You can jump into backlog of older game titles. Its never late to discover GOG gems.
It is weird to see people obsess over the price of a new release AAA game when the classics tend to be better made, less buggy, have a bigger mod community, and much lower specs.
Go back and play the Halo series. The opening scene of the first game still gives me chills. Play Portal. And then play Portal 2.
Check out some old school RTS titles. Planetary Annihilation is a reworking of the old Total Annihilation game and absolutely stands up.
Go try some indies - Blue Prince or Slay the Spire or Darkest Dungeon.
There’s no reason to spend more than $20 on a game anymore
There is a reason many good old games can’t be easily played on modern hardware.
If you’re not allergic to 5-10 minutes of looking at protondb or other resources to understand how to get the game running, this isn’t a problem.
I’ve not yet found a difficult process for getting old games running. They’ve been around so long that the community has typically documented everything you need to know to get up and running.
I mean… I am used to getting things like modding skyrim on linux, so this is not really a topic needed to preach to me.
But I met countless people who will give up after three repeats of basic installation attempt.
Emulators solve a lot of those problems
Exactly why I added the world “easily”. Those who can and know often overestimate what average person can and know.
You can pay more if you just want the Nintendo or Blizzard official remaster. But all the stuff is accessible
I gave my son $10 to buy some Steam games. And I was so proud that he didn’t spend the $10 on Roblox or anything, but on a few indie games on sale.
Man ive been looking for updated unemployment numbers but this regime never shows the truth anyway.
The newest numbers are yuge, the best numbers everyone says so, it’s incredible, it’s all because of me, because I’m incredible, and if it’s not then it’s Bidens fault, but I’m amazing and Biden isn’t, thank you for paying attention to me
Bread and circuses are getting expensive. The emperor’s throne is held by one who could never wield it’s authority with the competence and loyalty of the one who built it. What year is it again?
Wait until you’re not able to eat. That’s when real shit happens.
Can we throw feces at the wealthy at some point? We need to find ways to enjoy ourselves without money.
If you can catch one to throw a turd, sure. Seems a bit wasted considering what else you can throw but I can’t say what.
Sick ass ninja stars?!
Dipped in shit
I saw a man in San Francisco flinging excrement like 10-15 years back. This man is us, there is just a time wrinkle.
That man saw what the future had in store for us
Well, I mean, technically if you’re not eating you won’t be experiencing any real shits. Maybe if they’re down to hot dogs, although at that point starvation may seem appealing.
Luckily there are loads of good indie games at low prices with low spec requirements
I think know where this is going:
“NoBOdy wAnTs to BuY gAmeS AnYmORE”
We’re forgetting food…
More Americans are skipping breakfast because it’s not in the budget anymore
This is the reason I didn’t know I was building that Steam backlog all along
I get slightly bummed about this possible future, but then look at my crazy backlog from over the years and all of the old spare hardware I have kicking around. I could spend years just going back through emulators, let alone the literal thousand Steam titles built up and waiting to be rediscovered. Plus all the fan projects and indie studios that don’t require frame gen as part of their base spec.
We’ll be ok, we just may have to revisit the Old Ways a bit.
Unemployment max is 1200 a month in my state. Thats nothing.
I think he means the rate of unemployment, not unemployment benefits.
I know, I read it wrong at first too.
picked up a steam deck as a piece of insurance a drew months ago.
it has simply become a darksouls 1 machine.
I love to hate it.
I basically don’t buy games anymore. I started to get the free epic games 2 years ago and this got me like 200 games. I don’t play much but when I want, I try a couple until I find something interesting. Playing Disco Elysium now.
Gun prices haven’t risen though
Ammo prices absolutely have
Everything inflated but my pockets
everything’s going up except for my desire to continue living on this planet
Everythings expensive but my labour
Aw shucks… Anyways, back to playing GunZ, runescape, and KOTOR for a third decade. Woo!
But really, even if you aren’t stuck in 200X, there’s plenty of good stuff out there that isn’t too demanding to run.
