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Anon is a nostalgic gamer (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] ArcaneGadget@nord.pub 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Honestly, that's the entire reason i lost interest in consoles after buying the PS4. If i need to:
1 Boot up the console.
2 Update the system (twice).
3 PSN account bullshit.
4 Insert disc.
5 Install the game.
6 Download 50GB update for the game.
7 Install said update.
8 Finally start the game.
9 Login and TOS bullshit.
10 Finally play game.

I might just as well use my PC for gaming at that point. The games library is larger and the exclusives are just not worth it. Especially after Sony started releasing those on PC as well.

[–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 1 points 24 minutes ago

PC gaming has more exclusives btw

[–] rachelzsnow@lemmy.pt 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

when can i stop living in this universe and switch back to the one we originally were on? man i miss it so much. That and original pizzahut

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 minutes ago

Convince another weasel to dine on the particle collider in Switzerland.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Why would anyone build a whole ass in split screen mode?

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

A Wario game?

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I genuinely do not regret jumping off the video game train back in 2015.

Everything I have heard about the evolution of the gaming industry since has surpassed my pessimistic predictions back then, which could be summarized as: video games are becoming predatory and I feel like they eat my time and money for dismissed returns.

It was especially the consol market and the whole online aspect that made me wrinkle my nose. Feels like nowadays you actually can't buy and play a game offline.

But what do I know. I only tune in when my friend is playing on twitch and we talk about life over Signal. We have gone back to retro games recently too. Jake and Daxter 🎉

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Man, you have been missing out on the golden age of indie games. Sorry to hear that.

[–] rachelzsnow@lemmy.pt 1 points 1 hour ago

i think a lot of people are (me included) because its just force of habit to gravitate towards the AAA games and even tho there are some famous indie games out there like hollow knight those might not be for everyone and we lack maybe the will to search for them? I am probably switching to pc and i wil be searching for more indie games for sure. Maybe some good might come out of this!

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 points 2 hours ago

I enjoyed watching some playthroughs of a couple of games over the years, but then I sorta lost interest. Used to follow John Wolfe a lot and watch his playthroughs. He was good at finding never heard of indie games in the horror genre, so I witnessed a few gems through him.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Plenty of good stuff still happening in games.

Indies are bigger and better than ever. Yeah, the shitty stuff is front and center, but its not hard to find games made with genuine passion either.

Looked at different, we are a in a new golden age of games. Not for giant AAA titles or hardware.

But for the fact that game engines and tutorials on how to use them are readily available, and lots of normal people with neat ideas are making them into real games.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 points 30 minutes ago

one of the things I like about my thirties is that a bunch of people who grew up interested in and liking the same things I did now have the skills and ability to create things I like

[–] CarstenBoll@feddit.dk 9 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Back in 1997 I bought the game KKnD (Krush, Kill n' Destroy) in a local store for what would now be 110 dollars only to discover that it was broken and wouldn't run on my machine and there was no way to get a patch for it.

[–] lokalhorst@feddit.org 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

But I guess you could get your money back?

[–] CarstenBoll@feddit.dk 5 points 5 hours ago

Nope :) I mean, I was 13, so maybe I could have if I'd pressed it but I was a kid and figured it was just bad luck.

Like, we weren't online - you couldn't look up consumer protection rules and shit back then, you had to rely on some adult who wasn't a complete moron knowing what to do.

[–] punkhazard@feddit.org 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I randomly got KKnD Crossfires for PS1 and we played countless hours in split screen :D

[–] CarstenBoll@feddit.dk 7 points 4 hours ago

Well, that's just rubbing it in, isn't it? :P

[–] solidsmoke@lemmy.world 15 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

-Actually belongs to you -Developers can't delete it

[–] Chezus9247@lemmy.world 25 points 8 hours ago (18 children)

Okay guys 'n gals. What's your first game you thought of while reading this greentext?

Mine is TimeSplitters 2 on PS2.

[–] Lampenoel@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

Ratchet and Clank - Up your Arsenal

[–] ArcaneGadget@nord.pub 1 points 1 hour ago

Spyro the Dragon. Man I need to find the time to play through that entire stack of games again...

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Twisted Metal on PS1

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Super Mario World
That game is like 50% secrets and still Nintendos best work IMO.

[–] Phantaloons@piefed.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

Jet Force Gemini

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Mario kart 64

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

That and Quake II are the only console games I've ever sunk an enormous amount of time into.

[–] karpintero@lemmy.world 17 points 7 hours ago

GoldenEye N64

[–] SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

Bubble Bobble, but it was on my boyfriend's C64. I wasn't allowed a computer (and was thus obsessed by them, lol)

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 16 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

I thought of an era, not a specific game.

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[–] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

Super Monkey Ball 2 on GC. My brother and I spent more time playing the mini games than the game itself.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 hours ago

Super Mario World on SNES

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Goldeneye

[–] Chezus9247@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I gotta play it. Sadly as I grew older, those old FPS with low FoV give me motion sickness in like minutes. Can't even enjoy Build Engine games anymore, which were my favorite old school games back then. :c

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Perfect Dark

[–] Fetus@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

You mean Goldeneye 2?

[–] Zulu@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Halo ce

[–] Captain_Baka@feddit.org 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Gotta agree here. That game was so much fun. Just remember the monkey assistant mode (don't know what it was called in english, the german localization called it "Affiger Assistent" which translates to "monkey-like assistant" or "silly assistant") in multiplayer!

[–] Chezus9247@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

As a fellow German, I feel ya. The monkey was also my favorite char when playing pvp. lol

[–] Nima@leminal.space 1 points 5 hours ago

Golden Sun 😊

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago

Divinity and then Dark Souls

[–] EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Fuzion Frenzy even though it doesn't really apply because it wasn't really single player at all, it was only local co-op mini games like a Mario Party kinda (with no board.)

Even though it doesn't really match what the greentext is describing, the vibe of just, like, enjoying video games in your living room with no DLC nor microtransactions made me think of it. It's a game that was, like, moderately successful but not enough that I ever run into people on the internet that know about it, so it almost feels like a kind of secret I share with my sister, and the game had strong art direction that was really early 2000s that hits me with nostalgia too.

[–] Chezus9247@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Okay that looks REALLY interesting. Thank you for sharing! Gotta share one thing: Bishi Bashi! PSX game that's also a minigames collection. Pretty fun, quite high quality as far as I can tell. Haven't found someone to play it atm. :c Still, looks fun af!

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That'll be $75 (for N64 cartridges).

[–] Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

I knew Nintendo was done when playstation started selling games for twenty dollars

[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 2 hours ago

Nintendo games still do this bros.

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