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Can you see yourself cutting off by a generation of gaming? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Soulifix@kbin.melroy.org to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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Like, will there be a point in time where you think that with all of the games of yesteryear to play that are thousands and thousands, with thousands more forward ahead to be released. There's only so much time available to be playing so much in a lifetime.

So that begs the question, do you just decide on which generation of gaming you're comfortable reaching before saying "Yup, I'm good!"?

I think for me, my cut off has been the PS4/X-Box series X generation. The PS5 is now officially like 5 years old now as of this year which is mind boggling to think about considering people had a very hard time affording the damn thing as well as other consoles because of a certain pandemic and scalpers.

And I've not once thought about organizing my resources in any attempt to try and get one or multiple games for it or the console. I've committed to PC gaming full-time now. I am completely content with playing what games I've gotten in the past and my library could use my attention more.

I'm not worried about prettier visuals, when I can still have the option to slap just another newer GPU down in my PC and beef up the memory as well. My PC build was intended to run 95% of all of my games that no other PC I've had in the past could ever do. So, I'm good!

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[–] guava_tropic@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

There aren't that many games that are really so timeless and epic that you have to play them, and most are a waste of time. If anything the industry only produces enough high quality games each year for my wishlist to remain about the same size as I buy a handful that interest me and play them.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I mostly play retro games, and/or games of franchises that I like. I don't really follow what's new or popular because I have better things to do in my life than spend it all on 'new exciting' things. The same with movies.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Kind of. I've been playing a lot of PS2/GBA era games lately and I've been having more fun than most modern releases.

I'm definitely "behind a generation" where I wait for games to be available to easily torrent and run on Linux.

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