Since I’ve been gaming a bit more these days, I’ll share a little about how gaming used to be years ago. I’ve been quite inspired by a gaming podcast, and I think it’ll be fun to share what I used to do.
I was a broke kid, like every other broke kid out there. We’ve all gone through that time period when we were relying on our parents for cash and allowance, and then came the days when we were earning something of our own. As crazy as that sounds, we would then buy games with the little income we had, and starve for a good period of time. Or at least, I did that a lot.
There was a point where I was trying to get the most amount of games for the best pricing. I mean why else would we try to buy games, if not to play them one day, if any day at all.
I was also adamant that if I could afford games, I should be able to buy as original as possible, but with the biggest sale price. This meant that Steam Summer sales were really all the rage. It was quite fun because Steam would give you points and you could win a little bit of cash for clearing games and getting trophies or card packs.
Then came along this amazing thing called Humble Bundle. The current Humble Bundle looks very different from what I was used to. It was a service that collated a bunch of games, and sold them to you at a bulk price. It was like maybe 5 games and it would be 5 bucks at minimum. Soon after that it was bundles of about maybe 20 games, and the game collection just kept on growing.
I think one of the most fun parts of humble bundle was that it soon included comics and books, and I ended up reading a bunch of comics through that bundled means too.
Eventually, it became a lot bigger, and the bundles were more expensive. Then they sold games at slightly cheaper prices to Steam itself, and I decided that I didn’t really need to hitch on Humble Bundle anymore. Also my steam library was way too big by then.
I really enjoyed this process of getting games as well, because it was kinda curated for you. Some of my favourite podcasts were dying away slowly, the 1UP show and other older gaming podcasts, and I needed a fun way to find out new games that might pique my interest. It was good.
Now, I feel old because there are just so many gaming studios, and so many types of games. It’s huge, and its great, but it’s too much for a person like me. I love indie games as much as I love big name triple A games, and it was nice to get an assortment that seemed dependable at that time.