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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

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

[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] TinyShonk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Tbf, the larger modpacks can be pretty resource intensive.

[–] quack@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 3 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 36 minutes ago) (1 children)

that respect their time

I know you’re not talking about old school RPGs. The older games tended to pad playtime by having insane difficulty levels or by requiring grinds. Hell, my favorite JRPG (edit: Legend of Legaia) 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. (Interestingly, the original enemy stats are still present in the game code, and then the game runs some “x1.25” math when the battle starts, to bump all of their stats up to the values that actually get used in combat.) 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.

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 2 points 41 minutes ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 1 points 39 minutes ago

Hah, just edited the comment for you.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour 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.

[–] golli@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 hour ago

PoE, Factorio, etc

I seem to like games that require spreadsheets

[–] stopforgettingit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Retropunk64@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] stopforgettingit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I bet WoW runs like a dream on that machine 😂

[–] Retropunk64@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I haven't tried it! That would be like giving a reformed crack addict a hit off the pipe. 😂 No way can I ever even consider going back to that game.

If it makes you feel better, it will never be the same as it was when you first played. Every time there is a xpac that looks interesting I have tried and failed to get that feeling back. It devolves very quickly into feeling like a job again.

[–] HiroProtagonist@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours 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.

[–] PeteWheeler@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Luminocta@lemm.ee 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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..

[–] ScoreDivision@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour 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

[–] Zerberr@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

Really looking forward to Kitten Space Agency though

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I got a steam deck on the way and I'm so stoked to use it for Suikoden. I hope they remaster number three!

[–] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 1 points 33 minutes ago

The Steam Deck is actually wonderful for retro games. EmuDeck makes setting up emulators a breeze, and the roms can easily be ~~found online~~ legitimately ripped from your own copies of the game and loaded onto a MicroSD card.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 3 hours 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.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours 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

[–] F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Either oldish titles or Indies, mainstream game devs are pure malaria

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours 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 1 points 3 hours ago

I can agree with this: All the hype around KCD:2 led me to buying/playing KCD:1

[–] TechAnon@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours 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!

[–] Razzazzika@lemm.ee 12 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours 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 Legend 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.

[–] suaroof@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago

I was playing a bunch of Skyrim with mods last year! Awesome game.

[–] Slam_Eye@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

Still playing Battlefield 1942 mods.

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