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give us local server hosting back! Our pcs have to be turned on anyway to play the game… might as well save the energy cost of building and running a datacenter just to do (with extra steps)what the internet itself was designed for in the first place: getting data from my pc to my friends’ and back.
I’ve largely moved on from gaming, but some of the things that turned me off were the focus on hyper-realistic graphics, requiring unobtainium / expensive graphics cards, and focusing more on visuals than story.
Optimizing games so they’re not rendering content when the game is paused or reducing quality at certain points is nice and all, but do we really need all these hyper-realistic games?
As I said, I don’t have much of a horse in this race these days, but if games didn’t require expensive (to own and operate) graphics cards and focused more on gameplay mechanics and story (e.g. Portal), I’d probably consider getting back into gaming.
Unfortunately, as I talked to more recent gamers, the more I realize that a lot of them cannot fathom why anyone would tolerate anything that’s not hyper-realistic, or if the UI looks “old” (whatever “old” means). I had a friend who said Baldur’s Gate 3 had decent character and environment graphics but “shitty” UI, and it’s apparently cause it’s just something that looks old timey and from the era before they started gaming. There’s another person who will call every game that doesn’t have hyper-realistic graphics and modern, minimal UI “a shitty game that no one would play”. It’s insane to me how narrow their view of gaming culture is, but that is the reality we live in.
Fortunately, we don’t all have to participate in that rat race. Just forget about trying to chase every game out there and be okay with saying no to games that demand the latest and greatest graphics card. This is almost a non-problem if you look into games from indies or smaller studios.
but if games didn’t require expensive (to own and operate) graphics cards
They don’t, if you buy games that came out 5+ years ago. This doesn’t contradict your point, but it can mitigate it somewhat.
Patient gamers unite lol.
That’s basically how my Steam library works. I’ll buy a game when it’s heavily discounted and hope I’ll have a PC capable of running it in 5 years.
There are games that focus more on story and actual content, but a problem is for many gamers is that seeing the pretty graphics is buying. I for one want games to be fun before being pretty.
I have lots of games in my library largely because they are beautiful. None of them have realistic graphics.
Fi is one of the most beautiful games (visually and as an overall art piece) I’ve played, and I don’t think it even has textures
Would some kind lemming post an AI summary or snippet of the article? The access links aren’t working for me. I seem to be blocked by archive.today.
I just used the gift link from the post body and gave it my spam-catcher email address. It let me right in, but I had to disable ublock since one of its annoyance filters was blocking the modal for the “register” option.
That works. Thanks!
