Playing Older Video Games
By Ronnie Kayla Neiman
With a lot of free time to spare, I have found myself playing older games. Usually, I play games that are intensely optimized for graphics and have enormous open worlds. Yet in recent weeks I have started playing other kinds of games.
One such game is Sims 3. It is not too old of a game as it only stopped releasing expansion packs in 2013. The Sims 3 has a lot more features that I enjoy over the newest Sims games. Sims 3 had a large open world for your sims to be a part of and to explore hidden rabbit holes. It had a lot more choices for employment and hobbies. It's also a smaller game GB wise to install if you need to install it digitally.
Another game I have been playing a lot of is SimCity Societies, which is a literal combination of the Sims games and SimCity games. In this games, a focus on build style is important as well as what point types the buildings give. It is meant to focus more on the 'fun' side of creating a city. I only recently got the game to reinstall to my modern PC after last getting it to work five years ago.
Another game I have been playing a lot of recently that isn't a Sim style game is State of Decay (the first one). It was a game originally intended to be a multiplayer online game, but the developers decided it would make a better single player game and the storyteller in me agrees. It was also designed for the original Xbox but works just fine on the PC. There is an amazing story taking place during this zombie apocalypse survival game.
There are so many older games, even ones more than a decade old that can be quite fun to revisit or even to play for the first time.