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.
I have MW2 on my Steam wishlist because I want it for the nostalgia. Got an email this last sale that it was on sale … for $20.
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!
This is an intruiging subject. I was part of reddit’s /r/patientgamers subreddit (lurking, mostly) because it was a good place to get insight into valuable gems that I missed first time through because I didn’t have time or didn’t want to spend £60 or £70 on a brand new game, and would rather wait for a sale.
Nowadays, I generally wait for Game Pass, Ubi+, PS+ or similar to get the game. Sure, I spend on subscriptions, but the games I play if I count out the costs it’s a lot cheaper.
I do also play retro games - ‘retro’ being an ambivalent term for me, as it somehow is used pejoratively throughout the modern gaming community, which I disagree with: They’re good games, just not on modern hardware or systems - quite often. So - yeah, sometimes I lag, sometimes I’m up-to-date, oftentimes I’m on my Steam Deck so I get to play slightly older games at a high fidelity on a handheld device, which is awesome.
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.
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
Not intentionally. But I didn’t really have a gaming system, so my work laptop was used and of course could only run old stuff.
But now I got a Steam Deck, and a lot of what I’m playing now is still old anyways (just not as old), because I didn’t have a chance to play them at the time.
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).
I’m about to play the Bioshock trilogy for the first time in over a decade. Never played 2 and 3, only got about halfway through 1 when it came out. I’m also about 75% through Super Metroid, which I never beat as a kid. I know that’s outside of the 1-2 year window, but I love older games. Scored the Bioshock trilogy for like 15 bucks too, can’t beat that.
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.
Just finished system shock 1 so like 20+ year old lag, I don’t really have a strong urge to play modern AAA games. I mostly just gawk at what’s popular and just play indie and old games. I also have a problem of not being able to pick up games in the middle of a series. I need to play a series from the start no matter how mad the earlier iterations are.
recommend me some 10+ year old game series uwu
Depends on what you like my brother.
Immersive sims like thief, system shock, deus ex are very good. System shock 1 is the least playable for normal people but the enhanced edition isn’t that bad (you can even play the remake) but the rest are very playable.
Prototype holds up pretty well though you might need pcgaming wiki to get it to run properly if you are unlucky.
Stronghold series, universe at war (not on steam), knights and merchants (with the remake patch), aoe 2 (you can get the 2013 version) though de is good and technically the same game, company of heroes are all good rts games.
Rayman 2, Rayman 3 and Tasmania Tiger if you like collectathon platformers.
somehow i didn’t get a notif when u replied & i thought u hadn’t lmao
will bookmark to try basically anything cuz i only play overwatch and it’s getting old.
Yeah I can imagine over watch mind breaking you especially with the “new” one. If you like multiplayer games rainbow six siege is pretty much the best competitive fps on the market.
finally found R6S on sale on steam and bought it lol, $2.6 for the deluxe version with argentinian pesos
Hey friend, long time no see, but yeah it’s worth about that much because you have to grind or pay for a million extra operators. My recc just either buy the meta ones or ones that look fun to play. Given that they do give you a few depending on the edition and the older ones are much cheaper in terms of in game grinding.
Sadly my laptop is making weird noises. Brrrrrrrrrrhrhrhrhrhrhrhrrtrtrtrtrtttrtr. I think the fan is filled with dust. But I don’t know how to open it without breaking it so I haven’t done it. I’m in pain.
+1 for the System Shock remake - it’s very good and quite faithful to the original. Could also look at the unity engine version of Daggerfall to start off elder scrolls. Don’t think there’s a newer version of Arena so if you wanted to start that series from the beginning it would be the DOS original. Both of those are free downloads from Bethesda’s website
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I’m a big fan of Endless Ocean 2 which came out in 2009 but you need to use Dolphin to run it on PC (also torrent the disc files unless you can find a disc copy)
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.
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’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…
I’m currently replaying Half Life (actually Black Mesa). I usually replay Half Live 2 every couple of years, and Portal 1 and 2 every year.
I played through Doom and Doom 2 a couple years ago, and I play a web version of the C64 game Impossible Mission at least one a week.
Clearly I’m old and nostalgic.
I’m in the retro era right now. Recently beat deus ex, system shock 2, marathon, and baldurs gate.
