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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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[–] M_Djallo@feddit.it 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In this year I got a PS3, an Xbox 360 and a Wii. Now I'm playing all the good games on these platforms, that I've never owned when they were current. It's great!

[–] Poiar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Many of these can be emulated as well. Especially the Dolphin emulator is a beast - especially when paired with the Dolphin bar.

Just a heads up :)

That said, I have all these systems physically too.

[–] M_Djallo@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yes I know, I emulated GameCube and Wii for years, but I only have a laptop that while quite powerful heats up a lot while emulating, so since I need it for work I prefer to keep it cool and playing on the original systems allows me to do that :D also like this I don't have compatibility problems, especially for x360 and PS3!