Factorio considered older?
PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now
Submitted 2 months ago by tonytins@pawb.social to games@lemmy.world
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PigStyle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Baggie@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Probably? I have memories from over a decade back so
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean, Factorio’s early access is the middle point between now and when God of War 2 was released. Meaning that when Factorio was on early access God of War 2 was as old then as Factorio is now.
frezik@midwest.social 2 months ago
The article puts the cutoff for “old” as being 6 years or more. Officially, Factorio was released in 2020, but we all know that any other studio would have considered it done years before that.
DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 2 months ago
DLC is new…
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
So much more room to grow in SPAAAAAAAAAAACE
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
I don’t even know what the newest game I even own is… Helldivers 2? Except for Elden Ring and it’s DLC, I haven’t bought anything close to release for years. HD2 came out last year and I bought it last week.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Baldur’s Gate 3 and Elden Ring are the last 2 AAA games I bought close to launch for full price. Other than that, I picked up Hades 2 in early access. The rest of my library is all stuff that I bought on sale.
I do have Monster Hunter and Avowed on my wishlist but I think I’m going to be patient. If I do pull the trigger, it would probably be for Avowed because I want more Obsidian games. On a related note Grounded is $20 on Steam right now so I stopped that up even though I beat it back when I had Game Pass.
kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
BG3 isn’t an AAA title. Larian is an indie studio.
tonytins@pawb.social 2 months ago
Yeah, I’ve lost track myself. I just follow feeds that alert of me free deals.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
I actually learned that I can’t even sort my Steam library by release date because of this thread. Otherwise I would actually know lol
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I see tf2, i click
nocklobster@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Where my Civ 6 people at?! Wooo!
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Civ4 is the best Civ.
daddy32@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I saw a stat on Civ VI steam page today that 45 000 people were playing it at that moment. That counts for something!
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
UnCiv yo
termaxima@jlai.lu 2 months ago
92% of my playtime is Minecraft, makes sense.
mooncake@lemm.ee 2 months ago
World of Warcraft.
Xella@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yep… lol I spend an embarrassing amount of time playing EverQuest 1 emulation servers.
scala@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
EQ emu’s ftw
Xella@lemmy.world 2 months ago
THJ right now!! I’ve been playing on emu servers for so long. I’ve played on almost all of them.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I have been playing Galaga regularly since 1981. Still play it at least once a week.
capuccino@lemmy.world 2 months ago
if you mean i do spend my time playing nes and snes via emulator, you are right
WhatSay@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Older games & Indie games
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
launches Baldur’s Gate.exe ♪♫ “Brave, brave Sir Garrick, Sir Garrick led the way. Brave, brave Sir Garrick, Sir Garrick ran away.” ♪♫
Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Me a fraction of a fraction of the gamer community playing only recent PCVR games and also Noita.
hisao@ani.social 2 months ago
Any recs for person who enjoyed HL Alyx + community mapsets and Ancient Dungeon VR?
DABDA@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Dindonmasker@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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.
Zerberr@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Really looking forward to Kitten Space Agency though
whotookkarl@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I got a steam deck on the way and I’m so stokes for Suikoden. I hope they remaster number three!
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 2 months ago
The Steam Deck is actually wonderful for retro games. EmuDeck makes setting up emulators a breeze, and the roms can easily be
found onlinelegitimately ripped from your own copies of the game and loaded onto a MicroSD card.
Zink@programming.dev 2 months ago
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.
PanArab@lemm.ee 2 months ago
My most played game in my Steam library is Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus which came out in 2013.
mohab@piefed.social 2 months ago
True in my case. All of my favorites either were released before 2020 or originally released before 2020 and I'm playing the re-release.
Only new IP I got excited about after 2020 was Project G.G. and I strongly doubt it'll ever see the light at this point.
skozzii@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
What about new games, like world of warcraft.
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 2 months ago
New games are steaming piles of shit most of the time nowadays.
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
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@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
dan1101@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The most expensive game I’ve bought recently is Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries, which came out 4 years ago.
orbitz@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
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.
F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Either oldish titles or Indies, mainstream game devs are pure malaria
ansiz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Heroes 3 HoTA is still excellent and being actively developed.
Naz@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Helldivers 2 came out in 2024
By definition, that’s last year, so it’s an old game.
Bwuh?
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I do not. I haven’t played a gamer older than thirty years old in years
umbraroze@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Much of my PC gaming, back in the day, was “oh this looks like a good game. Runs like dogshit on my PC though. Maybe I’ll wait until I get a better PC.” [wait 10 years] “My ADHD has gone worse, I can’t play all this stuff”
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I can agree with this: All the hype around KCD:2 led me to buying/playing KCD:1
TechAnon@lemm.ee 2 months ago
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!
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I bet a small portion of them don’t buy GPU every gen or ever other. 1080 Ti strong.
ottr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
1070 gang for me