"gaming is dead" : memes

[–] drekly@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 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@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] wisplike_sustainer@suppo.fi 10 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@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] wisplike_sustainer@suppo.fi 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.

[–] 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.

[–] Nelots@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I mean that's more of an issue with the horrific monetization of those games, their abuse of FOMO, and shit matchmaking (and/or the player's shit skill). There's nothing wrong with the genre itself, some people just genuinely enjoy it. There's a reason it's popular.

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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Meanwhile: Baldur's Gate 3

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 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.

[–] moog@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

not me 60 hours into the first act

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[–] thepoaster@lemmy.ml 29 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.

[–] skookumasfrig@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

https://xkcd.com/606/

This is seriously not a bad approach.

[–] andy_wijaya_med@lemmy.world 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.

[–] MrBusiness@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] gizmonicus@sh.itjust.works 21 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@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Stop BUYING unfinished AAA alfa asset abandonware

[–] Octopus1348@thelemmy.club 19 points 1 year ago

It would've been funnier if he screamed AAAAAAAAA

[–] DjMeas@lemm.ee 18 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.

[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 3 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.

[–] wallmenis@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 😄

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 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.

[–] insomniac_lemon@kbin.social 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@lemmy.world 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.

[–] insomniac_lemon@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (3 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.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 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.

[–] Gaffe@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FC4 was a stinker. FC5 is the best in the franchise, though

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What? Is FC5 good?

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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 (1 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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[–] ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Blah blah blah AAA aren't the problem.

You are getting old, tired, and have more important shit to do.

[–] ScrivenerX@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AAA games are part of the problem.

When I have a chance to play a game, I'd like to play a game. Not have 2-4 hours of tutorials, 30 minutes of a cool story and then 5-30 hours of pointless side quests.

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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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