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I haven't stopped playing Overwatch since it came out, still getting on with friends 2 or 3 nights a week and putting in a few hours (and I'm still awful lol). I also still log on to Battlefield 1943 from time to time to get in a few matches.

I also collect retro games so there is a good bit of time there. If anything I've struggled to find new games that I'd want to play more than something older and cheaper. I just picked up Dark Messiah for like 2 bucks and its amazing, hard to justify a $60-70 purchase when you can find deals like that on older but still great games.

I saw a lot of the playtime goes to still updated online games like Fortnite and Apex, but I wonder if part of it is that as time goes on there is a bigger pool of games to play. Sure there will always be cutting edge graphics and gameplay, but many people wouldnt be able to tell which indie dropped in 2010 and which dropped in 2024.

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[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.de 2 points 7 months ago

GZDoom! It just doesn't get boring to shoot demons for half an hour. I'm playing Volatile Material and Doom Infinite at the moment.

[–] Oneeightnine@feddit.uk 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Rocket League. I probably play a solid 3 hours of that every single week, and have done for the last two years. Before those two years I probably played a solid 7-8 hours a week. It's my forever game, the game I play when I'm bored, the game I play when I've got a lot on my mind and just want to fill the void in my head with something safe and easy.

[–] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I like playing rocket league because it connects me with one of my past lives where I was reincarnated as a rocket soccer car and lived a short but glorious life of rocketing balls, many many eons ago when the universe was still new and full of rocket soccer cars.

I don’t play rocket league superrr often but when I do it sends me right back to that previous reincarnation and it feels like it was only yesterday I was slurping up golden boost juice, slamming aerial shots and trashtalking fools by using friendly chat reactions in a sarcastic fashion.

Rocket league is like riding a bike, the feeling never leaves you.

[–] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Xonotic: om, well it’s based on the darkplaces engine, so yeah, I mean Xonotic in a way is basically as old as 3D multiplayer shooters.

Eador Genesis: like a tighter heroes of might and magic or kings bounty, great with the New Horizons mod.

Beyond All Reason: the latest evolution in a series of Total Annihilation inspired RTS games built on an open source engine.

WinspWW2: a derivative of Steel Panthers, an old DOS hex turn based tactical war game. Yeah there are newer turn based strategy games and perhaps more elegant systems like Combat Mission’s or Operation Flashpoint Red Storm’s simultaneous turns, but the fact stands that WinspWW2 and WinspMBT are from certain perspectives the deepest turn based tactics video games in existence, realistic or not.

Original Peggle and Peggle nights: What do I even need to say, perfection.

Brigador Up Armored Edition: Top down isometric cyberpunk dystopia mech/tank quasi-twin stick shooter. This game is an absolute gem.

Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead: the most interesting open world survival game period, yeah the graphics… barely qualify as graphics but the gameplay and complexity/variety of procedural generation is simply nowhere even close to being matched by any other open world rpg/survival game.

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[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

MHW and Warframe

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How are you still playing Overwatch? They shut it down when 2 came out, I thought. I no longer have it in my library even.

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