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I used to buy cheap games thinking I’d play them later, but I always ended up returning to my favorites. Now I skip the deals unless I know I’ll play the game soon.
This is very true, my nephews grew up on these two games and whenever I introduce them a AAA game whether old or new, it's like seeing an alien try to make sense of it and then quickly lose interest in it.
Can’t really expect a 8 year old Roblox kid to go buy resident evil 9 lol
Gaming trends are so weird to me now. Like, I’m old school and games were consumed essentially how movies were. You play through a title and look forward to the sequel or other things that came out. Now, that is so not the norm.
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Good article. Just noticed that my most enjoyed steam games cannot be completed: CS:S, Killing Floor, Mount & Blade, Terraria, BF:BC2 (didn't touch the single player), Sim City 4, L4D, TF2, Garry's mod etc.
Then there's also a lot of time invested in LoL, Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress and BF3 - more games that cannot be completed (again, ignoring BF's stupid campaign). And Skyrim, I have no intention of "finishing" it :P
The latter half of this console generation has been bad for single player campaign based/story driven games, they are usually something silly like 4-7 hours gameplay for full price, wtf. Lost Odyssey and TW2 are 2 single player titles that did not disappoint though. Also RDR was brilliant, kinda liked UC2 havn't played UC3 yet. Assassin's Creed keeps getting better though mostly through characters/story/presentation and not through gameplay (though that does improve with each title). I would have played more Reach if I wasn't attacked with RRoD when I cared, won't be bothering with it again :(
Well written article. Basically how i feel when i play the game.