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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?

2y 2mon ago by lemmy.world/u/MacedWindow in letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk

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.

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.

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.

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.

For me it's more like 95% or more. In the last year I've played

  • Factorio (heavily)
  • Halflife
  • Halflife 2
  • Portal 2
  • Supreme Commander
  • Rimworld
  • World of Goo
  • Untitled Goose Game
  • Railway Empire

I don't think I've played many games that are younger than 6 years.

Most of the good games have been made already

Factorio kind of? Released 2020 but early access since 2014

Age of Empires 2 DE is a 2019 game but a spiritual successor to a 1999 game I've been playing since 2005.

Starcraft 2, Slay the Spire, Call of Duty Black Ops 3, Cities Skylines. You may notice these games all have a big modding scene which adds huge amounts of replay value.

Sid Meier Civ 6 because I get Civ fever every few months. Keep in mind the 2018-2019 expansions Gathering Storm and Rise and Fall were major overhauls of mechanics that really make it feel like a different game.

I'm old school, I regularly play these games:

  • Doom 1/2
  • Half-Life 1 (via Svencoop)
  • Wreckfest
  • Mother 3 (first time playing it, so good)
  • Starcraft 2 (3pl coop campaigns)
  • Amazing Frog? (With my youngest)
  • Angband (I used to play Moria, Larn, NetHack back in the day)

Svencoop is still going??

Yup! Still like 20 servers going at a time. I took a few years off but I'm back playing.

Left4Dead2, the greatest game ever made.

I've been replaying Prince of Persia, the old 2008 game, for the past few days. I originally owned it for the Xbox 360 back in the day, but I have a copy on Steam now.

The graphics hold up exceptionally well. Plus, someone in the Steam community had a quick edit that allows you to manually adjust the resolution to any size you want, so I'm enjoying it on my 4K monitor now, even though there's not a 4K option in the video settings. It looks like this game could've released in the past 5 years or so; they put a lot of work into the look and feel of it.

This game is basically Assassin's Creed before Assassin's Creed released. Most of the game is spent running along walls, climbing things, chaining movements across multiple surfaces, etc. It's pretty satisfying to play. And the controls are easier and smoother than the early Assassin's Creed games.

The only downside is that fights are slow, as you need to chain attacks and defend at precise moments to make decent progress. Everyone has a large health bar, but lower enemies can be ended quickly by just shoving them off platforms.

Fortunately, enemies are few and far between. The game mostly revolves around collecting glowing white magic balls floating throughout the levels. When you get enough, the princess following you throughout the game can unlock powers that allow you to navigate new levels. Each level has an end boss to fight, and as long as you chain attacks and defend well, it's mostly just a game of patience, picking down their health bar a little at a time. The ultimate goal is to clear all the levels and fight the BBEG who was released at the start of the game.

Like I said, there is a princess following you throughout the game. But it's not an escort quest; quite the opposite really. She uses her magic to ensure you stay safe throughout the entire game. If you fall off a ledge, there's a brief cutscene of her teleporting after you and then teleporting you back to a safe platform. If you die in battle, she rewinds time a little bit to when you're still alive and fighting. She's mostly able to take care of herself, so you don't need to focus on her.

Back in the day, I got the sense that the prince you play as was just a snarky, sarcastic asshole, constantly harassing and belittling the princess. It always made me think of Link from that awful 1989 Legend of Zelda cartoon. But since playing through again, I see he's not that bad. Maybe a bit sarcastic at times, definitely uses humor to deflect conversation, but he's not the raging asshole I remember him being.

I really enjoyed this game 16 years ago, and I'm still enjoying it today!

This is what I mean by a bigger pool of games meaning you can ignore the new stuff! Especially with fans helping to keep them alive.

I remember people dunking on that game when it came out. I wanted to get it but everyone told me not to and that it was awful. Ill need to add it to the backlog, from your description it sounds like something I'd like.

I am commonly playing several old games...

Unreal Tournament 2004

Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn

Command & Conquer: Red Alert

Age Of Empires II

Borderlands 1

Borderlands 2

Fallout New Vegas

Just Cause 2

Postal 2

Red Faction Guerrilla

Saints Row The Third

I still like to give Doom a spin.

Currently working my way through Twilight Princess using a modded 4k GameCube version.

Been having a blast.

I just recently beat Borderlands 3 for the first time too.

Civ 4 & Neverwinter Nights & Caves of Qud are pretty much it for me these days.

Modern AAA games are generally flashy garbage.

love Caves of Qud, such a fun/brutal game.

Have you tried Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead? Try the Sky Islands mod, it is a blast.

Right now I'm playing stalker so a few more than 6 years old.

The binding of Isaac.

I probably still drop a few hours a week in this game, been playing since it was written in flash...

I still go back and pay the flash version. I just miss the old graphics, soundtracks, and my memories of putting insane hours into runs.

I still play the flash version occasionally as well. I miss damage being linked to tear size & getting ridiculous tears that take up the whole screen, cause a memory leak, and crash the game.

Spelunky, My Time at Portia, Stardew Valley, River City Girls, Super Mario World

Why not Spelunky 2? :P

Seriously Spelunky is one of the finest platformers of all time period, especially among co-op splitscreen platformers.

I have both on PC but only the original (well, the HD version) on Switch, and Switch excells at couch coöp. My kids want to beat the original together before we move on to the sequel.

Damn, what a great game for your family to play together, have a blast!

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

I love my board games and story generators so things like Rimworld, Stellaris, Civilization 5, and Project Zomboid keep showing up in my recently played list.

I learned about the genre of story generators from Rimworld. I love run-based games like that becuase you never know what to expect. The dev of the roguelike Cogmind still plays it on stream all the time even though hes been developing it for a decade! With sufficient randomness there can always be one more run :^)

I just learned about Cogmind by watching DoshDoshington. His latest video talked about it and it looks nuts.

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.

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

Modded Minecraft?

Just finished a new playthrough of Cyberpunk 2077 but that's a mere 4 years old.

Otherwise, a lot of Skyrim, Fallout 3, 4, NV, GTAV replays. And Civilization Revolution for casual, or Bloons TD6 sometimes with the kids.

Have you tried Tale of Two Wastelands? Best way to play Fallout 3! Fallout London also looks cool, and it's coming out this month I believe.

I'd love to but I play my games on XBox. And yes, Fallout London looks glorious - I'll be sad to miss out.

Dark Souls 1-3 and Bloodborne.

Are you participating in Return to Yharnam?

I would if I still had PS+ for online shit 😞 (or if the game was on PC)

I don't even have notes. It's weird.

oh shit! i finished a bloodborne playthrough yesterday by coincidence, i completely forgot about return to yharnam

Faster than Light and League of Legends

I'd say Noita but it was released in 2020

Oh, I love watching people play ITB but I don't enjoy playing it myself. Just like Dark Souls, it's entertaining but not for me. 🙃

I just finished the 1st and 2nd bards tale....it was free on Xbox. IMHO, better than some of the newer dungeon games

Minecraft and Kerbal space program, though it is current Minecraft, which is quite different to the same game several years ago

Minecraft and Breath of the Wild

Corruption of Champions 2 😏

But in all seriousness(I wasn't joking though), Terraria. (And Dead Cells is 6 years old too, wtf)

Fenoxo and Savin FTW :)

I came in here to post Terraria. Doing a modded master playthrough with my polycule.

Thief: The Dark Project

It's from 1998... Plenty of community updates still keep it visually appealing, and there's a host of freely available campaigns that keep it interesting.

I prefer old school games that focus on intrinsic level design and atmosphere rather than online mashing.

Guild Wars 2 I've played since prelaunch

Just got Arkham Knight during the spring sale

Always playing Tales of Maj'Eyal

Battlefield 1 and I just got V

Wife and I play Civ 6 a lot

Recently started a new TES Oblivion game

FTL occasionally and Torchlight 2 sometimes

I'm still trying to get my Warcraft partner to try Guild Wars 2. I had so much fun in it a while back.

Playing through 7 Days to Die for the first time with some friend and having a blast.

Later on you can try Darkness Falls and Undead Legacy. Both good in their own ways.

Terraria and Stardew Valley still slap. I think Rimworld makes the cut now, especially if you consider the beta. I'm currently playing through fallout 4 again because I haven't done so since I built my new rig last year and I'm curious to know exactly how many mods I can cram into a playable experience.

After Baldur's Gate 3 I did a run in Divinity: Original Sin 2. That's a more difficult game with the same engine. It's definitely 6+ years old.

I played a campaign in XCOM2 pretty recently.

Come to think of it, almost every older game I play has a sprawling and active mod community. Maybe that's why.

Planet coaster

I’ve still been playing Civ V because up until recently I didn’t have a computer that could run Civ VI. Once I finish my current campaign I’m going to finally try out VI, but I think that actually might also be 6+ years old.

I’ve also gotten back into playing the old original Star Wars Battlefront games. And I’ll usually play through both Portal games every few years.

I have V on my switch and don't feel any need to go to VI. I still lose entire days to that game on the reg.

VI comes with a clock up in the corner of the screen so you actually have something tethering you to reality.

I remember when V came out the lack of a clock caused a lot of commotion. Someone made a mod to display a clock but then most achievements became unavailable because you were using a mod. I run dual monitors now so it’s not as much of an issue.

I've just started gaming again after a 30 year hiatus, I bought a cheap PC which would have been ok 6 years ago so I've been working my way through games of the year that my potato can handle. I've really enjoyed Dishonored 1 and 2. Skyrim I've spent some time on. Titan Quest, Halo, Bioshock, Hollow Knight, Mass Effect. Having a great time with all these.

So. Much. Warframe.

We're on year 11, Tenno!🤘

Stardew Valley and Minecraft, mostly. I played through Morrowind and Fallout 4 recently too.

Yo sheet, where's my Dwarf Fortress gang at?!

Though I guess it's pretty new on Steam. :P

It's some backlog for me, but also some just solid as hell live services that have been around a while:

  • Path of Exile
  • The Messenger
  • Warframe
  • Yakuza 0
  • Sea of Thieves
  • Into the Breach

SoT and The Messenger both turned 6 just this year, so they're squeaking by, but I suppose the thrust of the idea is still there

Playing through Sunless Skies currently. (5 years.. but.. close enough!)

I got partially hooked into sunless seas because I loved the vibe until I realized that the ship gameplay was just kind of ancillary to the game.

Like the board game Sleeping Gods but with a video game strapped on. It seems like Sunless Skies at least partially addresses this though.

Its def 2 games mashed into one. The train/ship gameplay and the narrative. Both are mostly separate things. I don't mind though, its a blast. Its creepy and convoluted in all the best ways.

I think I'm 70 or so hours into this playthrough, and I haven't completed a single of the 4 maps yet.

I really think space sci-fi is so limited in the way it imagines space almost always in terms of giant voids of empty vacuums and in a general way that is hard to put into words, the aesthetics of modern space exploration and knowledge. Sure a sci-fi’s ships may be fantastical, but the space the ship is flying through is always the same void.

I really like the idea of space not as the modern scientific understanding we have of it, but rather an extension of the sky into realms unknown, more a question of airships flying to impossible altitudes than a rocket ship traveling through empty space.

Sunless skies definitely peaks my interest in that respect.

Def. The paralaxed approach Sunless Skies takes to their background design leaves you stunned, even in areas where nothing's going on. In the vast emptiness there is still crazy multi-tiered happenings going on below you.

The artistic designs this game utilized blow me away constantly.

MODS MODS MODS WE HAVE A RULEBREAKER!!

I'd say early access counts for games that actually release, so you are over the 6 year line! Congrats I guess.

Fallout: Tale of Two Wastelands and Borderlands 2, recently.

I'm ripping and tearing in Doom 2 megawads... until it is done.

DotA 2 is old as fuck but literal game changing updates happen almost yearly

I’m making my way through pillars of eternity again. Once done I’ll be playing deadfire

I wasn't able to get into PoE gameplay, but Im excited for Avowed as the lore and world seem very immersive.

Undertale is great you're in for a good time.

I would have dropped watch by now but its what everyone has/plays. Its hard to get 7ish people switched to something else, especially when the current game is FTP and has crossplay. Maybe someday something will take its place but we are nearing a decade of play with no real contenders.

RDR2 and Factorio

Apparently, for me, the better question is, "Which games newer than 6 years are you playing?" It turns out I dont play many new games, just Elden Ring and Jedi Fallen Order ( which is 5 years old even). Deep rock might squeeze in there, but it just turned 6 years old

Titanfall 2

Battlefield 3 or 4 and Halo MCC. Also Skullgirls.

AC Origins

Rocket League has been a big one for me recently. But I've actually been making an effort to play new stuff besides that, like Alan Wake 1&2, Cyberpunk, and Baldur's Gate 3.

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!

Gran Turismo 4

Didn't realise before but this seems right. This year I am playing persona 4, Celeste and the witcher, all more than 6 yrs old

Replaying hollow knight ahead of the imminent release of silk song. It’s so close that I can taste copper.

Damn, as desperate as we elden ring fans were for dlc, I can only imagine and pour one out for what hollow knight fans are going through. Hoping you guys get a release date soon!

Victoria 2. I like 3, but I've got a heavily modded megacampaign with my friends going and I don't know 3 well enough to tweak it yet. 2 is still a great game.

Also Assetto Corsa. Competizione looks fun but I like driving stuff other than GT cars

Took about a decade off gaming and Needed some "new" games in the pandemic. Bought some new games last year, Skyrim ultimate everything in a bundle, also bought Fallout 3-new Vegas bundles. Skyrim was awesome and I played it for about a year, FO 3 was ok, loving 4, heard New Vegas is the best.

Other than that I play super old school, emulator games for SNES, N64 when I have a bit of time.

I have a weird philosophy where I don't try things until they're about 10 years old, games, TV shows, etc. I figure I am pretty much guaranteed an epic experience if people are still talking about it at that point.

Software Inc (Early access since 2015) Raft (EA since 2018, full release 2022)

just finished another solid bloodborne playthrough, gotta love the logarius wheel and whirligig saw

I'm never not playing Skullgirls. Somehow still going, Marie DLC just dropped last week.

I've been replaying red dead 2 which turns 6 this year :P

Xonotic: om, well it’s based on the darkplaces engine, so yeah, I mean Xonotic in a way is basically as old as 3D multiplayer shooters.

Eador Genesis: like a tighter heroes of might and magic or kings bounty, great with the New Horizons mod.

Beyond All Reason: the latest evolution in a series of Total Annihilation inspired RTS games built on an open source engine.

WinspWW2: a derivative of Steel Panthers, an old DOS hex turn based tactical war game. Yeah there are newer turn based strategy games and perhaps more elegant systems like Combat Mission’s or Operation Flashpoint Red Storm’s simultaneous turns, but the fact stands that WinspWW2 and WinspMBT are from certain perspectives the deepest turn based tactics video games in existence, realistic or not.

Original Peggle and Peggle nights: What do I even need to say, perfection.

Brigador Up Armored Edition: Top down isometric cyberpunk dystopia mech/tank quasi-twin stick shooter. This game is an absolute gem.

Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead: the most interesting open world survival game period, yeah the graphics… barely qualify as graphics but the gameplay and complexity/variety of procedural generation is simply nowhere even close to being matched by any other open world rpg/survival game.

Also a big peggle fan! Have you tried Roundguard? Doesn't match the perfection of Peggle but it's very fun.

Yeah I have watched the development of roundgard and pegglin but neither has gone on enough of a sale for me to decide to try em based on the good but not amazing reviews I have seen of them.

There is such a pure joy to the original peggle, it breaks my heart to wonder what Popcap could have become if they weren’t bought by EA.

The Long Dark, came out of early access in 2017, so I got the game earlier than that and it still has updates.

Dishonered 1 and 2, a playthrough every year, Witcher 3, Mad Max, MGS V, Prey, theres tons of good games to play a second, third or yearly playthrough.

The open world Mad Max? That game is so underrated. I love using the grappling hook

Super Smash Bros Melee

With that username I'm not surprised! Whose your main? I play Ganon and Sheik.

I play Puff in melee, Falcon in 64, Sonic in PM, and Greninja in HDR

Almost exclusively Final Fantasy 14 with some Warframe and a smattering of older puzzle games.

Rocket League. I probably play a solid 3 hours of that every single week, and have done for the last two years. Before those two years I probably played a solid 7-8 hours a week. It's my forever game, the game I play when I'm bored, the game I play when I've got a lot on my mind and just want to fill the void in my head with something safe and easy.

I like playing rocket league because it connects me with one of my past lives where I was reincarnated as a rocket soccer car and lived a short but glorious life of rocketing balls, many many eons ago when the universe was still new and full of rocket soccer cars.

I don’t play rocket league superrr often but when I do it sends me right back to that previous reincarnation and it feels like it was only yesterday I was slurping up golden boost juice, slamming aerial shots and trashtalking fools by using friendly chat reactions in a sarcastic fashion.

Rocket league is like riding a bike, the feeling never leaves you.

GZDoom! It just doesn't get boring to shoot demons for half an hour. I'm playing Volatile Material and Doom Infinite at the moment.

MHW and Warframe

Just recently I started replaying “VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action”. I'm also working on Rune Factory 4 Special - the remake is only 4 years old, but the original is from 2012. I still periodically fire up Castle Crashers from time to time, and I have yet to give up on my much-procrastinated attempt at Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (the Xbox 360 version).

There are many others, but that's just off the top of my head.

How are you still playing Overwatch? They shut it down when 2 came out, I thought. I no longer have it in my library even.

They can stick a 2 on it if they want, but the ingame play timer never reset, going from 6v6 to 5v5 isn't such a big change to say its a sequel imo. Everything that was going to make 2 "2" was canceled. The large majority of characters, levels, cosmetics, modes, etc etc is the exact same. They just needed an excuse to start charging for skins. Blizzard sucks but its what the people I talk to play so its what I play.

Also not sure why it isnt in your library, but part of the "2" change was going free to play, so you can always redownload it. Unless you are saying OG Overwatch is gone and OW2 is there now, in which case yes they just updated the first game, there is no new game.