It is the grim dark far future of all gaming. Forget the promise of freedom to upgrade and superior graphical fidelity. There is no peace among the Discord servers, only an eternity of monetization, and micro transactions.
Anon owns nothing and is unhappy
Submitted 8 hours ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 39 minutes ago
toad@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
It’s way better than "you will have a big car, a big house, an fat wife and a dog "
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 53 minutes ago
fires up klondike
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
I think the “patient gamer” model could be the way through don’t buy new shit and encourage your friends to play older games too. Hardware can be not great and the games are cheap.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 7 hours ago
How long is that going to work though? Today’s slop is not going to unslop in 5 years, and it seems like every big name game publisher is exclusively doing slop now. Especially the optimization issue won’t go away, and it looks like the times where you could just wait for a generation or two of more powerful hardware are over, too - hardware might be getting more powerful, but the performance per dollar isn’t improving because the performance is only improving incrementally and the prices are getting higher and higher.
toad@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
We’ll just mod the old games.
blarghly@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Still plenty of indie devs making good games. Really, you could just work through all the good games made up to this point and be fine for the rest of your life.
Otoh, if what you really care about is the social connection you get from playing games and talking about them with other people, you can just take up gardening or community service or pole dancing to get that.
Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 5 hours ago
I have enough unplayed games for years. And I haven’t even bought all games that interest me on my wishlist.
So to answer your question: I think it will work long enough till AI either implodes or is big enough that the state forces you to connect your brain implant to it.
DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 3 hours ago
Which games are slop nowadays?
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
That only works if you already own the hardware and/or the majority does NOT do that model. The moment most people jump on board, the cost of old hardware will skyrocket too.
SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Cross out “of PC gaming” and you got it.
EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Reject modernity.
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 2 hours ago
August will mark 10 years of playing Rimworld for me.
Obv its not the only thing I play, but I come back to it every 3-4 months after little breaks. Was the same for Mount and Blade till the sequel came out. The sequel was both such an upgrade and such a downgrade it made it hard to keep interest. It’s been probably 2 years since I booted that up. Maybe I should give it another try.
glibg@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
At least we’ll always have the classics. Download, play, and seed emulated games folks.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
not when your computer goes to the cloud.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
When’s the last time you tried to emulate something? The Wii and PSP can handle up to N64 decently, and that hardware is going on 20 years old.
Depending on your phone you can emulate PS2 and even Switch games.
Just hold on to whatever you have, even phones, and emulator devs will figure out the rest. Accuracy has been king for a long time while we’ve had strong hardware availability, but there’s no reason we can’t do per game speed hacks again like old SNES emulators when hardware gets scarce.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 7 hours ago
Seeing shit get worse and worse every year has thr goblinest mask of all callin’ like:
_stranger_@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
OP is wrong about one thing: They’re not happy.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 minutes ago
When companies stopped being able to actually make anything new, they then choose to find new ways to extract profit from the customer. Far cheaper than expending money on R&D, retooling, etc. They all decided to become landlords of the worst kind, squatting on their tech and extracting rent while ensuring the rest of us own nothing.