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whotookkarl, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world avatar

Older games = more than 2 years old? Then the same goes for readers, movie and TV watchers, etc media consumption most isn’t from the current or previous years

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

Either oldish titles or Indies, mainstream game devs are pure malaria

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

I’m playing a new old game, because i’m playing the Suikoden Remaster. There for I have beaten the system by simultaniously playing both an 20+ year old game and a brand new game thats a few weeks old.

DontMakeMoreBabies,

I got a steam deck on the way and I’m so stoked to use it for Suikoden. I hope they remaster number three!

Mic_Check_One_Two,

The Steam Deck is actually wonderful for retro games. EmuDeck makes setting up emulators a breeze, and the roms can easily be found online legitimately ripped from your own copies of the game and loaded onto a MicroSD card.

A_Random_Idiot,

Suikoden 3 needs far, far more than just a remaster.

It needs a full blown remake, both of the story, and the game, to get rid of that trinity sight mechanic. cause the constant shifting perspectives absolutely kept me out of the game, cause every time I start to get invested boom rip me out of it and make me control someone else for a long period. I understand what they were trying to do, but it was one of the most fundamentally bad game design choices i’ve ever seen.

Suikoden 4 has a similar problem. They would need to remake that, too… and create a ton of new story and side content… because S4 is like a 7 hour game, that only takes 40 hours to play because of the absolutely ludicrously insane encounter rate… which is very blatantly used to pad game length time.

Suikoden 5, Hell… I dont even need a remaster. Just wrap the PS2 version in an emulator and release it on PC and I’ll be happy as can be.

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

I am on a 6 year old computer playing 10 year old games. I don’t see a need to upgrade anytime soon.

HiroProtagonist,

I do hate being in the never ending upgrade cycle but the 10 year old games are limited, at least the ones I like to play.

Retropunk64,

I’m on a 5 year old computer playing 20-30 year old games. I’m good over here. 😂

stopforgettingit,

I bet WoW runs like a dream on that machine 😂

Retropunk64,

I haven’t tried it! That would be like giving a reformed crack addict a hit off the pipe. 😂 No way can I ever even consider going back to that game.

stopforgettingit,

If it makes you feel better, it will never be the same as it was when you first played. Every time there is a xpac that looks interesting I have tried and failed to get that feeling back. It devolves very quickly into feeling like a job again.

Retropunk64,

I just feel bad for my gnome warlock, endlessly flying around in purgatory on his magic carpet…

GreatAlbatross, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
@GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk avatar

I can agree with this: All the hype around KCD:2 led me to buying/playing KCD:1

PeteWheeler, 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 just don’t have a ‘punch’ to it anymore. They are not not game breaking anymore.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with old games either. They are the same as they were, which is why reboots and remakes are so popular.

Luminocta,

I want to agree but some games are really well done. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is a good example.

However

I feel like many people are so focused on graphics and looks, like raytracing for example, that gameplay/story has become less important? Sucks but it is what it is I guess…

ScoreDivision,

A good story isn’t something groundbreaking that marketing teams can slap on the box in the same way they can with ray tracing dlss or whatever else I guess

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

It’s the Baldur’s Gate saga for me right now, and I’m still in the BG1 campaign.

It is such a great game to play on the couch with a trackball while chilling with the family.

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

I play Rocket League and ~30,000 MAME games on a converted Arcade 1up. I’m waiting for my payment to go through for Vintage Story though – that one is fairly new!

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

Still playing Battlefield 1942 mods.

fmstrat, do games w WoW guild uses exploits to get world 'first' on new raid, gets banned, puts its name backwards and does it again

Incorrect.

First name: RAoV Quality Assurance

Second name: ecnarussAeR ytilauQ VoAR

Assurance != ReAssurance

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

I’m still playing Skyrim.

ipkpjersi,

I was playing a bunch of Skyrim with mods last year! Awesome game.

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

Well. The nature of my backlog is like I wait for games to come down in price and by the time I get to them they’re 10 years old haha.

I also have a habit of playing through the entire series before playing the newest one. I’m currently playing Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion which is the 4th game from Japan in that series but the 2nd to be released in US, SO I’m playing through it even though I don’t like it and will beat the next two games to finally play Trails in the Sky which is the one I really probably should have started with.

I do that with all my games, like Doom Eternal looks cool and so does the upcoming Dark Ages, but I went back and played Doom 1 & 2. 64, then the updated remaster of Doom 1 & 2 when that came out, and now I’m working on Doom 3. I got one more whole Doom game before I even get to Eternal.

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

There is just so much time in a day and I think nostalgia does come to play with this as well. Gaming tends to correlate to being younger and having more free time, so by playing the same games you did back then you’re reliving those days.

Just a thought anyway, I tend to play older games as well, but also newer games like Baldur’s gate 3 or Path of Exile 2.

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

I bet a small portion of them don’t buy GPU every gen or ever other. 1080 Ti strong.

ottr,

1070 gang for me

Noite_Etion, do games w PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
@Noite_Etion@lemmy.world avatar

There are good new games, but i cannot afford to pay for them. Especially when I blow through them in a couple of weeks/days.

Which is why I pirate them as a lot of new games lack quality content, are often buggy, and riddled with dlc/micro transactions. Why risk my money on a buggy undeveloped game when I can ‘test’ them for free, at times I have gone back and paid for a game I really enjoyed… but that is super rare.

Plus GPUs are overpriced, especially with AI taking over as it is, the price is just going to go up.

Why bother with all of that when I can just boot up Factorio again. Additionally mods really make old games feel fresh again… And they are free.

Damaskox,
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My principle is “One euro, for one hour”.

Does the game cost 40e? Am I unsure whether I’d enjoy the game for 40 hours? I’ll get it for free first. Does it stick for that 40 hours or more, or will I get sure enough while playing to play that 40 hours at least? OK, take my money. No? It gets forgotten in my folder, and probably deleted later.

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