"gaming is dead" : memes

[–] drekly 78 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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."

[–] riodoro1 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But if I get good at cs:go my parents will finally accept me.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] drekly 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And I find football boring as fuck and repetitive too, so I might be missing your point

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

My point, if I had one, would be that "boring, repetitive multiplayer games" are so much fun, for so many, that calling people to stop playing them is an exercise in futility.

That said, I find them un-fun, too. Mostly because I constantly get my ass kicked, but also because I enjoy slower, 4x and plot driven games more. To each their own.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] pivot_root 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Meanwhile: Baldur's Gate 3

[–] jroid8 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I find open world games quite tiring in general, but unfortunately a lot of my favourite games are also open world.

I tend to split them up with other games. Like I finished Death Stranding, then played Death's Door before moving onto Horizon Forbidden West. Like little palate cleansers between main courses.

I think the pacing is the main issue. With open world it's easy to get stuck in a loop of clearing pointless icons or side quests off a map, figuring you'll have to do them eventually anyway, but before you get access to a better toolkit of fun, or get invested in a story. Should I do those tasks now with a handful of bland abilities, or later with better toys (but now it's too easy because it was designed for beginners)?

The agony of choice.

[–] pivot_root 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

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.

[–] Philolurker 8 points 1 year ago

Hammerwatch II and Sea of Stars just in the past few weeks. En Garde not far off. The hardest part of gaming is finding the time.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

negativity = business. its why so many people seem to suddenly hate bethesda

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not me 60 hours into the first act

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[–] Rooty 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The message should really be "stop buying unfinished AAA games

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Nah, the time spent playing a bad game you pirated will be just as boring as it would be if paid for.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

https://xkcd.com/606/

This is seriously not a bad approach.

[–] andy_wijaya_med 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] WereCat 20 points 1 year ago

Stop BUYING unfinished AAA alfa asset abandonware

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

It would've been funnier if he screamed AAAAAAAAA

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or y'know... Play old games...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Rumour has it they're quite cheap too ;)

[–] Kerred 13 points 1 year ago

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 😄

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] UnfortunateShort 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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).

[–] drekly 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I enjoyed Far Cry 3 recently on my PS3.

Then I got Far Cry 4 on my PC and it's kinda fucking awful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Matriks404 4 points 1 year ago

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

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