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[the-pi-guy]

So I have a tendency to listen to a song on repeat for hours. That's pretty much how I have always listened to music.


When I was a high schooler playing PS3, I was playing a lot of Mushroom Wars, and it let you play a different song from your library. So there was a song I was listening to, on repeat.

And then like 7 years later, I heard the song somewhere again, and I felt an urge to play Mushroom Wars again, and it was weird.

[nnodley]

Been playing Rise of the Ronin. It's really great. I'm enjoying it a ton. What's great is that it's not a large open world like many games are trying to do now.

And what I'm realizing, one of the reasons why Banishers wasn't as good as it could have been was because you can't fast travel in that game unless you visit a campfire which was terribly annoying.  In Ronin you can fast travel at all times like most games tend to do

[Legend]

Been playing Rise of the Ronin. It's really great. I'm enjoying it a ton. What's great is that it's not a large open world like many games are trying to do now.

And what I'm realizing, one of the reasons why Banishers wasn't as good as it could have been was because you can't fast travel in that game unless you visit a campfire which was terribly annoying.  In Ronin you can fast travel at all times like most games tend to do

I love alternative fast travel systems, but yeah that type isn't good. It just makes fast travel slower without adding interesting gameplay.

[the-pi-guy]

I don't know if this is the norm.

But personally my spending in gaming has gone way down. Largely because the games I'm waiting for are taking a long time getting here.

The past few years, I think I was spending something like $500+ on games. I think when I was going through, it was like $550 one year, and $650 the year before.

I think I've spent about a quarter that this year, and that's despite buying a few games for the kids.

[kitler53]

same-ish story for me.

my typical gaming budget was ~$500 a year but then came ps+ extra.    i'm around $200 a year now most of which is ps+ extra.     i do still buy games but i've always been the kind of gamer that buys game on deep discount years after release.   these games end up on ps+ extra first so i just play them there for "free".   not all the games i want come to the service but enough games come that i have a hard time paying for anything when i have a perfectly playable game available for free.   the only games i'm buying are the ones that hype me the most or can be played with my co-op buddy.   my only game in the last ~12 months:
- talos principle 2
- balder gate 3 (for co-op)
- helldivers 2 (originally for co-op but i play it alone mostly)

for this year i make a resolution that i play too many bad games just because they are free and not enough good games so i'm trying to ignore ps+ extra more.    hasn't really resulted in my buying more games this year but i am finally working on my backlog instead.   playing spiderman (the original) right now which is a long time overdue.   

...i did want to buy dave the diver though and it is free on extra right now.   that will probably be my next game.

[Legend]

I spend more on indie gaming nowadays. Fun buying a bunch at the same time and then slowly working through my backlog.

In the past I bought only a handful of games a year but most were $60, so my overall spending is down too.

[BananaKing]

My spending has gone down too. I just wait till games hit a nice discount and then buy them. I usually don't pay more than 20-25 dollars per game, and that's something big like God of war, horizon or something like that. Other games I wait till they are in the 10 range or lower. I do this because I have a huge backlog from PS+ essential. And I generally just go through those games while waiting for a sale of a game I want

Speaking of discounts, I've noticed a lot of games don't generally drop to 15$ it's either 20 or 10.

[kitler53]

I've noticed Sony doesn't seem to put they games on deep discount anymore.   they seem to not drop past 50% anymore.    I think they are trying to groom me like Nintendo does.  

I also noticed some pubs have a fire sale almost immediately.   I was surprised to see hi fi rush 30% off basically a week after launch.  made me decide not to buy it since next sale will probably be 60% off....

[BananaKing]

I've noticed Sony doesn't seem to put they games on deep discount anymore.   they seem to not drop past 50% anymore.    I think they are trying to groom me like Nintendo does.  

I also noticed some pubs have a fire sale almost immediately.   I was surprised to see hi fi rush 30% off basically a week after launch.  made me decide not to buy it since next sale will probably be 60% off....

Really depends on how it's selling and their legs. But yeah, I was hoping I'd find horizon, retournal, how and miles morales cheaper now.

[kitler53]

Really depends on how it's selling and their legs. But yeah, I was hoping I'd find horizon, retournal, how and miles morales cheaper now.

i mean, nintendo doesn't give a fuk how well it is selling.   they almost never drop prices and when they do it's their "bad" game and the discount i like 20%.     ...and because of that people don't wait for sales on nintendo software.    as much as i specifically hate nintendo for this i will also concede it is good for business.  no one questions buying a nintendo game day-1.    for SE not soo much.   like,.. very specifically i really loved the FF XVI demo and considered for a moment buying it day-1 and then i was like "fuk it,.. i'll wait for a sale".    it's $35 right now and now i'm like "fuk it,.. i'll wait for a better sale"...

gamepass and ps+ extra and f2p games have really devalued video games for me.   even though i mostly bought games on sale before i used to buy at least 2-3 a year at full price.    these days i can't even seem to buy a game at 75% off (~$20).    that used to be my price where i'd pull the trigger on almost any game that was at least well recieved even if i wasn't sure i'd even play it.

[kitler53]

i dunno.   all in all i guess it just supports the argument that the gaming industry needs to get smaller.   the supply of video games exceeds my demand to buy/play them.    


beyond gamepass i think backwards compatibility needs to take some blame too.    at the generation i used to basically disregard my backlog in favor or new games.   these days my backlog is mostly the ps4 games i never got around to.   not even the cross gen ones,..  i'm talking very early ps4 games that were even maybe cross gen with ps3.   

especially with the improved load times and better framerates and resolutions i find these games to be more than adequate to play.   it's not like prior gens where the next gen made the prior gen look and feel like garbage.    

[the-pi-guy]

Which game has the best graphics? ????? pic.twitter.com/XlOmajNLQG

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[Legend]

3 cool ladies but I remember Aloy looking way better than that when I zoomed in during photo mode. Nothing sexual. Also I was pretty impressed by her feet. Little things like her toes. Again, nothing sexual.

[the-pi-guy]

3 cool ladies but I remember Aloy looking way better than that when I zoomed in during photo mode. Nothing sexual. Also I was pretty impressed by her feet. Little things like her toes. Again, nothing sexual.

The more you insist there's nothing sexual, the more we are going to wonder!  

[Legend]

The more you insist there's nothing sexual, the more we are going to wonder! 

I hope that clears things up.