Patient Gamers

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A gaming community free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.

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Anyone else playing on a 5-20 year lag? (xkcd.com)

submitted 1 year ago by sparr@lemmy.world to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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I tried a couple of times to make https://www.reddit.com/r/cuttingedgegaming/ happen, but never reached many people. This community seems to mostly folks playing 1-2 year old games, I wonder if there are more of us who are playing older (but not "retro") games, particularly PC games?

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[–] Sami@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I found out the cake was a lie circa 2020. Also with the GPU price trends the last few years, I suspect more people have become patient gamers but not by choice.

[–] sparr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

A wine bug deprived me of GladOS' voice when I played through Portal, so I didn't get the cake lines until much later, from pop culture.

[–] MrTulip@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

That's the boat I'm in. My system can't run a lot of new games, and I can't afford to upgrade right now.