'm gonna try to squeeze in some gaming time.
 
Danjin44 said:
Nothing, I love gaming but when go to vacation I'm going to do something other than gaming.
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I thought about that too - but I have a 12 hour flight, two 2 hour flights, and two 6 hour airport layovers during my travels coming up. I'm traveling by myself. I don't want to just sit there and do nothing, might as well game.
 
Full PC is fucking hilarious. Sitting sweating in a Lanzarote hotel room playing Quake 3 haha.

I haven't been on holiday holiday since I got my Switch 1 in 2017 (really should rectify that doh), but I did havr a few bootycallidays in England where I took the Switch.

She wanted to play some games coop but she always distracted me too much to get in any proper gaming time. The little white frilly socks dancing in the air, arse jiggling, I mean come on now.

I have the Switch 2 now and the increases screen size makes me more likely to want to play it but truthfully I dont find handheld gaming very enjoyable. It would only be for the plane, airport and maybe docked in the hotel room, but I'm on holiday by then, seems obscene to me to doing that rather than enjoying the place I've gone to visit, I could do that at home.
 
Just got back from a 3+ week vacation. Brought my Switch 2 in case I wanted to play on the plane. Didn't touch it at all the entire trip.

Won't bother bringing anything gaming related next time.
 
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Just a phone and GAF
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Kuranghi said:
What exactly can you play with these? I had a quick Google but it wasn't very helpful, is it "just" android based apps/content?
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I plug them into my Ally and it basically becomes a cinema experience. I can position this huge screen wherever I want it and not have to look at the handheld plus I use it for Netflix, youtube tv etc. on the go and when I'm at work by making the glasses transparent so I can still see what I'm working on while having the content I'm watching pinned.
 
I just being a Switch, I really only use it during the flight to and from the vacation, and in the mornings since I wake up early and my wife likes to sleep in.
 
R3TRO said:
I plug them into my Ally and it basically becomes a cinema experience. I can position this huge screen wherever I want it and not have to look at the handheld plus I use it for Netflix, youtube tv etc. on the go and when I'm at work by making the glasses transparent so I can still see what I'm working on while having the content I'm watching pinned.
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Oh right, that sounds ace tbh, it uses those Sony micro-OLED screens as well, so I bet it looks lovely.

Would solve my issue of handhelds being annoying for me, having this and a powerful handheld PC + Switch 2 would be pricey but amazing.

Could you take a video call on it and have it transparent and still see the world?
 
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Handheld PC or Switch. Phone.

Typically going to have some downtime and not 100% active so good time to get a few minutes in
 
Depends on how much travel there's going to be.
If the vacation involves a long flight (10+ hours) or, maybe more importantly, a long layover at an airport (4+ hours) , I might bring the Switch along. Specially if I'm traveling alone.
Otherwise I don't take anything. I don't usually play games when on vacation
 
jshackles said:
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I'm going to be traveling for a few weeks, and I'm currently packing up the stuff I'll be taking with me. Just curious what GAF brings with them.

I'm not planning on gaming much while I'm gone, but I've got about three days of sitting in airports and hotels before I arrive at my destination - so I'm gonna try to squeeze in some gaming time.
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I always bring my iPad and phone. In addition I will usually bring say a Switch or SteamDeck depending on what i plan to mess around with.

Usually SteamDeck gets the nod, but not always. Sometimes I just grab a controller so I can play games on iPad / iPhone, but only if I plan to do emulation of 16-bit systems or older titles like Baldur's Gate, SE stuff, Kotor, some strategy games, and so on.

It really depends if you want to lug a handheld with you or not. Either way, tablet always goes, lol.

Edit: If I was traveling by myself I would definitely bring a Switch or a Steam Deck. It's either that or watching downloaded YouTube / movies on the iPad.
 
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Nada. I'm on vacation with my wife and daughter, and I'm gonna be playing a video game? Nah, that time is for family, I can game when vaca is over.
 
I travel all the time for work where I can afford more gaming than I do at home, do Steam Deck is my go-to now.

I'd much prefer the PS portal but I only had one time successfully connecting on hotel wifi, doesn't work with phone hotspots somehow I'm still trying to figure it out.

If its vacation I'd much prefer to leave gaming out of it.
 
I dont game on vacation I enjoy what I've paid £1000s on

Same goes for my phone that is switched off is someone needs me they have to send me a pigeon with a letter on it
 
Past years I took either a Switch, Vita or Switch 2. But I am leaning more and more towards 3DS, DS and my RG406H. Retro handhelds with games that are better adjusted to smaller screens.
 
Depends on what I'm playing at the time. Usually that means the Steam Deck, but I've brought my Switch with me other times. I'll occasionally throw an Anbernic handheld in there additionally just because they're so small.
 
Even when I visited Colombia and Panama for the first time in my life two months ago, I still found more than enough time to play some Genshin Impact while everone else got ready to go out or wanted to rest. Besides, I imagined those plane rides and connections were going to be long as fuck, so I decided to bring my Switch 2 with me and I ended up using it way more than I thought. Just bring stuff with you as long as it's portable and the worst that can happen is that you don't use it, and that's it.
 
Depends on the vacation. If it's a vacation visiting my wife's family, I might stay at the hotel and play the Switch (2 now). If we're going on a trip to Europe, I won't take anything, but my phone.
 
I usually brought the Switch for the kids, and an older handheld (PS Vita) for me. Downtime during a holiday is a perfect time to replay some old favorites. Usually early in the morning or between 17:00 and 19:00.
This year however the kids were glued to the Switch 2, so I took the opportunity to play some old indies that had been in my backlog forever on the Switch OLED (Bomber Crew, Into the Breach).
 
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being older, nothing. as a kid... the GAME GEAR BAAAABY.... and my GBc and then GBA

maybe the switch for the flight, but even then these days i just take sleeping tabs and smash the flight
 
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None, i don't play vg during trips.

In the past maybe i had my psp or vita but the times i enjoyed playing on portables are long gone.
 
voted nothing as there was no option for board games/card games. I ofcourse have my phone and tablet, and less often my MacBook Pro, but I don't game on those, they are for news, Netflix, music etc, or the MacBook in the instances I need to be available for work.
 
Danjin44 said:
Nothing, I love gaming but when go to vacation I'm going to do something other than gaming.
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Sort of this. If my flight is long I bring stuff for my flight though.

When I went to Japan last year I loaded my phone up on YouTube videos and anime, but I also brought my Switch along to kill time on the plane. The only time I touched my Switch while I was actually in Japan was actually to use it for YouTube as neither of us brought our iPads and it was the biggest screen we had as there were a couple nights we were really tired and just grabbed some food from Family Mart and watched YouTube for awhile at our AirBnB.
 
I bring my deck but almost never use it. Sometimes on the car ride if I'm not the one driving. Otherwise I will just mess around on my phone while laying down in the hotel or during other downtime.

I remember buying Symphony of the Night on my phone before a long flight to Hawaii, only to find out that it requires an online connection to start the game, which I didn't do while I was still near land. Fucking Konami.
 
I just got back from the beach
two an Xbox Series S for my son and his friend to play coop games with.. 2 gaming laptops , 2 steam decks..and that's about it.
 
This year I bought a Lenovo Legion Go Z1 Extreme Steam OS since I was traveling for work staying out in Bakersfield for the last 6 months. Came in really handy and allowed me to beat Rogue Trader. I also had my Switch 2 and put a massive dent into TOTK. It's good to be back home though. I missed my desktop PC. Games like Clair Obscur take too much of a visual and performance hit for me to be satisfied playing it on the Legion Go. The next handheld I buy will likely be from the Intel/Nvidia collaboration.
 
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As small as possible. I don't have a Switch Lite so I'd probably take a non-XL DS. This is where the small size and clamshell design makes a difference.
 
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