• Captain Aggravated
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    14 hours ago

    There’s an era of gaming that is disappearing. It’s the late XP to early 7 era, a lot of games, even ones that came on discs, don’t work anymore because the servers that handled the DRM are shut down. There are things you can’t go do anymore.

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      13 hours ago

      Oh, maybe I should clarify what I meant: we still get cool, enjoyable new games nowadays that are every bit as good as the classics we played and loved then. If not better.

      I think my biggest tip would be to stay away from pretty much anything labeled AAA.

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        12 hours ago

        Problem is most of those games aren’t terribly mainstream and also you have no one who has the time to play them with you.

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          12 hours ago

          Yeah, I’m mostly a single player kind of guy, so I enjoy my games like Return of the Obra Dinn, Dredge, Balatro, Dave the Diver, etc.

          From what I hear, some older multiplayer titles can be made to run using cracks and some kind of VPN.