Quake 1’s new update. Surprisingly challenging - spam those quick saves!

When I can’t play a new game I want to play, I’ll upgrade. This varies. My last computer i7 920 with a GTX 470 lasted me for a long time – around 9 years. I have a Ryzen 2700x with a 3060TI that I built in 2018 and added the newer GPU in 2021. I’ll probably upgrade next year so around 7-8 years. Before that I had a Pentium 4, Pentium 2, Pentium 1 so those are roughly 4 years between but progress was more impactful back then.
Averaging things out – I’d say 6-7 years between major builds.

When I was a kid, I got a Japanese N64 imported to the US. I tried to put a US cartridge in but it didn’t fit. My friend and I cut out the plastic inside where the cartridges go that was physically blocking and it worked.

Companies sold some kind of extension to get around this but we didn’t want to wait.

This is how I feel as well. A new PC or even a new console was a gigantic leap forward in both visuals and gameplay. We’ve had a couple decades of diminishing returns.

I think the next big leap will be something along the lines of AI building out the stories, missions and dialogs “on the fly” creating incredible amounts of immersion where no two playthroughs have to be the same.