I gotta play it. Sadly as I grew older, those old FPS with low FoV give me motion sickness in like minutes. Can’t even enjoy Build Engine games anymore, which were my favorite old school games back then. :c

You mean Goldeneye 2?

I loved playing as Lanky Kong.

I had that, 007, Pokemon Stadium, Tony Hawk, and Turok. Anything else I had to rent from Blockbuster.

That and Quake II are the only console games I’ve ever sunk an enormous amount of time into.

As a fellow German, I feel ya. The monkey was also my favorite char when playing pvp. lol

The remake of the trilogy is pretty good, if you haven’t tried it.

At least with those games you had a collectible figure once the game was finished.

You should try Tekken Tag Tournament. It’s one of my favorite games because you can play the Story Mode in CoOp and it’s soo much fun!

Which is a shame. I was going to buy Marvel’s Wolverine and that God of War remake collection.

Now I will go back to not supporting Sony in anyway shape or form

i’ve never had to spend hours finding the ‘right driver’ for my PS4 to run a game. or having to mod the game to get it to just play.

Funny, I’ve never had to.do.those things on my PC.

On PC I don’t have to rebuy games because Sony doesn’t believe in backwards compatibility.

You’re completely right, whoops

bugs? nah, not a problem

whistles in Morrowind

Try playing the original SEGA catalog. Lemme know how many of those games work.

As someone who recently started hoarding old tools I wish that was true for all things.

We just recently got a singer 500a and its still impressive the engineering that went into that thing. The machine work is beautiful, and if you told me it was made in a CNC machine today I would of believed you.

Today modern and new, just means slave labor and plastic molded parts. Besides computers a lot of things haven’t really changed. And often when they have changed it’s for the worst. If I get a sewing machine today it would come with some app and internet connection for no reason, and would have plastic parts that struggle to get through 3 layers of cloth. While the singer 500a was meant to run 24/7 and is essentially the same exact thing.

For the most part the world has kind of been solved sense shortly after the industrial revolution. All the general commodities we interact with where mostly at their peak form back then. Dish washers, fridges, washing machines, driers. They’re all almost exactly the same as they where when they where invented. There have been minor improvements that have been added over the years but for the most part things are in general just shittier.

You can blame so many things, you can say that mass production, trickle down economics, exporting labor etc all causes this. You can say that everyones access to mass produced garbage is an indicator of wealth and poverty dropping. What I don’t think you can say anymore is that things “products” are better than they where in the old days.

I agree with your statement about cultural aspects though. Other than that when I hear some new innovative product the first thing that comes to my mind is its going to be another internet of things device that constantly bugs me and asks for more data, while providing 0 utility over the old version of the product, if anything its going to add more friction to my task, or attempt to insert a paywall into my life where one never existed before.

With games its harder to objectively say things where worse/better, but this infection of syphoning money out of every possible source infects games too. The only reason I can’t say new modern games are bad is because indie games exist. Some of those indie games actually have brought me back to a childhood state where games where actually fun.

I guess GenAI slop is making me age faster, then

We’re 26. The new stuff is crap, and that’s not just nostalgia goggles, it is actually objectively worse.

There’s plenty of new stuff that isn’t crap, like say indie games. But the platforms, the consoles, etc.? Those are intentionally disrespectful these days in a way even, say, the Wii/PS3 era of consoles wasn’t (and they certainly weren’t perfect either, it just started getting way worse way faster after that).

i’ve played single player games my entire life and got nothing but shit for it. i guess because they don’t have all the drama of multiplayer games and the constant updates?

Nope :) I mean, I was 13, so maybe I could have if I’d pressed it but I was a kid and figured it was just bad luck.

Like, we weren’t online - you couldn’t look up consumer protection rules and shit back then, you had to rely on some adult who wasn’t a complete moron knowing what to do.

Well, that’s just rubbing it in, isn’t it? :P

i buy two games per year for $100 tops but more like $50 after shipping and taxes. my personal and local public library give me plenty to do.

In Germany you could buy most games for 12.95DM in the 90s/10€ in the 2000s, if you were willing to wait a year after the initial release. And unless you had enough money to buy the newest PC, you often had to resort to last year’s games anyway. As a comparison, I got 20DM for mowing my neighbours lawn.

These re-releases came with just a jewel case and no box, the manual was a PDF on the disk but on the other hand they often had some bugs fixed since the first release.

i agree with you in a way, its true that in the 2000’s i could only buy about a game a year also because you weren’t switching consoles as frequently as we do. I could wish for a game from Xbox and i would never play it because the console i had at home was playstation. Nowadays that is leveled, but this goes hand in hand with the things related to the amount of games we have vs what games we finish. And back then i fisnished all small amounts of games and we recall every nook and cranny of the games, nowadays its really cool to look at a 200 game library but we are not taking the best of them because of the diversity, we have so much we quite cant click as easily (at least this is how i feel but i have found people with different opinions)

Never played it. I’ll have a look. Thanks.

i think a lot of people are (me included) because its just force of habit to gravitate towards the AAA games and even tho there are some famous indie games out there like hollow knight those might not be for everyone and we lack maybe the will to search for them? I am probably switching to pc and i wil be searching for more indie games for sure. Maybe some good might come out of this!

How? Factorio, Kenshi and Rimworld are games from before 2015

I enjoyed watching some playthroughs of a couple of games over the years, but then I sorta lost interest. Used to follow John Wolfe a lot and watch his playthroughs. He was good at finding never heard of indie games in the horror genre, so I witnessed a few gems through him.

one of the things I like about my thirties is that a bunch of people who grew up interested in and liking the same things I did now have the skills and ability to create things I like

Indies are bigger and better than ever.

Are they? Most I play are from the 2010s, even if they are still being updated in some cases. What are some good recently released ones.

Some I have put a lot of hours into: KSP, Factorio, Rimworld, Kenshi, Vintage Story. They might be better games than they were back then but it’s still those games. X4 is fun, not sure if that counts as indie, should play it again, apparently it has diplomacy now rather than just shooting people you don’t like.