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

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Graphically we've had diminishing returns for quite some time now. I also don't find myself that interested in the games from major studios because they're generally just not very good.

I don't see a reason to artificially limit myself, but there are more then enough games from the past to keep me entertained.

That said there are some games on the horizon I am looking forward to. The next Witcher and Civ VII come to mind. I'm sure their GOTY editions will be great!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I also don't find myself that interested in the games from major studios because they're generally just not very good.

The next Witcher and Civ VII come to mind. I'm sure their GOTY editions will be great!

Just thought that was funny :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, I'm looking forward to picking up Witcher IV with all the DLC for £10 on Steam in a few years' time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I also don’t find myself that interested in the games from major studios because they’re generally just not very good.

Luckily they seem to be required to warn about their status with that triple A warning label in most sources mentioning those games. I hear some major game studios have even updated to the quadruple A warning label because their games are so bad.