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Steam Deck price raised by $240-$300
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The fuck are people even playing on something that expensive? The last AAA game i played while it was modern was Tears of the Kingdom, which was hella disappointing and BOTW which was damn good. Prior to getting a switch in like 2021 I think the last time I had played a AAA release when it was new was Skyrim, which was hella disappointing and New Vegas which was damn good. I genuinely dont see any appeal whatsoever in any major releases in the last decade or more. For the most part everything seems like its just late ps3 era stuff but with better graphics which I dont care about.
fr, nowadays all AAAs are last of us clone, fort of duty, elder souls, or open world survivalcrafting
Just makes the near infinite amount of older games that i can get for free more appealing. I used to really like video games. I had a nice little retro game booth in a flea market for a while, I've probably played through more games than most self proclaimed gamers because making sure the games i was selling worked and that i could answer questions was how I was making money. I was never one to prefer a genre before that either, there are good and bad and mid games in every genre. Standing out from the pack was what separated the classics and forgotten gems from the rest of the heap. Sometimes standing out didnt even mean being particularly good, some older games are worth trying because they are such radical departures from what we see as the estsblished formula, cause it was either a new formula or one that didnt exist yet.
My top games just to illustrate the variety:
Wild Guns
F-Zero X
FTL
Skate 2
Fire Emblem Thracia 776
Super Metroid
Castlevania 1
We <3 Katamari
Star Fox 64
Metal Gear Solid 2
Wild Guns
I found out this game was good RIGHT AFTER selling a copy. I had a flea market booth where I bought and sold retro games, happened across Wild Guns in a a yardsale box I got, saw it went for a decent price and I needed money, so it went on the sale shelf without much thought. Slightly later, Mike Matei (the other guy who worked on the angry video game nerd pre-movie) started uploading his own videos and one of the first was '10 Most Underrated SNES Games' and this hit the top of the list. I think this was 2010 or so, peak AVGN popularity, so not only did the price skyrocket immediately after I sold it, once I tried it on an emulator I realized I wouldnt have sold it even for a lot of money cause it's fucking SICK. I did come into an Action 52 cart just a bit before the AVGN video came out for that one and made a shitload on that. I only kept shit I would play, you literally cant play the Action 52 for more than a few minutes unless you wanna risk breaking it. The weird bootleg cartridge gets hotter the longer its running.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I adore indies because AAA hasn't been taking many risks since like 2008 with a few standouts (botw, mhw — not my fav but a big change, elden ring/sekiro yikes that's all that comes to mind for me!) but even indie gaming is getting a bit saturated with survival crafting and pick 1 of 3 action roguelites.
Strategy turn based or realtime, deception, platformer, shooters that aren't cod/halo/doom, colony sim, crpg, exploration-adventure, racing, vehicle sim etc are all left by the wayside. One or two coming out occasionally and usually not pushing the envelope.