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Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Not an option. I dislike spoiler and I need a new PC to play coop games with friends. What’s the point of a new expensive PC if I play only old games? I also don’t feel like participating in gaming communities much, if everything has been discovered 1 or 2 years before me. No one gives a fuck if I find out some cool hidden features, if it has been discussed already and everyone can watch 1000 better YouTube guides. Playing on release is great entertainment for me and always will be.

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Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m gonna be honest, for me, everything you said there is precisely why I like being a patient gamer. Can play all the games I want without spending as much on hardware or on the games themselves. Am playing the most completed and patched version of the game. Have heaps of resources available online to help me optimise my gameplay.

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- Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  And that’s totally fine. People should show more empathy on why I don’t enjoy it the same way as you.
  
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  - tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    When someone shares an opinion online, it’s like people think it’s supposed to be an argument to win and you are wrong, it’s annoying as shit. I get irritated seeing comments like your first one get downvoted lol.
    
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  - Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah I get it. I actually originally was going to include a whole bit where I emphasised that I’m not saying my way is the right way and I think yours is completely genuine. I removed that part because I didn’t want to waffle on too much and hoped the sentiment would get across anyway.
    
    That said:
    
    You also lose a lot on being not part of any current community
    
    This is simply untrue. Players of older games often form the most highly-invested and passionate communities. That includes online games. My most-played game on Steam is a 2019 remake of a 1999 game with a strong casual and competitive multiplayer scene which has been very much alive, in different forms, continuously over that whole 24 year period.
    
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theragu40@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I totally get wanting to play the game when it’s fresh. You miss out on being part of the buzz of a new game if you wait to play it. Every gaming site is full of memes about a new game for the first few months after release and it’s definitely part of the experience to be on the “in” side of that.

With that said, I just pick and choose which games matter to me for that nowadays, and I commit myself to actually beating the games I buy (assuming I don’t hate them). Committing to beating them before buying a new game has really cut back on my buying of new games only to have it languish in my backlog and see price drops before I ever play it.

This way I do get to be part of that community for the games that really matter to me, but I also am not just buying everything out there at full price.

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