When I was a youngling, graphics improved quickly and that made older games look worse by every year. What initially looked amazing and "life-like" turned dated in just a couple of years, however it seems graphics has plateaued in the last ten-ish years.

I would say that we reached the point of diminishing returns around next-gen GTA V / MGS V. Not that you can't see the difference between those and modern games, but it's nowhere the leap from San Andreas to GTA IV.

I recently started playing MGS V again and I'm shocked at how good it still looks, compare it to RDD 2 and you would probably need a side by side comparison to see the extra detail.

We have finally reached a point where old games dont get less immersive because our baseline in visual fidelity keeps increasing, or if it does it's atleast a lot slower.

Has started to grind my gears, since there is no way to quickly explain that I'm happy with the current situation (I live in the nordics, not the US). Historically I would be considered a conservative, since I don't see a need to progress (atleast at an accelerated rate). However that term is now used to define reactionaries, which are people who reacting to the changing society wants to regress to a earlier time.

Why must we change the meanings of such obvious words?

How come there are so few racing games coming out lately? Feels like it's just codemasters doing their thing, some struggling indie games and a truckload of shovelware. I'm not saying it's dead but wasn't racing games one of the primary genres?

Another thing that bugs me with the few games that come out is the lack of progression and immersion. NFS Unbound impressed me slightly with actually starting you out with a low spec car and having slow (by modern standards) progression. However halfway through when you have fast and "cool" cars you really felt the games mediocrity.

Dirt rally 1 and 2 has economy systems, but after a single championship you can basically buy whatever car you want. The rallies are immersive but everything between is just boring menues.

Why do you think the state of racing games is so poor? The industry being shit? Audiences not playing them anymore?

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It feels like new games are just more of the same, with no real meaning. However I recently started playing "Return of the Obra Dihn" and love open ended deduction in it. It feels like I'm actually figuring things out by myself without being handheld through it. Are there any other games that don't coddle the player that you guys recommend?

The games they release are complete in them selves, and with 15-20€ dlces every ~6 months they keep the games fresh with new content.

People rarely complain that features are missing from their games until it gets added in a DLC. Then suddenly it's a mandatory feature.

Personally I have three accounts. This is my main, but I have a reserve for stuff and one for my local region/language. What about you?

Personally never had a problem with Victoria 3. A bit buggy on release but nothing game breaking

Mine is to to keep chocolate in the fridge. It's a lot crunchier and has more chocolate taste.

Most of the problems in the current internet landscape is caused by the cost of centralized servers. What problems are stopping us from running the fediverse on a peer to peer torrent based network? I would assume latency, but couldn't that be solved by larger pre caching in clients? Of course interaction and authentication should be handled centrally, but media sharing which is the largest strain on servers could be eased by clients sending media between each other. What am I missing? Torrenting seems to be such an elegant solution.