"gaming is dead" : memes

[-] drekly@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] wisplike_sustainer@suppo.fi 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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[-] deft@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 year ago

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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[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 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.

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[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile: Baldur's Gate 3

[-] jroid8@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

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

[-] TrixieOfTheTrade@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 year ago

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@feddit.uk 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@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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@lemmy.world 7 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.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Maybe we just want good fps games

[-] raltoid@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I know...I said that already...

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] DrQuint@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 9 points 1 year ago

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@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

not me 60 hours into the first act

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[-] Rooty@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

The message should really be "stop buying unfinished AAA games

[-] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 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.

[-] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 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.

[-] thepoaster@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year 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@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago

https://xkcd.com/606/

This is seriously not a bad approach.

[-] andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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.

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[-] gizmonicus@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year 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.

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[-] WereCat@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Stop BUYING unfinished AAA alfa asset abandonware

[-] DjMeas@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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[-] Octopus1348@thelemmy.club 18 points 1 year ago

It would've been funnier if he screamed AAAAAAAAA

[-] wallmenis@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago

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

[-] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Rumour has it they're quite cheap too ;)

[-] Kerred@lemmy.world 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 😄

[-] insomniac_lemon@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 11 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.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Tedrow@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] jroid8@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

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)

[-] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 🤷

[-] Rooty@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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@feddit.ch 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Comment105@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] Boi@reddthat.com 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.

[-] alertsleeper@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year 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

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[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 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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