My brother bought one at xmas for $500. It gets played ~4 hours a week.
yet I sit and type text and browse the web on a flagship gaming omen RTX 3070 laptop and I cant find a game to play...
Our gaming days are dwindling in this house.
yet I sit and type text and browse the web on a flagship gaming omen RTX 3070 laptop and I cant find a game to play...
Our gaming days are dwindling in this house.
There’s more games than ever coming out but it feels like the number of really good titles is still low. Kinda like movies and TV too. I guess the market is so large now it’s a lot easier to succeed with mediocre content.
There are tons of amazing games out there. It's just like a new book series or author though. You gotta get to the hook.
What types of games do you like I can offer many suggestions. There have been plenty of amazing games in the last 1, 3, 5 years.
Now a days it's easier to make games, you just leverage an engine not invent graphics primitives. But it's harder to get noticed and make money. And easier to make small losses and harder to have massive blow outs. Games is a lifestyle business now.
If you need a recommendation, I'd go for faster than light or slay the spire. If you have a lot of time, the X series recently released a free extension for X3:TC called farhams legacy, which you can pick up for dirt cheap. But there are many games that aged well.
There's a lot of cookie cutter uninspired money grubbing crap from big studios and small, but go find what people are playing by numbers, dig past the AAA shovelware, and there are plenty of gems.
For the younglings - they can give themselves fully to the experience.
Or maybe you're overwhelmed by choice, between Steam sales, Game Pass, indie games, F2P, Epic Store freebies, and more, there's always something new you can try out whithout spending much money at all.
Although I suppose it can still be hard to find something really enjoyable to play if you were obsessed with a genre that's effectively dead these days (RTS? MMOs? Shmups?). But even then, there's usually indie devs out to fill every niche they can spot
This, basically, which to me I find completely ironic, given that GAMES is literally what got me into computers back in the 80s, ran the Intel Game Lab in the 90s, worked as IT for the company that originally manufactured, packaged and shipped many many games, such as EverQuest, my best friend is an Production Director at Blizzard (with whom I worked for at Intel's game lab) and many other career accolades in the gaming space thats too lame to go into...
Whats weird, is that I ALWAYS have a high-end gaming machine... sans much gaming time...
That's left single player games, and honestly single player games take a lot of time to get started. There have been weeks now where I start my playstation, look at who's playing. Look through my library to find a game I'm willing to sink hours into, find nothing and power off the machine.