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NuPNuA ,

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.

wallmenis ,

Or y’know… Play old games…

craftyindividual ,

Rumour has it they’re quite cheap too ;)

daellat ,

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

DjMeas , (edited )

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.

cRazi_man ,

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.

Rooty ,

The message should really be "stop buying unfinished AAA games

AdamBomb ,

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

Nalivai ,

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.

pivot_root ,

Meanwhile: Baldur’s Gate 3

henfredemars ,

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.

moog ,

not me 60 hours into the first act

Viking_Hippie ,

I too am absolutely not guilty of this 🤥

jroid8 OP ,

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

pivot_root , (edited )

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.

ThatWeirdGuy1001 ,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe we just want good fps games

raltoid ,

So say fps gaming is dead, don’t try to claim all gaming is dead.

ThatWeirdGuy1001 ,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

I mean fair but at the same time if I only played fps games then that’s all gaming is to me.

So saying “gaming is dead” would apply since those are the only games I play.

This is a hypothetical btw I play more than fps and agree some companies are still producing quality content but you also can’t deny that most companies have definitely lowered their quality.

Viking_Hippie ,

Newsflash: your experience is not universal. Just because you exclusively like one genre doesn’t make it accurate to say that that genre is gaming itself.

I didn’t say that the Premier League was dead during the first third or fourth of last season just because my favourite team played like crap and frequently got unlucky in the few games they didn’t. Because that would have been equally ridiculous.

ThatWeirdGuy1001 ,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

I know…I said that already…

Viking_Hippie ,

You actually didn’t. You clarified that you yourself play more than one genre without backing down from your claim that a hypothetical someone only playing fps would be justified in saying that gaming is dead just because their own favorite genre is.

Philolurker ,

Depends on what you’re looking for in FPS games, but Battlebit Remastered is a good time.

ThatWeirdGuy1001 ,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world avatar

It definitely seems like it but it’s not available on Xbox

WarmSoda ,

And we all know if One game in One genre isn’t on One console then gaming as a whole, the entire industry and hobby, is dead.

RIP in pieces Gaming.

WarmSoda ,

🏅

Philolurker ,

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.

TrixieOfTheTrade ,

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.

Blackmist ,

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.

Nalivai ,

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.

DrQuint ,

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.

Jaarsh119 ,

“Finished” Noita? Or “FINISHED, FINISHED” Noita? 😬

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

ILikeBoobies ,

It’s AA not AAA so it still fits the meme

AceFuzzLord ,

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.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Or you guys can just admit you’re growing up.

Tedrow ,
@Tedrow@lemmy.world avatar

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.

gizmonicus ,

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.

jroid8 OP ,

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)

Roundcat ,
@Roundcat@kbin.social avatar

Well then they wouldn't be here would they.

Rooty ,

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.

Guntrigger ,

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

Laticauda ,

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 🤷

insomniac_lemon ,
@insomniac_lemon@kbin.social avatar

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).

Vupperware ,
@Vupperware@lemmy.world avatar

Thank you for the new word!

drekly ,

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.

insomniac_lemon , (edited )
@insomniac_lemon@kbin.social avatar

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.

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