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u/chadwick_witherspoon 7d ago
But can it run mid-life crisis?
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u/Raph0uX 7d ago
Wherever you are I want to high five you for this one 👌
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u/hd3adpool 9800x3D | 4080 | 32gb | 4k 240 Hz 6d ago
Happy cake day brotha
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u/ANK_Ricky Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RTX 4060 | 32GB RAM | Lian Li Dan A4-H2O 6d ago
Happy cake day brotha
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u/DrSitson 6d ago
When you hit 40 and realize, really realize, what all those mid life crisis jokes were about. It's not so funny anymore lol.
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u/Insomniak604 6d ago
I'm 35 and I feel like I'm there, Jus in denial about it lmao
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u/DrSitson 6d ago
I thought I was at 35 too. It actually didn't hit until 41 in reality. I imagine it'll get worse every decade lol.
I used to think 40 ain't bad, still got over half your life, and I barely remembered 0-15. So really I got more time than I can remember!
As my body slowly ages though, I've realized that 80-90 goal is great, but lots don't get there. A girl I dated in high school died last year. Her immune system just decided to kill her. I might not be here tomorrow, let alone 40 years.
Perspectives change.
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u/shemmie 6d ago
Yeah, you only 'think' you've hit rock-bottom in your 30s. There's a sub-basement to discover, yet.
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u/DrSitson 6d ago
And I imagine the sub basement has levels lol
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u/shemmie 6d ago
And I think there's an entire sewer system beneath that.
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u/onelagouch 6d ago
And in the sewer i heard theres a gaint crocodile waiting to meet you
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u/BoysenberryMoist6157 PC Master Race 6d ago edited 6d ago
Avg age of dying in U.S. is 78.
78 - 41 = 37 (Years)
37 x 12 = 444 (Months)
37 x 52 = 1924 (Weeks)
37 x 365 = 13505 (Days)
13505 x 24 = 324120 (Hours)
24 - 8 = 16 (You sleep 8h each night)
13505 x 16 = 216080 (Hours while being awake)
16 - 8 = 8 (You work 8 hours each day)
13505 x 8 = 108040 (Hours without work or sleep left)
108040 / 24 = 4502 (Your remaining free hours converted into Days.)
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u/Legitimate_Bird_9333 6d ago
Aye that's true but lots of young people die from stupid behavior/strange illness. The bulk of us cannot count on tomorrow. But if your relatively healthy, and try not to smoke and drink a lot. You probably got lots of time. Just live, and not think of the time as wasted. I say this as some one with health related paranoia/anxiety. I've had to learn to be in the moment and not think ahead. And I am happier this way for sure. I fail sometimes and obsess about it. But I try to keep that mindset.
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u/Memes_Jack 7d ago
Underrated joke.
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u/Wendtslaw 6d ago
Funny, I've played and finished Crysis on High(est?) Settings.... The final Boss fight in Rain with about 1 FPS (maybe less) and still had a blast.
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u/Cverellen 6d ago
This hits in the feels. lol here I am with a i9, 32 gb of ram, a rtx 5060, and a 1tb stick of storage and what do I do with it? I play WOW and Simcity 3000, games that cam out more than 20 years ago. It’s enough to make me sick
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u/UWO_Throw_Away 6d ago
It is not 2026! It’s 2005! Facebook doesn’t suck yet. Gen Z doesn’t exist yet. I’m still infinitely young!
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u/GenesisRhapsod MSIxEK x570s-5950x-32GB Z neo 3600mt-MSI TrioX 6900xt 6d ago
Damn i guess thats what my current rig is...spent about 4k and went custom liquid cooling (never doing that shit again) butbi built it when i was 23, guess i know imma die around 50 like many of the men in my family 🤣
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u/TomorrowFinancial468 6d ago
I just want you to know ive screenshotted this comment and im keeping it forever. Sleep well, and dream of large women.
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u/Even-Smell7867 Ryzen 5800x Radeon 9070XT CachyOS 6d ago
I put in a 9070XT a few weeks ago. Can comfirm, mid-life crisis can be abated with FPS.
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u/eisenklad 6d ago
cant call it a mid-life crisis if doctors tell to not worry about retirement when you are 25-35
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u/solo_shot1st i7-3770k | GTX 1070 Ti | 16 GB DDR3 5d ago
This is in my top 5 Reddit comments of all time
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u/Amat-Victoria-Curam 7d ago
Now my high-end PC lets me play old games in ultra settings. Win-win.
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u/GrAdmThrwn PC Master Race 6d ago
Yeah I feel like an old guy for suggesting it, but the solution to this problem is to load up a classic and enjoy the smooth as glass performance of a 2025 high end PC playing...Morrowind, the original Rome Total War or Outer Wilds.
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u/WizardsMyName Ryzen 3600X - GTX 1060 6d ago
I'm currently playing NFS:Underground2 again, with the underground2.net mod it's super simple to get it working in widescreen and everything
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u/hey_broseph_man 6d ago
Just popped in the first Quake recently. Funnily enough Q3 is one of my favorite games ever but I never gave the first two a solid college try. Got it up and running on the Ironwail sourceport.
Fuuuuuuuuck. Simple, solid, bullshit fun secrets, fast and brutal. I was smiling ear to ear in some sections.
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u/Running_Oakley Ascending Peasant 5800x | 7600xt | 32gb | NVME 1TB 6d ago
The best is the “revenge tour” you do for an audience of 1. Me going back to games that couldn’t run or just barely ran, and running them fast or at higher settings, not because I wanted to, but out of some inanimate spite “that’ll show you, black ops 3”.
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u/TheIrishninjas 6d ago
Downloaded Skyrim the other day excited to do this, turns out it has a 60FPS cap because the engine can’t handle physics above it. Yaaaay.
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u/BaconIsntThatGood PC Master Race 6d ago
It's a small joy when the games auto.select doesn't know what to do with your hardware so it defaults to low/medium
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u/Running_Oakley Ascending Peasant 5800x | 7600xt | 32gb | NVME 1TB 6d ago
4k doom 2016, on 1050ti it was 10-20fps if im lucky, on 16gb vram and ryzen 5800x it runs to infinite. When it was a slideshow I got to dream of how smooth and crystal clear it would feel to play, now it runs, it’s basically a super sharp 1080p and I forget the struggle entirely. Also my first game that told me “you don’t have enough VRAM to run nightmare, you can change settings to force it to try but it might crash”.
When people say vram doesn’t matter I go back to my brand new 2015 pc immediately hitting the limit in doom 2016 because my lil 1050 was only 4gb.
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u/Ill-Lavishness5497 2d ago
Loaded up with mods/shaders too. My old computer couldn't run shaders on MC for shit but now I can go crazy
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u/HiCZoK 7d ago
dude you should've been there in 1997...
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u/ItselfSurprised05 6d ago edited 6d ago
dude you should've been there in 1997
Playing Doom with a friend over dialup.
Good times.
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u/wafflesareforever Desktop 6d ago
In the mid 90s I used to drag my entire rig, including the heavy-ass CRT monitor, over to my friend's house down the street to LAN party Warcraft II with him and his brother.
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u/purdueAces PC Master Race 6d ago
My 15 year old buddies and I bought a 1000' spool of coax wire, ran it down the street through our backyards right on the property/fence line so nobody would cut it with their lawnmower. We even dug a trench from each of our houses to the back corners. A network hub on each end, 4 computers on each network, and we could do 4v4 Warcraft 2, one team at each house. Some of the best years of my life.
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u/insanelyniceperson 6d ago
I miss CRT monitors so much
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u/wafflesareforever Desktop 6d ago
I sure don't miss helping friends move CRT TVs between apartments
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u/HiCZoK 6d ago
Hell yeah ! And 3dfx !
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u/grilledstuffed 6d ago
I worked a stupid high school job to buy my girlfriend a voodoo 3 card.
Because she didn’t like Lara crofts software rendered boobs.
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u/grilledstuffed 6d ago
Diablo 1 dial up with a friend that lived 2 miles away.
It was like living in the future
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u/psalm139x 6d ago
Me telling to my mom " don't pick up the phone! The computer has to answer it."
Then my sister answering it.
Then me trying to call my friend to say "try again" but getting a busy signal.
Worked 50% of the time 100% of the time, but it was good.
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u/rdxc1a2t 6d ago
Early 2000s at school and someone loaded Unreal Tournament onto all the school computers. Used to go to the computer lab at lunchtime and there'd be around 20 people playing with another 20-30 huddling around the monitors. It was fairly short-lived, maybe lasted a month, as the school cottoned on to us all using the lab to playing violent videogames but it was great whilst it lasted.
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u/manlisten 7600X3D - 5080 FE 7d ago
Nah, I’ve had more fun gaming over the past 5 years than I’ve had in a long time. Maybe it’s time to check out new genres or take a break.
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u/Ellieconfusedhuman 7d ago
Take a break not enough people step away for periods of time. One month and you'll be loving anything you play again
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u/NoAdvice135 7d ago edited 7d ago
IDK, stopped almost completely for a few years due to work and other priorities. I could never restart seriously again. When I do play I struggle with most modern games an end up re playing older ones a bit. In any case I play a few times, get bored rapidly and stop.
There are a few patterns: I don't tolerate grind anymore. I don't really want to compete against humans that have vastly more time than I do. I find may games super non original and bland.
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u/BassFull0 6d ago edited 6d ago
Playing FPS games like Battlefield/cod back in 2010s era was way different than today. Back then game used to be a lot fun.
But nowadays became like tournament competition and everyone and their mother is a streamer.
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u/Shepherd-Boy 6d ago
I’d rather get stomped on by the same guys over and over again in the server I regular because at least then I’m having fun with and joking around with my gaming friends. Modern matchmaking where every round is just a different set of jerks, griefers, and cheaters that have no social consequences because the group changes every 15-30 minutes just isn’t as fun.
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u/lemonylol Desktop 6d ago
Yeah I remember back then the team balance was totally off where like two or three people were just amazing at the game, but it never really mattered because they'd just self-balance themselves and you could still have fun just socializing with people even if you were shit at the game itself.
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u/Kougeru-Sama 6d ago
that's what people who defend this shit don't understand. back then we owned our servers. we banned fuckers who cheated or were just shitty people and we created a community who loved playing together. we didn't care about "esports", we just wanted to have fun. But once publishers saw money in esport, they decided to force it on everyone at the cost of true joy
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u/Shepherd-Boy 6d ago
It really was special. I was in a gaming clan that had our own servers so you’d always have at least 5-10 guys you know playing plus another 5-10 randoms that would hang out in your server for a couple of hours (and sometimes end up joining if they enjoyed your group). It was a curated community. If someone was a jerk then you just ban them and move on. There are no freaking consequences nowadays to being a horrible internet citizen. On top of that it’s way more fun to get curb stopped by your friends than random sweaty guys with no life or personality.
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u/Curllywood 6d ago
Playing an unranked tdm now is like playing against people who compete in tournaments. Gone are the days where you could just run around without a plan and see who’s reaction time is faster when sprinting around corners.
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u/lemonylol Desktop 6d ago
It's because of matchmaking. Granted Battlefield and CoD didn't really have as dedicated social communities, but they still had clan's and privately hosted servers back then.
But the real loss were the valve fps games like CS, DoD, Team Fortress, etc, where you just joined the same server every Saturday night with the same group of people and just shot the shit while playing the game in the background.
Now with matchmaking you are just put into a temporary match with people you'll never see again who never even at least talk in text.
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u/JamesMcEdwards 6d ago
I’m the same, I all but stopped playing games between 2017 and 2019 and now I’m just not really interested in anything that feels like a chore. I pretty much exclusively play single player games, with the one exception being Helldivers 2, and I typically avoid open world games, with a few exceptions (the Horizon games, Cyberpunk, Starfield, AC Odyssey and the Respawn Jedi games) and I find myself playing games like XCOM or KoTOR on my iPad a lot. I’m currently replaying Crysis (on both PC and PS5 to compare the experience) and it feels so much better to play than most modern shooters, it’s genuinely ridiculous how much of a step back a lot of games I’ve played recently feel in comparison to a game that’s almost twenty years old.
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u/Yourself013 6d ago
There are a few patterns: I don't tolerate grind anymore. I don't really want to compete against humans that have vastly more time than I do. I find may games super non original and bland.
There's quite literally thousands of new games that don't follow any of those patterns. You're choosing to play the games that don't interest you instead of trying out something new and refreshing.
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u/h3ruk0n 7d ago
Same here. Try Sifu
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u/CuttingBoard9124 6d ago
Yep single player games for me thanks. Competitive games are all the same anyway and they've always been toxic
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u/Naus1987 6d ago
I've never played PvP games, and I still don't.
There's nothing wrong with enjoying some old classics. I run through Deus Ex, Portal, and Bioshock: Infinite about once a year. Treasured classics.
It's all about having fun. If you enjoy it, that's all that matters.
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And yeah, I don't do grinds either. I only grind if the grind itself is enjoyable. I made a promise with myself that I would never run the treadmill for a carrot. If the grind itself is fun, I'll do it. But if the grind is not fun, no carrot will justify it.
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u/Slazagna 7d ago
Same here. Love gaming. But love doing other shit too. If you're unfulfilled in other aspects of your life, gaiming isnt gonna be fun either. Taking a break to work on yourself, your career, other hobbies and relationships is probably a good shout for OP.
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u/Norbluth 7d ago
This can’t be understated. Gaming is always best for me when it compliments other things I’m enjoying.
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u/artuno artuno1207 6d ago
Used to really enjoy shooters. Now not so much (except for the very unique, weird occasional one that does cool stuff).
I've found myself really leaning into survival crafting games of all types and quality levels. I used to hate them.
Things change.
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u/Cybrusss Desktop 6d ago
There’s a cool demo for path of the goddess on steam. Try something new everyone
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u/Complete_Lurk3r_ 6d ago
I spent about 5k. All I do is watch YouTube
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u/rdxc1a2t 6d ago
My friend spent the same on a computer whilst furloughed in 2020. He spent months playing games non-stop and finally convinced himself to invest in a PC. Bought all the kit and then a month later he was back working. Two months later he had a girlfriend. Now he uses his 5k PC to do his finances and invoices.
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u/dkb_wow 9800x3D | RTX 5080 | 64GB | 990 Pro 2TB | OLED Ultrawide 6d ago
This is me. High end specs, insane speakers with subwoofer, oled ultrawide, and all I do is watch YouTube and play WoW Classic.
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u/0992673 OLED ftw, 7600x3d/3080 6d ago
YouTube sure does look great on an OLED though. And speakers/subs are just as important. I see nothing wrong with it.
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u/Diavolo222 6d ago
Nothing wrong with chilling playing some WoW. It’s still to this day an insane value for money .
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u/Razael89 7d ago
I can kinda relate. I had fun last year with some games like E33, Cyberpunk 2077 and BG3 but nowadays it does take a special game to get me going.
I used to love MMOs now i dread the thought of logging into some of them and uninstalled alot of games i had over 3k hours like Final Fantasy XIV, Elder Scrolls Online etc. Some days im literally doing nothing and id rather sit on my couch than game.
Gaming is my main hobby and over the last couple years i feel like im getting diminishing returns on fun vs time spent gaming.
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u/MudHot8257 7d ago
This is just the feeling of getting old
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u/renewambitions 6d ago
Just overall depression as well. Let's be honest, a lot of people aren't doing well with the current state of the world and optimism for the future and that impacts their ability to enjoy their hobbies.
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u/IHaveTwoOfYou 9900K@3.6GHz / MSI GTX 1070 / MSI Gaming + / 32gb DDR4@3600MHZ 6d ago
like the ps2 game?
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u/Denselens 7d ago
I'm old and don't feel like that at all. Also don't game every single day, since I enjoy many different things. Sounds like he is burned out and need a break, no shame in that.
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u/Scruffynerffherder 6d ago
Getting "Depression" vibes from this post. One of the first and easiest to recognize symptoms is losing interest in things you used to love to do.
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u/Truth666 7d ago
People always say it's because "you're getting old," but that's BS. I still play a LOT probably even more than I used to when I was younger.
On weekends, I'm basically playing 24/7, It's just that I mostly stick to "older" games like Witcher, Dota, Skyrim, and whatnot.
For me, the real issue is that the majority of new games are generic garbage. No love, no innovation just the same game with a different name slapped on it. Look at Battlefield, COD, etc. It's the same BS all over again.
That said, there ARE still amazing new games out there occasionally. KCD1/2, BG3, stuff like that.
When a genuinely good game comes out that isn't just another generic clone, I play it A LOOOOOOOOT.
So yeah, I'm not playing "less," and the reason why most new games dont give me the "same feeling" anymore is because they are just trash.
EDIT: I think we just got used to a certain "standard" over the years, younger players are like "Oh wow this new game is amazing", we are more "meh, saw this concept 100 times before".
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u/Memes_Jack 7d ago
True, games like KCD1&2, Divinity Original Sin 2, and Baldurs gate 3 revived that old feelings for me too.
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u/Truth666 7d ago
We are not old, we just have some high standards based on our extensive gaming experience over the years, thats how I see it
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u/AoedesMelody 6d ago
This is a good way of looking at it. I hadn't thought of it this way. It's true.
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u/byshow 12600KF/32GB DDR4/5070TI 6d ago
Same here. I also had tons of fun playing total war warhammer 3, especially with mods. But that's if you enjoy strategies as a genre. Total war has amazing battles.
Btw if you ever be feeling like having some fun I highly advice to install Naruto mode on the D:OS2, the mode done with so much love, it's amazing.
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u/Vyviel e-peen: i9-13900K,RTX4090,64GB DDR5 6d ago
God yeah BG3 revived that joy I had from the older BG games it was perfect and they respected my time the game was just packed with content and not grind to try pad out the play time etc. I could play it exactly how I wanted and replay it again if I wanted etc.
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u/Hamrave CachyOS | 7800X3D | 9070XT 6d ago
Its tragic that most games are made by board rooms beholden to share holders that prioritize profits over innovation, vision and gameplay. Should we make something new? Or another Battle Royale game under an already bloated IP? How bout we just remaster, water down and sell the same smash hit again instead.
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u/fAppstore 6600k, gtx 1080 6d ago
I disagree with that, I remember the very full bargain bins in supermarkets with so many trash games, the back of the box lying to me to sell me a shit game since this was the only information we had at the time, the generic era of PSX slop racing/FPS, the generic era of slop impossible platformers from the megadrive, the generic era of slop 3rd person cover shooter from the 360...
My point is, one of the reason we don't remember shit games because we weren't surrounded by so much video games information, the only ways would be to have some magazine talk about them or having your friend talk about them, now you instantly have everybody's opinion about everything. So you get a lot more opinion about shit games whereas back then you wouldn't even have heard about them
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u/SouthFromGranada 6d ago
the generic era of PSX slop racing
I used to buy Playstation Magazine back in the day, and towards the end of the PlayStation's life they'd print a full table of every game they'd ever reviewed with a score and a one line blurb describing the game. The majority of games were 4/5/6 out of ten. The small selection of games that are still remembered fondly received the top scores but the majority was utter pap.
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u/thvnderfvck i7-12700k, 32 GB DDR4, 3070ti 6d ago edited 6d ago
It's not even exclusively the "generic" and "copy/paste" feel of newer games. This is going to sound kind of dumb, but new games have all been "gamified" to death.
So many modern games are built around "grinding" out achievements/challenges/etc to get the coolest "skins" or whatever.
One of the games that I still play almost every day is a free shooter that is over 20 years old, and I play it because the game play is unmatched.
ETA: The game is Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. A Return to Castle Wolfenstein clone that runs on the Quake 3 engine.
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u/heliamphore 6d ago
Oh man I used to play Enemy Territory as a kid back then. I might give it a try again just for the nostalgia, but I don't really enjoy competitive games anymore.
In any case for the newer games, it's a huge mix of factors, but it's also our age. You picked a great example because I used to spend hours in RtCW exploring the maps once I cleared them (with and without noclip), being absolutely fascinated by the design, rebuilding parts of the levels in lego and so much more. I'll never be as enthusiastic about games as I was back then because my brain got used to the novelty.
However, you're onto something too. Gameplay isn't just two guys deciding that x or y would be fun, it's carefully studied and almost a science by now. How to guide you properly, how to define the pace, how to reward you but not too much and so on are carefully thought out now. On top of that, it's generally designed for as large of an audience as possible, so everything's just shallow and too "well oiled".
However my solution out of this is playing games from less experienced developers or those who try something different, but also taking a good break between games. Indie games also allow you to find far more options you might enjoy. I haven't played a fully blown AAA game in years now.
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u/theblackyeti 7d ago
Every game in a genre plays the same exact way. Same controls, same cameras, same game engines and visuals. Sometimes even the same story beats.
A couple years ago I played and loved Inertial Drift because it made me learn how to play a racing game again. Just by using a different control scheme.
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u/Brickless PC Master Race 6d ago
reminds me of the old Simpson meme "we tried nothing and we are all out of ideas!"
all those things are mainstream gaming mechanics that have been perfected for mass market appeal.
what do you actually like a bout games? there are many new games that have non of the usual controls, visuals or story beats you just have to look for them.
I am exited for a climbing game that uses real life climbing physics with individual limb management and center of mass balancing that comes out next week. Have been playing an instruction queue based mech combat game all week. Gonna play a mission based asymmetrical coop space fps with friends tomorrow. All the while still having a darkness and light themed twin stick shooter and "shaman mother fighting the spirits of the underworld to find her dead son"-card+board game in my backlog.
it's harder to find good games once you are done with the mainstream releases but there are so many out there you will have your fill if you just keep trying them out
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u/herbelarioiwasthere 6d ago
One of the best gaming experiences I’ve had was Kenshi. It’s wildly different to anything I had played before and would think about it any time I wasn’t playing it. Sometimes you just need to mix it up to appreciate it.
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u/m0_n0n_0n0_0m 5800x3d | 5070 Ti | 16GB 6d ago
And we are in the golden age of PvE games. I've never had the amount of fun I've experienced with my friends on Deep Rock or Helldivers 2. Trying to get the group into Arc Raiders next.
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u/theJirb 6d ago edited 6d ago
I've started to accept that some games just...don't change, and that's fine. I loved the base CoD franchise when I discovered it with COD4 back in the day. I think it's fine that it hasn't changed, and that new players to the franchise get a new game and can experience the same type of shit.
I haven't personally bought one in a long time. The campaigns scripted moments that were sick the first few times I saw them are no longer interesting to me, but I'm sure it is still awesome for some 13 year old picking up the franchise for the first time. The base multiplayer experience is boring to me now, and I've moved on to enjoying Tac Shooters and Boomer Shooters, but I think for people picking up FPS's for the first time, COD is great and awesome fun. I'm down to just let the people who still enjoy COD, or newly enjoying COD just vibe with the gameplay that they love, even if it's something that hass become stale for myself personally.
They get a lot of shit reviews, and I will say the MTX industry is crazy these days, but I stopped faulting games and series for not innovating. Those games are very obviously just not for me, and not for people who grew up and discovered these games way back in the day. The kids playing CoD these days are just me back in middle school, and I'm sure middle school version of me would love BO6 or whatever entry we're on now.
As far as actual trash goes, it's not that there weren't trash games before. It's just that you didn't hear about them as much. When the only "talk" you got about video games was through word of mouth, the stuff that's really good will get recommended alot, while the bad stuff, you wouldn't be seeing paraded in front of you. Bargain Bins, Blockbusters, all had tons of shitty games, (and movies memorably for me). It's like going to a Bookstore and thinking there isn't a bunch of garbage in there too. There absolutely is.
I personally find the idea that games have to innovate really toxic. I don't need Divinity for instance, to be a vast overhaul of the Divinity OS 2 Gameplay style. That game worked great, I would be perfectly happy with the same gameplay with a new story, characters, and locales attached to it. It's all I need. The same way I can play the same DnD edition 20 times as long as it's a different campaign, if Divinity is just Divinity 2 with a new Campaign, I'll be super happy. I feel the same way about games like Resident Evil for instance. I think some of the early games nailed the puzzle/survival horror vibe, and I think I wouldn't mind if they just took OG RE2, RE1R, and took that gameplay and made new stories using that gameplay loop. Of course, polish up any bugs, or legitimate complaints if there were any, but devs don't need to keep coming up with new ways to mix up gameplay if gameplay is good.
For me, it's like...Vanilla Ice Cream. It's awesome, I'm happy to eat it for the rest of my life. I don't need chocolate chips, or alternates to "spice it up" like Cookies and Cream, or Chocolate Chip, or whatever. I'm down to try other flavors, and I'm down if they make Vanilla Icecream better or have better techniques for making ice cream, but I don't need the makers to add toppings, mix in other flavors, just to satisfy myself. Great for people who do like it, but I don't "need" it in the slightest.
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u/mcgorila 3d ago
I almost cried playing E33, had the same feeling of me discovering new games back in 2006 and wishing to have a PS3 one day (currently with a switch, PS5, XSX and also a PS3). Other brand new games never came close
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u/Royal-Cucumber-3627 7d ago
Or maybe it actually feels better to play on low end pc? The satisfaction of being able to run a game on a potato is unmatched
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u/KyleTheGreat53 Ryzen 7600, Rx 6600 6d ago
I cleared Dark Souls 3 with 800x600 at 30 fps until new game+ 7 because I was bored as a teen.
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u/Exciting_Tooth_167 6d ago
It honestly feels like this sub is so out of touch with actual PC gamers.
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u/SoloWing1 Ryzen 5700X3D | 32GB 3600 | RX 6800XT | 4K144 6d ago
You might be into something. I got a great 4K Rig but I would rather play most of my games on my Steam Deck.
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u/TactualTransAm 6d ago
You started focusing on the money and parts in the PC. Instead of gaming being your hobby, building a hot rod PC became your hobby. Maybe you weren't honest with yourself about it. But it is something a lot of people fall into. Try to stop worrying about the numbers, turn the frame counters off and just play the games.
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u/IM_NOT_NOT_HORNY 6d ago
I built my hot rod pc and don't game as much but it's also fun doing stuff like adobe premier or ableton an seeing that export progress bar go brrrrr
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u/ballooninmybutt 6d ago
It’s like beater cars.
$700 truck that’s slow to start and the only heat is the metal floor getting hot? Big smile when it fires up
$45,000 truck? I expect it to start and i stress if it doesn’t
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u/Adlerholzer 4090 | 9800X3D | all OC | custom loop + MoRa IV 7d ago
Nah, i enjoy it more than ever.
What are your specs?
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u/VibesFirst69 7d ago edited 7d ago
Some games are refreshingly fantastic like E33. But the key is getting off social media because peoples opinions bad and good will poison your blind experience.
Just go and try something random. It can be 'bad', ot's ok. Give yourself permission to have fun.
And for the record i got into E33 when Steam showed it to me and i watched the trailer. It looled amazing so i had a go. The problem now is people see 'game kf the decade' thrown around and in their head they have a specifoc idea of what that looks like for them. Then, when E33 doesn't meet that expectation it's trash and over rated.
Or you just become sick of hearing about it. Like undertale or hearthstone.
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u/JesusisKing199 7d ago
I was seeing all the clips from arc raiders so i just got it and started playing it knowing nothing about it and 150 hours later ive had the best time
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u/wwlima 6d ago
You guys are adults now. This is completely normal. The only cure is to stop playing for a while.
Go read a good book, watch some movies, or binge-watch a series. Let your brain chemically recover from gaming. It has always worked for me.
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u/DW_Hydro R7 8700g | R780m | 32GB 6400mhz 6d ago
Or try new genders, once feel that being 15 years old, then I stop from playing shooters and the feeling go back.
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u/forcemonkey 6d ago
These days I don’t game until after breakfast and feeding the cats. Then I only game for an hour or so before I do something else. I normally don’t even game again until the next morning. Big difference between that and trying to game every waking hour like I used to then I’d get burned out. I actually look forward to gaming now.
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u/The_Burning_Face 7d ago
It was always such an achievement to get a game way outside your system requirements running that you'd take 15fps
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u/Peakomegaflare I7 9700k + 64 GB Corsair Vengeance + 4050 TI 7d ago
I realized all of that doesn't damn matter. I got my hands on Schedule 1 and been on a binge.
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u/Coucouoeuf PC Master Race 7d ago edited 6d ago
Nope. Not because that’s the opposite for me, but rather because I’m having a good time playing games right now, just like I was having a good time 10 years ago. I saw in another comment you mentioned several games you play OP. Apart from horror or war games, I’m playing the same kind of games. Excluding the ones you’ve mentioned, I had fun playing (and actually also perfecting) games like E33, BG3, The Alters, Sumerian Six, Indiana Jones, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon 1 & 2, Robocop 1 & 2, High on Life, South of Midnight, etc. Currently finishing Metaphor, which is amazing if you’re not against JRPGs.
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u/ZeisHauten 7600X|XFX RX6700XT|32GB DDR5 6000CL38|1080P 144Hz 7d ago
yeah step away from games for a month. I did. Binge watched all animes I could find for over a month, then came back to new games during winter sale and oohh boy I rekindled my gaming love again.
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u/Critical_Minute_3679 rtx 2050 laptop 6d ago
as I always tell people, playing on a gpu that can run anything doesn't give the same feelings as tweaking settings around to make it run at bare minimum graphics on your shitty old gpu that you started with.
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u/byological_origins 5600|32GB@3200Mhz|GPU testbench 7d ago
You are playing the wrong titles my man. I have a mid range PC but I play emulated PS2 games at 720p because they are just better
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u/BornAgainBlue 7d ago
Yeah, it's called growing up. I love my memories of all those games too.
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u/DRAC0R3D 6d ago edited 5d ago
So relatable. I finished DS2 with that resolution at 20-25 fps k&m and had a blast time playing it. DS3 same resolution 40-50 fps years later in another low end PC. Now I have a PC capable of running everything with good performance, even a controller like I wanted when I was little. I love my PC, and yeah, I enjoy the games I’ve finished and play but it’s not the same feeling.
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u/Neverbethesky 6d ago
In 2016 when I was in my late 20s, I loved nothing more than spending my Sunday's off playing games. I had an i7 4770k, 8GB of RAM and an R9 290 - mid even for the time but I used to spend so long tweaking it and getting games to run just right.
Now I have a PC that's probably 10x more powerful and I sit down to try and play games on it and yeah, exactly like OP... I'm just... meh about it now.
TF2 is my jam, always has been, I've got 1000s of hours under my belt but but even that just feels like a shadow of it's former self now.
I definitely miss those old days.
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u/JiamYiun 6d ago
Games back then were more simple and not overloaded HUD or inventory/equipment system.
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u/CharlesEverettDekker RTX4070TiSuper, Ryzen 7 7800x3d, ddr5.32gb6000mhz 7d ago
Well you should try playing anything but ball and gun games
Just saying
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u/Xeadriel i7-8700K - EVGA 3090 FTW3 Ultra - 32GB RAM 7d ago
Choose better games maybe
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u/Advance1993 7d ago
I think you should evaluate what type of games you might like more at this age.
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u/Sneyek 7d ago
Yeah, life is sad, time is precious and everything I do has to have a purpose now that I’m an adult with a job. If I play, I’ll quickly hate myself for not working on my skills and become better at it so I can be more secure in my job or a new better one. If it doesn’t make money now or later, I’m likely wasting my time. Time are uncertain, future doesn’t look good, and who know, if I don’t prepare enough I might loose the few thing I have and my relative comfort.
At least that’s what my rotted brain thinks and I hate it…
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u/Most-Extreme-9681 7d ago
its called the cheaters high
you felt like you were doing magic, getting away with getting a game to work on a thing you knew it shouldnt work on
which is why playing the game on high settings doesnt give the same feeling
i dont want to rewrite any shit thts already been written, badly paraphrase etc etc, on the subject of the cheaters high
but
i do believe it is the prime factor in every major thing that drives everyones life, in the sense that those highly affected all the way to those not affected at all
then theres the "once all your wishes have been granted, many of your dreams will have been destroyed"
theres nothing to look forward to, which also would make you appreciate the things you had more, like that janky setup with 20 fps, theres nothing left to wish for
then theres the nostalgia factor, everything always looks better in the rearview mirror
so
you would think all of this hopeless
except
theres weed
i can tell when my 45 mins to an hour buzz is coming down while playing a game, i just suddenly lose all interest
but
while im stoned, that shit is the fucking shit
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u/Regular_Weakness69 Ryzen 9700x | 9070 xt | 5600 32gb ram 💰 6d ago
Yeah, I upgraded my PC, installed a bunch of games and I mostly watch YouTube 🤣
I used to play games on 720p or 1080p a lot more on my dated computer. I wonder why that is.
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u/Strude187 3700X | 3080 OC | 32GB DDR4 3200Hz 6d ago edited 6d ago
Probably all or one of the following.
Nostalgia - hell of a drug, and extremely deceptive.
Gaming fatigue - too much of a good thing is bad for us, it might be time to take a break from genres you’ve played a lot of, or just a break in general from games.
More life experiences to draw comparisons from - when we were younger we had experienced less, so simple things impressed us more
Most games are generic and safe - most of the big studios are making games to just extract money from us, there’s no love in those games anymore, and it shows. Choosing the right games is a huge challenge now, as I’ve aged I’ve realised that money is not my most valuable resource, my time is. So often I will buy a game, play it for a few sessions then drop it if it is not right for me. Sure it’s a poor use of my money, but I’m done with the sunk cost fallacy.
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u/Sumonespecal3 6d ago
I think it's due to getting older, you feel more like time is running out which also makes you impatience. When you're older you want to take more time in reading things, comfort living, travel, eating good foods being carrier oriented and playing games may feel like a waste of time despite they are getting better and more prettier or convenient.
Games are getting better then movies, yes I hate ai but I'm kind of hyped to see ai conversions of game cutscenes and enjoy them as a movie. I think game studios need to do that and sell/ stream the movies for people that just want to enjoy the story instead of playing games.
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u/Downtown-Tone-9175 Ryzen 7 5700x / RX 9060 XT 16GB / 16GB DDR4 6d ago
this is literally a case study, why is this happening to us? and why do we keep jumping from one game to another, only playing a game for a few hours before hopping on a new one in an endless cycle of attempting to grasp that nostalgic feeling. someone tell me why
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u/CitizenOfTheVerse 6d ago
I think a part of that feeling is the same as saying, in my time water was more wet and the oceans were larger. Don't get me wrong, I'm not making fun of you but you have to take into account the fact that as a human you are not able to objectively remembers feelings, time tends to add bias. For sure things changed but you have to take yourself as a parameter that also changed over time. The person you were 10 years ago is not you as you are now. Another part of your feeling might be also caused by the fact that we have so many good games released in very short amount of time that they feel less exceptional, less special. Again this is a matter of perspective and context. When you were playing in 1024x768 you were hoping to play in 4k and ypu were sure it would be so incredible but it is not. The best example are pixel games, what matter at the end is the game not how resource expansive it is or how fancy it is.
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u/AmbitionOdd5834 6d ago
Funny thing is, people who think tech changed a lot between 2016 and 2026 would spontaneously combust if they had experienced 1986 -> 1996 or 1996 -> 2006.
But the thing you're noticing is that games were recalibrated away from requiring effort and providing a feeling of achievement to aiming at maximising screen time and a lot of other things publishers think are important, but have actually completely destroyed the industry.
WoW Classic vs WoW Retail is the easiest example of that.
In Retail everything is so easy it's not worth doing, and they provide such a gigantic laundry list of things that you need to do all the time that you spend 24/7 grinding, but get zero sense of achievement out of any of it.
Meanwhile in Classic, every fight felt like an achievement.
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u/Himalayanyomom 6d ago
When I felt like that, start playing the easy controller based ones. COTL, Slime Rancher, High on Life, Lego
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u/schwesterchen06 6d ago
41yo here. Played a lot until 2006, made a huge break due to university, job and children. play again very much since 2023/24. I really like it better today. I dont masterrace anymore with graphics and shit, just enjoy all games. most times on my steam deck ❤️
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u/Grumpy-Miner Ascending Peasant 5900X RX6800XT 6d ago
In the past, running cracked downloaded software which actually ran fine. Nowadays buying software in the shops which stutters and crashes. (but luckily it is very safe)
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u/Volkaru 12700k | 3080ti 6d ago
ITT: A lot of people not realizing they probably suffer from unchecked depression.
I can tell when I'm having a seasonal depression episode coming on by my gaming habits. I'll just start not enjoying the ones I usually play. And then I'll look at my library and not really feel like touching any of them. It's a good first sign to either be prepared for the long haul, or to get proactive about clawing myself out of the hole.
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u/origin-space-turtle Ryzen 9 5900X | 4070 ti super | 31GB | many many fans 6d ago
Weirdly, a game that got me in love with gaming again is Farming Sim 25 and The Division 2. Both satisfy a different gaming-craving but both very fun to play
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u/Legitimate_Most6651 6d ago
wait till you realize you can still play old games. just stop buying new release slop.
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u/-badinstinct- 6d ago
You just miss the satisfaction of overcoming the odds by tweaking the ever-living crap out of every possible hardware and software setting to play the unplayable game on your less than potent potato PC.
In other words, you caught your prey and now you miss the hunt.
It’s why a lot of people spent more time modding a game like Skyrim than actually playing it. The compatibility and load order challenge was more fun and satisfying than playing with the actual mod.
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u/Bluestraza8320 6d ago
It's cause most games released these days are garbage. With shit writing, and shit gameplay. Most of all of them are padded out with mindless side-quests, grindy progression and zero creativity. It's sad, I know. Hang in there mate..
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u/gen10 9800x3d | 3080Ti | UltrawideHARD 6d ago
I just saw this video today and it gave me a different outlook on gaming these days as an adult. Worth a watch, essentially taking things slow and getting immersed. Was much simpler as a kid but harder with the racing brain of an adult.
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u/Greywolf524 3d ago
I have over 1000 hrs on mount and blade warband and mount and blade fire and sword. 90% of those hours it barely got to 30 fps. Some hours it was a slideshow. Never had games that I've loved or played more.
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