Because most of the time, older games were made with player enjoyment in mind, not shareholders.
Eh, there’s a huge number of shovelware for every console generation, plus less than stellar titles. The thing is that, due to all the years piling up, the amount of good stuff just increases.
True, but back then games were made to stand on their own instead of being a poorly thought out monetization machine.
I mean Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing was shit, but at least they only expected you to pay for it once… and you can still play it, you don’t have to wait for a lobby to fill up before it lets you into the game, a lobby that will never fill up because no one’s playing Big Rigs: Over The Fucking Road Racing
The developers who made Big Rigs probably wouldn’t have the budget to make an AAA game nowadays. A better comparison would be indie games, and there’s more of them (or it feels like it) due to easier development & distribution. (Which does involve shovelware). Even excluding Indies, AA games without subscription models are plentiful too.
Edit: (AAA games are a better example of being worse, I haven’t played them but comparing Assasin’s Creed or Metal Gear back in the day to now is better to show the bad practices. Thankfully, like I said, there’s just a ton more games and you don’t need to play the crappy ones)
GameCube runs fantastic on steam deck! Still playing MVP Baseball ‘05 hitting mini game and I still suck
Make a player named Jacob Paterson. EZ home runs.
If you can deal with the extreme tedium of making an entire roster of "Jacob Paterson"s (changing letter casing here and there), you’ll be steamrolling everyone. Kinda ruins the fun of the game, but I find it really satisfying to watch >700ft home runs that clear the entire stadium and hear Kuip and Krukow endlessly call dinger after dinger. Pure dumb fun :D
I wish I had a gamecube still so I could play this again (and again and again): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sight_(video_game)
Makes me wish the Deck OLED wasn’t worth blood money on this side of the pond.
I’ll be interested to see how the Orangepi Neo reviews when it releases, it’s the only handheld I reckon can hold a candle to the deck, though I suspect Orangepi’s track record of record shite support will derail that one.
Tiberian Sun, The first time I played it my PC could barely play it. That was some 24 years ago?! Now the maps load in 2 seconds. Still crashes alot.
That feel when game studios made beautiful loading screens but now you don’t get the time to enjoy them.
“The Sims 2. A man with your specs?”
Fun fact: The Sims 2 is abandonware. Other than buying used physical media, the only way to get it nowadays is through piracy.
Me playing OpenTTD on my gaming rig.
It’s not a perfect replacement and single player only if that matters, but have you tried Transport Fever 2? It’s got a TTD feel with beautiful modern graphics.
Sorry I meant a TTD feel in terms of basic mechanics, but with beautiful modern graphics.
