Why are there so many people still playing old games?

[xRoyalxFlushx]

I am wondering why there are so many people on PC that still play old ♥♥♥ games. I like to play CoD4 Remastered, which is old, but they just brought it back. Anyways, its a pretty good game. However, not many people play it. In fact, so many people DONT play it, that often times we struggle to even get a full lobby, and when we do, its always the same few people in the lobby. Which sucks. Because when I look at the amount of people who have played other games on steam today, it is crazy. Counter Strike GO had almost 500k. A bunch of other games dont struggle to get crazy amounts of players and its surprising honestly. I downloaded Counter Strike to see what I was missing. I used to play it back in the day in the early 2000's but wanted to see whats so great about it still. Nothing. Its basically the same game. I dont understand why 500k people still play this ♥♥♥♥. The graphics suck. Its so far from realistic. I thought maybe it was do to competitiveness because you hear about people being nasty at counter strike but thats not the case. Today was my first time playing in years and I'm probably qualified to say I'm already the best CS:GO player in the world. The people SUCK. So easy. Came in first every round. Its like what the ♥♥♥♥. Why are you still playing this game? It sucks. Lets be honest. There are SO many nicer, newer games. WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE PLAYING THIS OLD ♥♥♥♥. YET I CANT EVEN GET A FULL SERVER IN A MUCH NEWER NICER GAME?

What am I missing here guys?

P.S. Its not just counterstrike. So many of the games on the top 100 played steam games suck. Like hell, there is some truck driving game that had more people playing it than CoD. YOU DONT EVEN DO ANYTHING. YOU JUST DRIVE A ♥♥♥♥ING TRUCK AROUND. WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥?

[Mufasa]

ReDeFiNeDx1 の投稿を引用：

I am wondering why there are so many people on PC that still play old ♥♥♥ games. I like to play CoD4 Remastered, which is old, but they just brought it back. Anyways, its a pretty good game. However, not many people play it. In fact, so many people DONT play it, that often times we struggle to even get a full lobby, and when we do, its always the same few people in the lobby. Which sucks. Because when I look at the amount of people who have played other games on steam today, it is crazy. Counter Strike GO had almost 500k. A bunch of other games dont struggle to get crazy amounts of players and its surprising honestly. I downloaded Counter Strike to see what I was missing. I used to play it back in the day in the early 2000's but wanted to see whats so great about it still. Nothing. Its basically the same game. I dont understand why 500k people still play this ♥♥♥♥. The graphics suck. Its so far from realistic. I thought maybe it was do to competitiveness because you hear about people being nasty at counter strike but thats not the case. Today was my first time playing in years and I'm probably qualified to say I'm already the best CS:GO player in the world. The people SUCK. So easy. Came in first every round. Its like what the ♥♥♥♥. Why are you still playing this game? It sucks. Lets be honest. There are SO many nicer, newer games. WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE PLAYING THIS OLD ♥♥♥♥. YET I CANT EVEN GET A FULL SERVER IN A MUCH NEWER NICER GAME?

What am I missing here guys?

P.S. Its not just counterstrike. So many of the games on the top 100 played steam games suck. Like hell, there is some truck driving game that had more people playing it than CoD. YOU DONT EVEN DO ANYTHING. YOU JUST DRIVE A ♥♥♥♥ING TRUCK AROUND. WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥?

имсисмисми

[OkayIshGamer]

~Ren~ の投稿を引用：

Havoc の投稿を引用：

You act like because a game is old you're not supposed to touch it. Why do people watch old movies, tv shows, or even read old books? It's interesting, they find it fun. I've never worried about a games graphics. If the games fun to play, I'll play it regardless what the graphics look like. I play retro, old, and new games. Gaming is gaming. Regardless what the games on, and how old the game is.

This!

+1

[KenOkarun]

because not all users have a beast pc to run newer games (the ones i'm reffering to are those games that has beast graphics)

[тнerαѕнѕer]

I play games I enjoy playing old or new, A game being new does not make it a better game, I hope that by the time you're twelve you will stop trying to control the world.

[MancSoulja]

ReDeFiNeDx1 の投稿を引用：

Are you trolling me right now or are you being serious? How is it more fun? The graphics suck enough that I could probably play it on a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ calculator, meanwhile newer games push graphics cards to the limit.

Think of gameplay quality of Counter Strike vs a game like Battlefield 4.

What do graphics have to do with enjoyment?

[N1K]

ReDeFiNeDx1 の投稿を引用：

Are you trolling me right now or are you being serious? How is it more fun? The graphics suck enough that I could probably play it on a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ calculator, meanwhile newer games push graphics cards to the limit.

Think of gameplay quality of Counter Strike vs a game like Battlefield 4.

Bf4's player base is slowly reducing but CSGO is'nt, And Competitive matchmaking is much better than Cod's Search and Destroy and that is why modders created pro mod to take away the unbalanced part of cod's weaponry and perks to make it more skill based like csgo and BF4 is not very competitive its all about the gameplay.

[Astraea Kisaragi]

Competition in CS GO - best joke in the world. People just play (cheat) to get ranked which means a jack outside the game - especially funny when I think how we always waste CS GO players in Daedalus or Alien Rage (literally to point of ragequit)
and of course main reason are skins. If there would be still blank guns playerbase would be 90% smaller. It became a who has a cooler pixel gun showoff channel.

[Jazzy G-man]

Lad, simply put people will always want to play old games for a variety of reasons, most have already been listed. Just because you enjoy a certain game doesn't make that game neccesarily good, it just means that you enjoy spending your time playing it. So that doesn't give you any right to complain when someone else plays games that you consider old. As a person who constantly has to rely on emulaters for most of his childhood games, I can attest to the fact that some of the best games that have with stood the test of time are games that focus on storylines not on graphics (i.e Fallout, Myst, and FF7).

[NiteWing]

not everyone likes the same games, and alot of the new games play like the old games. newer versions of some of the older games have bugs and are difficult to fix. alot of the old games have some really great mods and make them like new games. Not everyone has a big pocketbook so play games the already own.

[Jazzy G-man]

NiteWing の投稿を引用：

not everyone likes the same games, and alot of the new games play like the old games. newer versions of some of the older games have bugs and are difficult to fix. alot of the old games have some really great mods and make them like new games. Not everyone has a big pocketbook so play games the already own.

True, a moded fallout 3 feels like an entirely new game to me at least.

[CharlesGF]

xRoyalxFlushx の投稿を引用：

I am wondering why there are so many people on PC that still play old ♥♥♥ games. I like to play CoD4 Remastered, which is old, but they just brought it back. Anyways, its a pretty good game. However, not many people play it. In fact, so many people DONT play it, that often times we struggle to even get a full lobby, and when we do, its always the same few people in the lobby. Which sucks. Because when I look at the amount of people who have played other games on steam today, it is crazy. Counter Strike GO had almost 500k. A bunch of other games dont struggle to get crazy amounts of players and its surprising honestly. I downloaded Counter Strike to see what I was missing. I used to play it back in the day in the early 2000's but wanted to see whats so great about it still. Nothing. Its basically the same game. I dont understand why 500k people still play this ♥♥♥♥. The graphics suck. Its so far from realistic. I thought maybe it was do to competitiveness because you hear about people being nasty at counter strike but thats not the case. Today was my first time playing in years and I'm probably qualified to say I'm already the best CS:GO player in the world. The people SUCK. So easy. Came in first every round. Its like what the ♥♥♥♥. Why are you still playing this game? It sucks. Lets be honest. There are SO many nicer, newer games. WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE PLAYING THIS OLD ♥♥♥♥. YET I CANT EVEN GET A FULL SERVER IN A MUCH NEWER NICER GAME?

What am I missing here guys?

P.S. Its not just counterstrike. So many of the games on the top 100 played steam games suck. Like hell, there is some truck driving game that had more people playing it than CoD. YOU DONT EVEN DO ANYTHING. YOU JUST DRIVE A ♥♥♥♥ING TRUCK AROUND. WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥?

1) bad gameplay - where the first thing you do is remap the keys in the controls,
2) unattractive characters - where it's better to skip the dialogue
3) bad mechanics - CTRL +C, CTRL +V from any other game
4) story - based on current world problems that no longer make sense after a long development

Good Old Games.

[Belva Company]

What a necro

[EnVenta]

xRoyalxFlushx の投稿を引用：

I am wondering why there are so many people on PC that still play old ♥♥♥ games. I like to play CoD4 Remastered, which is old, but they just brought it back. Anyways, its a pretty good game. However, not many people play it. In fact, so many people DONT play it, that often times we struggle to even get a full lobby, and when we do, its always the same few people in the lobby. Which sucks. Because when I look at the amount of people who have played other games on steam today, it is crazy. Counter Strike GO had almost 500k. A bunch of other games dont struggle to get crazy amounts of players and its surprising honestly. I downloaded Counter Strike to see what I was missing. I used to play it back in the day in the early 2000's but wanted to see whats so great about it still. Nothing. Its basically the same game. I dont understand why 500k people still play this ♥♥♥♥. The graphics suck. Its so far from realistic. I thought maybe it was do to competitiveness because you hear about people being nasty at counter strike but thats not the case. Today was my first time playing in years and I'm probably qualified to say I'm already the best CS:GO player in the world. The people SUCK. So easy. Came in first every round. Its like what the ♥♥♥♥. Why are you still playing this game? It sucks. Lets be honest. There are SO many nicer, newer games. WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE PLAYING THIS OLD ♥♥♥♥. YET I CANT EVEN GET A FULL SERVER IN A MUCH NEWER NICER GAME?

What am I missing here guys?

P.S. Its not just counterstrike. So many of the games on the top 100 played steam games suck. Like hell, there is some truck driving game that had more people playing it than CoD. YOU DONT EVEN DO ANYTHING. YOU JUST DRIVE A ♥♥♥♥ING TRUCK AROUND. WHAT THE ♥♥♥♥?

Is age a prerequisite for a game to be fun, engaging, or at the very least a way to take one's mind off other problems. Great problem solvers have found that, when stumped, by removing one's focus from a problem, the solution they've striven for often simply bubbles up like it was always there. Games are problem solving.

Why does it matter if it was made in 2025 or 500 AD? Chess for example. Sure, we now have AI's that can literally think 37 moves ahead and play as such, but it's still a logic problem that advances us as a whole. Are you whining about chess? No, you're not good at chess at all.

Ok, how about checkers? You know how to play that game, right? It's even older. A lot older. 3000 BC by most accounts -- people were better at playing checkers than recording history back then.

The grandfather of computerized RPG, Zork, came out in 1977. There are innumerable references to "You are standing in an open field west of a white house..." that you, as a gamer groupie, will never understand if you only focus on what was released in the past 3 minutes. Also, bleeding edge software is by definition full of bugs and imbalances that make the exercise garbage since they'll release a patch or version soon to correct what you just experienced.

To ramble on, why is it that so many 'new' games use retro, pixelated graphics? I'm sure they didn't get the Unity memo. Meshes, textures, 3D, how confusing. Certainly these game devs would have eschewed engines pre-equipped with all this eye candy in favor of some 'old' looking graphics to present their player base.

And finally, after having typed all this, I realize you're just an attention seeking momma's boy. Fine. Score 1 for you this round. But you've got no legs to stand with for rounds 2-3000BC

[EnVenta]

Belva Company の投稿を引用：

What a necro :GamepadWow:

Omg didn't even see the timestamp. This kid is a billion years old now. <awkward/>

[☆Kay☆]

EnVenta の投稿を引用：

Belva Company の投稿を引用：

What a necro :GamepadWow:

Omg didn't even see the timestamp. This kid is a billion years old now. <awkward/>

Thanks for reminding me of my chronic back pain, pal.