Why did people in the past look so much happier playing videogames than now?
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Why did people in the past look so much happier playing videogames than now?
they were newer and more novel
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Cause even third worlders can play video games now. It was mostly a White people and Japanese thing back then.
he was raped, wasn't he?
smartphones ruined everything
I've been saying this for years
>I've been saying this for years
And you are also a shiteater.
this, right now people live to catch the new trend, they no longer care about anything, because they had to be ready for the next one, they no longer enjoy, they only follow and follow and get no time to develop true appreciation for anything internet throws at them.
Flavor of the month? no longer a thing, usually it's a weekly thing, if lucky.
people are dulled now because we have less self restraint.
Games were made for a novelty experience that started and ended in one sitting. A "long" single-player game in the N64 era was 10-20 hours tops (aside from OOT) and there were few of them.
There was no marketing departing running numbers for maximum retention or whatever insanity that drives modern online games. There were no chores to do or battle passes to grind. You had an hour or two and you sat down next to your friends and family and played ~a~ game, then it was over.
This post is so underage and misinformed it's hilarious. No marketing running numbers for maximum retention? What do you think arcade games were?
Seemed more like OP is talking about console gaming but still arcades were a social experience that took place in the real world. Arcade game retention was based more on real life difficulty of the game and the psychology behind it was rudimentary enough that it was often incorrect. Plus, gamers were happier in arcades even if they were falling prey to retention dynamics because at least they were hanging out with friends in actual meat space
uhhh consoles take place in the real world too they weren't focused on online and subscription services in 1993
It’s completely different. You fed quarter after quarter into the machine to keep playing. Didn’t have to buy any $500 console, nor a $60 game to get in to the action. Even the biggest “whale” at your local arcade probably only spent $100-200 over a decade playing donkey kong or pac man on the machine. Now these idiots are spending $100+ a month on fricking gacha games and still don’t ever get all the “pulls” they really want
>A "long" single-player game in the N64 era was 10-20 hours tops (aside from OOT) and there were few of them.
What cave were you living in back then mate?
Everyone was happier, the israeli "tikun olam" which is also the UN model of bringing brown people to White countries has made everyone including themselves miserable.
Games were meant to be fun and made by small teams of dudes who wanted to make fun games. Nowadays games are made by social psychologists to create an addictive experience that isn't necessarily fun, but keeps you plugged in and at attention
Games back then didn't try to make you feel bad for being white or having a heterosexual family.
This. All big budget games do is gaslight you into queerness.
>video games as entertainment in the past
>video games as means to fill the void now
Why does modern life lack purpose?
family
Corpos and government made things that give people purposes like getting a house or making a family meaningless. They will make you pay rent for the rest of your life, and turn women around you into e-prostitutes.
Industrialized society robs people of natural milestones and accomplishments that humans crave that were previously commonly achieved before the industrial era. People will find surrogates but the current year is robbing people of those as well.
because your mom didn't vote for bob dole, now ask her to explain herself
They didn't define as gamers. They just played some games. Besides other things
I'm gonna be double that guy's age when my kids are that old. Grim
Playing video games was a whole event
Usually you had to get access to the TV or play time, the larger your family was the harder this was
Pirating was not easily accessible so the mere act of buying games took a lot of effort since you also had to physically go to the store, not to mention you had to earn money or convince your parents to get you one
Not to mention the rapid evolution of game systems and graphics, nowadays we even get regression in a lot of areas
corporatization of the hobby. Even Hollywood entertainment has been affected by it at the same time and in the same way.
Games aren't colourful and fun now and they don't have radical music based on ymo synth pop and jazz fusion.
They're about the troubles of being a father and having a beard and swearing a lot in a miserable world while diet-hollywood score plays in the background.
*And the sad thing is, it's the kids in Op's photo who grew up to make these miserable bloody games.
>They're about the troubles of being a father and having a beard and swearing a lot in a miserable world
That's literally me which is why I play fun games and avoid goyslop like those movie games
TLoU was a legitimately miserable experience, I regret ever "playing" it. GoW had some fun moments at least.
Corpos monetizing the fun out of games.
Because the jump to 3d was mindblowing and novel. I literally cried tears as a child when my parents took me away from a PS1 for the first time.
It's a father bonding with his sons. It doesn't matter the activity, this is what happiness is.
All the intrigue and mystery is lost from video games. Growing up from the NES vidya was an uncharted medium, with endless potential. Now it's a known paradigm, with predictable results. I'm waiting to be proven wrong by some kind of new gameplay, but I won't be. Everything is just an endless march of new war gods 64.
Only 1 person in that photo looks happy.
You actually saw advances in technology in a few years. Everything from the NES -> SNES -> N64 -> GameCube was a big jump graphics wise, and there was heavy experimentation with vidya back then. Every game felt groundbreaking, because it was. Now everything has stagnated with sameness. Same genres we're all used to, and the graphical jumps are so miniscule they may as well not even exist. A game from 10 years ago may be mistaken as a modern game if you were never introduced to it, while a game from 10 years ago back then would never be mistaken as a modern game.
Yeah. 10 years had you going from the master system to the Dreamcast. What a fricking massive leap that was, everything tech wise was so exciting. Now it's just VR and AR but most people are priced out of those or get ill.
Why does that boy have the eyes of a 50 year old woman?
asbestos and smoke and shit, people used to age really fast
18 year old in the 80's looked like a 30 year old today
Because if anybody shows a hint of enjoyment playing games now, hordes of you fricks scream "s0iface" at them, so naturally people are self conscious.
Those people had a healthy balance of work and fun. They didn't spend every waking second playing vidya or talking about said vidya on the internet. They would play for an hour or two, then go outside to take a hike, see a movie, or visit a friend's house. Parents also made their kids take a break from screens, so their children had no choice but to make the most of their time in the real world.
I literally play video games for 8+ hours every day and enjoy every minute of it.
I'm genuinely glad you enjoy your time, anon. I'm just bitter and projecting hard.
What the frick are you talking about schizo? Fricking have a nice day.
Everythings more fun when you’re younger. When Gen Z reaches 25+ and older they’ll reminisce about how Fortnite, the MCU, Undertale, the Sonic movies and Belle Delphine porn was the peak of media. Same way people who grew were kids in the 70s and 80s talked about how Star Wars, Transformers, Predator, Rocky, the Godfather and old Disney were the peak.
I blame rockstar games for asking you money for virtual stuff and online game s
They were fitter. The fitter you are the more you can enjoy things.