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
This is the way.
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 stay approximately one console generation behind these days, so I guess that’s about 7 years. I finally got a ps4 this year. Anyone have any recommendations?
Mostly interested in single player offline games. Metroidvanias and roguelikes are my most played genres.
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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…
Generally I’m on a 3-5 year delay, unless it’s a franchise I like. Then, I buy it when the price drops on Steam. Currently waiting for Horizon Forbidden West to come to PC, but until then it’s Powerwash Simulator and Satisfactory.
I just played through the first Fallout game earlier this year. I guess that puts me on a 25 year lag. I’ve been playing a bit of Atari 2600 games too, but that’s more for work related reasons than for entertainment.
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.
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 found out the cake was a lie circa 2020. Also with the GPU price trends the last few years, I suspect more people have become patient gamers but not by choice.
That’s the boat I’m in. My system can’t run a lot of new games, and I can’t afford to upgrade right now.
I’m playing No Man’s Sky for the first time. I consider myself fortunate to have missed the launch debacle.
I got it a couple of years ago, but I still feel the same. The game is great!
The way most AAA launches go these days it’s the only way worth playing.
I only have this lag with single player games. I hate joining MP games late; much better to be there at the start and learn along with everyone else over trying to learn against people who’ve played for 5 years. Every “new” SP game I currently am playing is old and was given away free (or is on a subscription thing like PS+ and GamePass).
Currently I’m playing MDK
I remember trying that game on GOG years after it came out, having read about it and wanting it as a kid but living in an area where finding PC games was a rarity, and unfortunately it didn’t really run on modern systems.
Civvie11 did a video on it and showed that there are source ports and mods that get it running well now. I might have to give it another try.
I’m going to start this lag anytime now with PS2 games. I didn’t have one when it was new and decided to have the real deal instead of emulating it. It’s all set with a 500GB HD and loads of games. Now, I only need time…
I also have an extensive collection of classics on my GOG account. Yet to start playing the majority.
Did they do a HDD for the PS2? I thought it was on good-old 16MB memory cards full of “blocks”!
If you get the “network adapter” accessory, you can install an HDD in the fat PS2. Then after setting up the bootloader and apps, you can play your games directly from the HDD.
If you get the “network adapter” accessory, you can install an HDD in the fat PS2. Then after setting up the bootloader and apps, you can play your games directly from the HDD.
Nice, I never knew that! Was this an official thing at the time or has someone reverse engineered it later?
It was an official thing, and the only way to play Final Fantasy XI, since the game had to receive updates. The HDD has to be a 3.5" SATA drive to slot in properly. I looked around for one adapter 3.5 to SD adapter, but finding a used 500gb drive was cheaper.
I just started the Trails RPG games. It’s great to be this behind and know there’s this giant story waiting for me.
I play mostly ports on switch, so 10 year.
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
