ZLoth
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From The Verge:
The best reason to own a new PC is to play five-year-old games
The best reason to own a new PC is to play five-year-old games
FULL ARTICLE HERELike wines, fiber supplements, and cast iron pans, some video games get better with age.
I recently upgraded my PC. Its an expensive and irritating process, so I wanted to justify the money and time. Recent graphic showcases were boring and buggy and instilled an irksome sensation that Id made a mistake. On a whim, I downloaded a handful of my favorite games from the previous generation. I buried my PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the back of our apartments coat closet in 2013 and have missed my semi-regular dip into my comfort games. In an hour, I had BioShock, Far Cry 2, Bulletstorm, and a handful of other games from before 2010 ready to play.
For the past month, Ive almost exclusively played games from 2008 and 2009. Januarys a notoriously slow time for video game releases. I figured my diversion into the recent past would be just that, and by now, early February, these half-dozen oldies would be deleted from my hard drive to make room for the gargantuan storage space required by some fresh blockbusters, like Evolve or the Battlefield Hardline beta. But as new games approach, I find myself uninterested.