Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC on Nostr: condret :verified: :ancom: I basically play nothing but old games all the time, ...

condret :verified: :ancom: (nprofile…9j4h) I basically play nothing but old games all the time, mostly old adventure games though, using ScummVM. I have also played some newer adventure games, but I prefer those that still look like they were made in the 1990s, like Thimbleweed Park. I don't think I have ever played any big mainstream games that came out after 2010, at least not seriously; I have tried some of the games my housemate keeps playing all the time, but I just don't really enjoy them. They're either just old concepts with better graphics and sound, or they are so complex that you need weeks until you even know what's going on there. I don't want a simulation where you need to play tutorials five hours a day for a week before you even know how it works. I want something like SimAnt or SimEarth that you can understand in a single afternoon. If I just want to shoot some aliens, I don't need the game to look like a Pixar movie, it's totally fine in 320x200 16 colour pixelart, 256 colours are more than enough. For a puzzle game, you might want your resolution a bit higher, but 640x480 in 16 colours is fine, The Incredible Machine is still a fun game to play, and I haven't seen any newer puzzle game that was _more_ fun.
Well, thanks to DOSBox and ScummVM and UAE and Vice, I can still play all those old games from the 1980s and 1990s. Early Windows games usually run nicely under Wine even if newer Windows versions won't run them anymore. Then again, I have been using Linux most of the time since the early 2000s, so I mostly experience newer Windows game by looking at other people play them, and unfortunately, they like entirely different genres. My favourite games, apart from adventures, are turn-based strategy games and puzzle games.