Instead of playing same AAA game for 100s of hours, try playing shorter "indie" games. You get "only" 4-8 hours of very different experiences and actually complete more games, that gives additional satisfaction.
Video games are kinda boring
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#112Yeah. 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…
Yeah it's the AAA curse, my advice to you if you still enjoy games is look to indie. There might be the occasional jank but there are a lot of gems to find.
I suspect most people don't really understand what indie means in terms of games, especially when contrasted against AAA. Many indie games now rival AAA games in terms of scope and scale, a decent chunk are even getting up there in production quality, and the overall quality/refinement often already exceeds AAA games which are increasingly often just buggy messes at launch.
Valheim [1] is a nice example. That is an indie game, made by a 5 guy team, primarily based on one guy's toy projects. Tools and resources for game development have increased so much that it's possible for very small teams to do some really incredible things.
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#113I switched from AAA games to libre gaming since the days of Devastation/Breed and a lot of crapware boring FPS with no substance.
Slashem, Gearhead (1 and 2), IF games, Battle for Wesnoth. Much better than most of games today.
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#114This piece was the worst nonsense I’ve ever seen get this much response on HN. Some passages were downright unintelligible. The rest had such a wild, drunken stagger to them. But worst of all is the point being made. Essentially: “I can’t move to an apartment on Jupiter, therefore space travel is boring”
HN likes controversial hot takes especially the users that are constantly here you usually get more nuanced comments later in the day.
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#115I really do not like these type of articles. I did X, Y, Z and therefore it is justified enough for me to make overreaching claims. Video games are still very fun and very profitable for the rest of us. Wish I could mute HN accounts like I mute ppl on twitter, not enough to signal an explicit exclusion but enough for me to ignore whatever they have to say in the future because of misalignment of values in the present…
As soon as I see an anime avatar I know it's gonna be "one of those articles" and I move on.
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#116Yeah. 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…
Its the same pattern as movies, cookie-cutter patterns are most familiar to broadest audience and because of familiarity publishers push for those type of products to be pumped out for safe and large return on investment.
There are still smaller games/movies that are interesting and ambitious, just harder to find.
> 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.
I highly recommend Inscription
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#117Who would've thought that decades of maximizing realism from the industry would lead to something familiar and unexciting, i.e. boring.
We need to evolve and democratize game development tools for creating more fantastical content. Less polygons, more management of complex systemic interactions.
The (traditional) roguelike scene has been struggling with this since its inception. As codebases grow and things get added, managing the complexity becomes a massive headache-inducing mess. But it's precisely this complexity of interaction that makes a game deep and interesting. Every thing added requires an exponential increase in logic, as code is needed for interacting with every other thing from before.
NO TOOL EXISTS today that makes it easy to add things to a game and define how those things interact with other things, on the content creation process level. How crazy is that?
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#118478h 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 am always surprised by those timers but I am under the impression they aren't accurate because they are inflated by idle time like waiting for queues. 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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#119478h 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 don't think it's fair to call someone with over 2000 hours dedicated to gaming a casual gamer, or discount their opinion as a result. You having double the amount is not a good reason to gatekeep, just like I won't gatekeep you: https://i.imgur.com/Vu5nxBE.png The issue with this piece isn't a lack of gaming experience from the author, but rather that they apply their personal feelings about a small selection of ga…
yeah, after reading the whole thing i noticed my comment was out of touch and not particularly useful nor representative of what's a "gamer".. i don't know why i felt the need to comment like that
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#120It seems like what the author really wants is not to play a video game, but to participate in society.
That's my conclusion too. Game are, at their core, something close to a real world activity but not the real thing. Even cats play games like that to learn. But current games, that is video games, are most of the time not a substitute where you can experiment with something close to the real thing. They are a form of entertainement. That means that what you accomplish in those games is nothing.
If you want something with stakes in, there are options in games (competitive players are like professional athletes this days for example), but the alternative that makes the most sense is just real life.