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Dindonmasker, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
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Me a fraction of a fraction of the gamer community playing only recent PCVR games and also Noita.

hisao,

Any recs for person who enjoyed HL Alyx (+ community mapsets) and Ancient Dungeon VR?

DABDA,
Dindonmasker,
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If you like roguelikes like ancient dungeon i would highly suggest until you fall and for a more story based game if you haven’t played lone echo 1 and 2 you’re in for a treat.

CalipherJones, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now

New games are steaming piles of shit most of the time nowadays.

tal,
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Old games were also typically steaming piles of shit. It’s just that the ones people still remember are the worthwhile ones, because the bad ones have gone into the dustbin of history.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not.

There were so many bad platformers for the Super Nintendo, but nobody is ever going to go back and play those or dredge them up.

CalipherJones,

Yeah that’s a good point. As a kid I felt like when I bought a game it’d at least be complete, but there were plenty of terrible games back then too.

tal,
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Yeah, I’ll grant the completeness point. Internet access everywhere has kind of lessened what it means to “release”.

dan1101, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now

The most expensive game I’ve bought recently is Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries, which came out 4 years ago.

orbitz,

With different mods each playthrough can be quite different too. That’s why easily modable games are awesome for their price. Of course I just like being in a big shooty mech to blow stuff up so may be biased on that one in particular.

FlashMobOfOne, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
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It’s wild how good the cheap games are these days. I’m 30 hours into playing Noita, have hundreds of hours in Vampire Survivor.

And I got about 15 hours into Dragon Age: Veilguard before it occurred to me I could crack open the Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition and actually have an enjoyable experience.

tal,
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I’m 30 hours into playing Noita

I kind of want more there. There isn’t DLC, and there aren’t clones.

I mean, yes, the game is large and very replayable, and I have a blast with it…but it’s also kind of the only option for that gameplay.

I also play it modded with health regeneration, because the difficulty level on the vanilla game is very high, and encourages very cautious play.

FlashMobOfOne,
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I would suggest trying Caveblazers, as it’s similar, but it’s more barebones and (I think) significantly harder.

tal,
@tal@lemmy.today avatar

Caveblazers

Thanks, purchased.

Aggravationstation, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now

11.35% of the human population.

Evil_Shrubbery, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now

900 million population is more than enough.
(And that much better if they are all gamers :))

mooncake, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
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World of Warcraft.

JoMiran, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
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I have been playing Galaga regularly since 1981. Still play it at least once a week.

hisao, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now

Currently 100% of my time is spent on games that are “six or more years old”, and a lot of that is spent on games that are more than 30 years old. But! I’m playing newly-made community content for 30 y/o games. This kind of retrogaming is something that evades Steam statistics entirely because it usually means playing custom sourceports of old games which rarely are on Steam. One old game I play on Steam to contribute to this statistics is Skyrim.

cyberpunk007,

For me, definitely older and indie (old and new). I don’t get a lot of time these days to sit at my PC. Using my steam deck primarily these days is part of the reason I’m playing older games, but seriously I have a problem with steam/gog/name a storefront/ backlogs. I have so many games already, great time to review what I bought because of hype but never played.

Snowclone,

Yeah that whole conundrum, if you have the money to buy new games you don’t have the time to play them, if you had the time, you wouldn’t have the money to buy them.

IronKrill, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
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I have a large backlog of five(?)+ plus year old games that are really good and I have yet to play. I’d much rather burn through those enjoying them on high settings instead of playing current games on low settings while trying to dodge crap monetization.

DrSteveBrule, do games w Another live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steam

Instead of issuing refunds on any purchased in game currency, Zynga informs players should quickly spend it in game before the game shuts down lmao

arun,

God that’s scummy af.

Aequitas38472, do gaming w Fragpunk is the competitive first-person shooter finally brave enough to declare that balance is overrated, and that's why it's my new go-to

Sounds cool. Is it on console?

Megaman_EXE,

It’s supposed to be, but I think the console releases might have been delayed?

humandotexe, do gaming w Fragpunk is the competitive first-person shooter finally brave enough to declare that balance is overrated, and that's why it's my new go-to

Been playing a handful of hours now. If you’re trying to kick Riot games, this is an excellent replacement for valorant

SolidShake, do games w Another live service shooter is getting shut down, this time before it even launched on Steam

Bring back greenlite and this story could have been avoided completely. No one wants an F2P shooter anymore. They suck. They’re never good. Season passes sick. Buying skins is bullshit. I hope we can get to the point where games like call of duty get cancelled before releasing.

De_Narm,

Greenlight was almost universally hated by devs. It could be easily gamed by abusing your popularity or by simply using bots. It prevented actual indie devs from ever releasing finished games while a lot of greenlit games didn’t even release.

SolidShake,

ah. but also just letting anyone make anything is letting bots make scam games

caseyweederman, do gaming w Fragpunk is the competitive first-person shooter finally brave enough to declare that balance is overrated, and that's why it's my new go-to

Alright, that’s really cool.
If you use the gravity reverse ability when people don’t have a ceiling above them, do they fall up into the sky and die?

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