In general, I'd agree that games are getting better, if for no other reason that there are so many made these days that eventually you'll find something great.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

If nothing else, the total volume of great games that are available to play keeps increasing because of massive improvements in backwards compatibility through steam and other online game distributors.

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[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 14 points 19 hours ago

I have a large backlog of five(?)+ plus year old games that are really good and I have yet to play. I'd much rather burn through those enjoying them on high settings instead of playing current games on low settings while trying to dodge crap monetization.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

What about new games, like world of warcraft.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

I do not. I haven't played a gamer older than thirty years old in years

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

launches Baldur's Gate.exe ♪♫ "Brave, brave Sir Garrick, Sir Garrick led the way. Brave, brave Sir Garrick, Sir Garrick ran away." ♪♫

[–] nocklobster@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Where my Civ 6 people at?! Wooo!

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 6 points 17 hours ago

Civ4 is the best Civ.

[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

I saw a stat on Civ VI steam page today that 45 000 people were playing it at that moment. That counts for something!

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago (8 children)

Was just now in another thread having nostalgia about this game: Reamlz.

It was distributed as freeware/ shareware back in the 90's. You had to physically mail the producers cash if you wanted to get the expansions. I played through Balders Gate III recently and honestly, it doesn't even come close to the replayability that Realmz had.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (7 children)

Realmz was out about the same time as Spiderweb Software's games (Exile series, later re-released as Avernum series). Both were popular RPGs for the Macintosh (though I believe both had Windows releases as well).

While I did play and enjoy Realmz back in the day, I personally preferred the Spiderweb Software games. More complicated interaction with the world, and I preferred the writing. Less-pretty, though the Avernum re-release was isometric and had new graphics. Have you ever tried them?

I don't know if I can recommend them in 2025, but if you're still enjoying Realmz, I figure that the Spiderweb Software stuff might also be something of interest.

EDIT: The current Steam sale, which runs for another two days, appears to have a bundle of all of their games on sale for 60% off. I didn't personally enjoy the Geneforge series as much as the Exile/Avernum series, and the Avadon series is considerably simpler, and didn't really grab me. But a lot of the games are also on sale individually, so...shrugs

EDIT2: It looks like Realmz has not seen a Steam release; thought I'd check to see if it was on Steam too.

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[–] Xella@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Yep.. lol I spend an embarrassing amount of time playing EverQuest 1 emulation servers.

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[–] venotic@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

While I agree that some of the reasons are because of industry direction and affordability. I do have to mention also that it could also be because of nostalgia, familiarity, simplicity and people still chipping at their library.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 points 19 hours ago

I have been playing Galaga regularly since 1981. Still play it at least once a week.

[–] termaxima@jlai.lu 6 points 19 hours ago

92% of my playtime is Minecraft, makes sense.

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