Bread and circuses are getting expensive. The emperor’s throne is held by one who could never wield it’s authority with the competence and loyalty of the one who built it. What year is it again?
Gun prices haven’t risen though
Ammo prices absolutely have
You can jump into backlog of older game titles. Its never late to discover GOG gems.
I gave my son $10 to buy some Steam games. And I was so proud that he didn’t spend the $10 on Roblox or anything, but on a few indie games on sale.
It is weird to see people obsess over the price of a new release AAA game when the classics tend to be better made, less buggy, have a bigger mod community, and much lower specs.
Go back and play the Halo series. The opening scene of the first game still gives me chills. Play Portal. And then play Portal 2.
Check out some old school RTS titles. Planetary Annihilation is a reworking of the old Total Annihilation game and absolutely stands up.
Go try some indies - Blue Prince or Slay the Spire or Darkest Dungeon.
There’s no reason to spend more than $20 on a game anymore
There is a reason many good old games can’t be easily played on modern hardware.
If you’re not allergic to 5-10 minutes of looking at protondb or other resources to understand how to get the game running, this isn’t a problem.
I’ve not yet found a difficult process for getting old games running. They’ve been around so long that the community has typically documented everything you need to know to get up and running.
Emulators solve a lot of those problems
Exactly why I added the world “easily”. Those who can and know often overestimate what average person can and know.
You can pay more if you just want the Nintendo or Blizzard official remaster. But all the stuff is accessible
Man ive been looking for updated unemployment numbers but this regime never shows the truth anyway.
The newest numbers are yuge, the best numbers everyone says so, it’s incredible, it’s all because of me, because I’m incredible, and if it’s not then it’s Bidens fault, but I’m amazing and Biden isn’t, thank you for paying attention to me
Luckily there are loads of good indie games at low prices with low spec requirements
Everything inflated but my pockets
everything’s going up except for my desire to continue living on this planet
Everythings expensive but my labour
We’re forgetting food…
More Americans are skipping breakfast because it’s not in the budget anymore
picked up a steam deck as a piece of insurance a drew months ago.
it has simply become a darksouls 1 machine.
I love to hate it.
.> unemployment is increasing
that sucks :(
but unemployment is just companies betting it all on AI right??
. > PC component prices are increasing
glad i dont need to upgrade.
.> game prices are increasing
am happy with my current games,and i dont think indie games prices are rising.Is there a lemmy equiv for patientgamers?
Here’s an instance agnostic link: Patientgamers
Remember gamers! What goes up, always comes down sooner or later. Keep the faith 🙏🏻
Wait until you’re not able to eat. That’s when real shit happens.
Can we throw feces at the wealthy at some point? We need to find ways to enjoy ourselves without money.
I saw a man in San Francisco flinging excrement like 10-15 years back. This man is us, there is just a time wrinkle.
That man saw what the future had in store for us
If you can catch one to throw a turd, sure. Seems a bit wasted considering what else you can throw but I can’t say what.
Sick ass ninja stars?!
Dipped in shit
I basically don’t buy games anymore. I started to get the free epic games 2 years ago and this got me like 200 games. I don’t play much but when I want, I try a couple until I find something interesting. Playing Disco Elysium now.
Aw shucks… Anyways, back to playing GunZ, runescape, and KOTOR for a third decade. Woo!
But really, even if you aren’t stuck in 200X, there’s plenty of good stuff out there that isn’t too demanding to run.
Denuvu has been cracked, but god damn almost all the new games coming out using it also run like dookie on my aging PC (Ryzen 5 3600, GTX 1660 Super, 16GB DDR4). The only recent game that runs flawlessly at a solid 60fps is Pragmata.
Wanna build a new PC, but I ain’t gonna pay almost twice what it cost to build what I have to get a rig that isn’t even better but more or less the same with some extra features like raytracing or dlss.
Even got Crimson Desert on PS5 because I liked it after pirating it, but it only gets about 40fps on my computer. It doesn’t run much better on a base PS5 either… But at least it doesn’t look ugly as shit when I go inside a building because I don’t have the ability to do raytracing and their entite lighting system relies on it. 🤷♂️
I always just upgrade my PC piecemeal. The biggest component for you to upgrade first would be your GPU. Even a RTX3060 or a RX6600 would be an improvement over what you have there.
If you went with the AMD option and installed bazzite/linux that would be pretty close to the specs for the upcoming steam machine. You would probably benefit from some of the optimizations Valve will inevitably do for their hardware over the next couple years… That is if you don’t need Windows for anything.
On your CPU you have a ton of options on the AM4 platform and 16GB of ram is still very usable.
Or just see what the actual steam machine does on pricing. But I’m no longer as optimistic about that given what Valve just did with pricing on the steam deck.
Even without the price bs rn, I wouldn’t have expected the Steam Machine to be more than a sidegrade.
Denuvo hasn’t been cracked. It’s just that the first generation of kids less tech literate than their parents are comfortably installing rival rootkits
It’s been fully cracked more recently than the initial hypervisor bypass.
