My longest playthrough this year has been The Last Of Us Pt. II I think. Didn’t really play a game with a freeform game loop.

There are amazing gems out there that got that way by releasing it first in early access, or that only got a budget via kickstarter. Those are legitimate tools despite foul apples.

Yep no other way to disable achievements.

The big money makers are Fortnite, yearly iterations of CoD and EA Sports titles, and mobile gacha crap. They overshadow „smaller“ AAA releases, which still mostly don’t have any mtx. Your examples are legendary. But do you remember any other flop on the 2600? Or games like Haze? Now forgotten like most other flops.

I think you’re high on nostalgia. Failures are not memorable, that’s why we can’t remember them. What you describe are a bunch of big money makers from the big publishers. It’s very easy to stear around them and still get more great games than there’s time to play them.

Like most major releases the past decade.

That’s disingenuous. You have terrible games now, you’ve got them 40 years ago.

Yes, but this has nothing to with my initial statement.

Plenty of software still supports Windows 7. So literally not everything they made still works, there is no guarantee.

Yes but thinking a piece of hardware will receive support for eternity is naive. That’s all I‘m saying.

That’s no guarantee. It‘s naïve. And Steam stopped working on Windows 7 machines, so—

You‘ll need a community effort to continue driver development.

I wrote and didn’t speak, did you think? The drivers will need maintenance.

Well, Valve may drop support for the firmware. Edit: Gaben simps need to accept that vendors do drop support at some point.

There are a bunch of these in this shop. Another one that caught my eye is Godhusk.

Pretty sure China doesn’t care about Abe Lincoln. The regime cares about what the people should see and hear to maintain power, and the people are used to it.

That’s also heavily implied during the game.

Half-Life 2, Max Payne 2 and Mass Effect because I‘ve been an impressionable teenager and a nitpicking adult.

I recently played Kotor for the first time since its release and unfortunately, it really felt kinda cheesy and bland. But right before that I played Disco Elysium so that was maybe the wrong order.

Look outside AAA gaming. It‘s never been better.

GOG also has more classics and does some work on them (together with the communities) so they run better on modern systems.