"gaming is dead"

Kerred , 9 months 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 😄

gizmonicus , 9 months ago

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.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot , 9 months ago

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.

Retrograde , 9 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/61a1f63c-61d7-42f4-b9f2-5dd97d06da71.mp4

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot , 9 months ago

Enjoy your endless parade of jingoistic brown shooters.

Retrograde , 9 months ago

What the honest fuck are you on about?

I don’t recall Dead space, gears of war, dead planet, rainbow six Vegas and Vegas 2, Halo 2 or 3 (to name a few) being “jingoistic Brown shooters”.

Are you really under the impression that 2000s gaming was all extremely politically incorrect?

reeen , 9 months ago

Bro gears is about as brown and jingoistic as shooters get

Halo is better on colours and varies on the jingoism a lot

Dead space is fantastic and also grey as shit (It makes sense for the game though so I can’t make It a criticism though)

GoodEye8 , 9 months ago

Ah yes the jingoistic shooter, minecraft. No, wait, Portal 2. No… Skyrim? Nope. Batman Arkham Asylum? Still not it. Dark Souls? Wait, that’s not a shooter. Bioshock? Not jingoistic. Fez? Journey? Braid? Starcraft 2? Assassin’s creed? Right, you meant GTA 4 and red dead redemption, right?

The point I’m making is that I know there was certain style of gaming popularized by COD, but it wasn’t the entire generation. The X1/PS4 generation is also filled with bloated formulaic open world games (popularized by AC2, FC3 and Skyrim, all 360 era games BTW) but it doesn’t mean the entire last gen sucked. Just because you played “shit” games during the 360/PS3 era doesn’t mean the entire era is trash. It’s your own poor decisions that made it trash, for you.

gizmonicus , 9 months ago

Oh, I didn’t know that. Thanks for clarifying.

Octopus1348 , 9 months ago

It would’ve been funnier if he screamed AAAAAAAAA

thepoaster , 9 months ago

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.

skookumasfrig , 9 months ago

xkcd.com/606/

This is seriously not a bad approach.

andy_wijaya_med , 9 months ago

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.

MrBusiness , 9 months ago

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.

Boi , 9 months 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.

UnfortunateShort , 9 months ago

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

alertsleeper , 9 months ago

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

MrBusiness , 9 months ago

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.

alertsleeper , 9 months ago

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

Thursday , 9 months ago

coding ia the new gaming.

andy_wijaya_med , 9 months ago

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).