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Can you see yourself cutting off by a generation of gaming? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like, will there be a point in time where you think that with all of the games of yesteryear to play that are thousands and thousands, with thousands more forward ahead to be released. There's only so much time available to be playing so much in a lifetime.

So that begs the question, do you just decide on which generation of gaming you're comfortable reaching before saying "Yup, I'm good!"?

I think for me, my cut off has been the PS4/X-Box series X generation. The PS5 is now officially like 5 years old now as of this year which is mind boggling to think about considering people had a very hard time affording the damn thing as well as other consoles because of a certain pandemic and scalpers.

And I've not once thought about organizing my resources in any attempt to try and get one or multiple games for it or the console. I've committed to PC gaming full-time now. I am completely content with playing what games I've gotten in the past and my library could use my attention more.

I'm not worried about prettier visuals, when I can still have the option to slap just another newer GPU down in my PC and beef up the memory as well. My PC build was intended to run 95% of all of my games that no other PC I've had in the past could ever do. So, I'm good!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Only console I ever got was the original Game Boy. But I'll definitely upgrade my PC at some point, there's only so many games I actually like and I don't think I'll be content just never playing the next Baldur's Gate 3. I'll have to upgrade my PC anyway at some point just for regular PC things, might as well buy a new GPU, too.

I might consider stopping when there's some new ubiquitous gaming technology that I'm just not into (e.g. I still haven't tried a VR game and I'm not keen on changing that anytime soon).

[–] Matriks404 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Only console I ever got was the original Game Boy.

Did you enjoy playing games on it? If so, I find that weird if you at least didn't give GBA or DS/3DS a try.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

TBH I got it specifically to make chip music, in like 2011. Making music on it is pretty cool actually, but while I did try a couple of games on it it didn't really wow me. Even beyond the outdated technology, I don't really like playing games that don't let you quickload, especially when they're actually kind of hard or generally have a lot of unskippable repetition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Depending on age they might have aged out of the kind of relatively primitive games handhelds had back then by the time those were released.