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Objectively, FIFA's (EA FC) and COD shouldn't be counted since they are more like seasons so if you count them you can also count Fortnite since the game is also on chapter 5 (season 60) or something so the game had as much changes every year as cod and fifas. If mobilise would also be counted, with candy crush and etc even less games would be younger than 6 years.
It's over for gayming
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Is this unusual?
If you went back to 2014, say, would gaymers then have ALSO been playing 60% games 6 year old or older?
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I think when you go farther back the back catalog sucks. Old games dont suffer as much in QOL and graphics as before.
Playing vidya in 2006 and going back 6 years or more was rough, especially due to OS compatibility issues. There was a huge drop in quality between the eras, you wouldn't go back to something that ran on DOS at 640x480
Now the old games are still pretty good, and also I wonder how much they count remasters as old games.
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Yeah and we've also reached a point where 20 year old games have massive cross platform support, and can much more easily be played by normies, and not just turbo neurodivergents who know how to tweek a 10 year old game to run on junky hardware.
Even ancient games like Baldur's Gate and the two original Fallout games run easy peasy on steam now.
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It's legit brutal how average comsumer doesn't know how to use google and YouTube for problems solving
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Or even how to try fixing things themselves.
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People modded all the games with sims in their name to run without installing AND included all dlc in each game.
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Very true, most big AAA games from ps4 era still looks very good. Like you feel like 0 difference in graphics between Spider-Man 1 and 2 despite games have 5 years between them. It's not like how graphic jumped between ff7 to ff8 in 1 year on same hardware or ff10 and ff12. Gameplay also barely changed in last 10 years but worst is game devs loosing skills, despite all cowtools they have it take them a lot longer to make new games than in early ps4 gen. Arkham Knight had everything better that Gotham knights and suicide squad and those games were 8 years after Arkham knight released
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it's honestly bananas how little things changed between the last few generations. I played the non remastered Halo 1 for PC last year and it was still fine. Didn't need any QOL upgrades like Doom does
I've noticed a lot more indie games aping the retro style because it's charming and can be unique where as AAA raytraced graphics slop always looks identical, maybr people have a renewed interest in old games now too?
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Ray tracing was such obvious scam, that shit made sense for movies because movies are just pre recorded video file and can be played by any video playing device. But for games that ray tracing shit need to run live on hardware so it opens wide a door for new problems “optimisation” so in the end it made more sense to just draw the lighting and shadow than frick around optimisation. And to this day we only have 2 games with good RT “cyberpunk” and “metro” and they are like 4 years old now.
I won't be surprised if Nintendo will just ignore that shit entirely.
But in general retro games gives more unique experience because back then differentiation was strong, devs tried to make something new, often failed but now devs just want to be safe and just copy, far cry open world, souls games, Fortnite and cod
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Not really, no game in history stayed at top as long as fortnight and minekampf
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its mostly phoneBIPOClets
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They just don't make 'em like they used to
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Kinda true, Portal 2 and Bioshock Infinite still hold up amazingly and both are 10+ years old
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you are right btw
nobody plays 2017 fortnite they play 2024 fortnite
2024 world of warcraft doesn't cout as a "six year old game" as it is new
same with league or genshit or basically whatever
also no foid mobile games so it's literally all wrong
jfl
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Gaymers kinda evolved, og gaymers were outcast then it became mainstream (around 2004) then in 2010 it became super normie mainstream so now the og gaymers are outcast in the game industry. Gayms ain't made nowadays for those lonny losers anymore but for social crowd.
Todays most popular mmo probably has even more female players than men
(it's from 2017, before ff14 became normie game)
It's a bit like that meme comics where 4 inkwell guys are playing dragon and dungeons then normie guy joins then chad then foids and inkwells guys are kicked out because foids don't feel comfortable around inkwells
That's how I feel about my fav fighting gaym Dead or alive
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League is basically the same. 2018 league ain't that much different
at all.
Cs mostly like this too. But cs2 graphics are much better
and I do like the new smokes. Hate the new gun buying menu tho. That shit sucks.
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its just muscle memory you get used to it, the refund feature stolen from Valorante child game is nice as well
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siiiiiiiiiiiiiip
Yup Battlefield 1 is still the best
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Frick you its 2
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It was very surprising good game
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counting roblox and fortnite as "old games" is stupid and between them that's the entire zoomer g*mer community. it's not like they're all playing morrowind or something
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For people that play online only games it's social event a school yard play ground. Like for example my normie friends buy all the games that are talked about online like they bought that Pokémon clone, Heck drivers 2, dragon dogma 2 and etc to be on trend.
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Even in its buggy Cheater infested state no modern game comes close to matching what CS does.
When its going well its the absolute peak game experience
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