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I haven't stopped playing Overwatch since it came out, still getting on with friends 2 or 3 nights a week and putting in a few hours (and I'm still awful lol). I also still log on to Battlefield 1943 from time to time to get in a few matches.

I also collect retro games so there is a good bit of time there. If anything I've struggled to find new games that I'd want to play more than something older and cheaper. I just picked up Dark Messiah for like 2 bucks and its amazing, hard to justify a $60-70 purchase when you can find deals like that on older but still great games.

I saw a lot of the playtime goes to still updated online games like Fortnite and Apex, but I wonder if part of it is that as time goes on there is a bigger pool of games to play. Sure there will always be cutting edge graphics and gameplay, but many people wouldnt be able to tell which indie dropped in 2010 and which dropped in 2024.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Victoria 2. I like 3, but I've got a heavily modded megacampaign with my friends going and I don't know 3 well enough to tweak it yet. 2 is still a great game.

Also Assetto Corsa. Competizione looks fun but I like driving stuff other than GT cars

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Replaying hollow knight ahead of the imminent release of silk song. It’s so close that I can taste copper.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Damn, as desperate as we elden ring fans were for dlc, I can only imagine and pour one out for what hollow knight fans are going through. Hoping you guys get a release date soon!

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan 3 points 5 months ago

Star Wars the old republic.

I played the absolute FUDGE out of KoToR back in the day, and played SWTOR at launch. But coming back to it after a decade plus just lets me enjoy the story. I won't say its a perfect MMO, because its just not. But oh gawd does the story get good!

[–] RampantParanoia2365 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Rocket League has been a big one for me recently. But I've actually been making an effort to play new stuff besides that, like Alan Wake 1&2, Cyberpunk, and Baldur's Gate 3.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Battlefield 3 or 4 and Halo MCC. Also Skullgirls.

[–] tacotroubles 3 points 5 months ago

Apparently, for me, the better question is, "Which games newer than 6 years are you playing?" It turns out I dont play many new games, just Elden Ring and Jedi Fallen Order ( which is 5 years old even). Deep rock might squeeze in there, but it just turned 6 years old

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I've been replaying red dead 2 which turns 6 this year :P

[–] JimmyChanga 3 points 5 months ago

Titanfall 2

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I'm never not playing Skullgirls. Somehow still going, Marie DLC just dropped last week.

[–] BruceCampbellschin 3 points 5 months ago

Gran Turismo 4

[–] pdxfed 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Took about a decade off gaming and Needed some "new" games in the pandemic. Bought some new games last year, Skyrim ultimate everything in a bundle, also bought Fallout 3-new Vegas bundles. Skyrim was awesome and I played it for about a year, FO 3 was ok, loving 4, heard New Vegas is the best.

Other than that I play super old school, emulator games for SNES, N64 when I have a bit of time.

I have a weird philosophy where I don't try things until they're about 10 years old, games, TV shows, etc. I figure I am pretty much guaranteed an epic experience if people are still talking about it at that point.

[–] apinsard 3 points 5 months ago

Didn't realise before but this seems right. This year I am playing persona 4, Celeste and the witcher, all more than 6 yrs old

[–] slazer2au 3 points 5 months ago

Software Inc (Early access since 2015) Raft (EA since 2018, full release 2022)

[–] TIMMAY 3 points 5 months ago

just finished another solid bloodborne playthrough, gotta love the logarius wheel and whirligig saw

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

RDR2 and Factorio

[–] dumpsterlid 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Xonotic: om, well it’s based on the darkplaces engine, so yeah, I mean Xonotic in a way is basically as old as 3D multiplayer shooters.

Eador Genesis: like a tighter heroes of might and magic or kings bounty, great with the New Horizons mod.

Beyond All Reason: the latest evolution in a series of Total Annihilation inspired RTS games built on an open source engine.

WinspWW2: a derivative of Steel Panthers, an old DOS hex turn based tactical war game. Yeah there are newer turn based strategy games and perhaps more elegant systems like Combat Mission’s or Operation Flashpoint Red Storm’s simultaneous turns, but the fact stands that WinspWW2 and WinspMBT are from certain perspectives the deepest turn based tactics video games in existence, realistic or not.

Original Peggle and Peggle nights: What do I even need to say, perfection.

Brigador Up Armored Edition: Top down isometric cyberpunk dystopia mech/tank quasi-twin stick shooter. This game is an absolute gem.

Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead: the most interesting open world survival game period, yeah the graphics… barely qualify as graphics but the gameplay and complexity/variety of procedural generation is simply nowhere even close to being matched by any other open world rpg/survival game.

[–] MacedWindow 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also a big peggle fan! Have you tried Roundguard? Doesn't match the perfection of Peggle but it's very fun.

[–] dumpsterlid 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah I have watched the development of roundgard and pegglin but neither has gone on enough of a sale for me to decide to try em based on the good but not amazing reviews I have seen of them.

There is such a pure joy to the original peggle, it breaks my heart to wonder what Popcap could have become if they weren’t bought by EA.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Rocket League. I probably play a solid 3 hours of that every single week, and have done for the last two years. Before those two years I probably played a solid 7-8 hours a week. It's my forever game, the game I play when I'm bored, the game I play when I've got a lot on my mind and just want to fill the void in my head with something safe and easy.

[–] dumpsterlid 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I like playing rocket league because it connects me with one of my past lives where I was reincarnated as a rocket soccer car and lived a short but glorious life of rocketing balls, many many eons ago when the universe was still new and full of rocket soccer cars.

I don’t play rocket league superrr often but when I do it sends me right back to that previous reincarnation and it feels like it was only yesterday I was slurping up golden boost juice, slamming aerial shots and trashtalking fools by using friendly chat reactions in a sarcastic fashion.

Rocket league is like riding a bike, the feeling never leaves you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

MHW and Warframe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The Long Dark, came out of early access in 2017, so I got the game earlier than that and it still has updates.

Dishonered 1 and 2, a playthrough every year, Witcher 3, Mad Max, MGS V, Prey, theres tons of good games to play a second, third or yearly playthrough.

[–] MacedWindow 2 points 5 months ago

The open world Mad Max? That game is so underrated. I love using the grappling hook

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

GZDoom! It just doesn't get boring to shoot demons for half an hour. I'm playing Volatile Material and Doom Infinite at the moment.

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