Definitely on a 5-6 year lag. Currently the only games I've been playing are Titanfall 2, Persona 5, and Stardew Valley.
Basically covers everything I need, a long jrpg, a multiplayer fps (using the Northstar mod), and an endless chill game
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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
Many of the best games have communities that last, and even grow, for decades. If you have to buy the game when it comes out to be part of the community, it's probably not a great game. Check out Factorio or Minecraft for examples of this.
I haven't played any nintendo switch game, so 5 or 6 year lag
yeah, that's basically when i play most aaa games - when the mood takes me, but mostly ~10 years old. i've just recently finally played wofenstein new order, followed by the tomb raider legend trilogy (they're really short), and i've now started on the tomb raider survivor trilogy
indie games i tend to play a bit sooner; partly because they're cheaper and partly because i feel they're more likely to use (and need) the money to make more games. although the last indie game i played was fez, and the dev of that has quit completely...
Was it good? What system did you play it on? Wolfenstein, I mean.
yeah, it was really good. i'm not usually an fps person, but i am a fan of dieselpunk[^1] which is why it was on my backlog.
it's very much not what i expected — i was expecting something similar to doom 2016 — but it's actually much more (optional) stealth-focussed. i don't mind that though, it had some very interesting ideas and mechanics; and i really enjoyed it
edit 13 days later: wait i missed half of your question (sorry). it's probably too late now, but i played it on pc - i can't remember whether i was running windows or linux or that point - it ran fine, and i know someone with a far less powerful pc than me who said it ran much better than doom 2016
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I've played mostly 5+ year old games on pc in the last few years. Mostly because single player AAA games outside of playstation first party are essentially hardly made nowadays. So as a way to revive them for myself I decided to look through games released from around 2007 - 2016 that are on PC where they can all be ran at high resolution and high FPS nowadays. Sites like pcgamingwiki having all kinds of info how to modernise some of these pc ports that are lacking helps a huge amount. FOV, framerate unlockers, higher render distance, textures resolution, higher quality aa just to name some.
I'm not entirely sure what qualifies as retro but the oldest game I regularly play is the original Fallout from 1998. I mostly find myself playing games released in the 2000s and occasionally something newer if I think its a worth buying. I think the most recently released game I play is probably Half Life Alyx. I would have been a little too young to have grown up with some of them, but my family pc couldn't handle a lot of the newer games so here we are.
original Fallout
Have you tried the Wasteland series?
I haven't but I've heard Tim Cain talk about its influence on Fallout a lot, I'll give it a try.