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Shortstack, do gaming w People pay extra for this, you know.

As my recent hunt for a new monitor can attest to, you actually pay less for curved than a regular screen of the same specs.

I don’t know if they made a bunch and now can’t sell them and thus they’re all discounted or if they’re cheaper because they’re only making those now aka economy of scale.

Either way I’m not here for it so I paid more for that regular monitor.

Kolanaki, do games w World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles
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Switch being #2 behind PS2 is impressive given it has had a shorter lifespan. PS2 was on the market for 13 years. Switch has only been 9.

rljkeimig,
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I think the PS2 being so well sold is more impressive because the price adjusted for inflation is closer to $560, or $299 in the year 2000.

I think part of it was the idea that it could also be a DVD player so you wouldn’t need two devices that helped sell it if I recall correctly.

Kolanaki,
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I remember that was the case for PS3 and BluRay, but not so much DVD and the PS2. PS3 was, what, $300? $400? Where as the cheapest BluRay player that just played BluRay movies was almost a grand.

I may just not remember it being similar for PS2. I was a sophmore in high school when it came out.

rljkeimig,
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The PS3 was stupid expensive at launch, like $600 in 2006, nearly $1000 in 2026 dollars. But yeah I think that argument was made then also.

I think the PS2 was marketed specifically for DVD capabilities in some cases, I remember an IR dongle and remote control they sold so you didn’t have to use a controller.

ripcord,
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That was absolutely true for ps2 and DVD. They were trying to recapture it with ps3 and blu ray and with less success.

zikzak025,

Switch has a good chance of overtaking PS2 before the end of its lifespan. The Switch is still selling and still getting game releases.

Wolf314159,

COVID bump

Kolanaki, do games w The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020
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Elden Ring being 3rd and Baldur’s Gate 3 being tied for last is quite a surprise.

Jackhammer_Joe, do games w The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020

Yeah, Helldivers 2 made it on the list!

For Super Earth! o7

realitaetsverlust, do games w Dying Light

Dying Light 1 is the best one anyways - DL2 was a big step down and DL:TB was fine, but wasn’t able to really “connect” to DL1 either. DL1 just had everything - great combat, great parcour, creepy nights with an actual INCENTIVE to go out (to kill bolters) - I honestly don’t know why they are unable to replicate that success.

To answer the question - Rimworld and Project Zomboid. As always.

Nelots,

Rimworld. As always.

How’s the Geneva checklist coming along?

realitaetsverlust,

I’m currently raising children in life pods to put them into the ripcore scanner to convert their brains into subcores to advance my mech army.

Nelots,

Nice. Last I played, I recently found out colonists’ moods are locked the second their enter a coma. I of course abused this by turning my colonists into unaging sangophages, getting them as happy as possible, having them deathrest permanently, and then giving them a psychic harmonizer.

Eventually I got my hands on a modified sangophage gene with psychic hypersensitivity, and it was smooth sailing from there. My little meat joy batteries would each give my colonists up to like +40 mood in a massive radius around my base.

Oka, do gaming w VR is an absolute game changer for racing games

What racing games are you playing?

PerogiBoi,
@PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca avatar

Assetto Corsa, Dirt Rally 2, Assetto Corsa Rally as well

HER0,
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I recommend trying Automobilista 2! It has decent VR support and decent VR performance compared to most sims, and makes it hard to race elsewhere for me.

PerogiBoi,
@PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca avatar

I’ll have to check it out! I’ve seen it around but haven’t heard much about it :)

termus,
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If you want to test your vr legs or puke on your legs, try GRIP: Combat Racing

PerogiBoi,
@PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca avatar

Oof I played that in 2D and it was bonkers. There’s no way I’m trying it in vr haha

Lfrith,

Have you tried flying games? I’d imagine that would feel really cool in VR.

PerogiBoi,
@PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca avatar

Oh yes! Elite Dangerous, XPlane 12 (and 11), VTOLVR, Aerofly FS4 are all the flying games I play in VR. It’s incredible.

riot, do games w Day 526 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
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Happy holidays!

msfroh, do games w What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?

OP: Asks what will run well on a 2017 mid-range business laptop.

ITT: Idle games! Text adventures! Literally games from the 1990s that would run fine on a 486.

🤦‍♂️

ZoteTheMighty,

The free part is actually the harder thing to deliver on here. Free to play games are more recent than this hardware can handle since it’s a newer trend.

Zerush, do gaming w Life_IRL
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eldavi,

this is how i imagined people’s desks when i did computer repairs decades ago. lol

cactusdreams,

Szxc, somebody’s playing codename 47!

PaupersSerenade, do games w Where do you all get your (indie) gaming news from?

I’ll shill up for skill up’s website that spun up from his ‘This Week in Gaming’. He has some great coverage on indie games and always dedicates a segment to ‘put this on your radar’.

Paul Tassi from Forbes also has some really good takes and sources in the industry for those AAA games.

async_amuro, do games w Do we have No Man's Sky fans here?

I hop in and out whenever a new update comes out, feels like I slip into my usual grinding routine, collect resources then sell resources. Then a new game comes out and I drop off again. I did get it for the Steam Deck and appreciate the cross save feature and they really do deserve credit for the ongoing updates. But it’s a sandbox and same game mechanics as FarmVille sometimes.

Welcome 👋🏻

tburkhol,

This is my problem, too. I’ve gotten so entrained to hoard resources and make gold go up. I explore enough planets to put mines for every resource next to teleporters, then I run around the teleporters collecting resources until the overflow my storage. I’m a little jealous of people who have the creativity and attention to build big, elaborate bases with all of those resources - they look cool, it must feel very rewarding to see them develop, but if it’s not utilitarian, I can’t motivate myself.

Of course, I’ve got probably 200 hours hoarding resources…

capuccino, do gaming w A normal one...
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guy comming late to the bonfire Why are we burning megaman?

BestBouclettes, do games w What are some lower size games that work well on linux handhelds?

Stardew Valley works pretty well with a controller

astropenguin5, do games w Hytale is sending out emails which allow people to register and reserve usernames

Still a lil skeptical and waiting to see if they actually release it, but cool to see some progress regardless

VerseAndVermin,

I know almost 0 about Hytale. I played a lot of Minecraft but never interacted with their stuff. I also never got into minigames outside of the old school Mob Arena plugin.

All that said, this looks really cool to me. I’ve wanted to see something build upon the foundation of Minecraft. Now even more so with MS murdering developers left and right at the alter of AI. I have looked at Vintage Story a few times at length, but each time I walk away thinking it looks way too hardcore for me.

astropenguin5,

Oh, it absolutely will be cool as shit if it is actually a realized thing, and I’ll probably play the shit out of it, it’s just been in development soooo long and had so many problems that at this point if they get it done great, just not holding out my hopes too much.

Vintage story is interesting, I do kinda like it, but imo terrafirmacraft, the Minecraft mod/overhaul the devs originally started on, is much more polished. It is different from VS, and there are things I like more about VS than TFC though.

popcar2,

It’s releasing next month, so you won’t have to wait much longer.

astropenguin5,

Wait shit actually? Didn’t see that yet, that’s cool

TheBat, do gaming w Because I like to punch trees
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

Open world surviv…

No thanks

murmelade,

No, hear me out. Start by hitting this rock 50 times. Before you know it you’ll be moving on up in the world, now you can hit this other rock 50 times!

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