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1y ago

"gaming is dead"

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Stop playing repetitive, competitive, multiplayer games. Especially the battle royale style ones.
Oh you just played another 20 minute match where you died to someone out of nowhere at the end, possibly a cheater, shouted bullshit at the screen, didn't win and didn't achieve anything? Better re queue to do it again! Hey while you're in the menus, do you want a new £15 skin? Do you want the battlepass QUICK BEFORE ITS GONE! THE SKINS WILL MAKE YOU HAPPY IF THE CONSTANT LOSSES DONT. I wonder why you're bored and depressed with gaming.
The most popular steam games? Constant repetitive, competitive, multiplayer games. "I do the same thing with the same guns on the same map every day and I'm bored. Gaming is boring."
- But if I get good at cs:go my parents will finally accept me.
  
  cyka blyat
- competitive, multiplayer games. “I do the same thing with the same guns on the same map every day and I’m bored. Gaming is boring.”
  Sounds a lot like football, except for the guns. Opposing team has new skins for every game, but the game loop is exactly same for every game, all the game. And the map, oh gods, the map! Notice the singular? Yeah, there's actually just one map. Some background textures change, but functionally it's always the same green rectangle with some lines drawn over.
  
  And I find football boring as fuck and repetitive too, so I might be missing your point
- See I tend to gravitate toward creative games. Minecraft is a little too open for me, but something like Satisfactory where "Here's a few square miles. Build a factory in it." can keep me going for months.
- tbh I'd rather play a game like this where every round is a new experience or a different strategy than play a half baked "RPG" that holds no roleplay, no stakes, no difficulties or no strategies.
  
  Pretty sure the roleplay is what you make it and they provide the environment for you to do it in. But I can understand how it's not for everyone.
- I mean that's more of an issue with the horrific monetization of those games, their abuse of FOMO, and shit matchmaking (and/or the player's shit skill). There's nothing wrong with the genre itself, some people just genuinely enjoy it. There's a reason it's popular.

Meanwhile: Baldur's Gate 3
- I don't understand how there are so many youtube videos talking about how "gaming is dead" when we had so many big hits like this just this year alone
  
  I think people who claim "gaming is dead" are just burnt out of games. Doing anything for long enough requires you to take a new perspective eventually, otherwise it feels so samey.
  Whenever someone talks about how "games aren't fun anymore" and such I always think they either need to take a break and do something else or completely change the way they look at/play games, maybe with a different genre, franchise, era, challenge runs such as speedruns or fan mods, and so on.
  
  Anyone saying gaming is dead either doesn't play indie games, Baldur's Gate, or doesn't consider Nintendo to be "gaming." In either case, it's their loss. I've played so many amazing games this year.
  
  I think it's because there's another brand of mfers out there that see good games and go "it's not for me, therefore nothing is".
  Yes, you dislike Tears of the Kingdom and Baldur's Gate, hypothetical chucklefuck, here's your award. Can you tell us what you DO like besides that instead? I finished (eh) Noita and Sonic Roboblast 2 last week, and have started Triangle Strategy and Prey. All good shit. Good games exist in everywhere.
  
  negativity = business. its why so many people seem to suddenly hate bethesda
  
  Complaining about shit on youtube brings clicks. It's harder to make "hey, here's a good game" video that will bring you attention, but shitting on stuff works every time.
- I'm enjoying this game so much that I keep getting distracted with other things going on in the world to the point where the main story is taking all of eternity.
  
  not me 60 hours into the first act
- It’s AA not AAA so it still fits the meme

The message should really be "stop buying unfinished AAA games
- Nah, the time spent playing a bad game you pirated will be just as boring as it would be if paid for.
- Well, if the game is shit, there is no point in spending time on it, even if you acquired it by means other than buying. I mean, your time is the most important commodity.

Buying games on release is for suckers and rubes. Stop being suckers and rubes.
I've been playing mostly retro and haven't been happier. Sounds like a sucker problem.
- https://xkcd.com/606/
  This is seriously not a bad approach.
- I almost never buy games on release anymore. Only for games I really want to support, like Final Fantasy 16 or Baldurs gate 3. Other than that, I always wait for sales. Save more money, games are "finished" and patched.
  
  I'm loving Baldur's Gate, Final Fantasy I was enjoying the story a lot. But the gameplay for 16 has been the most boring of all the Final Fantasy games I've played. Cinematically phenomenal yes, but actual combat has felt like a slog. When I fight enemies it's the exact same thing over and over, I'll already know who to attack first how many staggers and pulls I can perform on each enemy. It's made it hard to go back to the game.
  I'm thinking I might just watch a YouTuber go through the game without the combats, mostly cause I was really enjoying the story. I'm still in Act 1 in Baldur's Gate 3, but loving everything so far. Also planning on getting some mods for BG3, saw some awesome mods already out and looking forward to playing my favorite class, Artificer.

Games aren't objectively better or worse than they used to be. AAA devs can release unfinished trash and patch it later, which I think is super annoying, but we enable this behavior when we pre-order games simply because it's the next iteration of our favorite series instead of just waiting to hear the impressions of other gamers.
Also, as an adult I lack the time and patience to play the same kinds of games I used to play, so I've had to adjust my play style to suit my schedule better. That means I enjoy casual singleplayer games more than what I used to play growing up. It also means you have to avoid the temptation to buy games you like, but you know damn well you won't ever actually play.
- Games aren’t objectively better or worse than they used to be.
  Untrue. Games were at their absolute worst during the Xbox360/PS3 era. Games still have a lot of problems but they're better now than they were then.
  
  Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks for clarifying.

Stop BUYING unfinished AAA alfa asset abandonware

I'm turning 40 this year and what's been refreshing after not gaming for the last 5 years or so has been playing older games from the 2000s that I've missed. Great prices on these older titles and I've been having a blast playing them.
- Similar situation here and I recommend playing roguelites (Hades, Vampire Survivors, FTL, Slay the Spire, etc). There's an appreciable power curve in each play through sitting. Each experience and play through is self contained and satisfying. There's good use of time rather than lots of "dead" time or loading/matchmaking time.

It would've been funnier if he screamed AAAAAAAAA

Or y'know... Play old games...
- Rumour has it they're quite cheap too ;)

The world needs more Boondocks memes.
It amazing to see Gary Anthony Williams go from cool chill uncle to saying how scary a job application is 😄

The past few years where awesome for gaming and if you don't think so, you missed some great games.

I'm glad due to lack of money and just change in my tastes in games/content in general has lead me to enjoy some pretty great indie titles that are at least not getting constant updates that try to fix millions of bugs.

Lots of stuff is just... tedious, if not also unforgiving.
That is on top of anhedonia and lack of money (though I pretty much exclusively play free games now, as I regret most purchases anyway).
- Surely free to play games are the worst games, they literally have to monetise the gameplay. That's meant to be the part where you have fun.
  
  I said free, fullstop. Meaning gratis. No microtransactions or even ads (if I can help it... kinda hard to find on Android, though I can ignore mobile/just use fdroid), so that's not the issue either. Also I typically don't play multiplayer games.
  I often skip over of anything that calls itself a demo or shouts "Check out my new Steam game/crowdf-" etc before I know much else about it.
- Thank you for the new word!

I enjoyed Far Cry 3 recently on my PS3.
Then I got Far Cry 4 on my PC and it's kinda fucking awful.
- I kind of like the candles rant, but it's otherwise pretty forgettable. Even 3 is only really famous for the first half of it with Vargas slowly losing his mind.
  I always play them in three stages.
  Sneak around with a bow and a knife.
  Sneak around with what can be best described as a howitzer with a silencer.
  Get bored and clear every remaining base with a ludicrously overpowered pile of solid gold machine guns.
- FC4 was a stinker. FC5 is the best in the franchise, though
  
  What? Is FC5 good?
- People thought the same going from 2 to 3

Yep, I was getting a bit down on gaming. So I went back to one I love (Horizon Zero Dawn) and started one that's not usually my type (Hollow Knight). It's like I'm 12 years old all over again, and now I want to play every indie platformer out there lol
- Switch it up when it comes to Metroidvania. I played a bunch and got burned out. All amazing games, of course. But playing that much of the same genre kinda made skip out on some of the recent ones. Ended up going from Shovel Knight to Mummy Demastered to Hollow Knight to Bloodstained to Dread to Sundered. I want to play Dead Cells, Blasphemous, Pizza Tower, and some others, but I haven't gotten that urge. I'll play a few minutes then quit and play something else.
  Well that's me anyway. I'm sure I'll get that want back eventually, but it's been awhile. I'm just hoping the same doesn't happen to other games cause I'm still enjoying Deep Rock and Baldur's.
  
  It's what happened to me with simultaneously playing 2 or 3 of these huge open worlds that demand 100 hours (I have a job, that takes me forever), I was getting tired of it. So now I'm playing smaller indie games too. And also playing what I actually want to play, not what I feel like I should because it is popular, a classic, or just because it is in my backlog.
  Oh and also, it's ok if I don't finish a game, I can put 7-8 hours into it and then quit without guilt

I just wait until they're on sale at hpb or the used section at GameStop. Sure, there's some major drawbacks but, there's major drawbacks with buying recently released also.

I had finished Heretic on modern source port lately, and I had a blast, so no, gaming is definitely not dead, lol.

Blah blah blah AAA aren't the problem.
You are getting old, tired, and have more important shit to do.
- AAA games are part of the problem.
  When I have a chance to play a game, I'd like to play a game. Not have 2-4 hours of tutorials, 30 minutes of a cool story and then 5-30 hours of pointless side quests.
  
  Blah blah blah blah this game doesn't suit my taste so the hobby is dead and going to collapse at any second.
- N-n-n-o! Getting bored of a hobby that's a pure waste of time is a crisis!
  
  It's not a waste of time if you enjoy it.

Has this even been a problem for a few years? The only real guilty parties I can think of recently was Battlefield 2048 and that came out in 21.

Stalker gamma really sucked me in earlier this year, greatly recommend it despite its steep learning curve.

I'm loving the final fantasy combat/ gameplay. What I don't like is, lack of playable character, lack of a "real" party, and equipment progress. The story on the other hand.. I found it to be too dark and taking itself too seriously at times. Some part of the story is similar with FFXIV, and I think the 14 did it better. The game as a whole, has pacing issue. The last third of the game, is moving the plot very slowly. The ending on the other hand, was done well. It was bittersweet, but on the same time, it gave the same ending vibes as the movie Inception. :D. The ending didn't destroy me like the 15 did tho. The 15's ending made me cry like a baby...
BG3 is good! I enjoy it very much. I'm still very early as I was remaking my character again and again (I think I made about 8-10 characters until I was satisfied).

coding ia the new gaming.

Or you guys can just admit you're growing up.
- I thought his, but it seems that I'm just not playing the right games. Couldn't get into anything. Randomly started playing Cassette Beasts because it looked cute. Devoured it and it's one of my favorite games now.
  I think it's a combination of tastes changing as you get older and a lot of games being shit.
  
  A lot of games have always been shit, that's not new. It's easy to look back at the games of old with nostalgia and think "wow, games were better back then", but really you just don't remember the mountains of trash games that came out.
  Also, you have to reckon with the fact that you may still want to play the same types of titles, but you don't have the time anymore to dedicate to actually enjoying it. So you have to adapt your game choices. For example, I really love turn based strategy games like Civ, but I've bought a few recently that I haven't played for more than 10 minutes. I realized that I just can't spend the hours it would take to learn the strategies and controls like I used to when I was a kid.
  This is why I keep turning to old games like Alpha Centauri or the original Fallout games: I already know the rules, I know what to do, and I can just jump right in for an hour and not have to spend the first 55 minutes figuring out how that shit works.
- Yeah growing up from playing bad games to watching bad TV shows. It's evolving, just backwards. (The type of media you entertain yourself with has nothing to do with age)
- I'm grown up and games have been consistently stellar my whole life, including now. I just happen to be good at choosing games I know I'll like 🤷
- Everybody plays video games now. I saw a 70+ old lady playing a Peppa Pig themed platformer on a tablet in public. "Video games are for kids" was a boomer take 30 years ago, and now it doesn't even make sense.
- I don't think you can call yourself grown up because you chose a couple of shitty games and threw your hands up to proclaim ALL GAMING IS DEAD
- Well then they wouldn't be here would they.

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