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

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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 F2P competitive multiplayer games.

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  • GoumLeChat@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I get free reducing the barrier-to-entry, but I kinda look at games in terms of “how much is the ratio of the cost to how many hours of fun gameplay that I get?”

      I mean, I have some games that I briefly try, dislike, and never play again. Those are pretty expensive, almost regardless of the purchase price.

      But the thing is, if it’s a game that you play a lot, the purchase price per hour of play becomes almost irrelevant in cost-per-hour of gameplay. I’ve played Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — well, okay, you can download that for free, but I also bought it on Steam to throw the developers some money — and Caves of Qud a ton. The price on them is basically a rounding error. And the same is probably true for the top few games in my game library.

      You could charge me probably $2000 for Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, and it’d still be cheaper per hour of gameplay than nearly all games that I’ve played, because I’ve spent so many hours in the thing.

      If people are playing these like crazy, you’d think that the same would hold for them. That the cost for a game that you play like crazy for many years just…doesn’t matter all that much, because the difference in hours played is so huge that it overwhelms the difference in price.

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Its the replayability. I mean, look how many people are still playing chess. Stick a human intelligence on the other end of the stick and you’ve pretty much got it figured out.

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  • LacklusterGamer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I read every one of those and thought. Well that’s a new game. Apparently I’m old.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Apparently I’m old.

      Further down in the thread, I ran into someone talking about an older RPG, Realmz. I dug up a subreddit on Reddit related to the game, and the stickied post had this gem:

      old.reddit.com/…/assorted_realmz_files_codes_real…

      These are codes that were reissued by Skip (Aka. SpoonLard). He and my grandfather were the original two collaborators when Skip attempted to carbonize Realmz in 2005.

      Nothing like a comment about someone’s grandfather having tried twenty years ago to modernize a game you’ve played in its original form.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      League of legends is two decades old now, so if you’re thinking it’s new, yeah that’s on you 😜

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    • blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The amount of times I “finally sit down and watch that new Netflix show I’ve been putting off” and it’s 7 years old. My kid is into “newer Disney stories” I don’t know from my day… that are 25 year old films!

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  • kionay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m playing Counter-Strike 2

    … exclusively on a modded server hosting a Warcraft mod

    … that I found because I was searching for the same thing I played on CS:S over a decade ago

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  • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    besides the lower bar of entry due to being free, Midias research has shown that yhr younger generation prefers online multiplayer, and as you grow older, you start yo favor single player games more.

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My personal hypothesis is that everyone likes online multiplayer initially because it’s pretty cool, then you get bored it when you realise playing with angry randos is no fun. It’s not that a younger generation prefers online multiplayer, it’s that they haven’t got sick of it yet!

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  • AnyProgressIsGood@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t get how people are still into those old games. I like new experiences too much

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    • icecreamtaco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      People don’t get bored of playing Basketball because they want Basketball 2

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    • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The game may be old but that doesn’t mean a particular person has played it before.

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• arotrios@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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.

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  • GuyFleegman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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.

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    • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • Abnorc@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • OccultIconoclast@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    What’s your opinion on Dome Keeper?

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  • CallateCoyote@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Totally. Even with good new games, best to wait until they are cheap and completely stable. The impatience to play something the day it releases hasn’t been a thing for me since like 2010… which I agree with you were just generally better, more exciting times for the medium.

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  • mohab@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Amen. I also have a ton of issues with contemporary game design—padding playtime with procedural generation, prioritizing graphics, world size, or narrative over gameplay… etc.

    Nowadays, I feel as if every game tries to compete for "most game" while lacking cohesion and polished ideas.

    And to top it off: non-optimized game size. I'm sorry—I don't care if your game is $2.99, I'm not downloading 80GBs just to try a game I may refund an hour later.

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• MysticKetchup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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

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• SculptusPoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I have hundreds of games on steam.

  I mostly play minecraft.

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  • tonytins@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My games library is so huge, and I suffer from choice paralysis all the time.

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  • purrtastic@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Terraria. Every time I fire up the deck to buy a new game, a few days later I am back to Terraria.

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    • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I like the game (as well as the similar Starbound) but every time I play it, I wish that it had more ability to create stuff that does things. Like, more Noita-style interactions with the world or Factorio-style automation.

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    • SculptusPoe@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I suppose in a few months, after this current round of Minecraft, I’ll be pulled into Terraria again. I had a pretty good head of steam on the way to finishing my 2 year old run of BG3 when I made the mistake of opening Minecraft… Terraria is about the only thing that could rival minecraft in addictive qualities for me. It has the added benefit that I can talk my wife into playing Terraria but she won’t touch minecraft.

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• ItsJannnneee@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Now they’re made with marketable ‘passion’, ‘dedication’, and a team with ‘a family atmosphere’. My personal favorite ‘respect for the lore and previous games in the series’ definitely never has made a triple A game worse for wear.

    Disingenuous buzzwords with no objective meaning behind them are my favorite things to hear in a game. It tells me to steer clear as far away as I possibly can. Which is a shame because I’d like to be excited about vampire: the masquerade 2.

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    • frezik@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Steph Sterlings’ recent video hits it directly. The big publishers see Balatro doing well, so they go copy Balatro. They spend a lot of effort looking for the next Balatro in all the wrong places. Their attempts to copy it will fail, because people who like Balatro will just play Balatro. This will continue until there’s a new indie darling dominating the sales charts, and then they’ll try to copy that.

      The industry is deeply misguided.

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• Nino477@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works 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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    • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      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.

      And also, 60 EUR for a single game is a price at least I am not willing to pay for the average game, so in addition to getting a better game, I also get a cheaper one.

      There is stuff worth paying that much out there, but it’s not Call of Duty Black Ops Eleventeen

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  • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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)

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    • Nino477@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is because a lot of older games were going for an artistic style>

      BioShock is a perfect example because of its beautiful art direction. >

      I totally agree with you. Another good example is Alice: Madness Returns. Just booted it up for the first time yesterday and it looks so good, pleasing in a way.

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• quack@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Turns out that people like playing games that respect their time and aren’t a glorified second job. Who knew.

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  • Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    that respect their time

    I know you’re not talking about old school RPGs. The older games tended to pad playtime by requiring grinds. Hell, my favorite JRPG is specifically more grindy in America, because the devs decided to slash the experience and gold drop rates by like 50% for the American release, and make all of the enemies hit much harder. So you need to be a higher level to be able to survive, and you need to grind twice as long to reach those higher levels and to be able to buy better gear. I like it despite the grind, not because of it; In most of my play throughs, I end up using cheats to avoid the grind.

    and aren’t a glorified second job

    I mean, games like Ultima Online, RuneScape, Diablo, and EverQuest have existed since the 90’s. Hell, RuneScape used to be extremely approachable for young players because it didn’t require a good computer or any installs; It just ran directly in your internet browser.

    The bigger reason many adults feel this way is not because games have gotten longer or harder. Adults simply have less time to play. They don’t want to spend a bunch of time researching optimal builds or grinding rank in multiplayer matches. Instead, they want to fall back to the games that they already know how to play. They’re willing to ignore the fact that their favorite single player game requires 10-20 hours of grinding, because it doesn’t feel like work to them. Or if it does, they can just use cheats to get around it. They don’t need to research how to get a specific item, or how to approach a specific boss fight, because they have already done it a dozen times.

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    • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Why would you write this and then not say what your favorite jrpg that is specifically more grindy in America is? Do you write clickbait headlines for a living?

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  • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The games I play do respect my time but boy are they a second job. From Rimworld to Satisfactory, from Space Engineers to modded Minecraft… My job is a second job.

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  • golli@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Tell that to everyone playing games like path of exile (which i admittedly have also played too much of in the past).

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    • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      PoE, Factorio, etc

      I seem to like games that require spreadsheets

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• M137@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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• buzz86us@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Because crypto miners ruined gaming top end GPUs used to be $300 Max, now were looking in the thousands to have the best GPU for like 6 months, and you can’t buy a used one because it could be a clapped out card used in a crypto miner

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  • pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Bitcoin switched to industrial ASICs a long time ago, and Ethereum has completely moved away from proof-of-work mining in 2022, see: ethereum.org/en/roadmap/merge/

    The Merge was executed on September 15, 2022. This completed Ethereum’s transition to proof-of-stake consensus, officially deprecating proof-of-work and reducing energy consumption by ~99.95%.

    No one mines with GPUs anymore, at least not for any major blockchain. GPUs are mainly being used with AI now

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    • buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That doesn’t mean that their effect on the GPU market will up and vanish overnight. Market correction doesn’t usually it go down as fast as it goes up.

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The Merge was executed on September 15, 2022. This completed Ethereum’s transition to proof-of-stake consensus, officially deprecating proof-of-work and reducing energy consumption by ~99.95%.

      I don’t follow crypto trends so I hadn’t heard about this either.

      I had to look up proof-of-stake, and for Ethereum apparently is required to stake 32 coins to operate a node. Another google search shows me a single Ethereum coin is just north of $2k USD. So someone mining Etherium today needs to have more than $64k if Etherium to even run a node now?!

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  • GoodEye8@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t think it’s even necessarily that the GPU pricing has ballooned. I think the main reason is that that every new game has to compete with pretty much every other game ever made. For example I enjoyed Death Stranding and I am interested in Death Stranding 2, but I’m probably not getting in on launch because there’s a big chance I’ll probably start playing Stardew Valley for the n’th time, because I feel like that’s what I want to play. I’ll probably play DS2 when I get the Kojima itch.

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    • Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      IMO, GPU prices have an impact. Modern gaming has a bad habit of not optimizing games relying on people getting newer GPUs for performance.

      Mix that with the pre-order/early access monetization, and we are to a point where games have made their money before release, and beans counters don’t want to put money in QA because there is no quantifiable ROI (there is a ROI, but it is hard to quantify), which is a no-no in their world.

      Indie games have a tendancy to be less GPU demanding, and thus, usually have a better performance experience

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    • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yep, that’s the thing. Games have to be bigger, better, more fun than ever before, and yet the publishers and management want it to be done quicker and quicker than ever before, so it’s a pretty difficult thing. That, combined with bad working conditions and the public shitting on you because “game devs are shitty/greedy/etc” with developers being used coloquially to absorb all the blame that should be reserved for management, and things are in a pretty tough spot.

      Though, at the same time, it’s a better time now than ever before to actually be a gamer, because not only can you play any half-decent new games, but you can also play the entire library of older games, retro games, etc.

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• Rakonat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why should I dump 60usd plus into a multiplayer focused game I’ll maybe get to play 4 hours a week during prime times that is going to shrivel up and die in 2 years time when the next big thing comes out?

  Or I can play all these games enjoy, have passionate modding communities adding to the game for free on top of me picking the entire thing up for maybe 20usd on sale if not less.

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• stopforgettingit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • Retropunk64@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • stopforgettingit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I bet WoW runs like a dream on that machine 😂

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  • HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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• cod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This would be a great time to promote !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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  • jnod4@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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    • cod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      !newcommunities@lemmy.world 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

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  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’m not patient, I’m just broke.

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    • Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It forces you to be patient. You fit the bill

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• DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Built a new killer rig last summer. Have spent 90% of my time with it playing HL1 mods.

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  • MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Recently upgraded to a 7800x3D, 64GB DDR5, and a 4070… which I’ve been using to get back into modded Minecraft recently.

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    • MisterOwl@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Same machine… The framerates I’m getting in Rimworld are off the charts.

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    • TinyShonk@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Tbf, the larger modpacks can be pretty resource intensive.

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• hisao@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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.

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  • cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      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.

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• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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

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  • afronaut@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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• afronaut@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Are you familiar with the 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.

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    • afronaut@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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• PeteWheeler@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Luminocta@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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…

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    • ScoreDivision@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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

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• suite403@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because we have a giant backlog of steam sales.

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• Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Oh, I’m sorry, I thought I just didn’t like games/am depressed/games are getting BETTER, actually.

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• Razzazzika@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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 Legrnd 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.

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• Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Does “older games” only mean the initial public release? So world of Warcraft, Dota 2, Minecraft… all those games that are constantly updated etc. too?

  Because that would be a really useless statistic. Many games are not a one time release and done thing anymore. They evolve over time. The games I listed have large player bases.

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• Noite_Etion@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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• IronKrill@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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.

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• UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 thus 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. He’ll yeah

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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 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.

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• doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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• DarkMetatron@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Me, reading the topic while playing Morrowind: “Yeah, that seems correct!”

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• Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  11.35% of the human population.

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• suaroof@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m still playing Skyrim.

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• ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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