The Picard Maneuver to RetroGaming@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agoI'm doing my part!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square91arrow-up1775file-text
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minus-square@Jimmycakes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish82•5 months agoEmulated games are free, polished, complete Modern games are $80+ steaming incomplete pile of shit This mystery will never be solved.
minus-square@MeaanBeaan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish28•edit-25 months agoI assume they’re referring to actual hardware. I’d imagine the percentage of gamers playing emulated games is much higher than 14%. Edit: Found the article It appears I am correct.
minus-square@finkrat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish19•edit-25 months agoModern games: requires $300+ game console or a $300+ GPU to get 30 FPS Retro games: runs on your grandma’s Dell Pavilion still running Windows XP that she refuses to stop using, gets 50/60 depending on region
minus-squareEmma LivlinkfedilinkEnglish3•5 months agoAlmost all of my modern games are indies. Most cost between $5 and $30. I love retro too but if we’re going to only include modern “AAA” titles in the comparison…
Emulated games are free, polished, complete
Modern games are $80+ steaming incomplete pile of shit
This mystery will never be solved.
I assume they’re referring to actual hardware. I’d imagine the percentage of gamers playing emulated games is much higher than 14%.
Edit: Found the article
It appears I am correct.
Modern games: requires $300+ game console or a $300+ GPU to get 30 FPS
Retro games: runs on your grandma’s Dell Pavilion still running Windows XP that she refuses to stop using, gets 50/60 depending on region
Almost all of my modern games are indies. Most cost between $5 and $30. I love retro too but if we’re going to only include modern “AAA” titles in the comparison…