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PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm playing Bloodborne for the first time (emulator). Before that I was playing Far Cry 1 for the first time as well. Far cry was much harder, so far at least.

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What emulator are you using? Only one I've seen was PCSX4 and according to a lot of stuff I saw online, it's a pretty outright scam

[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago

Yea ShadPS4 is great. PCSX4 is a scam not sure why thats even a thing.

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

ShadPS4 has become usable for bloodborne within the last year or so. Runs 60fps on decent hardware

[–] dvlsg@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I was never able to get it to work. Always get stuck on a black screen while loading. I keep trying with new shad builds once a month or so.

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Thats too bad, I got it working on Linux with 0.5.0 iirc

[–] dvlsg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I at least own it on PlayStation, so I'm not one of the unfortunate people who can't play at all.

Still, that 60fps sure looks nice.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What makes it a scam?

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 3 points 16 hours ago

It's not an actual emulator, it doesn't work. When you try to download it, it makes you fill surveys that make the scammers money. It has a fake github, with a changelog copied from PCSX2 (a legit PS2 emulator), changing the 2 to a 4.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Far Cry 1 is the best one! It was made by crytek, the same studio that did Crysis. I still occasionally go back to replay that game. It's really fun.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Far Cry 1 was amazing, but so were 2 and 3. The first 3 were all something really special. 4 and 5 were cool too, but the first 3 were really unique at the time.

I love the atmosphere of all of them, and 2 felt really revolutionary at the time. I kind of wanna play some Far Cry 2 again some time soon, I've been feeling like taking in some of the African atmosphere of it, especially since I've got the travel bug recently and I don't know if I'll ever visit Africa in real life.

[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

My favorite aspect was the B-movie feel to the whole thing. I was dying when my character got punted right in the face out of a flying helicopter. I wish I could find more games with some humor like that.