I wouldn’t call a game that came out in 2023 “old”.
For publisher bottom lines, it absolutely would be!
Basically anything not purchased this fiscal quarter may as well be non-existent to them - hence the push towards reoccurring monetisation.
Meanwhile I’m currently (slowly) playing through a massive backlog of games from the 2010s, so I’m good!
I’m building an arcade stand I can put in front of my TV so I can play emulated games with my kids. I could not care less about most of the new games coming out these days.
GPU prices priced me out of the top of the PC gaming market, got new hobbies now.
Love to see metrics im apart of. I only play TF2, Minecraft and emulate PS2 games nowadays.
A lot of my friends weren’t into the shift from Fallout 3’s third person open world to the original game’s isometric perspective; Understandable, but that’s what I grew up on. I enjoy revisiting 1 & 2 every other year or so. Also, Sid Meiers Pirates hadn’t adapted well to modern systems, but has a clean gameplay loop that I enjoy revisiting.
Their metric for “older” is two years or more.
I wouldn’t be surprised if book readers spend 92% of their time on older books. Or if music listeners spend 92% of their time on older pieces.
Especially if “older” means two years or older.
According to the article, they mean 6 years old or older.
No, they said 67% at 6y or older, but 92% at more than 2 years old
Oh, okay. Seems odd to call a 2 year old game an “older” game.
Well, at 2 years it is probably older than at least one other game.
There is something satisfying about going back and cranking Far Cry 2 or some other older game to max settings / 4k with an extremely modest GPU.
- 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
Proud to say I don’t play any of those. Screw live service games, there are plenty of other gems out there to keep me entertained.
I’d say don’t yuck someone’s yum but I tried league of legends years ago and it’s why I avoid any game that makes me interact with strangers.
- zero-k
- wz2100
- agar.io
- WoW
The latter two are on-line, but the brain wants what the brain wants.
I think the only games I’ve played in the last month or so have been Trackmania United Forever and bonk.io
zero-k
Have you tried Beyond All Reason? Personally I liked it more than zero-k.
I’ve been playing Unreal Gold from 1998. I never finished it.
Baldur’s Gate 2 forever. 🖤
Dungeon Keeper 4 lyfe
Dungeon Keeper 2 is good in its own way but definitely lost some of its original magic.
There was an indie series called Overlord (I think, can’t quite recall) which tried to be a Cities: Skyline type homage to Dungeon Keeper. I played it many years ago and it did scratch the same itch so you might be interested.
Yeah dk2 was just… overly complicated and ugly. The story behind it’sfascinating, it really was a rush incomplete job.
War for the overworld was the spiritual sucession, it’s fantastic. But if your heart is for the original, keeperfx.
“Buffy Oak. A small location where the people just sit around all day and enjoy each other’s company. They talk, laugh, and sing without ever arguing, drawing daggers, and dying in a gurgling rush of blood. A truly bizarre place.”
Another amazing one.
Ohhh, and the original Diablo. Tristram was such a familiar place after a while.
I fucking love bullfrogs stuff so much. That and worldbuilders like Pharaoh, Rise of the middle kingdom, zeus, etc…
I need to try that after I make my way through Planescape. I started BG1, but it just didn’t jibe with me all that much, which apparently is true for a lot of people. I probably should’ve just jumped to BG2.
I ended up going back to the first one after I finished the second one. It has its charm, and a pretty good story. level cap and the difficulty is what makes it a bit hard.
I think the power curve of the 2nd one really hits when you started off with your character in the first game killing rats in a basement.
As an aside I started Seige Of Dragonspear reecently because it was really cheap on Android and I was stuck on a long bus journey. I think it’s actually pretty decent and potentially would be a good starting point if BG1 was too slow. So far the writing has been similar to the other two games albeit not quite on par. There is no tutorial on the mechanics or anything like that though.
Edit: One thing about BG1 is that it can be absolutely fucking brutal in an old school way. I was in Chapter 5 in the eponymous Baldurs Gate and a sidequest triggered where an NPC told me they had poisoned my entire party and I needed to follow them to an alleyway to get the cure. I assumed this was a ruse and my party was going to get mugged/jumped in the alley.
Fast-forward to 4 hours of gameplay later, 2 weeks of in-game time. I was on Chapter 7 on my way to confront Saverok and my entire party keeled over and died. Turned out they actually had been poisoned and none of my stacked saves went far enough back to go and complete the sidequest to avoid the poisoning. So I was totally soft-locked with no way to complete the game by conventional means.
I should do another run soon. Maybe add some more mods this time…
That’s my go-to “storyline” game. I have so many great (and terrible—thanks, Lich) memories of that game.
I picked it up on a whim, not knowing a single thing about it. Next thing you know, I’m collecting every Black Isle/BG game and spinoff.
I’m still sad the source code of IWD2 was lost and we’ll never get an official Enhanced Edition (for all my hate of Beamdog and their writing and fanfic insertion the updated engine and QOL work they’ve done is quite nice).
We never should have kept going after Tribes 2
Did you not enjoy Tribes Ascend?
Are there any active tribes games? I miss that vibe so much.
Tribes 3 has active servers but they aren’t well populated.
Noted thanks
OHHHH MY GOD YOU JUST HIT ME RIGHT IN THE GIZZARD WITH THE NOSTALGIA
Played left 4 dead 2 last night with friends. Still awesome
Still hate spitters though.
I’m playing Bloodborne for the first time (emulator). Before that I was playing Far Cry 1 for the first time as well. Far cry was much harder, so far at least.
What emulator are you using? Only one I’ve seen was PCSX4 and according to a lot of stuff I saw online, it’s a pretty outright scam
Yea ShadPS4 is great. PCSX4 is a scam not sure why thats even a thing.
ShadPS4 has become usable for bloodborne within the last year or so. Runs 60fps on decent hardware
I was never able to get it to work. Always get stuck on a black screen while loading. I keep trying with new shad builds once a month or so.
Thats too bad, I got it working on Linux with 0.5.0 iirc
Far Cry 1 is the best one! It was made by crytek, the same studio that did Crysis. I still occasionally go back to replay that game. It’s really fun.
My favorite aspect was the B-movie feel to the whole thing. I was dying when my character got punted right in the face out of a flying helicopter. I wish I could find more games with some humor like that.
Elden Ring and Poe2 are like the only recent games on PC I’ve cared about
Baldurs Gate 3 was good. And I hear good things about Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.
