Diablo 1 still goes hard as fuck.

Me, but Cuckman is "Games that won't run on my PC because I refuse to upgrade it until pricing returns to sanity", and since somebody seems to invent a new wheeze to keep pricing through the roof every few years, I'm still on a 1060.

Still, I'm enjoying older games. They're fine. For anything modern, the PS5 can run them. For anything small, the Legion Go S can run them.

There are so many great modern indie games and double AA games and even great AAA games.

There are also way, way more shit games you need to wade through to find the good ones. The vast majority of indie games are still shovelware garbage.

Just as it was in the 90s and 00s. Also, i cant even remember the last time Steam recommended anything close to Shovelware to me if wasn't on mt 15th run of the recommendation queue.

Next year curated sale spots are going to be replaced by recommendations based off your account history, in an effort to improve the visibility for niche games that people might be interested in. This will surface even more games that are currently struggling with low sales (reportedly the experimentation in that direction had very positive impact on less known hq games.)

Depends - i do not watch let's plays for anything i am actually interested in, but i have no qualms with watching them for lower quality games just for fun. And that even lead me to some games i wouldn't ever had touched without seeing the let's play.

It absolutely wasn't the same in the 90s, it was no where near was easy to develop and publish games back then. Now someone can cook up a shit indie game with prebuilt assets in a month. Back then you needed a physical publisher. There were trash games but there weren't thousands of them getting released every month.

Also my steam recs are full of shovelware games. But Steam's never had a good recommendation engine so that doesn't surprise me.

Just because it was harder to publish games it didn't mean that the average game was better. Survivorship bias is a thing. Noone even mentions the godawful crap that was thrown at us back then (outside of the honorable mentions like E.T.), while the absolute hits from back then are well anchored in the collective mind.

If your recommendations are trash, please feed the algorithm a bit, because that only happens if you never ignore things / publishers or someone played a bunch of trash in the past on that account, and when you never wishlist/follow games that interest you. You can curate what the queue shows you very well - the times i get a game that has even just mixed reviews are pretty rare.

Edit: that last part is because unlike other companies, Valve does not spy and analyze you from all angles. This also means you have to engage more with it to get a good result, because without accurate information it cant do shit. I prefer it that way - better they only use what i willingly give in a specific context than dealing with another abomination like Meta.

I eat breakfast and lunch at my desk. while I eat I watch a recap.

I actually have been watching less since most of them have been using AI to narrate and it does a shit job at it.

absolutely not a way for me to keep up with the Joneses. more of a curiously scratching an itch if the movie is even worth making time for. surprise, 99% are not.

Wouldn't be smart to create so much self competition by flooding the market with so many games, even from just a single publisher. People wouldn't have enough time or money to buy and play them all. The business side would end up losing more money than it makes, which would easily lead to a death spiral of firing people into studio closure.

At smaller studio sizes of less than 100, one single studio in today's market could easily be generating 10 games per year or more. But a publisher might have 20 or more studios. That's 200+ games per year from just a single publisher. Now expand that to multiple publishers, and we haven't even mentioned the infinite indie games that release each year. Games already get drowned out of sales and thats with AAA barely releasing a handful of games each year. It would be much harder to gain any marketshare if so many more games were released in just one year.

Enjoy binding of Isaac, I lost so much of high school and college to it back when it was new. But as others have said, rebirth came out over a decade ago

Considering the post, i assumed new just meant anything not considered retro

Yeah theres soooo many really awesome new games that are getting me excited, none of them are from big name publishers. And I'm an old crab that hates new things. But I recognize good quality.

One of them is Snaptic. Mind blowingly good and its only a demo so far.

People who do this are very odd to me. I'm not sure if its a younger person thing or what. I think people can't sit still for a movie now.

Same exact thing in music.

Now you need to create smaller underground scenes where you find the interesting stuff, which is better anyway. Funny how we came back to that.

No.

I find it weird even calling ps2 "retro". Still seems pretty modern to me. Theres 2 analog sticks.

It's more common with younger folks but since even my own father spends hours a day on Youtube while being "too busy" to watch movies anymore. I'm not going to say it's only a young person thing.

Yeah totally. A lot of brains were fried by corpo big tech.