I haven’t stopped playing Overwatch since it came out, still getting on with friends 2 or 3 nights a week and putting in a few hours (and I’m still awful lol). I also still log on to Battlefield 1943 from time to time to get in a few matches.

I also collect retro games so there is a good bit of time there. If anything I’ve struggled to find new games that I’d want to play more than something older and cheaper. I just picked up Dark Messiah for like 2 bucks and its amazing, hard to justify a $60-70 purchase when you can find deals like that on older but still great games.

I saw a lot of the playtime goes to still updated online games like Fortnite and Apex, but I wonder if part of it is that as time goes on there is a bigger pool of games to play. Sure there will always be cutting edge graphics and gameplay, but many people wouldnt be able to tell which indie dropped in 2010 and which dropped in 2024.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.deEnglish
    21·
    8 months ago

    I’m currently playing Syberia (2002) for the first time. I never played it when it was new because I didn’t like the demo. But people kept praising it over the years so I decided to give it a try.

    I still have the same complaints I had back then but the story is nice.

    • Kyle@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      8 months ago

      Oh my god. I played those when they came out, except the newest one.

      They were good for its time for the people who loved Myst games and then sought any adventure games that remotely resembled point-and-click adventures. We played really cool but definite imitators like Schism Mysterious Journey, The Longest Journey, Atlantis games, and The Journeyman Project.

      Then came a developer called Microids with another pre-rendered point and click: “Amerzone”, everyone played that.

      Once we got used to low-budget point and clickery it was only natural that when Microids came out with Syberia we all played it and loved it in the vacuum of adventure games back then. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone blindly as they were a product of its time.

      I still have to play the newest Syberia and Longest Journey, for nostalgia’s sake only.

    • MacedWindow@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      I searched it based on your comment and that is one of the most divisive games I’ve ever seen! One review calls it awful and unplayable and the next says its the GOAT. It looks like it just got a remake so it must have done something right.

      Id be interested to hear youre thoughts if you finish it.