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[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I bet a small portion of them don’t buy GPU every gen or ever other. 1080 Ti strong.

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[–] suaroof@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Me, reading the topic while playing Morrowind: "Yeah, that seems correct!"

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Was just now in another thread having nostalgia about this game: Reamlz.

It was distributed as freeware/ shareware back in the 90's. You had to physically mail the producers cash if you wanted to get the expansions. I played through Balders Gate III recently and honestly, it doesn't even come close to the replayability that Realmz had.

[–] tal 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Realmz was out about the same time as Spiderweb Software's games (Exile series, later re-released as Avernum series). Both were popular RPGs for the Macintosh (though I believe both had Windows releases as well).

While I did play and enjoy Realmz back in the day, I personally preferred the Spiderweb Software games. More complicated interaction with the world, and I preferred the writing. Less-pretty, though the Avernum re-release was isometric and had new graphics. Have you ever tried them?

I don't know if I can recommend them in 2025, but if you're still enjoying Realmz, I figure that the Spiderweb Software stuff might also be something of interest.

EDIT: The current Steam sale, which runs for another two days, appears to have a bundle of all of their games on sale for 60% off. I didn't personally enjoy the Geneforge series as much as the Exile/Avernum series, and the Avadon series is considerably simpler, and didn't really grab me. But a lot of the games are also on sale individually, so...shrugs

EDIT2: It looks like Realmz has not seen a Steam release; thought I'd check to see if it was on Steam too.

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[–] PigStyle@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Factorio considered older?

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

Probably? I have memories from over a decade back so

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I don't even know what the newest game I even own is... Helldivers 2? Except for Elden Ring and it's DLC, I haven't bought anything close to release for years. HD2 came out last year and I bought it last week.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] termaxima@jlai.lu 7 points 2 months ago

92% of my playtime is Minecraft, makes sense.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago

I see tf2, i click

[–] Xella@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yep.. lol I spend an embarrassing amount of time playing EverQuest 1 emulation servers.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

I have been playing Galaga regularly since 1981. Still play it at least once a week.

[–] nocklobster@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Where my Civ 6 people at?! Wooo!

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Civ4 is the best Civ.

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[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

if you mean i do spend my time playing nes and snes via emulator, you are right

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