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[–] AbyssalChord@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imo Dead Space was the last decently made mobile game. After that the F2P craze started and never stopped.

[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mostly play modded games anyway. Well, i used to. Now i only play java games using j2me loader.

[–] AbyssalChord@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I went back to PS2 era games. This was the golden era imo, where games came out in a playable state and an amazing amount of content. Right now Iβ€˜m playing a completely English translated version of Monster Hunter 2 on a private server that went live about a month ago, it’s amazing.

[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can't really relate since I never had a game console aside from a Chinese NES knockoff that was a some kind of keyboard with a slot in the front where you could insert a cartridge with each having 50 games or so (we had two or 3 of those cartridges). It even came with two guns to play duck hunt with.

But i can definitely understand how it could be the golden era of gaming. The enshitification started when Microsoft(who else?) made playing online a paid feature and sony seeing gullible people paying for it did it to. Then came micro-transactions and shit hit the fan from there on. Now you have to buy half-assed games that are riddled with bugs and got a big chunk of them cut of to sell as a dlc, while also having ads being thrown at your face and the best equipment blocked behind a paywall instead of gaining it in game.