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.
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.