A single game from the future

[Tom Bombadildo]

I think I'd probably go back and give myself Demon's Souls during it's release so I could experience the online portion of it more fully. When I first played through it a few years ago, the online was basically dead and only had like maybe a few dozen people actively playing, so I never really got to see things like a ton of invasions and co-op and stuff like that, and probably never will since the servers are down (at least, until Sony finally allows a Demon's Souls Remaster )

Not sure what else I'd give though

 

[Pleng]

Sure, I wasn't super clear. It's not a big deal, seeing what people would gift themselves hypothetically is cool too.

Unfortunately I don't have any current game to gift a past version of myself. The only thing I could gift my past self is the advixe to not trade my CD32/SX32Pro combo (which in the present day is apparently worth a massive sum) for a crappy Midi "guitar" (which I eventually sold for pennies).

I was a stubborn little shit in the past, so I'd have been unlikely to listen to myself, but itdi be worth a shot, at least!

 

[Uiaad]

I would go back and give myself a copy of duke nukem forever ... and just stand there and shake my head at myself while handing it over

 

[Taleweaver]

I was also confused by the OP. But since I like the topic, I'll answer it two ways:

1) I'm sure I somewhat mentioned what I would give to my younger me not long ago (last Thursday, in fact). I would travel back to the early 2000's and give myself rocksmith 2014 (and the needed drivers for the USB-to-guitar thingy, obviously ). This would also break the space-time continuüm, so I would return to 2018 as someone who actually knows how to play guitar and a millionaire (what? you're saying you WOULDN'T tell your younger me to invest everything in google or that amazon bookstore? ).
Alternatively, I'd go back to the mid nineties and hand out some USB-drives with copies of ubuntu, mint and solus (with source code). That way, perhaps linux would be the de facto standard instead of windows when it came to operating systems.

2) what I want to receive from my older self is...somewhat in the same vein in the sense that I want something I can't predict now. Rocksmith built upon many iterations of widely popular rhythm games (which ensured they got better over time). So I want something that isn't much of a genre now (or at best an almost unknown niche genre) that gets popular, spawns a bunch of clones and sequels, up until one "major" awesome game comes out that pretty much defines this genre. That's the game that I want (erm...assuming my current PC can still run it, of course).
The source code for a perfectly working switch emulator would also be fine, though.

 

[Pleng]

Alternatively, I'd go back to the mid nineties and hand out some USB-drives with copies of ubuntu, mint and solus (with source code). That way, perhaps linux would be the de facto standard instead of windows when it came to operating systems.

There were plenty of free CDs (which were probably a lot more useful than USB drives at the tine) being distributed in the mid 90s and they didn't do much to help that cause.

 

[FAST6191]

There were plenty of free CDs (which were probably a lot more useful than USB drives at the tine) being distributed in the mid 90s and they didn't do much to help that cause.

There were even ones you could buy in shops.
That said did you try using the UIs at the time? Where today you would be hard pressed to argue the UIs are not fit for the purpose of non tech people doing their day to day stuff (granted even one back then could have loaded a browser) I would not want to argue it was anywhere near as readily punched into working as Windows and it was all still pretty arcane.

 

[Pleng]

There were even ones you could buy in shops.
That said did you try using the UIs at the time? Where today you would be hard pressed to argue the UIs are not fit for the purpose of non tech people doing their day to day stuff (granted even one back then could have loaded a browser) I would not want to argue it was anywhere near as readily punched into working as Windows and it was all still pretty arcane.

Yes I did and I'd argue that the same is true today! (Yes... Linux UIs have moved one but so has Windows)

 

[FAST6191]

What, Windows has gone too far into the hand holding territory?

For modern Linux I would say essentially every task a person has to do is either automatic or handled with a UI element, at least in the Debian, Mint, Ubuntu world (I tend not to go outside that for desktop purposes, and indeed even really server purposes).

 

[Taleweaver]

There were plenty of free CDs (which were probably a lot more useful than USB drives at the tine) being distributed in the mid 90s and they didn't do much to help that cause.

Of course not. Linux distros got gradually better with the years. Back then, using a Linux distro was a gamble that had one certainty: it would erase your hard drive prior. Most likely outcome was that it made you feel like someone who doesn't know shit of computers because it threw weird questions at you and refused to work if you guessed one wrong. Many distros didn't have a UI, and there were barely programs that could compete with Windows. That's why i want a CURRENT (and user friendly) Linux version back then.