https://store.steampowered.com/charts/mostplayed/
Looking at the most played list on steam is depressing battle royale shit, moba shit, Team Fortress 2 ( almost certainly filled with bots and fake player counts ). I sort of get GTA V because modded private servers but that must be a nightmare to deal with because of how cancerous rockstar studos are these days. I'm going to try and get myself into Terraria after a million years since I bought it because that's singleplayer and offline and doesn't run like shit.
I mean for fuck's sake, even though it's objective trash there are still people clearly downloading and playing Battlefield 2042 of all things. I would sooner watch paint dry than deal with any of this crap that the normies are playing and I can see why all of you retreat to the safe space that is classic gaming but even for me I feel like there's only so many times I can play a game over and over. The games that frequently make their way to the top of the charts are constantly reported on having major technical problems with them and it's mind boggling to me that people will make themselves play that.
We don't have to settle for this.
lmao no amount of suspicious astroturfing could save Starfield.
Even with the astroturfing, the Steam reviews are only 70% positive overall, and 51% positive for the last month.
Elden Ring is like the only AAA game that's exceeded the hype (imo) in the last few years. I know they're not for everyone, but I love FromSoftware's ARPGs.
I enjoyed it, but I don't really care to play it ever again. I think it wins more by default due to the current state of AAA
That's perfectly reasonable, man.
I enjoyed the time I spent with it, but it's just too long for another playthrough vs their other titles.
Fuck I hope they don't rush the expansion.
I don't care if it takes two more years just finally finish something for once.
I had flashbacks to Wizardry 8.
I saw Red Faction in those faces.
I've been playing Gamecube emulator recently- Paper Mario is great, working on Luigi's Mansion now. Did Kart of course. You don't need to go back to early shitty 3D block graphics to find good retro shit. And 8/16-bit sprites look way better than early PS1/N64 if you're a purist on the term "retro".
A few months ago I did the X-Men Origins Wolverine game- pretty fun, much better than the movie. Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol is fun.
There was a PC port of N64 Perfect Dark that came out a few days ago. It turns PD ROM to turn it in to a PC based FPS with mouse support and a bunch of other stuff.
No link because I'm on my phone and read about it on my PC.
They did the same thing for Mario 64 a couple years ago.
I never finished Ocarina and have heard about the Ship of Harkinian thing that sounds do to something similar but apparently I need to find a specific PAL ROM for it to work.
Other Gamecube selections: Eternal Darkness is great, if you can get your hands on it. The Fire Emblem and F-Zero titles were also good. Skies of Arcadia was an interesting JRPG.
Yup, I finally started playing through stuff from my retro collection I built up the past few years, been enjoying Croc, Parasite Eve, Medievil, and Tomb Raider 1 the past week
CS is not very hard to believe. It's always popular and they just released CS2.
I mean yeah counter strike I guess, but honestly I'm very suspicious of the numbers of these games and whether a lot of them are even legit and I'm not just bullshitting either because of the amount of bots. I wonder CS2 is reading it's players because if there are a bunch of bots sitting about in gun game for example as I've seen then that means the numbers will be massively spiked compared to what they really are.
For a moment I thought you were talking about Battlefield 2142. People could still be downloading and playing that if EA hadn't shut down Revive.
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I remember that game very fondly. Knifing was fun, but using the paddles to kill was also incredibly satisfying. Or "abandoning" your buggy to hide in the back and gun down unsuspecting squads with your turret. And the Titan game mode, though it caused my PC at the time to struggle, was so much fun. The vehicles had weak spots, squads were encouraged to actually work together, smaller local servers where you got to know people.
Good times. Great game.
Recently, I downloaded a cracked version of Starcraft Remastered. It's basically exactly like the first one, but with some upgraded graphics and performance. I'd recommend it. It's on PB, for anyone interested.
Bruh dont shit on my TF2
I played it back when it was a normal paid game and before they introduced all the ridiculous items lol.
GTA5 is "classic gaming" these days. Thing's like a decade old, isn't it? Anything that has existed for 20% of gaming's history is pretty old.
The better question is why isn't there much new stuff? Back in the day, a new product meant people were going to be buying it. But now it's all trash, and people are falling back on old standbys like TF2, CSGO, GTA5, Minecraft and whatnot.
Vice City is certainly "classic" if they're remaking/remastering it.
Games industry went to this moonshot model of chasing after the big hits that earn 1 billion dollars to offset the 500 million dollar development & advertising cost. Problem is if you are making games this big you can't take risks or do anything that's not pushing you toward mass market low-IQ normies
The thing I hate the most about modern game design with regards to how it caters to exactly who you describe is really the controls because even when it comes to the 'action' games now the controls are so retarded all you're doing is usually hitting a context based button depending on where you go in the 'game' and it's become utter cancer in big titles.
It does explain why these kinds of games have gotten so popular and are the most widely advertised though because yes, anybody can play them but at the same time that's not really an achievement because games are supposed to have some degree of challenge or a point to them. Which is why so many gamers now call them walking simulators especially compared to older games. You could almost certainly program a bot with machine learning to play these games they're that easy.
Personally I'm back to playing a bit of star citizen while I wait for rogue trader to release. Got my theory crafted builds ready to be updated to release and everything.
That said a lot of the time I keep one game of each genre to flip to whichever genre I want to play in the moment.
Funny, I put Star Citizen on the backburner until the tow truck comes in with the IAE patch later this month. I've been working through some of my Switch backlog while I wait.
All the most played games are the types of games that people can play pretty endlessly. That's their entire purpose, to be a single focus game for a person. Sometimes its until the next version releases (sports, COD) or just that one single game forever (mobas, BR, TF2, CS).
I play mostly single player games. Often times well after their release to keep my frugal nature satisfied. At the point I'm playing most things won't even crack top 1000 on the chart. That's not a problem with either of those categories, its just the nature of social focused gaming versus purpose focused. And unfortunately social focused games have the issue of "play now or never get to play."
Like, I don't disagree its trash. But its also basically an entire different industry to a point where most of those people don't play anything else outside it either. Most of the black guys I know buy consoles just to play the same NBA/NFL games each year, and then use it for movies for the other 11 months. We have no crossover and they have basically minimal effect on JRPGs and that industry (or whatever your personal is).
Team Fortress 2 is still pretty active on community servers, and I'm sure that the annual Halloween event brought players out. Bots are still very much a problem in the official casual servers, though.
Oddly, I know a few zoomers who still play TF2. I find it a little strange, but then I got bored of it very quickly years ago. Same with Counter Strike. DOTA also doesn't surprise me. A few friends of mine still regularly play Heroes of the Storm, which is... whatever.
Dead by Daylight makes some sense, in that there's not a lot of decent games that play into slasher horror themes of that sort. Stardew Valley also makes sense, given how it's a semi-engaging half-casual game. Civilization has a long standing following. Rust is... a weird animal that doesn't surprise me but I don't pretend to understand.
And yes sadly, Call of Duty might never die like it should have years ago.
Tldr, normies have shitty taste and as the word implies, make up a good portion of the population. What else is new?
Why do you care?
Because gaming has the potential to be so much more than shitty battle royales, mobas and walking simulators.
It has realized that potential ages ago.
Tbf I see your point, but multiplayer games played in short bursts are always big with casuals, no different than the Call Of Duty mania during the MW2(2009) days.
Anyone play Don’t Starve? (saw Don’t Starve Together was on the list.)
I tried it a year or so back. Seemed interesting and well-made, but I didn’t really get into it. Wondering if I should try again.
Too busy playing space exploration, SOLO infactorio, the way god intended games to be done, to notice the most played charts. Maybe I'll look at them when my 400 hour play through is done.
To be fair to Battlefield 2042, they did do A LOT of patches and ditched the whole 'everyone's a specialist' and reintroduced classes, still won't buy it, if I wanted to play Battlefield again I'd play either 4 or 1.
Multiplayer games are still going to be the top dogs because of their ability to compete with others, the fact CS GO is STILL number 1 (we'd need Epic's figures for Fortnite) shows if you have a solid foundation your game can last for decades and I'm sure the esports and skin markets are helping.
Single player will have the initial jump on release then trail off as people complete it, a lot of the classic games we played as kids would suffer that fate.
I mean, most of this is because co-op games fluctuate between being on deaths door or thriving.
Games like all the ones you mention share a few things in common or have a singular feature that keeps them going.
Accessibility and Time Respect - <insert every BR game>
Account longevity/progression - <GTA. Tf2>
Dedicated Servers - <Tf2>
Makes sense when you frame it that way.
Not sure how dota 2 is moba shit. Being bad at a genre doesn't make it shit
Pathfinder wotr is a nice escape from modern gaming.
I have been playing witcher 1 these days lol
Are people supposed to be online on single player games forever just to change this list? Once the good story end most people leave satisfied. Others stick around to squeeze a lot more juice... but that time cannot compare to multiplayer games like mobas and battle royales. Great games a great not because they appear on a top 10 list but because people like what they offer.
I love to replay single player games because my memory is always fuzzy but not that many people do this. One time I bought Max Payne 1 for my friend because it was the game we used to play when we were in highschool. He told me he already beat it back then so "why bother playing it again"? :/
There's a good number of excellent games out there, just not the mega-popular ones. Everspace 2 is a good example.
Not everyone spends all of their lives thinking about what vidya to play next. Some people spend their precious time and energy on things which really matter.
shut up boomer, go watch sportsball
Try to achieve something which isn't a digital game trophy.
Yet here you are on an obscure corner of the internet arguing with gamers, you already lost by your own standard of success.
It is fucking funny when you see people preaching to nerds as if they're losers on this site. I still remember this guy trying to lecture me about porn completely unprompted and was bragging about how he was married and it was a case of me thinking. Okay so why are you wasting time on me instead of hanging out with your wife? You can tell the people who do this are older boomers or generation x'ers who haven't got a clue.
It's very much a mindset of how dare men have their own hobbies and enjoy themselves while ignoring everybody else, fucking NPCs. No, you must be permanently miserable and join our faction and do virtue signal posts.
These same retarded boomers/degenXers will complain about political agendas being shoved into gaming and other digital media after making it a point of pride to shun and belittle it, and they shame anyone who pursues a career in those mediums as "gay nerds" or "liberals".
Getting married, especially in the west, in modern times is more often than not a raw deal for men. You're a work slave for a woman who has the power of the state on her side to leave you high and dry whenever she decides she isn't happy anymore. I often see on gaming communities as well as others where married guys do this sort of humble bragging about how they have "no time" to play games or have hobbies because of their marriage, and they get extremely triggered whenever you tell them to just find another hobby rather than demand games be made even more dumbed down so they can beat them within the limited time their wives allow them to have.
I'm glad it's not just me that notices these types and you're absolutely dead on about the whole marriage aspect. Though of course gamers have been noticing this for years about married life along with MRAs.
Oh no no, that's how you can tell a man has been married for quite some time. We come on places like here to get AWAY from the old lady.
ROFL! I get it but that's also kind of sad, call me naïve by all means but I'd want to go out with a girl that I'd love spending tons of time with.
Don't get me wrong, my wife is a gamer we enjoy the same shit. We both hate niggers and troons.
She is my best friend, BUT women do like to suffocate the shit out of you from time to time because they need you to be their personal entertainers. Sometimes I just need to get my own headspace.
So I understand where they might be coming from there.
The stench of reddit is strong on you. I will help to clense you, son. Follow my teaching.
What teachings lol? How to waste time by projecting your insecurities on the internet?
Ignore your wife and dot have kids, apparently.
First teaching: put 30% of the time you would spend playing video games and reading anime toward achieving something a fully actualized male would have achieved. Examples: obtaining a driver's license, or learning to properly grill a steak.
Take your own advice and get off the internet. Also pretty low bar to set when teenage girls can easily achieve both of those things.
Unless it involves grassroots local elections or working in regional municipal facilities to affect/encourage turnout, there is nothing else that really matters that the average person can change.
Like what? Bitching about Jews and how everything sucks?
How excited are you for next product?