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"gaming is dead"
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this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2023
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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