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[–] [email protected] 4 points 52 minutes ago* (last edited 51 minutes ago)

I can wait till a game is $5. I've got so many to enjoy already.

Darktide, you're worth $5. Admit it. Release a dlc pack with new maps gamemodes characters classes whatever if you want more money. But the base game is worth $5.

I wanna shoot the heavy bolter at shit. The sounds for the gun sound so satisfyingly chunky. Slap that hunk of metal in the emperor's name. Hell yeah

See you in 2-3 years

[–] [email protected] 1 points 40 minutes ago (1 children)

@tonytins 6 years is old now? :< couldnt care less about the competitive/pvp stuff but im playing x4 foundations most of the time currently and some genres dont get that many new entries anyway, like open world action games like gta5. Thats from 2013 and most other titles like mafia 3 or just cause 4 arent much newer either

[–] [email protected] 1 points 30 minutes ago* (last edited 30 minutes ago)

I hear ya'. Technology (including games) progressed so rapidly that I feel older than I honestly should.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 hours ago

People are reading the headline and assuming they're talking about older single-purchase games, but the article is actually referring to mostly MTX-driven games that get continuous updates.

And the data further shows, in Newzoo's own words, that these 908 million "PC players are heavily skewed towards older, live service games."

Remember that even things like Rocket League are about a decade old at this point, and games like LoL, Dota 2 and CS:GO are even older

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Factorio considered older?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Probably? I have memories from over a decade back so

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 50 minutes ago

So much more room to grow in SPAAAAAAAAAAACE

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago

Because we have a giant backlog of steam sales.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

& Indie games

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 hours ago

Most new AAA games suck, that's why. I miss when games were made with passion rather than for a quick soulless cashgrab.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

Honestly, most new games just fucking suck. They're too expensive, often don't run properly at launch even on excellent hardware, and those that don't have micro-transactions built-in require you to purchase DLC to get the whole game.

On the other hand, the older titles almost always run well on my machine, have a ton of community DLC, and in general are just designed better because they were built to bring the player as much fun as possible, not to extract as much money as possible.

Plus, the quality content generated from 2005 - 2015 represents some of the best ever, and can provide hundreds of hours of enjoyment before you even get into the 2010s. Why waste money on something that may not work, and that I likely won't enjoy as much as the games I bought 10 years ago?

It's why I usually wait at least a year after release to consider whether or not I'm going to buy a title.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

What's your opinion on Dome Keeper?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

New AAA games suck.

I either play indies or old AAA games. It all went to shit around the beginning of the PS4/X1 era, so yeah, my upper bound is about 2013.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

I tend to agree with you, I think the downfall started in the ps3 era since that’s when online was in every console. I understand your idea that it was bad in ps4 era since devs had the time to figure out how to makes things worse due to the ability to use the internet to sell things/deliver patches.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

For sure, and my backlog is huge. I have tons to still play. I'm just now getting around to gta5 on my steam deck. I also just finished re-playing the original ff7 with some mods that made it look way nicer than back when I played it on my ps1 in the 90's. I could go another 5 years without catching up to 2020 if I wanted to.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 hours ago

I don't know if I agree about new games. This is a bit of a problem with some AAA games though. The indie game scene is still thriving as far as I can tell, in some genres more than others. (E.g now is a great time to be into FPS games.)

A good old game can occupy you for many hours though, and it's hard to make good games period. I'm not surprised that a few older games dominate the market.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

This would be a great time to promote [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 49 minutes ago

I'm not patient, I'm just broke.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

JOINED, any more ways to find sublemmings idk what are these called lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

[email protected] is a great place to discover new communities. As for big ones that already exist I’m sure there’s probably a list of big communities out there somewhere, otherwise browsing by All > Top 6 Hours or All > Hot will give you a good mix of everything. Then you can add communities you like from there

Edit: also lots of communities will shout out other communities in their sidebars. Check those too

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That reminds me— I gotta do another Fallout: New Vegas run.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Are you familiar with the A Tale of Two Worlds mod, which inserts Fallout 3 into Fallout: New Vegas to make them one giant game? If not, it's a way to add some new life to the thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Yes, actually that was my intended next run! I just gotta remember how to set up everything.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I find it kind of funny how games are becoming more mainstream, but every once in a while I still meet people that are like "games are a waste of time". But then again I guess people said that about movies and tv and still do sometimes.

Also I've been playing guild wars 2 again. Base game is like 10 years old but it's still fun

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

I think the people who often say this feel some personal guilt for how much time they feel they’ve wasted instead of doing whatever it is in life they have yet to achieve. It’s a matter of perspective.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 hours ago

When people found out PhysX doesn't work on the new Nvidia cards I saw several people here on Lemmy say that it doesn't matter because almost no one plays older games. I seriously don't understand how anyone could think that, it's astoundingly stupid and ignorant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

if you mean i do spend my time playing nes and snes via emulator, you are right

[–] [email protected] 107 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (15 children)

7.1% of the total hours spent were on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive / Counter-Strike 2
6.4% were in League of Legends
6.2% were in Roblox
5.8% were in Dota 2
5.4% were in Fortnite

That is a lot of people playing free-to-play competitive multiplayer games.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (17 children)

Free is an important reason why. Also, these games run very well on old machines. If you mostly play that and get a new rig, you don't have to spend a lot. Pc parts have gotten ridiculously expensive.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

I'm playing Fallout 4 right now. It's not the only game I play by any means. Too many new games are overly focused on graphics or monetization. I'm always trying new games and the better ones often don't have the best graphics. We want 2010 gameplay. Hell, I'll still play Unreal Tournament 1999 GOTY edition, but older games usually need resolution and texture upgrade mods. Fortunately a lot of great old games actually get them.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

There are just so many good games out there. No time to play them all. Also i think epic free games and this prime free game stuff contributed to it. I just started playing bioshock bc of it. Also on pc it feels so good to play an old game and just crank up every setting to max, 4k, install some mods, no ai upscaling but msaa 8x and not having to worry about performance even on mid range PCs. I genuinely prefer the graphics of older games since for me image clarity is much more important than how many polygons a gun has or how the puddle of water reflects light. Like even the new unreal engine 5 games cannot run maxxed out on a 5090 in 4k without upscaling. They only look good in trailers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I genuinely prefer the graphics of older games...

This is because a lot of older games were going for an artistic style, the graphical fidelity of today's games was too far out of reach. BioShock is a perfect example because of its beautiful art direction.

AAA games used to have character to them, now every person has to have 1200 individually rendered pores and a remaster every few years to make it look more realistic (cough cough The Last of Us)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

[email protected] might be of interest, if you don't follow it.

But yeah...there are a lot of perks to playing older games:

  • Due to the ubiquity of Internet access today, a lot of games get post-release patches, and ship in a not-entirely-polished state. You wait a few years, you get a game that's actually finished.

  • There have been wikis, guides, and sometimes mods created.

  • The games that people are still playing are the ones that have stood the test of time, so it's kinda easy to pick out good ones.

  • If a 3D game supports a higher framerate


and many don't, due to things like physics running at a fixed frequency


on modern, high-refresh-rate monitors, 3D games can be pleasantly smooth.

There are some downsides, though:

  • With multiplayer-oriented games, the community can have moved on, rendering the game not very playable.

  • The game may not leverage your hardware very well. You may have an 86 bazillion core processor, and especially older games are likely to be using one of them. I have a couple of games I like, like Oxygen Not Included, that really don't use multiple cores well...and I'd guess that a similar game released in 2025 likely would.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

I don't even know what the newest game I even own is... Helldivers 2? Except for Elden Ring and it's DLC, I haven't bought anything close to release for years. HD2 came out last year and I bought it last week.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Baldur's Gate 3 and Elden Ring are the last 2 AAA games I bought close to launch for full price. Other than that, I picked up Hades 2 in early access. The rest of my library is all stuff that I bought on sale.

I do have Monster Hunter and Avowed on my wishlist but I think I'm going to be patient. If I do pull the trigger, it would probably be for Avowed because I want more Obsidian games. On a related note Grounded is $20 on Steam right now so I stopped that up even though I beat it back when I had Game Pass.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

BG3 isn't an AAA title. Larian is an indie studio.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Based on the size of the company and the budget for the game I'd at least call it a AA game. My real point is I paid full price for it and have absolutely no regrets.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

What about new games, like world of warcraft.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I do not. I haven't played a gamer older than thirty years old in years

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