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Probably? I have memories from over a decade back so

DLC is new..

JOINED, any more ways to find sublemmings idk what are these called lol

Free is an important reason why. Also, these games run very well on old machines. If you mostly play that and get a new rig, you don't have to spend a lot. Pc parts have gotten ridiculously expensive.

Are you familiar with the A Tale of Two Worlds mod, which inserts Fallout 3 into Fallout: New Vegas to make them one giant game? If not, it's a way to add some new life to the thing.

I genuinely prefer the graphics of older games...

This is because a lot of older games were going for an artistic style, the graphical fidelity of today's games was too far out of reach. BioShock is a perfect example because of its beautiful art direction.

AAA games used to have character to them, now every person has to have 1200 individually rendered pores and a remaster every few years to make it look more realistic (cough cough The Last of Us)

!patientgamers@sh.itjust.works might be of interest, if you don't follow it.

But yeah...there are a lot of perks to playing older games:

• Due to the ubiquity of Internet access today, a lot of games get post-release patches, and ship in a not-entirely-polished state. You wait a few years, you get a game that's actually finished.

• There have been wikis, guides, and sometimes mods created.

• The games that people are still playing are the ones that have stood the test of time, so it's kinda easy to pick out good ones.

• If a 3D game supports a higher framerate

and many don't, due to things like physics running at a fixed frequency

on modern, high-refresh-rate monitors, 3D games can be pleasantly smooth.

There are some downsides, though:

• With multiplayer-oriented games, the community can have moved on, rendering the game not very playable.

• The game may not leverage your hardware very well. You may have an 86 bazillion core processor, and especially older games are likely to be using one of them. I have a couple of games I like, like Oxygen Not Included, that really don't use multiple cores well...and I'd guess that a similar game released in 2025 likely would.

I think the people who often say this feel some personal guilt for how much time they feel they’ve wasted instead of doing whatever it is in life they have yet to achieve. It’s a matter of perspective.

My games library is so huge, and I suffer from choice paralysis all the time.

Baldur's Gate 3 and Elden Ring are the last 2 AAA games I bought close to launch for full price. Other than that, I picked up Hades 2 in early access. The rest of my library is all stuff that I bought on sale.

I do have Monster Hunter and Avowed on my wishlist but I think I'm going to be patient. If I do pull the trigger, it would probably be for Avowed because I want more Obsidian games. On a related note Grounded is $20 on Steam right now so I stopped that up even though I beat it back when I had Game Pass.