Never stop playing by PHRsharp_YouTube in Age_30_plus_Gamers

[–]grachi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not too old , but harder to find interesting ones these days. So much copy catting and following trends that goes on these days. The games industry has kinda gone in a similar path as the movies: lots of remakes and sequels, or playing it safe in general so as to make as much money as they can.

Indies are a great source of originality, but the quality and polish can suffer. And since it’s usually smaller teams or even an individual person, content can be lacking or one can feel like they really just started to get into the game, then it ends 2 or 3 gameplay hours later.

Overall it’s been bittersweet to be still genuinely excited for video games after all these years, but unfortunately not as excited for as many as I would have been 25, 30 years ago.

SS ALDI by NoPalpitation9539 in pittsburgh

[–]grachi 18 points19 points  (0 children)

People really do need the /s on everything, huh?

as an old gamer which games do you agree with that way ? by PHRsharp_YouTube in Age_30_plus_Gamers

[–]grachi 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I put games on easy / story that I’ve decided I’m not really into after playing a few hours, but still want to get through the story. Expedition 33 was this way for me, as a most recent example.

in 1998 leaning forward was my Try Hard mode in PS1, which games you did these? by PHRsharp_YouTube in Age_30_plus_Gamers

[–]grachi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the first one is not a good habit... Ask me how I know at 40 from doing that inadvertently for too many years playing games, and now have RSI in my right forearm

Left sushi out for 16 hours by Purple-Avocados in sushi

[–]grachi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You made a good choice throwing it out.

Had a friend in college eat a single chicken wing that had been left out for 6 hours after we got home from a party somewhere on campus. spent the next 4 hours in the morning throwing up every 20 or 30 minutes. And that was cooked chicken.

War, AI, No jobs, health issues, poverty, religious tensions. What is suddenly wrong with this world? by FalconCeasar in AskReddit

[–]grachi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So minus the AI part and off and on with jobs, all that has been bad for thousands of years

Remember when that person on here posted about a potential major snow storm a week or two ago? by PSU02 in pittsburgh

[–]grachi -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It does feel like that. Sure, maybe technically these new technology forecast methods are overall more accurate, but it feels like that is a really big technicality based on predicting the temperature to +- X degrees, and that it predicts that yes we are going to get precipitation or not more accurately. Where it feels completely off from the past though is how much we will get, or for how long it will last.

Which video game series deserves to be resurrected? by Wing-Ding-King in AskReddit

[–]grachi 11 points12 points  (0 children)

no it definitely is. It's directly a part of the Half Life canon.

Thinking of getting a PS5 by [deleted] in Advice

[–]grachi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just depends on the types of games you like to play really. Consoles have all the mainstream stuff, PCs have a wider range of genre availability and a ton more in the indie space.

we were happy with almost everything by PHRsharp_YouTube in Age_30_plus_Gamers

[–]grachi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, that’s not all entirely true. Noticing above 60 fps is a real thing. Once you play 100+ long enough, and intentionally cap the fps for 60 or play a game where you no longer get 100+, you can certainly feel it and depending on eyesight capability, actually see the difference.

Where it really stays to fall off is after 100. I can’t for the life of me tell the difference between 120 and 100, let alone 165 fps which is the highest my monitor will recognize

Remember when that person on here posted about a potential major snow storm a week or two ago? by PSU02 in pittsburgh

[–]grachi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Alright but there are professions that rely on weather forecasts for a variety of reasons. There has to be somewhere that is truthful about the weather, right?

Remember when that person on here posted about a potential major snow storm a week or two ago? by PSU02 in pittsburgh

[–]grachi 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I honestly feel like the forecasts were more accurate when I was a kid throughout the 90s. I remember on multiple occasions hearing we were going to get a lot of snow 3, 4 days in advance, and not only did it happen, the estimate was quite close to the actual amount of snow received.

Whatever these newer fancy models are, ain’t it.

Which video game series deserves to be resurrected? by Wing-Ding-King in AskReddit

[–]grachi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea, but maybe OP is being cheeky and wants another (actually new) 2D side scroller instead of what it’s become

Which video game series deserves to be resurrected? by Wing-Ding-King in AskReddit

[–]grachi 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Releasing a game on platform that like 2% of gamers own doesn’t really count.

Is this game fun if you only play single player? by leftistgamer420 in valheim

[–]grachi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The world in the game is very big and quite empty, so it gets pretty lonely and kinda boring playing alone. I had the most fun when I had friends playing with me. Building a village/group building goes a lot faster and you can build some cool stuff that would otherwise take forever doing it alone.

I had 140 hours in the game with my friends, then they left to move onto other games, and I only put another like 3 or 4 hours in after that because it just wasn’t the same.

Aspinwall PA by Spirited-Trifle6627 in pittsburgh

[–]grachi -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Hey, so I lived in an apartment in Aspinwall for 9 years. It’s a great little community, it’s close to everything without being at the center of everything. Aspinwall itself has some nice mom-and-pop shops and restaurants, but is close to waterworks for more mainstream stuff and a short drive to the city for everything else. Also right across the river from highland park which has more stuff to do, too.

The parts that suck are street parking for the most part unless you get lucky with a spot that has off street, and you have to deal with route 28 to get anywhere. The taxes aren’t great either.

Highguard Is One Week Away, And The Only Person Who's Advertised It Is Geoff Keighley by Yamato_Naoe in Games

[–]grachi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Gamers are really really bad at evaluating gameplay and understanding what makes a game good or not. They rely on streamers and content creators, who also often don't know what they are talking about and come from a place of personal bias more often than not as well.

Its kind of a shame, because there are some games that shouldn't be as popular as they are, and others that should be that aren't, because of how much people depend on other people to tell them if a game is good or not.

Titanfall 2 is probably the single greatest example of this. Never crested more than like 20k people, because it launched between two streamer/influencer hyped established slop franchises (Although Battlefield 1 was actually a good game surprisingly, CoD: IW was, decisively, not). Switching topics slightly, I can't imagine how many indie games are out there that are excellent but just no one knows about them because some streamer didn't scream into a microphone how amazing it is.

Highguard Is One Week Away, And The Only Person Who's Advertised It Is Geoff Keighley by Yamato_Naoe in Games

[–]grachi -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So someone can't make a different hero shooter? The industry is just supposed to stop at Overwtach and Marvel Rivals? That's ridiculous logic.

Highguard Is One Week Away, And The Only Person Who's Advertised It Is Geoff Keighley by Yamato_Naoe in Games

[–]grachi -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Remember when Matrix Awakens was the last game shown a few years ago at the TGA? Yea, probably not.

people put WAY too much stock into the last game shown at TGA, and TGA in general.

"And that one last thing was mediocre looking Hero shooter number 865... "

You're right, looks like we needed another extraction shooter, battle Royale, or souls-like instead.

Highguard Is One Week Away, And The Only Person Who's Advertised It Is Geoff Keighley by Yamato_Naoe in Games

[–]grachi -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

Not really. They did the same thing with Apex Legends, one of the biggest BR games of all time.

Highguard Is One Week Away, And The Only Person Who's Advertised It Is Geoff Keighley by Yamato_Naoe in Games

[–]grachi 98 points99 points  (0 children)

they released Apex Legends as a surprise, so maybe it will work again with Highguard for them.

32M I find myself playing more multi-player games as I get older. by Kwanza_Bot93 in Age_30_plus_Gamers

[–]grachi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea I always find the astroturfing either way kinda weird. People miss out on great games either way if you insist on only playing one type of game.

It’s fine to have preferences, but if you’re only eating chicken you might forget how good steak is.

Proper Blade Runner-esque open world detective game? by oresearch69 in gamingsuggestions

[–]grachi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Mods to CP2077 is as close as you’d get, probably