Absolutely agreed. I have nothing but love for good old games, and you can’t even buy hardware that was as bad as the stuff that those games premiered on. Well, maybe you can but you’d have to be trying very specifically to get them. There aren’t a lot of fresh athlon x64’s and 7600 gt’s rocking around out there 😉
Also, Minecraft is about 40% of my playtime and can run on basically anything as long as shaders are disabled. I remember hosting smp servers on hardware that was already old at the time, it was still the most fun I’ve had in a game in nearly two decades. Good fucking times honestly, I miss em.
I think if someone’s new to gaming the best thing they can do is get a crappy desktop, play all the classics, and then when they find they’re really hyped for a game their system can’t handle, just buy a 5 year old graphics card and install it. Easy peasy, dirt cheapy.
What people think of as the necessary hardware to play games these days isn’t. It’s only necessary to play the 0.01% of games that are new AAA releases with poor optimisation. And guess what? Those games all suck shit anyway!
I am of the firm opinion that computers have been good enough to play nearly anything you could want to play for 10 years. Except for Factorio megabases and intensive simulations. But first person shooters? Platformers? RPGs? We’ve reached the limit of what computing power can do to make a game more fun. And we reached it a long time ago.
Absolutely agreed. I have nothing but love for good old games, and you can’t even buy hardware that was as bad as the stuff that those games premiered on. Well, maybe you can but you’d have to be trying very specifically to get them. There aren’t a lot of fresh athlon x64’s and 7600 gt’s rocking around out there 😉
Also, Minecraft is about 40% of my playtime and can run on basically anything as long as shaders are disabled. I remember hosting smp servers on hardware that was already old at the time, it was still the most fun I’ve had in a game in nearly two decades. Good fucking times honestly, I miss em.
I think if someone’s new to gaming the best thing they can do is get a crappy desktop, play all the classics, and then when they find they’re really hyped for a game their system can’t handle, just buy a 5 year old graphics card and install it. Easy peasy, dirt cheapy.
What people think of as the necessary hardware to play games these days isn’t. It’s only necessary to play the 0.01% of games that are new AAA releases with poor optimisation. And guess what? Those games all suck shit anyway!
I am of the firm opinion that computers have been good enough to play nearly anything you could want to play for 10 years. Except for Factorio megabases and intensive simulations. But first person shooters? Platformers? RPGs? We’ve reached the limit of what computing power can do to make a game more fun. And we reached it a long time ago.