This is just my theory, but with the price of game development increasing so rapidly, I think it’s getting harder for the impatient to cover the development costs and make a profit off shitty games, unless the game has a huge following. Games like COD, Diablo, Star Wars, etc.

For games without that following, I think they are definitely being punished for their bad practices. Like Gotham Knights, Red Fall, Saints Row, etc. Games that cost so much that they have potential to shut down studios

Haven’t heard too many people asking for one either

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I’ve never had that thought, but I often think about driving over a curb. I play a lot of racing games too

Question that might sound dumb.

Were they actually this vibrant back then or were they made more vibrant to make up for limitations of a CRT?

Maybe she wants to keep it crunchy 🤷

You must not be outside then

In the communities where this music is popular, there are definitely a lot of classic songs coming out that aren’t just background noise, and they actually turn up the clubs.

To people outside of these communities it might seem like they only survive 5 years, but if you’re inside you’ll recognize patterns in songs that keep coming up and that people listen to the most. That’s what really makes them classics, not just random people on Lemmy deeming them as such.

Bad bunny, El Alfa, Tokischa, Chucky73, RaiwAlejandro, and Daddy Yankee have all been relasing songs that the community will remember for a long time and deem classics. Reggaeton is going through a second, smaller, golden age and it will be remembered.

Your comment sounds a bit racist ngl

Yeah this is one of the things keeping me from using Lemmy as much. I am subscribed to multiple Steam Deck, Patient Gamer, and technology communities and they all have different levels of activity and I see a lot of duplicate posts.

I believe this would help a lot

I didn’t know this. Do you like it?

I got Valheim and I’m loving it.

My friend and I have put in about 90 hours in the last month which is a lot for us considering we only play 2-3 days a week.

Thanks for the recommendation!

If you’re talking about Elder Scrolls Online, then I had the same experience. It’s too repetitive and not satisfying enough

I was just thinking this exact same thing… but about Red Dead Redemption 2. I had to stop playing it because it had no respect for my time.

I’m used to driving to places to start a mission like in all the other GTA games, but in RDR2, it would be about 10 minutes of riding a horse before the real mission started.

The animations take way too long sometimes, and cutscenes and a lot of dialogue are unnecessary and feel like padding. Those 1-2 second animations add up when it’s a 50+hr game

Personally I love that era of graphics tbh. I bought Valheim on the Steam sale just for the jank graphics lol

What’s so different about the first two Baldur’s Gate games? I was thinking about getting the first one on my phone

I haven’t played it, but it’s interesting that it’s too difficult.

A lot of the games I go back to from the NES era are often too difficult for me. I find a lot of them to be unfair and I wonder if the difficulty something that was brought over from the arcade games form right before it

Either that or padding to make the game longer. If that’s the case, I prefer side mission padding because at least that’s usually optional lol

Reminds of me of when I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey and was confused because I had heard great things about the soundtrack, but it was just a bunch of songs I had heard before.

About halfway through the movie I realized that it was an original soundtrack and it was so influential that it became a cliche. 2001: A Space Odyssey was a cliche, not because it followed a saturated trend, but because it itself was copied by everyone else.

AC1’s concept and maybe even story has held up, but you’re right that the later entries feel miles better.

That’s interesting. I either refund them if I struggle a little too much on tutorials, or just leave it in the backlog for later (aka most likely never).

I should try doing that more though because they’re classics for a reason and maybe there’s still fun I can get out of them.

Personally I kinda like that feeling of an empty world sometimes. One of my favorite places in any game is the mall in GTA Vice City.

I can’t explain why though lol

Yeah most older 3D games I’ve tried I just can’t control that well.

A couple years ago I tried playing the original Tomb Raider and geez was that difficult to control. It really makes me appreciate how good the Mario 64 controls were

I can relate

That era of PC gaming has a weird camera that takes a while for me to get used to. Not sure I can pinpoint what is different about it though