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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!border-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 May 2025 14:41:13 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Is it that time again? Half Life 3 Date: Mon, 05 May 2025 10:41:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <6kah1k14456f023hg61pmlnme3r5gfcud7@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 40 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-dfqEf7VTxhBK6GboXAcE0uVuu2sOYPPDJp56HTEi9AKAawnll466dYHgcHLaovhpRUStVp7xWlCLOHm!RFSUBDjUxoPgD9labQnuthhWXcmOWKerXWKYVVhQ2jJGPV9/GFk8iFlvUckvziS7aJFqqJcm X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 On Mon, 05 May 2025 13:14:29 +0100, Mr Rob wrote: > >I was just thinking about which game release date last genuinely >excited me. I think it was Tiny Tina's Wonderlands. > >I think there are far more games to be had these days. When game >releases seemed few and far between the anticipation was greater, for >me at least anyway. I was excited about "Mechwarrior 5: Clans", enough so that I bought it day one. That sure taught me a lesson. ;-) But honestly, I think the last game I truly, eagerly anticipated that way was "Skyrim". I literally had /dreams/ about wandering its gameworld prior to its release. And, unusually enough, that game equalled or surpassed my expectations. But between the sheer glut of games I have available already, the decreasing value of individual games (thanks to grindy gameplay and content hidden behind live-services and MTX paywalls) and just an increasing awareness of how similar new games are to titles I already have, it's really hard for me to get passionate about new releases. Sure, there are a lot of games coming out I'd like to play. "Doom: Dark Ages", for instance, is definitely on my radar (what can I say, I like the lore). But it's not the sort of game I can't wait a year or two to acquire. In the meantime, I have literal thousands of games to play or replay just waiting for me. I honestly can't keep up. How is a single new game supposed to compete with that?