| Bofferbrauer2 said: This already started about 15 years ago - just not as egregious as nowadays. This is why I became a retrogamer with some Indies and A/AA games (like Hearts of Iron, Age of Wonders, Civ, Stellaris...) sprinkled in between, and those games I generally only get years after release. It also comes with the benefit that my hardware lasts much longer. I'm still on a 1050Ti mobile (new laptop coming this month, see a few pages back in this thread) and really don't need that much powerful and power-hungry hardware. The 7600S or 4060 mobile (still undecided which one I'll choose) will probably last me for at least half a dozen years before they start becoming a limiting factor for me. |
An art friend of mine (one year older than me and also an 80's dude) has recently gone back into retro gaming, while also trying to limit his own gaming sessions to around 2hrs per week (like booting up his old SNES for example).
His main issue, is how bogged down gaming has become, and how little it respects your time, while also asking for more money, and well...the bugs and broken promises are another, and I've been letting that build up within my own tolerances, but that has pretty much reached a fine point to me now, where I just feel like I'm only ever semi-happy to play at least one new game a year, not 20-30 that everyone is apparently feasting over (funny enough, most of these games ppl are excited to collect all have a form of Battlepass or list of MT's/huge grinds).
I always end up falling back onto games I know I can play for a short while (Heroes of the Storm literally allow for 15 min or less vs AI matches with friends, which is a nice short burst), but new games these days are either riddled with bugs, crappy mechanics, huge grinds, or just too expensive for my tastes.
I feel like retro gaming is where I am also headed, I mean look at Angry Video Game Nerd, that guy is still playing retro games to this day and he's older than me by a few years. I feel like gaming is going to be altered completely within the next decade, to a point where it forces me out, with me having to find a new hobby entirely.
Indies are still grand to play, but I was really looking forward to that Offworld game, and it was indie, also co-created by some Starbound vets, and they still manage to screw up their launch and have one of their main points of their game, being completely fucked over for launch. I've checked their reddit, Steam, Twitter, etc, their game has almost no fanfare of word of mouth and they are selling it at a 10% discount, and it's got mixed reviews... It really feels like their game is going to sink due to their fuckup, huge lack of social awareness and not having used Steam's early access route.
it's sad, because I really liked Starbound, but their colony system was barebones and almost non existent, and I just wanted a game like Starbound with a good colony system. As for ymself, I'm still sporting my 1080ti, I think I'll try to somehow upgrade my CPU/RAM this yr to make up for both those shortcomings (I know my perf is degrading right now due to my RAM speed falling behind, and my CPU despite being OC'd, only has a few threads and cores).
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