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?
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My lag time depends on how soon the games are put on sale
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.
This is the way.
Me, Mainly because I was/am poor. Most old games and consoles are already cracked, or easy to do so. For example, my Dad gifted me Xbox 360 hacked. Which allowed me to purchase game copies whenever it was possible, I didn’t have internet while growing up. So my Xbox was a godsend for me.
I bought the 360 way after it’s postmortem, truly loved Red Dead, Halo OST and Alan Wake in 2016. The graphics and gameplay were still a joy
I sold it in December, I miss it
Shame, I still regret selling my N64
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.
I have tons of titles sitting in my steam, epic, gog, origin and game pass accounts. They are waiting for me to spend great time with them. So why to have a hype addiction.
I’m playing No Man’s Sky for the first time. I consider myself fortunate to have missed the launch debacle.
The way most AAA launches go these days it’s the only way worth playing.
I got it a couple of years ago, but I still feel the same. The game is great!
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).
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.
100% this. My wishlist is like a white elephant gift-giving for myself.
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
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.
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
I take DRG is a good game to play with complete randos? The only game I had fun doing that thus far was EDF5, because blowing up everything “by accident” is a great way to build rapport
Obviously DRG is at its best with a few friends, but playing with randoms has been pretty fun and friendly in my limited amount of random games. Communication is mostly just markers and gestures, but I assume some people use VOIP
I just started the Trails RPG games. It’s great to be this behind and know there’s this giant story waiting for me.
Definitely on a 5-6 year lag. Currently the only games I’ve been playing are Titanfall 2, Persona 5, and Stardew Valley.
Basically covers everything I need, a long jrpg, a multiplayer fps (using the Northstar mod), and an endless chill game
Currentlt playing Red Dead Redemption 1 so yes I am at the +10years behind
Ugh I wish I could go back and play that for the first time again
2010…
Not only do i wish to go back but also wish to have my back back
I’m not entirely sure what qualifies as retro but the oldest game I regularly play is the original Fallout from 1998. I mostly find myself playing games released in the 2000s and occasionally something newer if I think its a worth buying. I think the most recently released game I play is probably Half Life Alyx. I would have been a little too young to have grown up with some of them, but my family pc couldn’t handle a lot of the newer games so here we are.
original Fallout
Have you tried the Wasteland series?
I haven’t but I’ve heard Tim Cain talk about its influence on Fallout a lot, I’ll give it a try.
I’m right there with you. Between work and health issues that directly interfere with physical ability to play games when they flare up, I’m often too mentally exhausted to embark on a new game, so very often end up replaying something familiar or putting time into an MMO like Elder Scrolls Online. The comfy PJs of gaming.
I’m a big fan of RPGs in particular so I want to feel fresh and ready to get immersed in a new world… But I so rarely have that level of mental and physical energy aligning at the same time now, so my backlog is ridiculous. I still need to play Mass Effect Andromeda, Persona 5 Royal (I made it decently far through the original but lost steam/enthusiasm when I kept having like every aspect of the game spoiled for me by shit like algorithmic YouTube thumbnails or comments on an entirely different game’s OST etc) Dragon Age 3 and all the Tales Of games from Tales of Xillia 2 on, and those are some of my favorite game franchises…
