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Video games spending by young Americans is dropping sharply, report suggests (www.gamesindustry.biz)
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[–] 97 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Also competition, and I'm not actually talking about indie games, although that's helping. Competition with older games. Why in the world would someone pay $80 for a mediocre new game when they could replay a classic hit that they haven't played in few years? When was the last time you played the witcher 3, or the mass effect trilogy? Would you rather replay one of those, or pay $80 for the new assassin's creed?

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Or even better, play an old game that you still haven't played. I can get titanfall 2 for the price of a coffee and play it for the first time if I'm craving for a good AAA fps.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The single player is pretty good in that. It's definitely worth trying out.

    Being in the giant mech doesn't feel any different than not being in it though. That's my only complaint.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Oh shiiiit, do that and come back and talk to us when you get to the time travel level.

    Are we just in the phase of the medium where technology isn't the defining quality. It would be slightly weird to try to stay at the forefront of, say, novels without any regard for reading classics. Why shouldn't games be the same?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    There's also lots of (frequently not even that) old games that I never got around to/never heard about that I can now get on sale for 5$ or whatever, so it's not always a matter of replaying.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Just (re) started Dead Space after not playing it for 10-15 years. Still good, still enjoy, why buy when I can just replay games I've forgotten the story to?

    Same for Control a few months ago... And I'm sure others.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I'm current stuck in a long term cycle of mainly Project Zomboid, Factorio, Valheim, Oxygen Not Included, The Lone Dark and Rimworld, were when I'm fed up of playing the last of them, it's been long enough since I played the first one that it's once interesting to play it.

    Even when I manage to be fed up with playing all of them at any one point, I still have other progression games with complex emergent gameplay (often but not always games which have algorithmically generated game areas) like Kenshi. 7 Days to Die or OpenTTD that pull me in and if that fails, I can always pick up one of the old open world roleplay jewels such as Skyrim and play that.

    I've barelly tried anything else in the last couple of years and of those only Oxygen Not Include was the only one with any lasting power and I picked that one years ago.

    It's not even because I can't afford it (though out of principl I refuse to pay more than €20 for a game) - whenever I try an AAA game nowadays (always games that came out years ago) it's almost invariably an inferior experience that either feels too constrained or doesn't have enough gameplay variety and complexity to be fun for long.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I replay TLOU, TLOU 2 and Days Gone yearly.

    I used to play new big AAA games, but none of them seem interesting these days.

    I'd rather replay old games that are top tier than waste time on mediocre new crap.

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