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flameleaf, do gaming w I like PC as much as the next gal, but honestly? With the whole GPU situation we have now?

Lots of indie and retro games play fine without a GPU

Situation is dire, AAA games are growing more unsustainable by the day

Makan,
@Makan@lemmygrad.ml avatar

I don’t want to just play retro or Indie games.

Boiglenoight, do games w RetroDECK 0.10.0b Is a Ground-Up Rewrite, Not Just an Update

I built a Steam PC not too long ago. I’ll give this a shot.

Zephorah, do gaming w When I was a child I thought as a child...

Disco Elysium what?

I replayed Neverwinter Nights base campaigns again not too long ago. Replayability used to be the standard, and for $20. I’m not paying $60+ for a 30hr game that lacks the compulsion to turn around and start up another play through. Granted, D&D 3.5 character builds are compelling on their own, but I digress.

Civilizations III vs whatever VII was all about.

Gathorall,

Replayability was largely replaced with “content”. A good modern contrast is God of War and Resident Evil. Resident Evil embraces their tradition of replayability, God of War has an insane amount of “content” on a checklist to make a playtrough be a dollar an hour.

Except with God of War you get collectibles only visible from a certain angle or “puzzles” where the puzzle is an unreasonably short time limit to execute something obvious or an inordinately tight set of jumps to bad time.

Meanwhile in Resident evil every corner actual still has a purpose, like it did before.

Zephorah,

Content makes a game replayable. RE was always replayable. On PlayStation 1, and now, on Steam. Neverwinter Nights was unusual in that it was intended to keep going in perpetuity via player crafted modules/campaigns, like D&D tabletop, and is not comparable to anything else.

MasterBlaster, do gaming w I like PC as much as the next gal, but honestly? With the whole GPU situation we have now?

my midrange vr gaming pc from 2017 is still playing games today so i don’t know if i’ll ever feel the need to drop $1.2K on a console. like when my pc finally dies i might just spend that same money on new parts lol

Makan,
@Makan@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Oh, fair lol

TheMinions, do games w RetroDECK 0.10.0b Is a Ground-Up Rewrite, Not Just an Update

So what’s the difference between Retrodeck and Emudeck? Is there a benefit to switching over really?

Dariusmiles2123,

RetroDeck has the advantage of being a Flatpak and not needing Deckyloader plugin if you’re using a Steam Deck.

I’ve had a great experience with it👍

MeowerMisfit817, do gaming w When I was a child I thought as a child...
@MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world avatar

Somehow, I never had that first feeling. The first console that there ever was at my house was a PS2 (my dad’s), and the only game he purchased was a SNES Station. So I kinda grew up playing only pixelated games. Turns out I got too used to it and play almost no realistic games.

JadenSmith, do gaming w When I was a child I thought as a child...

My expectations were far lower, without me realising it, as a child.
I remember getting Mortal Kombat 4, on the N64, and thinking “holy shit, the graphics are so good!!! SO 3D!”

My gosh the graphics did not age well.

WorldsDumbestMan,

I remember Resident Evil 2 used to scare the pixels out of me!

Tattorack, do gaming w When I was a child I thought as a child...
@Tattorack@lemmy.world avatar

Me; neither.

I’m incredibly sick and tired of videogames usually picking just two lanes:

  • Super photoreal graphics, optimisation be damned, that’ll look dated in just a few years.
  • Pixelated nostalgia tripping for people still stuck in the past.
knexcar,

There are plenty of video games that strive somewhere in between, like Cities Skylines, Factorio, Zelda Breath of the Wild, etc

skibidi, do gaming w When I was a child I thought as a child...

In most games I find no matter how good the static assets look, the animations immediately break the illusion of ‘realism’.

One recent exception to this were some of the cutscenes in Expedition 33, the facial mocap was very on-point and, even though the game isn’t anywhere close to photorealistic, it felt close to watching real actors perform a scene.

neoscaler, do gaming w When I was a child I thought as a child...
@neoscaler@feddit.org avatar

Funny cuz it’s true

nymnympseudonym, do gaming w When I was a child I thought as a child...
@nymnympseudonym@piefed.social avatar

ASCII NetHack FTW

PushButton,

I’ve never ascended, only descended to my inevitable grave…

nymnympseudonym,
@nymnympseudonym@piefed.social avatar

My IRL gravestone will read simply:

YASD

ExtremeDullard,
@ExtremeDullard@piefed.social avatar

Mine will read “You have died of dysentery”.

catfeeder,
nymnympseudonym,
@nymnympseudonym@piefed.social avatar

holy shit I feel personally identified

Imma go get drunk

@!!!!!!!!!!!

ICastFist, do gaming w When I was a child I thought as a child...
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

I stopped being a graphics whore around the mid PS2 era, mostly because my computer couldn’t run the more realistic games like GTA Vice City 😁

I unironically love seeing newer indies with PS1/N64 style 3D graphics

Yaky,

I love it too, Dusk being one of my favorites. My only complaints with modern PS1/PSX aesthetic 3D graphics (as I often see on reddit):

  • overly exagerrated vertex wobble (the only time i really noticed that was quake 2 animations on a high-res monitor)
  • low polygon count, but modern effects (soft shadows, god rays, etc)
mavu, do gaming w When I was a child I thought as a child...

I think i have to re-watch that series. Best TV in the last decade.

ReasonablePea,

What show is this from? I’ve always wondered

hexabs,

The umbrella academy

NotASharkInAManSuit,

Might I suggest Doom Patrol? Umbrella Academy was inspired pretty much entirely by Doom Patrol and Gerard Way dropping the ball on his run at the series.

Kolanaki, do gaming w When I was a child I thought as a child...
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

Until it can be actually photo-realistic and cross the uncanny valley, it’s best to just have a stylized aesthetic anyway.

ZILtoid1991,

No, you must be angry about “DEI-chins” and “uglified women” instead, then demand that all female characters must be like Eve from Stellar Blade! /j

ZILtoid1991, do gaming w When I was a child I thought as a child...

As a teenager, I warned people that at a certain point, we will reach the diminishing returns of investment on graphics. I was called a “Mario playing child” by my peers.

I started to feel validated since 2016. And the “DEI-jaw” chud gamers like to whine about is also likely created by the too much faith in how much current graphics can recreate realism accurately.

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