• Giving Up...

    From Shurato@21:2/148 to All on Saturday, August 01, 2026 16:16:00
    I've tried people and AI for recommendations for games. Both have made me decide to give up and spend my time elsewhere. I won't play anything with cards, strategy, puzzles, reflexes required, must be easy, but
    still really fun. No parodies. I must be able to save the game every 10-15 minutes. Nothing meets all of those categories...

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Shurato on Tuesday, August 04, 2026 22:23:45
    Re: Giving Up...
    By: Shurato to All on Sat Aug 01 2026 04:16 pm

    I've tried people and AI for recommendations for games. Both have made me decide to give up and spend my time elsewhere. I won't play anything with cards, strategy, puzzles, reflexes required, must be easy, but still really fun. No parodies. I must be able to save the game every 10-15 minutes. Nothing meets all of those categories...

    So there's nothing you really enjoy playing?

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  • From Knight Shadow@21:3/248 to Shurato on Wednesday, August 05, 2026 09:01:51
    10-15 minutes. Nothing meets all of those categories...

    What types of games, or games in particular have you played in the past that you really enjoyed, and what aspects of them did you like? I wonder if finding games similar to them in those regards might be something we could help with.

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Shurato on Wednesday, August 05, 2026 17:27:01
    I've tried people and AI for recommendations for games. Both have made
    me decide to give up and spend my time elsewhere. I won't play anything with cards, strategy, puzzles, reflexes required, must be easy, but
    still really fun. No parodies. I must be able to save the game every 10-15 minutes. Nothing meets all of those categories...

    I know you said no to card games - but have you seen/played Balatro??? I'm NOT a gamer - but this one grabbed me something fierce!



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  • From LDA@21:1/199 to Shurato on Saturday, August 08, 2026 21:04:03
    I've tried people and AI for recommendations for games. Both have made
    me decide to give up and spend my time elsewhere. I won't play anything with cards, strategy, puzzles, reflexes required, must be easy, but
    still really fun. No parodies. I must be able to save the game every 10-15 minutes. Nothing meets all of those categories...

    It's very difficult to find you something to play if you have all those requirements. If you boot up a game with a shopping list of requirements, you're going to be disappointed. To me, it sounds like there's an issue with how you're going about this. Gaming is just a fun activity to do while you relax or kill time or whatever. No one is going to have fun searching for the game that is so perfect it will give them a transcendental experience. Also, give games chances even if it doesn't meet requirement #47 (Game must have one or more cowboy or cowboy adjacent character(s) with a large colourful foam cowboy hat). Maybe it will surprise you later on down the line. Lastly, if you're not enjoying any video games, you can do other past times. That's cool too. :)

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  • From SirRonmit@21:2/120 to LDA on Monday, August 10, 2026 08:34:01
    It's very difficult to find you something to play if you have all those requirements. If you boot up a game with a shopping list of requirements, you're going to be disappointed. To me, it sounds like there's an issue with how you're going about this. Gaming is just a fun activity to do

    or needs to go back to the old 386/486 days of gaming.

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  • From Matthew Munson@21:4/108 to Sirronmit on Monday, August 10, 2026 21:40:00
    Sirronmit wrote to Lda <=-

    It's very difficult to find you something to play if you have all those requirements. If you boot up a game with a shopping list of requirements, you're going to be disappointed. To me, it sounds like there's an issue with how you're going about this. Gaming is just a fun activity to do

    or needs to go back to the old 386/486 days of gaming.

    I have some classic games, I think my birthday present 30 years ago was a copy of Earthworm Jim
    1 and 2 for the PC.

    Who needs a PS1 when you have the PC.


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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Matthew Munson on Tuesday, August 11, 2026 12:31:35
    Re: Re: Giving Up...
    By: Matthew Munson to Sirronmit on Mon Aug 10 2026 09:40 pm

    I have some classic games, I think my birthday present 30 years ago was a copy of Earthworm Jim
    1 and 2 for the PC.

    Who needs a PS1 when you have the PC.

    I think there are still some games that were only available for the PS1 that weren't available for the PC. But if you have a PC, you can run a PS1 emulator to play them. :)

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  • From Peter London@21:3/242 to All on Tuesday, August 11, 2026 22:35:01

    I think there are still some games that were only available for the PS1
    that weren't available for the PC. But if you have a PC, you can run a
    PS1 emulator to play them. :)

    Yes, ever since Bleem in 1999 :).

    Cheers

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Peter London on Tuesday, August 11, 2026 14:19:03
    Re: Re: Giving Up...
    By: Peter London to All on Tue Aug 11 2026 10:35 pm

    I think there are still some games that were only available for the PS1
    that weren't available for the PC. But if you have a PC, you can run a PS1
    emulator to play them. :)

    Yes, ever since Bleem in 1999 :).

    I remember buying a copy of Bleem when it was available in stores. And I heard Sony sued the company that made Bleem, so they had to stop selling it. I also remember another PS1 emulator called Connectix Virtual Game Station.. These days there are other PS1 emulators available (and they're free). I thought Bleem was cool though because it attempted to improve the graphics of the PS1 games in real-time.

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  • From Knight Shadow@21:3/248 to Nightfox on Tuesday, August 11, 2026 18:40:02
    I remember buying a copy of Bleem when it was available in stores. And I heard Sony sued the company that made Bleem, so they had to stop selling it. I also remember another PS1 emulator called Connectix Virtual Game Station.. These days there are other PS1 emulators available (and
    they're free). I thought Bleem was cool though because it attempted to improve the graphics of the PS1 games in real-time.

    Has anyone tried the Dolphin emulation software? My son and I were thinking of using it to play some old Nintendo titles. Looks pretty good, but haven't tried it out yet.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Knight Shadow on Tuesday, August 11, 2026 18:56:36
    Re: Re: Giving Up...
    By: Knight Shadow to Nightfox on Tue Aug 11 2026 06:40 pm

    Has anyone tried the Dolphin emulation software? My son and I were thinking of using it to play some old Nintendo titles. Looks pretty good, but haven't tried it out yet.

    I think Dolphin is for Nintendo Wii, isn't it? I remember trying it on a handheld device I have.

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  • From Knight Shadow@21:3/248 to Nightfox on Tuesday, August 11, 2026 21:03:12
    I think Dolphin is for Nintendo Wii, isn't it? I remember trying it on a handheld device I have.

    Oh, you're right. The Wii and Gamecube. For some reason I thought it emulated other systems too.

    I'd like to play Zelda Windwaker on it, I liked
    that one. And Metroid.

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  • From Peter London@21:3/242 to All on Wednesday, August 12, 2026 12:05:01

    I remember buying a copy of Bleem when it was available in stores. And
    I heard Sony sued the company that made Bleem, so they had to stop
    selling it. I also remember another PS1 emulator called Connectix
    Virtual Game Station.. These days there are other PS1 emulators
    available (and they're free). I thought Bleem was cool though because
    it attempted to improve the graphics of the PS1 games in real-time.

    Cool! I never owned a copy of Bleem, but I read about it in the game
    magazines at the time.

    Yes, the emulator scene is quite different these days :). Retroarch runs
    on everything now.


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  • From xqtr@21:1/111 to Shurato on Wednesday, August 12, 2026 16:02:36
    I've tried people and AI for recommendations for games. Both have made me decide to give up and spend my time elsewhere. I won't play anything with cards, strategy, puzzles, reflexes required, must be easy, but
    still really fun. No parodies. I must be able to save the game every 10- minutes. Nothing meets all of those categories...

    All the retro games, fill these categories. Setup a Retropie machine, use a Bazzite or Batocera live image and play games up to the PS2 (you can more) era. Specially the Arcade games, are very fun for short time periods.

    You can save/restore the games, at any time!

    You can even buy a cheap chinese handheld device, like the RG35xxx devices and play whenever you have the time.

    Present time games are very time consuming and i don't enjoy them, also.

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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to Matthew Munson on Tuesday, August 25, 2026 11:48:47
    Re: Re: Giving Up...
    By: Matthew Munson to Sirronmit on Mon Aug 10 2026 09:40 pm


    Who needs a PS1 when you have the PC.

    Are you trying to start a fight? Because back in the days those were fighting words.

    Truth to be told PCs used to be more advanced but consoles used to be more convenient and affordable. If you already had a computer the main reason to pick a console would be to play exclusives, frankly. Back in the day, another reason for using a console if you had a PC was that consoles were more convenient for couch gaming.

    These days you can do couch gaming with a PC and a good gamepad. With the raising prices of consoles there is much less of a reason to own a console if you have a mid-end PC.


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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to xqtr on Tuesday, August 25, 2026 11:55:30
    Re: Giving Up...
    By: xqtr to Shurato on Wed Aug 12 2026 04:02 pm


    Present time games are very time consuming and i don't enjoy them, also.

    I tend to agree.

    Particularly, popular modern games require hardware which is too expensive, which turns them into an expensive proposition to begin with. Then they might be subject to a lot of modern plagues such as microtransactions, online DRM and so on.

    However, I must stress that there are many modern low budget titles that are very respectful of your time. I am talking about 5 to 15 USD games with no microtransactions that you can run on a toaster. Lots of those actively attempt to replicate the virtues of old hits. For example you have BallisticNG, which comes across as a modern WipeOut; or Wizordum, which feels like a spiritual succesor to Heretic.

    If you dig deep enough you can find lots of modern releases for retro systems. Lots of very good stuff is still being released for the Game Boy, ZX Spectrum, or the Genesis/Mega Drive.

    If you are really retro you should give Bufonada a try. Nothing like a good Spectrum game released on 2023 to show there are still people who care XD


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  • From Utopian Galt@21:2/150 to Arelor on Tuesday, August 25, 2026 18:21:06
    These days you can do couch gaming with a PC and a good gamepad. With the raising prices of consoles there is much less of a reason to own a
    console if you have a mid-end PC.

    Im getting sick of Sony and likely going to refuse to buy any games on their platform anymore. Debating between a Mac M6 or a AMD 9850x3d.

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  • From Matthew Munson@21:4/108 to Arelor on Thursday, August 27, 2026 21:16:48
    On 8/25/2026 11:53 AM, Arelor wrote to Matthew Munson:

    Re: Re: Giving Up...
    By: Matthew Munson to Sirronmit on Mon Aug 10 2026 09:40 pm


    Who needs a PS1 when you have the PC.

    Are you trying to start a fight? Because back in the days those were fighting
    words.

    Truth to be told PCs used to be more advanced but consoles used to be more convenient and affordable. If you already had a computer the main reason to pick a console would be to play exclusives, frankly. Back in the day, another
    reason for using a console if you had a PC was that consoles were more convenient for couch gaming.
    In 1996-1997, I was given a 486/100 PC instead of a PS1. It was a worthy investment :)


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  • From fusion@21:1/616 to Matthew Munson on Sunday, August 30, 2026 01:14:56
    On 27 Aug 2026, Matthew Munson said the following...

    Truth to be told PCs used to be more advanced but consoles used to be m convenient and affordable. If you already had a computer the main reaso pick a console would be to play exclusives, frankly. Back in the day, another
    reason for using a console if you had a PC was that consoles were more convenient for couch gaming.
    In 1996-1997, I was given a 486/100 PC instead of a PS1. It was a worthy investment :)

    honestly, hindsight is awesome.. especially if you can resist keeping up with gaming for long periods of time.

    i tend to play tons of games maybe 7-10 years late.. you end up knowing pretty much every game that is either awesome "game of the year" stuff or total crap. never purchased any bad PS1 games. most of them for maybe $10-20 from the used section.

    also for the PC side you end up a couple generations newer for CPU/GPUs so they all run 1440p >100fps, etc

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  • From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to fusion on Sunday, August 30, 2026 14:36:36
    honestly, hindsight is awesome.. especially if you can resist keeping up with gaming for long periods of time.

    i tend to play tons of games maybe 7-10 years late.. you end up knowing pretty much every game that is either awesome "game of the year" stuff or total crap. never purchased any bad PS1 games. most of them for maybe $10-20 from the used section.


    In my case, I own just a few PC games and most all of them are SimCity titles. I didn't buy 4 until I had a pc powerful enough to meet the system requirements, which was probably more than 10 years later. ;) It is still slow.

    I was late getting a copy of 2000 for a similar reason -- that and I didn't know what it was when it was new -- but I think I was maybe only 2-3 years late on that one.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to fusion on Sunday, August 30, 2026 10:55:19
    fusion wrote to Matthew Munson <=-

    also for the PC side you end up a couple generations newer for CPU/GPUs
    so they all run 1440p >100fps, etc

    I had a lot of fun going back and playing games I played years ago.
    Return to Castle Wolfenstein ran amazingly on new hardware compared to
    the Celeron I ran it on in 2004, but it's hard finding multiplayer
    games with players.

    I've been playing War Thunder since 2017 or so, still having a good
    time with it.



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  • From Matthew Munson@21:4/108 to Fusion on Saturday, August 29, 2026 22:20:02
    On 8/30/2026 1:18 AM, Fusion wrote to Matthew Munson:



    also for the PC side you end up a couple generations newer for CPU/GPUs so they
    all run 1440p >100fps, etc
    With the hardware crisis, my 5700x with 9060xt will do me decent for awhile. Only problem I need is
    storage.




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