This. Dracula X Chronicles for the PSP was a full recreation of Rondo of Blood. It was a game I enjoyed but when I found out later that an unlockable secret is the ENTIRETY of Symphony of the Night I was ecstatic. Games back then were complete experiences and the more you played them the more you got out of them. Ape Escape had 3 full arcade style mini games within it. Final Fantasy 7 had an in game arcade and a bunch of findable secrets. They didn't have to do that but the people who made those games wanted to make a good impression.
Games now but only are anemic in content but also want you to pay real world money for shit that's ALREADY ON THE DISC! Even worse are the live service games which market paying for content less than a year later like its a good thing that the game was shipped unfinished. And the people that buy them not only see anything wrong with it but also defend it. And it feels like I'm living in clown world but attempting to explain why these players are getting robbed is like screaming into the void. So I stopped trying. I rarely buy new releases anymore. They just don't have anything for me. Most times literally.
I don't even think it's just the zoomers, it's some sick relationship between publishers who keep pushing the envelope and zoomers who don't know any better. Star Wars Battlefront 2 had a gigantic fricking shitstorm over it's loot boxes. It was actually impressive. But then Destiny 2 released with the same fricking loot boxes. And we've seen more games with similar predatory loot box bullshit. But nobody makes a stink over it anymore because it's just normal now. Final Fantasy 15 split itself up into a bunch of DLCs and a movie to get the full story. Those DLCs had the character development of the characters that make up the main party. There are people that call it one of the greatest epics to exist. And my first thought is what the fricking frick!?! Who came up with the idea of selling the character development of the main fricking characters. No other medium gets away with this shit. It's like watching Lord of the Rings but you have to pay to see what happened after Gandalf took Pippen to Gondor. And then pay again to see what happened with Merry. And then the chucklefricks who think this is fine says it's okay because they aren't the main characters.
Never, because pretty much all my tastes just got fricking vindicated.
>Resurgence of CRPGs >Turn based combat JRPGs selling like hot cakes >Fire Emblem is now mainstream >Banner of Maid is the best SRPG I've ever played >Most people recognise New Vegas as the best nuFallout game >SMT5 and Metroid Dread were both fantastic, long awaited sequels
Everything I like is becoming increasingly popular. Feels good man.
Sometime around 15 years ago or so;
NES: 50+ games
Genesis: 50+ games
PS1: 50+ games
PS2: 20-30 games
PS3: 5-ish games >no consoles after this point
Even on PC I'm lucky to find something worth playing every other year or so, so I mostly just replay old classics.
Game Pass has been a boon for me on PC. I've found a bunch of games I like. I get the occasional Switch exclusive too, but GP has introduced me to a lot of fun shit I probably wouldn't have played otherwise.
When MTX, especially the obsession with cosmetics and battlepasses, became the norm. I’m from the era of everyone mocking how gay horse armor was, little did we know what was to come. Normalizing MTX and artificial scarcity and FOMO shit was a years long agenda, and I watched it all happen in real time, with mid 30s boomers like me being pushed out of the industry while new, younger players joined who were thrown into a world were these things were the standard.
The PS4 launch was when it truly hit me that my tastes are no longer the domain of the AAA world. A Playstation launch without ridge racer was the warning flag and the general death of AAA racing games that aren't sims in general really drove it home.
Around 2010. Microtransaction shenanigans were becoming a plague that was never around in the gaming scene (sans quarter-eating arcades). Then in 2014+ everything started to become overtly political and it completely poisoned the gaming environment, even worse than it already was.
Modern day games aren't for someone like me that grew up in a split between the 80's and 90's. It's pretty much an entirely different industry.
>fortnite BR becoming popular >NFT games >paid mods >remasters of <5 year old games >the destiny playerbase not revolting and ditching the game after House of Wolves and Taken King
Definitely 360/PS3 era when gameplay took a massive backseat to everything else. There are and were always exceptions, but that was when it was clear to me. Also, things have selectively gotten better, but only because indies and modding has gotten so sophisticated that they are creating insane experiences I could have only wished for as a kid. Imagine if OoT randomizer was an unlockable game mode.
MTX and Esports.
Games are supposed to be fun entertainment, not wallet-draining merch alternatives or rage-inducing ELO treadmills. As soon as LoL started gaining traction I knew gaming was irrecoverably finished.
I like the extraction stuff. But yeah, this genre is crushing soul. I'm thankful that there are so many indie games with weird stuff. But a lot of it isn't fantastic and you can only replay that stuff for so long.
Gaming never took that true “adult” turn I thought it would. It seemed like it was trending that way in the mid-late 2000s, but that’s also right around when things started to stagnate.
There's a quote that I heard somewhere concerning God of War. I can't remember where but it was discussing how everyone was treating GoW4 like some unprecedented masterpiece and shit talking the original trilogy. I'm paraphrasing but it went something like
>if there is any argument AGAINST video games being art, then gamers are that argument. Because nowhere else will you find a community so willing to shit all over its own medium in favor of the newer, shinier thing.
I remember thinking that games like HL2 and MGS2 would quickly become the bare-minimum TECHNOLOGY baseline moving forward and things would only get more simulationist from there. Boy did I bet on the wrong horse.
Hasn’t happened yet, and I’m 27. I don’t play shit like Fortnite or PUBG, but new single player experiences have only gotten better for me. I vastly prefer newer games where devs have figured out how not to annoy the player with dumb bullshit and unintuitive design. Give me GOW, Uncharted, new RE, TLOU1&2, Deathloop, BOTW, etc. over the vast, VAST majority of old school games.
When zoomers who grew up with f2p phone games, multiplayer trash, games with multiple cosmetic dlc and movie games said that those video games are art.
A few years ago when I realized that I have no fricking clue what the Xbox systems past One are even called.
Also just learned today that Xcom has two games and the first was on PS3, I though it was way newer.
>no fricking clue what the Xbox systems past One are even called.
mostly because M$ made them so fricking stupid instead of just simply numbering them like Sony does
Never. I've always been picky with my tastes. When CoD MW2 was the biggest shit to play back in high school I thought it was uninteresting crap and played TF2 instead. One of those games is nostalgia bait while the other is routinely talked about and played to this day.
When Fortnite came out, I tried it and dropped it because it was boring shit, but when stuff like Fall Guys and Among Us came around both becoming massively popular I played those games quite a lot because they were fun.
Apex Legends and FFXIV are currently my go-to games, and Fallout 76 on occassions.
I usually have a stream running on a second monitor because I have no friends and hearing someone else's voice makes me feel less lonely, like I have someone else in the same room as me playing vidya. It's usually something innocuous and low-key, like Hearthstone. I'd never fricking donate or sub or anything like that, though.
In general, we are social creatures and it's normal to want to bond with others over communal activities like vidya. When it's not possible to do so IRL we turn to the Internet. It's not that farfetched a concept. Basic human psychology.
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I sorta agree with the arguement that the pseudo relationships from streaming channels mimics hanging out with your friends while one plays a game.
You don't want to play vidya, you just wanted friends and social interactions
GO OUTSIDE AND FIND SOME FRIENDS, STOP WORSHIPPING E-CELEBS AND HAVING FRIENDS WITH STRANGERS IN THE INTERNET
Gachashit becoming normalized. NFT/Blockchain bullshit too. Idiots throwing their money away to gamble on JPEGs and letting game publishers get away with the most asinine, predatory business practices imaginable. People being okay with and even justifying P2W mechanics, heroically diving in to lick the boots of whatever company has them by the balls psychologically whenever their behavior is questioned.
Everyone with lower standards than me should be killed.
By 24: >I was usually one of the older ones on an online game with kids, teenagers, and odd 25+ here and there >I could barely get through half of a game before I got bored, and when I did genuinely like a game(single or multiplayer) I’d play the shit out of it until I grew bored >went on a 90 day stint of no video games that lasted 200+ days >became more engaged in my other hobbies >dumped gf who liked video games for a better looking woman who likes lifting and cycling too. She also has a cute Australian Shepard >doing another no video game stint, and closing in on 100 days soon
I had a good run. With the way the industry moves now, video games just aren’t for me.
When I hopped in a game of BF1 and couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. After playing shooters for 10 years. I immediately deleted my games and uninstalled Steam.
I can hardly relate to Ganker anymore, but the Twitter/Reddit crowd is even more alien to me.
I try to enjoy what I enjoy, but they still manage to kind of get in my head and make me doubt everything.
>I can hardly relate to Ganker anymore >the Twitter/Reddit crowd is even more alien to me.
Probably why it's so hard to relate to Ganker. By the way, it's Ganker now, not Ganker. You can thank the Twitter/Reddit crowd for that.
Its just worse now, not to be all sekret club but Ganker was way way better when it had a much lower user base, the larger and newer the base has gotten the worse thee site has become. Also like half of every threads are off topic politics or trans shit
A bit of the former and most of the latter I'd bet. These children unironically idolize streamers and play asshomosexuals, barely even a husk of Ganker remains at this point.
>I can hardly relate to Ganker anymore
I don't blame you. 80% of this site is people spamming wojak/pepe/gigachad edits, political shitflinging, and complaining about trannies.
When Fortnite got big and at the same time I realized how big Minecraft had become. It occurred to me that I hadn't played any of the big games everyone was playing anymore when during the previous fad (MOBAs) I had at least played some League and a bit of Dota. At that point I knew I was out of it.
zoomers have a "materialist" generational archetype, so they don't mind subpar/redundant products as long as its consistant (like eatting fast food).
This is because they don't care about "qualia" only surface level apperances (example: a movie/games story doesn't matter, rather the special effects matter, etc).
companies have been fricking gamers since the first instance of DLC with “Horse Armor”. I mean people have been forgetting and forgiving so much scummy shit in the past by publishers but like the study that EA once published said: “gamers like to eat shit, and will defend your scummy actions”
I'll never get this. Horse armor was shit and so are any micro transactions. Is it just peer pressure that makes people pay for skins and battle passes?
Battle royales. I'd rather just play death match where I can die more than once and it's more about getting a lot of kills and not just surviving. Also survival games because I wasn't raised on Minecraft and just think it's an OK game
24 here, I can’t remember the last time I talked to someone who plays single player games. It’s always “I get bored if I can’t play with friends” or “I wanted to try X game but I don’t have anyone to play it with”. I feel like I’m not the target audience for most games anymore. Is it weird that I used to just play Halo and Battlefield without friends or even a mic on? I don’t get why everyone needs other people to enjoy things.
Never was
This, because poorgay, but also when sjw shit became acceptable with 15 year olds.
This entire picture gives a new meaning to tossed salad and scrambled eggs.
micr transactions
This. Dracula X Chronicles for the PSP was a full recreation of Rondo of Blood. It was a game I enjoyed but when I found out later that an unlockable secret is the ENTIRETY of Symphony of the Night I was ecstatic. Games back then were complete experiences and the more you played them the more you got out of them. Ape Escape had 3 full arcade style mini games within it. Final Fantasy 7 had an in game arcade and a bunch of findable secrets. They didn't have to do that but the people who made those games wanted to make a good impression.
Games now but only are anemic in content but also want you to pay real world money for shit that's ALREADY ON THE DISC! Even worse are the live service games which market paying for content less than a year later like its a good thing that the game was shipped unfinished. And the people that buy them not only see anything wrong with it but also defend it. And it feels like I'm living in clown world but attempting to explain why these players are getting robbed is like screaming into the void. So I stopped trying. I rarely buy new releases anymore. They just don't have anything for me. Most times literally.
Yeah zoomers ADHD brains truly have ruined everything
I don't even think it's just the zoomers, it's some sick relationship between publishers who keep pushing the envelope and zoomers who don't know any better. Star Wars Battlefront 2 had a gigantic fricking shitstorm over it's loot boxes. It was actually impressive. But then Destiny 2 released with the same fricking loot boxes. And we've seen more games with similar predatory loot box bullshit. But nobody makes a stink over it anymore because it's just normal now. Final Fantasy 15 split itself up into a bunch of DLCs and a movie to get the full story. Those DLCs had the character development of the characters that make up the main party. There are people that call it one of the greatest epics to exist. And my first thought is what the fricking frick!?! Who came up with the idea of selling the character development of the main fricking characters. No other medium gets away with this shit. It's like watching Lord of the Rings but you have to pay to see what happened after Gandalf took Pippen to Gondor. And then pay again to see what happened with Merry. And then the chucklefricks who think this is fine says it's okay because they aren't the main characters.
>No other medium gets away with this shit
Just wait for DLC films and TV shows
When MMORPGs started becoming popular.
Also:
and more importantly:
2014
when i started browsing Ganker to talk about vidya and everyone has the shittiest fricking taste imaginable
the battle royale craze
The MOBA craze
When it stopped being about games and started being about politics
when they troonback to pixelated pseudo-retro autism
Never, because pretty much all my tastes just got fricking vindicated.
>Resurgence of CRPGs
>Turn based combat JRPGs selling like hot cakes
>Fire Emblem is now mainstream
>Banner of Maid is the best SRPG I've ever played
>Most people recognise New Vegas as the best nuFallout game
>SMT5 and Metroid Dread were both fantastic, long awaited sequels
Everything I like is becoming increasingly popular. Feels good man.
Ffxvi dude just said turn based is dead to young gamers. He himself likes them but young gamers don't from the data he was looking at.
When I went to check out my copy of FFXV and the kid at the till was saying how he can only play Call of Duty games
>DLC
>micro-transactions
>loot boxes
>erly access
2014
Sometime around 15 years ago or so;
NES: 50+ games
Genesis: 50+ games
PS1: 50+ games
PS2: 20-30 games
PS3: 5-ish games
>no consoles after this point
Even on PC I'm lucky to find something worth playing every other year or so, so I mostly just replay old classics.
Game Pass has been a boon for me on PC. I've found a bunch of games I like. I get the occasional Switch exclusive too, but GP has introduced me to a lot of fun shit I probably wouldn't have played otherwise.
>tfw I had more fun playing a doom II total coversion mod than any other recent game
Ashes 2063/Afterglow were very fun.
I miss old online vidya content
When MTX, especially the obsession with cosmetics and battlepasses, became the norm. I’m from the era of everyone mocking how gay horse armor was, little did we know what was to come. Normalizing MTX and artificial scarcity and FOMO shit was a years long agenda, and I watched it all happen in real time, with mid 30s boomers like me being pushed out of the industry while new, younger players joined who were thrown into a world were these things were the standard.
I just want to play a game thats complete and doesnt require £100 in DLC content after i buy the game
Minecraft as I just couldn't get the appeal.
Then later on item crafting showing up in every game under the sun as padding.
Battle royales and the great discord migration. I wasn't ready to leave teamspeak/vent/mumble behind.
The PS4 launch was when it truly hit me that my tastes are no longer the domain of the AAA world. A Playstation launch without ridge racer was the warning flag and the general death of AAA racing games that aren't sims in general really drove it home.
>The PS4 launch was when it truly hit me that my tastes are no longer the domain of the AAA world
Same
Years ago, a decade or so. It's cool. I my own niche of people now.
Around 2010. Microtransaction shenanigans were becoming a plague that was never around in the gaming scene (sans quarter-eating arcades). Then in 2014+ everything started to become overtly political and it completely poisoned the gaming environment, even worse than it already was.
Modern day games aren't for someone like me that grew up in a split between the 80's and 90's. It's pretty much an entirely different industry.
Gamergate
>fortnite BR becoming popular
>NFT games
>paid mods
>remasters of <5 year old games
>the destiny playerbase not revolting and ditching the game after House of Wolves and Taken King
Horse Armor
Definitely 360/PS3 era when gameplay took a massive backseat to everything else. There are and were always exceptions, but that was when it was clear to me. Also, things have selectively gotten better, but only because indies and modding has gotten so sophisticated that they are creating insane experiences I could have only wished for as a kid. Imagine if OoT randomizer was an unlockable game mode.
MTX and Esports.
Games are supposed to be fun entertainment, not wallet-draining merch alternatives or rage-inducing ELO treadmills. As soon as LoL started gaining traction I knew gaming was irrecoverably finished.
Pic related and battle royales killing FPS games was it for me.
I like the extraction stuff. But yeah, this genre is crushing soul. I'm thankful that there are so many indie games with weird stuff. But a lot of it isn't fantastic and you can only replay that stuff for so long.
This. Really started to take effect during the 360/PS3 era, then solidified with the PS4/XB1 era.
When graphics prostitutes became the majority & movie games the AAA standard.
Graphics prostitutes were always a majority.
wrong
When it became ok to greif and troll people but if you say a heckin no no word you get perma banned
From the start, I got my PS2 around 2014 when I was 15.
bruh
Aw man, they got this poor lad to fail right from the start.
fornite
I have grown to hate video games
2007
Scarely accurate
Trendy women are a problem but I mostly blame the simps for not gatekeeping hard enough.
I found this picture cringe ten years ago, I still find this picture cringe today
>Player unknown battleground
>Call of Duty War zone
>Apex Legends
>H1Z1
>Valorant
>Fortnite
>Epic Games store
I haven't been with it for awhile
Gaming never took that true “adult” turn I thought it would. It seemed like it was trending that way in the mid-late 2000s, but that’s also right around when things started to stagnate.
There's a quote that I heard somewhere concerning God of War. I can't remember where but it was discussing how everyone was treating GoW4 like some unprecedented masterpiece and shit talking the original trilogy. I'm paraphrasing but it went something like
>if there is any argument AGAINST video games being art, then gamers are that argument. Because nowhere else will you find a community so willing to shit all over its own medium in favor of the newer, shinier thing.
You’ll also find haters hating just because it’s new. In fact I’ve seen that much more than what you mentioned.
I remember thinking that games like HL2 and MGS2 would quickly become the bare-minimum TECHNOLOGY baseline moving forward and things would only get more simulationist from there. Boy did I bet on the wrong horse.
Hasn’t happened yet, and I’m 27. I don’t play shit like Fortnite or PUBG, but new single player experiences have only gotten better for me. I vastly prefer newer games where devs have figured out how not to annoy the player with dumb bullshit and unintuitive design. Give me GOW, Uncharted, new RE, TLOU1&2, Deathloop, BOTW, etc. over the vast, VAST majority of old school games.
>still thinks PUBG is relevant anyway
lmao
It is. It has the fourth highest active players on Steam right now.
Those are literally all chinks. PUBG hasn't been relevant outside of China for years
I used to play and beat all games on the hardest difficulty, as I get older it has become more difficult to do so.
When zoomers who grew up with f2p phone games, multiplayer trash, games with multiple cosmetic dlc and movie games said that those video games are art.
A few years ago when I realized that I have no fricking clue what the Xbox systems past One are even called.
Also just learned today that Xcom has two games and the first was on PS3, I though it was way newer.
>Xcom has two games and the first was on PS3
Whoa mama.
>no fricking clue what the Xbox systems past One are even called.
mostly because M$ made them so fricking stupid instead of just simply numbering them like Sony does
I just hate everything now
Female protagonist.
When I tried fortnite and felt like I was in a daycare center
When people started saying watching a let's play was enough to be a fan of something, or that an unfinished game was better than a finished game.
Never. I've always been picky with my tastes. When CoD MW2 was the biggest shit to play back in high school I thought it was uninteresting crap and played TF2 instead. One of those games is nostalgia bait while the other is routinely talked about and played to this day.
When Fortnite came out, I tried it and dropped it because it was boring shit, but when stuff like Fall Guys and Among Us came around both becoming massively popular I played those games quite a lot because they were fun.
Apex Legends and FFXIV are currently my go-to games, and Fallout 76 on occassions.
When a vast majority of games started having microtransactions and DLC season passes
Streaming, seriously I never understood this.
I'll just play the game and discuss that game in the forums, why watch someone else play it?
This 100%. the fact people uniroincally watch other people play games is just sad
I sorta agree with the arguement that the pseudo relationships from streaming channels mimics hanging out with your friends while one plays a game.
People dont go outside anymore, they unironically think streamers are their friends
I usually have a stream running on a second monitor because I have no friends and hearing someone else's voice makes me feel less lonely, like I have someone else in the same room as me playing vidya. It's usually something innocuous and low-key, like Hearthstone. I'd never fricking donate or sub or anything like that, though.
In general, we are social creatures and it's normal to want to bond with others over communal activities like vidya. When it's not possible to do so IRL we turn to the Internet. It's not that farfetched a concept. Basic human psychology.
You don't want to play vidya, you just wanted friends and social interactions
GO OUTSIDE AND FIND SOME FRIENDS, STOP WORSHIPPING E-CELEBS AND HAVING FRIENDS WITH STRANGERS IN THE INTERNET
I don't actually want to make friends and talk to people, I just want to hear a voice in the background so the bad thoughts get drowned out.
This, i spend all day listening to podcasts and audio books personally
Gachashit becoming normalized. NFT/Blockchain bullshit too. Idiots throwing their money away to gamble on JPEGs and letting game publishers get away with the most asinine, predatory business practices imaginable. People being okay with and even justifying P2W mechanics, heroically diving in to lick the boots of whatever company has them by the balls psychologically whenever their behavior is questioned.
Everyone with lower standards than me should be killed.
When I was at a Party City and saw some Fortnite stuff being sold, and realized I've never played it and don't care.
By 24:
>I was usually one of the older ones on an online game with kids, teenagers, and odd 25+ here and there
>I could barely get through half of a game before I got bored, and when I did genuinely like a game(single or multiplayer) I’d play the shit out of it until I grew bored
>went on a 90 day stint of no video games that lasted 200+ days
>became more engaged in my other hobbies
>dumped gf who liked video games for a better looking woman who likes lifting and cycling too. She also has a cute Australian Shepard
>doing another no video game stint, and closing in on 100 days soon
I had a good run. With the way the industry moves now, video games just aren’t for me.
>dumped gf who liked video games for a better looking woman who likes lifting and cycling too. She also has a cute Australian Shepard
The 7th gen was the last one I cared about. The PS3 was the last good non-Nintendo console.
When I hopped in a game of BF1 and couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. After playing shooters for 10 years. I immediately deleted my games and uninstalled Steam.
"cinematic experiences"
like why even buy a """"game"""" at that point, just watch it on youtube
Fallout 4 was the moment i knew gaming was dead
I can hardly relate to Ganker anymore, but the Twitter/Reddit crowd is even more alien to me.
I try to enjoy what I enjoy, but they still manage to kind of get in my head and make me doubt everything.
>I can hardly relate to Ganker anymore
>the Twitter/Reddit crowd is even more alien to me.
Probably why it's so hard to relate to Ganker. By the way, it's Ganker now, not Ganker. You can thank the Twitter/Reddit crowd for that.
Ganker is unironically like 85%+ zoomers now, its not our time anymore i guess
It's a weird position. I don't know if I've outgrown it or if I've remained completely unchanged
Its just worse now, not to be all sekret club but Ganker was way way better when it had a much lower user base, the larger and newer the base has gotten the worse thee site has become. Also like half of every threads are off topic politics or trans shit
A bit of the former and most of the latter I'd bet. These children unironically idolize streamers and play asshomosexuals, barely even a husk of Ganker remains at this point.
>I can hardly relate to Ganker anymore
I don't blame you. 80% of this site is people spamming wojak/pepe/gigachad edits, political shitflinging, and complaining about trannies.
When multiplayer became the standard for all games
God i hate multiplayer
>everything has become multiplayer
>but coop games are few and far between
I hate this
When Fortnite got big and at the same time I realized how big Minecraft had become. It occurred to me that I hadn't played any of the big games everyone was playing anymore when during the previous fad (MOBAs) I had at least played some League and a bit of Dota. At that point I knew I was out of it.
agreed
When MMOs became a thing.
When I hear zoomers unironically say 2015-2020 was the "greatest era of video games ever".
Because they dont know anything else
When companies try to frick their consumers and the consoomers take it gladly (moronic zoomers)
frick your israelite shit Black person
zoomers have a "materialist" generational archetype, so they don't mind subpar/redundant products as long as its consistant (like eatting fast food).
This is because they don't care about "qualia" only surface level apperances (example: a movie/games story doesn't matter, rather the special effects matter, etc).
companies have been fricking gamers since the first instance of DLC with “Horse Armor”. I mean people have been forgetting and forgiving so much scummy shit in the past by publishers but like the study that EA once published said: “gamers like to eat shit, and will defend your scummy actions”
I'll never get this. Horse armor was shit and so are any micro transactions. Is it just peer pressure that makes people pay for skins and battle passes?
When the people I was playing with were on average a decade younger than me, if not more
god it hurts
Then stop playing your Nintendo Switch baby games made for little babies.
games arent good anymore
most* games aren't good anymore
Every now and then a good one comes out. We just have to wait spans of years instead of months now.
Battle royales. I'd rather just play death match where I can die more than once and it's more about getting a lot of kills and not just surviving. Also survival games because I wasn't raised on Minecraft and just think it's an OK game
24 here, I can’t remember the last time I talked to someone who plays single player games. It’s always “I get bored if I can’t play with friends” or “I wanted to try X game but I don’t have anyone to play it with”. I feel like I’m not the target audience for most games anymore. Is it weird that I used to just play Halo and Battlefield without friends or even a mic on? I don’t get why everyone needs other people to enjoy things.
Its just the new version of TV couch potato. People with weak charachter (normies) need energy(motivation) from other people.
I hate the internet so fricking much now
When I saw most male youtubers playing RPGs as unattractive females
Watching streamers is literally worthless. A complete waste of time.