I tried a couple of times to make https://www.reddit.com/r/cuttingedgegaming/ happen, but never reached many people. This community seems to mostly folks playing 1-2 year old games, I wonder if there are more of us who are playing older (but not “retro”) games, particularly PC games?

  • celeste@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    What’s fun with indie games and playing on a delay is that when I want to play a new game and grab something in my price range off my wishlist, I often have no idea what the game is or why past me thought I’d want to play it. Time wipes out any spoilers I got reading about it or watching someone play it years ago.

  • McNasty@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’m playing No Man’s Sky for the first time. I consider myself fortunate to have missed the launch debacle.

    • franglais@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      I have a 20€ limit on any game I buy, it has to be something I really want at that price too, mostly I won’t pay more than 10€ per game. My one exception will be Baldur’s gate 3, I will wait for the first sale, and get it at however that much that ends up being.

  • tables@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    I typically only buy games on discount some years after they’ve launched. I’ll sometimes make an exception for indie games that come out which seem like exactly my kind of game. And I made an exception for Battlebit as well - I bought it immediately after I saw the first person playing it because it seemed like ultra fun, and I’ve probably already played more of it than all Battlefield games combined over the years.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Have there been many cake is a lie moments recently? The only current game I quote frequently is Deep Rock Galactic, and that one is cheap enough and potato-friendly enough even for us PGs.

    Oh yeah, DRG is the real deal. Not Alien: Fire Team Elite and not Back 4 Blood (of the 4-player short-mission co-op shooters out there inspired by Left 4 Dead)

    Rock and Stone

  • LazerFX@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    This is an intruiging subject. I was part of reddit’s /r/patientgamers subreddit (lurking, mostly) because it was a good place to get insight into valuable gems that I missed first time through because I didn’t have time or didn’t want to spend £60 or £70 on a brand new game, and would rather wait for a sale.

    Nowadays, I generally wait for Game Pass, Ubi+, PS+ or similar to get the game. Sure, I spend on subscriptions, but the games I play if I count out the costs it’s a lot cheaper.

    I do also play retro games - ‘retro’ being an ambivalent term for me, as it somehow is used pejoratively throughout the modern gaming community, which I disagree with: They’re good games, just not on modern hardware or systems - quite often. So - yeah, sometimes I lag, sometimes I’m up-to-date, oftentimes I’m on my Steam Deck so I get to play slightly older games at a high fidelity on a handheld device, which is awesome.

  • Sami@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I found out the cake was a lie circa 2020. Also with the GPU price trends the last few years, I suspect more people have become patient gamers but not by choice.

    • MrTulip@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      That’s the boat I’m in. My system can’t run a lot of new games, and I can’t afford to upgrade right now.

  • M_Djallo@feddit.it
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    In this year I got a PS3, an Xbox 360 and a Wii. Now I’m playing all the good games on these platforms, that I’ve never owned when they were current. It’s great!

  • caut_R@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I‘m playing pretty old games all the time that have been sitting in my library. I hardly even buy new ones these days cause… why? I‘m sitting on a ton already lol

    Big upside: They run smooth as butter on my modern PC up to 4K even.

  • habanhero@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I just started playing Max Payne 3, which released in 2013. The game aged well, still looks great and a ton of fun.

    On a related note, the Steam Deck is the perfect platform for Patient Gamers. It runs these older titles really well, and the portability + ability to suspend / resume games at any time is a game-changer (pun intended).

  • TronCat@reddthat.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    I’m just now getting around to beating SC: Brood War, granted, as a kid, I sucked at it.

    I also play whatever tf I want, so like if I’m in the mood for HL2, I boot it up. Most of the modern games I play are indie.

  • GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’m usually playing older games of some sort. There’s retro games, like those from the 32-bit era and before, but I also play…old-ish games, ones that were released within the last decade or two. Just last year I began playing Tokyo Xanadu eX+, which was released in 2017 (albeit as the definitive version of a 2015 game).

    I think a number of the indie games I play are generally newer. Though, given my tastes, many of them tend to be games designed to evoke some sort of similarity to those older styles of games. So I guess it’s an interesting question whether they count as “retro” or not.

    That said, given that I pretty much only use store-bought laptops (and not of the “gaming” variety), my hardware means that I’m much better off playing older games anyway. “Newer old” games can probably still run, depending on the game, but some may be choppy and I can probably wait on those.

  • anthromusicnote@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Modern games have become too focused on providing a clean, balanced and no-real-obstacles experience. Sometimes I want to play a game that is a cohesive experience without being laser focused on some big idea about how I should play it. As an example, I’ve recently replayed arx fatalis. It’s really fun how you can do everything in that game that you’d want an npc for in any other. It’s also fun how each playstyle requires its own big chunk of knowledge about how the game works. Modern games try too hard to be minimalistic and fail to see the fun in a truly open experience. Even when you have options, they have all the fun pre-balanced and pre-optimized out of them. They give you too much info. No sense of discovery

  • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    1 year ago

    Just finished system shock 1 so like 20+ year old lag, I don’t really have a strong urge to play modern AAA games. I mostly just gawk at what’s popular and just play indie and old games. I also have a problem of not being able to pick up games in the middle of a series. I need to play a series from the start no matter how mad the earlier iterations are.

      • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Depends on what you like my brother.

        Immersive sims like thief, system shock, deus ex are very good. System shock 1 is the least playable for normal people but the enhanced edition isn’t that bad (you can even play the remake) but the rest are very playable.

        Prototype holds up pretty well though you might need pcgaming wiki to get it to run properly if you are unlucky.

        Stronghold series, universe at war (not on steam), knights and merchants (with the remake patch), aoe 2 (you can get the 2013 version) though de is good and technically the same game, company of heroes are all good rts games.

        Rayman 2, Rayman 3 and Tasmania Tiger if you like collectathon platformers.

        • God@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          1 year ago

          somehow i didn’t get a notif when u replied & i thought u hadn’t lmao

          will bookmark to try basically anything cuz i only play overwatch and it’s getting old.

          • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            1 year ago

            Yeah I can imagine over watch mind breaking you especially with the “new” one. If you like multiplayer games rainbow six siege is pretty much the best competitive fps on the market.

            • God@sh.itjust.works
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              0
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              finally found R6S on sale on steam and bought it lol, $2.6 for the deluxe version with argentinian pesos

              • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                0
                ·
                edit-2
                1 year ago

                Hey friend, long time no see, but yeah it’s worth about that much because you have to grind or pay for a million extra operators. My recc just either buy the meta ones or ones that look fun to play. Given that they do give you a few depending on the edition and the older ones are much cheaper in terms of in game grinding.

                • God@sh.itjust.works
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  1 year ago

                  Sadly my laptop is making weird noises. Brrrrrrrrrrhrhrhrhrhrhrhrrtrtrtrtrtttrtr. I think the fan is filled with dust. But I don’t know how to open it without breaking it so I haven’t done it. I’m in pain.