The older I get, the narrower my taste in games becomes. It isn't for lack of trying, either. I constantly download new shit, but nothing ever sticks. I've come to the conclusion that there is an incredibly small handful of games actually worth playing and almost all of them are made by Nintendo, Blizzard, id Software or Capcom. If I had to name a few in no particular order:
>Diablo 2
>StarCraft
>WarCraft 3
>Ocarina of Time
>Resident Evil 4
>DOOM
>Quake 3
All of these games are 10/10 solid gold classics with endless gameplay and lively communities. Playing anything else just feels like buying store brand. I realize most of you are both gay and moronic, and you're going to try and argue that your average everyday nipshit JRPG, crusty 2D platformer or Sony movie game is ackshually worth playing, but I'm afraid you're wrong. There's just no reason to spend time playing tons of "little" games when you could be playing the gigaludo. Reflect upon this, and you'll see that I'm right.
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I don't disagree at all. There are other games worth playing, but the absolute peak games are so much better than the rest, and so obviously have a level of passion, thought and care put into them that finding new ways to spend time with them and explore their rich potential is more worth while than finding a new novel game that's good enough to pass the time with, but which clearly isn't going to have that same impact on you. I seriously want to get the modding scene for Ocarina to take off for this reason and am personally getting involved there because the untapped potential there is immense.
New games are harder to find nowadays because fewer are being produced because it takes more developers to make each game and more time to release all thanks to graphics autism that also lead to more bugs. Even the remasters of old games suck, only fan mods make a real improvement to these games.
Lots of games are worth playing once or twice but very few have that gold standard you can always go back to
Not really. It's just a part of getting older. You attach yourself to what you have nostalgia for.
If you had nostalgia for Fortnite, you would say that about Fortnite. (and alot of people will someday)
No, that's not how that works at all, that was a pretty braindead take
>no argument
No, yours was a pretty braindead take
I fear not the man who has played 10,000 games once, but I fear the man who has played one game 10,000 times
>Diablo 2
>StarCraft
>WarCraft 3
Blizzdrone instacringe. Didn't even read the rest
Those games long predate the blizzdrone era. Blizzard was one of the best game makers out there, and they weren’t the globohomosexual AAA place they are now. They just made awesome games and there’s nothing wrong with those three being on OP’s list. Each one’s a classic.
I agree with you in principle, but disagree with your choices. Starcraft has very little replayability outside of multiplayer, but that's what most people likely use it for, so I'll let that pass. Diablo 2 however is extraordinarily repetitive and I cannot think of any reason someone would play this outside of overpowering nostalgia. It was just as much a chore to finish as any modern "movie game", and the best part, the soundtrack, could easily have been experienced without booting it up once.
Anyway, the existing market dynamic dictates that this is unlikely to change in the coming years, so there will be at most a handful of new games each year that are worthwhile. But it also isn't really an issue. No one watches most movies that exist, reads most books that exist, listens to most music, etc. They could make ten times as many games each year, or half as many that are twice as good, and it wouldn't change the fact that I will only put time into the best one or two.
>Diablo 2
Yeah that stood out to me in OP's list. I haven't actually played the game myself, I was vaguely interested in playing it at one point when it was relatively new, but never got around to that and then eventually wrote it off as a kind of click 'n grind game that I never bothered with.
It's like, if there really was reason to put it in the same category as those other games, I'd happily give it a shot, but it looks like something completely out of place, and Smash:Melee or Street Fighter should take its place or something.
It's a click and grind lootfest, yeah. Unlike some other games, the skill system and key bindings in sort of force you to specialize your character into a few abilities, which you then literally spam for hours against enemies that might as well be palette-swaps. It's very popular though, so it must have something going for it that escapes me completely.
Even though I suck at Melee and fighting games in general, I would agree that I'd much rather have that on my Desert Island of the Now than Diablo 2.
I definitely like the modding scenes. Once I've squeezed as much as I can out of a game I love, it's fun to help polish it up and expand it, and make it more accessible to newer potential fans. Anyone that's spend dozens of hours living in some imaginary game world doubtlessly has the ideas and enthusiasms to generate matching and complementary content. And certainly better than official remasters: for a semi-humorous example, look at the Baldur's Gate "Enhanced Editions", where the company in charge added all sorts of Donut Steel-tier OC content, that neither matches the game's tone, mechanics, nor difficulty/power curves. Whereas there was already a rich abundance of vastly superior fan-made content that they could have officially licensed or funded as a gesture of goodwill instead, and for better results.
We’re spoiled for choice at this point OP, why wade through slop when the classics are already well known.
And I beat FF7 once every couple of years, and I know it’s not retro but I always have a game of New Vegas going that I’ll play in bursts, beat, then reroll with a different play style.
>the subhuman swine shitting up Ganker is a Troon Vegas drone
you are a disgrace to real proud chuds you homosexual poser
Retro games
>Diablo 2
>StarCraft
>WarCraft 3
>Ocarina of Time
>Resident Evil 4
>DOOM
>Quake 3
only RE4 is good the rest are shit just like your taste
quake 3 is better than resident evil 4 because
quake requires skill to play
>quicktime events 4
sorry OP but you exposed yourself as a shit taster
>the rest are shit
(You) are king shit
Couldn’t be me. Just recently I discovered Megaman battle network, Silent Hill, Monster Hunter, wipeOut and f-zero among others. I consider them incredible games and never played them when I was a teen. And I’m pretty sure I’ll keep discovering amazing games in the future, since I have barely explored the N64 or the genesis.
>Diablo 2
>StarCraft
>WarCraft 3
>Ocarina of Time
>Resident Evil 4
>DOOM
>Quake 3
Nice retro-gaming starter pack bro
I would class you about one notch above funko pop collecting retro gamers
Literally me, except for me it has to be 8 and 16bit bangers
Every once in awhile there's a new game that clicks and I get some solid entertainment out of it. Otherwise, yes, you are correct.
Once in a while, you’ll play a game that you slept on that’ll blow your mind. For me, it was Dungeon Keeper.
Discovering a game in your adulthood that is better than 90% of the games you have played in over 25 years of gaming is refreshing in ways that you rarely hear about.
This happened to me recently with Ridge Racer type 4.
Everything was so slick, visually polished, musically well done and enjoyable that I think if I had played it in 1998 I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much because I didn't have enough cultural and aesthetic visual graphic background as I do now.
This feeling of discovering something that has always been there and you never noticed is really nice.
It's like meeting an old friend you've never met.
>dungeon keeper
good game
I'm sorry OP but this is genuinely a sign of autism
frick am i autistic too all i do now is play SWAT 4, quake, and unreal tournament
I'm the same way. finally upgraded my 2009 computer last year for a 7800x3d, entirely skipped ddr4 on desktop, and now I'm contemplating selling it since all I want to play is classic games that will run on potatoes.
did you ever try master of orion 2, heroes of might and magic 3, age of empires 2?
Play Faxanadu Black person.
For me, it's Diablo 1.
>endless gameplay and lively communities.
I hate that a handful of games I like are undiscussable because autists endlessly play them over and over again and never stop talking about them. You people are objectively sick.
Why would I bother arguing with a complete fricking spastic? I just get brought down to that level of moronation then beaten by the years of experience they’ve gained.
The entire premise of your shitty post is, “stop liking what I don’t like!”. Exactly the same cognitive skills as a toddler at worst, early adolescent at best.
Nowadays I get a lot more fulfillment out of playing single-developer games for 20 minutes on itch.io than most AAA titles. Lots of cool new ideas and experimentation without a microtransaction or battle pass in sight. So that's my recommendation, especially if you're not the type to have a meltdown whenever a character has blue hair or something.
Doom has hundreds of fantastic mods, that's all I need.