I saw a recent post that 60% of playtime in 2023 was spent on games 6 years or older. What 6+ year old games are you playing?

I haven’t stopped playing Overwatch since it came out, still getting on with friends 2 or 3 nights a week and putting in a few hours (and I’m still awful lol). I also still log on to Battlefield 1943 from time to time to get in a few matches.

I also collect retro games so there is a good bit of time there. If anything I’ve struggled to find new games that I’d want to play more than something older and cheaper. I just picked up Dark Messiah for like 2 bucks and its amazing, hard to justify a $60-70 purchase when you can find deals like that on older but still great games.

I saw a lot of the playtime goes to still updated online games like Fortnite and Apex, but I wonder if part of it is that as time goes on there is a bigger pool of games to play. Sure there will always be cutting edge graphics and gameplay, but many people wouldnt be able to tell which indie dropped in 2010 and which dropped in 2024.

Kerb, (edited )
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hmm, on top of my head id say i can think of minecraft, skyrim, openttd and titanquest.

i also played a bit of lego starwars the complete saga, battlefront 2 (the og one), ksp and dwarf fortress.

i also sometimes play dota 2 but im not sure if i played any in 2023.

if early access counts, also factorio.

MintyAnt,

Modded Minecraft?

ilovecheese,
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I have more hours in KSP and DF than very other game added together. Including 100%s of BOTW and TOTK!

inb4_FoundTheVegan,
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Star Wars the old republic.

I played the absolute FUDGE out of KoToR back in the day, and played SWTOR at launch. But coming back to it after a decade plus just lets me enjoy the story. I won’t say its a perfect MMO, because its just not. But oh gawd does the story get good!

Emperor,
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I still like to give Doom a spin.

bjoern_tantau,
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I’m currently playing Syberia (2002) for the first time. I never played it when it was new because I didn’t like the demo. But people kept praising it over the years so I decided to give it a try.

I still have the same complaints I had back then but the story is nice.

MacedWindow,
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I searched it based on your comment and that is one of the most divisive games I’ve ever seen! One review calls it awful and unplayable and the next says its the GOAT. It looks like it just got a remake so it must have done something right.

Id be interested to hear youre thoughts if you finish it.

Kyle,

Oh my god. I played those when they came out, except the newest one.

They were good for its time for the people who loved Myst games and then sought any adventure games that remotely resembled point-and-click adventures. We played really cool but definite imitators like Schism Mysterious Journey, The Longest Journey, Atlantis games, and The Journeyman Project.

Then came a developer called Microids with another pre-rendered point and click: “Amerzone”, everyone played that.

Once we got used to low-budget point and clickery it was only natural that when Microids came out with Syberia we all played it and loved it in the vacuum of adventure games back then. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone blindly as they were a product of its time.

I still have to play the newest Syberia and Longest Journey, for nostalgia’s sake only.

MrJameGumb,
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Super Punch Out! it’s been one of my favorite games to just pick up and play since it came out in like 1994! I never have beaten the Bruiser Brothers at the end and I am perfectly ok with that lol

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