I don't think most games are outpacing inflation in terms of their value appreciation on the market. I could be wrong, but I think they're still cheaper when taking inflation into account
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I haven't paid more than 10 bucks for a game in 10 or 15 years and I still have a backlog that I'd prob die before completing. Buying new games seems so pointless in the modern era.
Thinking about what old-new games Cueball might be playing today is giving me depression.
"I used to be an internet poster like you, until I took an arrow to the knee" - Cueball, 2026
That's 15 years not 5
Well, there was the 10th anniversary re-release back in 2021
Guy literally did nothing to stop 9/11
Man, now I desperately wish my C64 and 1541 was still operational. I could go for some 6502 assembly right about now.
Try the Commander X16 then :)
Or the MiSTer, which has an excellent C64 core, among many other cores.
Anon is definitely on to something here. And nevermind the big hits, I bet there's a ton of good games that were overlooked back then.
I admit that I'd have a hard time going back to 2001 3d graphics, though. Looked kinda horrible, depending on how stylized the graphics were.
Depending on the engine, some of those chunky 3D graphics have quite an appealing style. My gaming rig can render eg. Doom3 in 4K at 144 fps with no effort at all - power draw is the same as when the system is asleep. The super-smooth animations on chunky polygons look great, which was never feasible back in the day.
Shame Doom3 isn't a better game - the strong art and engine don't make up for the very mid gameplay.
How does Doom 2016 run on the same rig? Id Tech 6's performance is genuinely incredible for the level of visual fidelity.
Maximum settings at 4K = rock-steady 144 fps. Not in power-saving mode, however! Rig is a Ryzen 9 5900XT cpu paired with a RX6700XT gpu, so probably higher-end but not top-tier.
It is a truly exceptional engine, that's for sure. Have you seen Adrian Courrèges' breakdown of a rendered frame? That tricks that it gets up to to keep things fast and smooth are really impressive.
I think Doom 3 is already in the period where 3d matured enough to not be quite as extreme. If you look at games from 2001 (my go-to 3d game for that period is Gothic 1, which is a good game, despite having somewhat unintuitive controls and badly-aged graphics), the difference to Doom 3 is quite pronounced. Though id always had very good and resource-efficient graphics.
I bet there’s a ton of good games that were overlooked back then.
there's channels that do reviews of such games, like Mandalore Gaming
I'm doing this daily with all my consoles lol. Time travel! No subscription bullshit or drumpf here!
Now if only I could get more people onto the fediverse, and also to Dreamcast online! There's 10s of us!
I am going back to red dead redemption 2, whenever that was. 4k 60fps on my TV with high settings, it looks almost too good 😊
What do you mean going back, that game is brand new.
No game has come close to breathing so much life into a single world
But I need my Silent Hill 2 HD project on PC. It's so good and runs on Linux. Can't have that in 2001
You can have FreeDroid RPG.
Just compromise and play the games that were out at that time. Hardware/system is user choice ;)
I bought an HDMI adapter for my old Wii that'd been sitting on a shelf for years. Fired it up and it still works great! Wii Sports, Mario Kart, Guitar Hero: all entertaining as ever!
I have my original gamecube and games still. Controller got replaced a couple times. With emulation being accessible as it is, I think only a collector (or a speedrunner) would be interested now.
Over the past month, I built an old 5th gen Intel NUC into an emulation station with Batocera, it now plays everything up to and including N64, dream cast and PSX games.
Then I bought a used Wii, threw homebrew and nintendont on it, so it now that handles game cube and wii games.
So many good old games I never had the chance to play growing up (never had any consoles)...
Gaming in the past is pretty damn awesome, especially when you can get just about any game you would want.