Interesting! To me inverting the x-axis just makes sense in 3rd person games: you see the back of the head of the character so if the back of the head moves to the left your field of view should move to the right. Basically, the joystick controls the head of the character from your POV. Never thought that was uncommon!

GameCube controllers controlled the camera by using buttons and not two thumbsticks

Played a bit of GameCube a few months ago and that’s definitely wrong — the c-stick isn’t great but it’s very much used for camera controls — however the rest of the article seems pretty good. Thanks for sharing!

Shit like this is why people go back and play much older titles and have a great time with them

“People” as in maybe 5% of players

That’s the part of the comment I was referring to. It’s factually wrong: only ~15% of playtime is spent on 2024 games

LoL didn’t release in 2024, neither did Warframe. I’m not arguing that old service games don’t make the most revenue, they obviously do, I’m arguing that a lot of the live service games that are actively comming out are almost all underperforming and failing to get any kind of audience. All that means there’s very little incentive to develop a new live service game unless you already have a big community for it or a brilliant idea

If you have a lot of money, you’re better off investing in a “Black Myth Wukong” or “Elden Ring” – both of which are outperforming the newest Call of Duty on Steam in revenue – compared to a new random live service game

47% of the total playing time on Steam was spent on games released in the last one to seven years, while a sizeable 37% of time was spent in games that have been out for eight years or more.

Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/only-15-percent-of-all-steam-users-time-was-spent-playing-games-released-in-2024/

Also with all the recent Concord-style live service fails maybe investors will want to fund other stuff from now on? idk

Damn, that’s sad. Since I already have tons of games I want to play I’ll probably never end up getting it then. Thanks for telling me :/

No worries! I’ve just realized you were asking for games on sale (reading is hard ugh…) so hopefully the ones you want will be discounted mb ^^’

Great games that came out in 2024:

• UFO 50
• Peglin
• ANIMAL WELL
• Balatro

2024 games that I haven’t tried yet but seem promising:

• Pepper Grinder
• Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom
• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
• Rabbit and Steel
• Another Crab’s Treasure
• Felvidek

All are in no particular order. Dunno if you’ll like those but these ones come to mind :)

It runs fine! :)

32-bit Windows programs can run on 64-bit Windows just fine thanks to WoW64 (with probably very few exceptions)