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Anon lives in the past
Submitted 10 hours ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
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tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
I haven’t paid more than 10 bucks for a game in 10 or 15 years and I still have a backlog that I’d prob die before completing. Buying new games seems so pointless in the modern era.
rtxn@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Thinking about what games Cueball might be playing today is giving me depression.
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 hours ago
“I used to be an internet poster like you, until I took an arrow to the knee” - Cueball, 2026
LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I am going back to red dead redemption 2, whenever that was. 4k 60fps on my TV with high settings, it looks almost too good 😊
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 minutes ago
No game has come close to breathing so much life into a single world
ftbd@feddit.org 52 minutes ago
What do you mean going back, that game is brand new.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 7 hours ago
Anon is definitely on to something here. And nevermind the big hits, I bet there’s a ton of good games that were overlooked back then.
I admit that I’d have a hard time going back to 2001 3d graphics, though. Looked kinda horrible, depending on how stylized the graphics were.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I bet there’s a ton of good games that were overlooked back then.
there’s channels that do reviews of such games, like Mandalore Gaming
addie@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
Depending on the engine, some of those chunky 3D graphics have quite an appealing style. My gaming rig can render eg. Doom3 in 4K at 144 fps with no effort at all - power draw is the same as when the system is asleep. The super-smooth animations on chunky polygons look great, which was never feasible back in the day.
Shame Doom3 isn’t a better game - the strong art and engine don’t make up for the very mid gameplay.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 hours ago
I think Doom 3 is already in the period where 3d matured enough to not be quite as extreme. If you look at games from 2001 (my go-to 3d game for that period is Gothic 1, which is a good game, despite having somewhat unintuitive controls), the difference to Doom 3 is quite pronounced. Though id always had very good and resource-efficient graphics.
rtxn@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
How does Doom 2016 run on the same rig? Id Tech 6’s performance is genuinely incredible for the level of visual fidelity.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 9 hours ago
Man, now I desperately wish my C64 and 1541 was still operational. I could go for some 6502 assembly right about now.
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 hours ago
Try the Commander X16 then :)
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 minutes ago
Or the MiSTer, which has an excellent C64 core, among many other cores.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
I’m doing this daily with all my consoles lol. Time travel! No subscription bullshit or drumpf here!
Now if only I could get more people onto the fediverse, and also to Dreamcast online! There’s 10s of us!
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 8 hours ago
But I need my Silent Hill 2 HD project on PC. It’s so good and runs on Linux. Can’t have that in 2001
w24@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
You can have FreeDroid RPG.
Oka@sopuli.xyz 9 hours ago
I have my original gamecube and games still. Controller got replaced a couple times. With emulation being accessible as it is, I think only a collector (or a speedrunner) would be interested now.
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 hour ago
Guy literally did nothing to stop 9/11