Being able to buy whatever game I want ruined gaming for me

From: MasterOfMagic at 2020-08-06 14:48:24
a fairly steady and decently paying job,

leave this zone

From: Philoktetes at 2020-08-06 15:31:56

From: MasterOfMagic at 2020-08-06 14:48:24
a fairly steady and decently paying job,

leave this zone

Understandable, have a great day.

I think ease of access is definitely part of it. When you can only get a new game every so often it’s easy to fall in love with something that’s mediocre because you know you won’t be getting anything else for awhile, so you make it work

But if you can just get a new game whenever or already have a sizable backlog, as soon as something is mildly boring or inconvenient in some way its trivial to dump it and move on to something else that might be more fun, or just go back to what you already know is fun

From: Lyra at 2020-08-06 16:03:19
But if you can just get a new game whenever or already have a sizable backlog, as soon as something is mildly boring or inconvenient in some way its trivial to dump it and move on to something else that might be more fun, or just go back to what you already know is fun

This has been my experience. Any time I get to a part of a game that drags, I end up either switching to something new or going back to, say, Rocket League or the Doom series.

This isn’t limited to video games though. I feel the same way about novels. If I get to a part in a book that drags or is uninteresting I will put it down and either re-read something old again or pull down something new.

This means my reading lately has been primarily non-fiction (primarily technical with some political thrown in the mix) with some short fiction sprinkled in. I burn through short stories (especially collections of short stories), fanfiction about fandoms that I find interesting (as they tend to be on the shorter end), and books that are so well written that I can’t put them down. I’ve been reading more manga/comics recently as well because the episodic nature makes it easier to put down and pick up at the ends of issues/chapters/volumes.

I wonder if it’s for the same reasons - I can typically afford (if I want to) buy any book from a bookstore or online (the library’s e-lending during the lockdown has been fantastic for this), so I have the freedom to bounce around instead of being constrained to a smaller collection.

Part of it too is its just natural for your tastes to refine over time. You’ve read a lot of books, youve played a lot of games, there’s a lot of concepts that seemed fresh and intriguing the first time you saw them, but now you can identify them elsewhere and it feels like more of the same, and this just gets more true with time.

i think you hit the nail on the head with the easy access thing
when you don’t have to put any effort into getting the game, why should you care about having it basically

there’s still gems out there tho and you get out what you put in. i don’t think everything just sucks now or anything like that

but also it’s harder to be as involved in gaming communities when everyone’s a fucking nazi pedophile asshole piece of shit

like i’ve definitely soured on gaming as a whole as a result of stuff like gamergate, or like, looking at the internet at all
but i’m still playing lots of games and having fun so

do not stop gaming because of gamergate otherwise the females win

shut the fuck up

5 pussy points have been deposited into your account

Its not 2004 and you’re not on eti anymore, you don’t have to be an ironic shithead on the zone

what if i’m an unironic shithead

I’ll have to get back to you on that

I’ve had more fun and spent more time over this last week modding my games and tweaking the configs for performance than I have playing them.

I spent like, four hours finding the best renderer for Unreal and Unreal Tournament (‘99), setting up 4K textures, and tuning the renderer to my hardware and about fifteen minutes outside of testing playing them.

I just uninstalled both after documenting a working config and set of mods.