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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Yeah, the title of that comic is “Cutting Edge” and is where I got the name for my idea.
I was just including the JPG from the linked article, in the comment thread.
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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!
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.
This is the way.
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.
In this year I got a PS3, an Xbox 360 and a Wii. Now I’m playing all the good games on these platforms, that I’ve never owned when they were current. It’s great!
Many of these can be emulated as well. Especially the Dolphin emulator is a beast - especially when paired with the Dolphin bar.
Just a heads up :)
That said, I have all these systems physically too.
Oh yes I know, I emulated GameCube and Wii for years, but I only have a laptop that while quite powerful heats up a lot while emulating, so since I need it for work I prefer to keep it cool and playing on the original systems allows me to do that :D also like this I don’t have compatibility problems, especially for x360 and PS3!
Currentlt playing Red Dead Redemption 1 so yes I am at the +10years behind
Ugh I wish I could go back and play that for the first time again
2010…
Not only do i wish to go back but also wish to have my back back
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.
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.
I bought the 360 way after it’s postmortem, truly loved Red Dead, Halo OST and Alan Wake in 2016. The graphics and gameplay were still a joy
I sold it in December, I miss it
Shame, I still regret selling my N64
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
Obviously DRG is at its best with a few friends, but playing with randoms has been pretty fun and friendly in my limited amount of random games. Communication is mostly just markers and gestures, but I assume some people use VOIP
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.
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).
What’s fun with indie games and playing on a delay is that when I want to play a new game and grab something in my price range off my wishlist, I often have no idea what the game is or why past me thought I’d want to play it. Time wipes out any spoilers I got reading about it or watching someone play it years ago.
100% this. My wishlist is like a white elephant gift-giving for myself.
I used to do that as a kid but now I have money I like to stay up to date and buy current games so I can be part of the community
I just started the Trails RPG games. It’s great to be this behind and know there’s this giant story waiting 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
