To me it feels like a big drop in activity on Lemmy over the past 6 months? So the weekly and monthly post are being forgotten and some are letting standards slip.
The HDD in my Xbox One S was starting to die so I decided to swap it for an SSD. Surprisingly easy to do with just a torx screwdriver and a spudger. So now I'm starting Red Dead Redemption again as I got so close to completion but didn't quite finish the story.
Smaller scale than Cities Skylines and also have other gameplay mechanics but that's how I like it.
I'm the same way with games that just get overwhelming and I loose interest.
Ostriv is another game like Banished where it is smaller scale so you might like that too.
I played it lots back in the day. I was watching a random Twitch stream last night for C&C Generals multiplayer. 5 player skirmish was just an absolute frenzy.
It's still there but with family instead friends now. My kids won't get the same experience though which is sad.
Probably the period of '95 thought to '05. Mostly because they were the days of local multiplayer with friends and also the jump in technology made things even more interesting.
Combined we had all the 4 player games on the N64. So Goldeneye, SSB, F-Zero, Mario Kart, Snowboard Kids, DK Racing, Perfect Dark, WCW vs NWO and more.
I'm glad you went with that and not on a history lesson...
Probably the Xbox Series S because of the quick-resume feature. Sometimes I just want to play for 15 minutes in-between other stuff so skipping the loading time is great.
Highfleet
It's been on sale a few times but not more than maybe 30% so I'll keep waiting.
https://www.gog.com/en/game/highfleet
Also I'm waiting impatiently for EA WRC to come to gamepass!
I'd agree and I think especially the amount of comments per post has reduced.
The monthly recommendation thread is from 3 months ago so doing that regularly is a start. It at least shows the community is active if it gets updated on time.
Psychonauts 2 is amazing. I had a really good time playing it and my kids were completely engrossed in it by my side.