Gaming

Because most of the time, older games were made with player enjoyment in mind, not shareholders.

Tiberian Sun, The first time I played it my PC could barely play it. That was some 24 years ago?! Now the maps load in 2 seconds. Still crashes alot.

"The Sims 2. A man with your specs?"

Me playing OpenTTD on my gaming rig.

I'm still using a GTX 1070. When I was building a new PC 2 years ago I had to decide whether to splurge on a new GPU. I thought about all of the games I played in the last 5 years and realized none of them were GPU intensive (the most intensive was Minecraft with shaders and that one was bottlenecked by my CPU). To this date I don't think I've ever played a game that my GPU couldn't handle.

Still playing Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines all these years later. Writing more than makes up for dated combat. Hoping the second one is decent.

People I know (not PC gamers obviously) balk at the sight of me playing a PS1 game on today hardware.

"Why would you play a game that old on such a powerful computer?"

"That's obvious, upscaling exists, and games from this era were/are more complete, entertaining and bug-free than most things released in recent years."

"Huh... Guess that makes sense."

Is usually how it goes anyway.

Me continuing to endlessly replay Fallout: Tale of Two Wastelands and Borderlands 2

Doom II, Factorio, Fallout 1-4, and Minecraft.

Who do I need a top-tier PC? The ten year old rig I build still runs them like a champ.

Me, building a new gaming PC to keep playing Binding of Isaac like I have for the last 13 years.

I played Resident Evil 4 (the original 2005, not the remake) for the first time last year. That same year, I bought Diablo 4, Starfield, Hogwarts legacy, and a bunch of other games.

RE4 from 2005 was the only game that I thoroughly enjoyed playing.

Ommmm I know that is why I got a steam deck? I love video games that don’t force you to buy a super expensive gaming rig.

I don’t really fuck with emulation though I want to (dunno where to get roms honestly) but there are so many banger indie games out there that barely use any resources to run, and honestly simpler graphics is almost always better for gameplay, development, and even aesthetics because it forces developers to adopt a style with their simplified vision of reality instead of just making things look super realistic.

I hate modern strategy games where the map is super pretty and 3D but impossible to read and all the menus are animated with tiny little buttons and hard to read text against textured parchment backgrounds…. it is clear as day that giving those game developers a more powerful computer to develop on was actually a catastrophic mistake in terms of UI readability.

The soft beeping of Breakout is soothing.

How i feel playing tomb raider remakes on my ps5.

Do a fucking Simpsons Hit and Run remake and I might buy that....

Can they even remake that given that Apu is a major character in it and liking him is "Wrong Think" now?

I've gotten back into WOW classic playing a bunch.

Just bought a 4070 super...

Just started playing Skyrim this year.

I'll move onto the other stuff as soon as I get tired of Bertie the Brain.

Nothing like emulating older consoles and upscaling to 4k (especially ps2/Gamecube)

This meme makes me miss the button we used to have on the front of PCs to slow down the CPU, so that some games could be played.

Hey you need a beefy pc to get the mega bezel shaders with reflections on the fake crt to work properly.

Hah I'm much the same. Makes the whole 60fps minimum argument laughable when you're playing games nowhere near that and completely enjoying them.

Me with Battlefront Classic if they hadn't fucked up multiplayer so bad that I refunded immediately.

Can confirm that emulation is great with a powerful PC because the native resolutions on the console often didn't do the games justice, and they're absolute eyecandy upscaled 5x. Being able to modify a game that would otherwise run at 30 FPS so that it runs at a smooth 60 is also wonderful