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The good stuff is out there, it's just not marketed as heavy as AAA games, instead it requires active discovery (and it's the same with "modern" blockbuster movies or music).
The material rendering and poly count keep getting better, and some of these games are really beautiful, but the fidelity of the simulation itself hasn't really changed since 1998.
I do still enjoy games that actually do something new. I liked Minecraft when it came out, and Sleep Is Death, and Yume Nikki... in fact, there's a whole genre of "weird games" that can still be a lot of fun, because you're never sure what will happen next. The sense of wonder returns. Haven't found any good ones lately, though.
What I want is some kind of stake in the game. I don't feel compelled to clear missions and help characters in game because its all fabricated without any consequences.
I'd love to see a buildable world where the things players create are the assets in the game, and once they're destroyed, they're gone. This would give players a sense of actual scarcity and I think it would seriously affect how they play and think about the game.
Also, I personally didn't enjoy don't starve as once you read through the wiki you understand that the reason you are dying so often is that the game is designed in a very illogical fashion with specific "puzzle" items that you simply die without. Your logical real world brain thinks you need clothes to not freeze to death in winter. Wrong. You need a hot stone. The hound attacks are a joke once you understand that you can build a bazillion tooth traps.
I haven't played one hour one life but it looks like it is actually closer to the original idea that dont starve embodies.
Check out “Farhaven AR” in the Apple App Store. It was made as an immersive adventure with the player at the center to buck the trend in today’s games and return to the basics of enjoyable gameplay and storylines. It’s free right now too.
It's the author, the latest game in that "look at my gamer creds" list is from 2015 and it's the fifth sequel.
With the exception of payday which is an incredibly shallow online thing, all of the games in the list are a sequel whose original title, and core gameplay is more than 20 years old at this point.
And sure if you are playing the same game as 20 years ago you might be bored at some point.
Side rant, the number of hours in the list don't successfully accredit Sandy as an avid gamer, at least to me. I am pretty sure I have more hours on Civ 5 alone as she does on all games combined, never mind the grand theft auto series. I think I might have less on GTA 5 but that's because GTA: San andreas is better.
It seems like what the author really wants is not to play a video game, but to participate in society.
Edit: They=Millennials
478h your max for a single game doesn't make you a "gamer" it makes you a casual gamer, specially since you listed online multiplayer games, that could explain the title This is what you can call a proper gamer: https://i.imgur.com/00hPR58.png Also a proper title would have been: "I'm no longer finding fun/excitement playing video games"
I say this as someone who has 200 hours in clicker heroes and I haven't played that game for 200 hours. I just left it open and checked every 20 minutes.
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I think this sums up this article perfectly. There are big social problems among Millennials and younger (at least in the West); many of them are desperate to participate in their societies meaningfully and be rewarded (individually or collectively) for doing so. The "I want a big picture, a grand goal that we strive towards. Something noble that we yearn for" quote from this article sums that up perfectly. I, thankf…
> "I want a big picture, a grand goal that we strive towards. Something noble that we yearn for" In fact this is not unique to millennials but is an age old struggle of humanity where religion is discovered, abandoned for one reason or another, then rediscovered again once secularism/nihilism doesn't provide the fulfilling sense of purpose everyone yearns for, ad infinitum
Yeah. Maybe I'm just getting old, but popular games do feel very "samey". They've dropped a bunch of 3D models into an environment, and you control one of them, and there's a minimap with flashing dots. Next year, a different team has dropped some different 3D models into a different environment, and the minimap is circular now. The material rendering and poly count keep getting better, and some of these games are re…