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We've literally seen the recent birth of a whole new mode of gaming in the form of vr, with its rapidly evolving ui coming with it.
I'm aware. I use VR daily, for both work and play. It's not new, though. Luckey's work was a revival, not a conjuring. There was a motion-tracked HMD in 1961, and Sutherland established more or less our modern take on it not long after.
The model of game where there's a big shared goal among the playerbase that they can work together in is fun and can include stuff like easter-egg hunting, solving unsolved puzzles, figuring out speedrun strategies, etc. It's exciting playing a game knowing that if you figure something out or do things right then it could be what's talked about in the game forums among the playerbase and move things forward for every…
And that’s fine. Call it ”done” and move on to the next game. There’s more games than anyone could ever play in their lifetime; keep exploring.
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> "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
This is absurd. Even if climate change is just a feel good farce it would at least help people pretend that they have a goal. Instead we do absolutely nothing, we are scared of losing our jobs and having nothing to do while simultaneously having this mountain of tasks in front of us that we won't even consider touching.
I used to think I wanted a higher purpose in games, but what I really wanted was a community with some kind of large-scale competition. The MMOFPS Planetside 2 gives me that, but I get the impression you can also get it from Eve, from competitive gaming scenes, from traditional MMOs, or even from older things like MUDs. Friendly competition with and against thousands of other people is like a higher purpose, but it's…
From my experience it’s got a great community, thousands of players working toward the same goal, participating in little excursions, fighting the front lines, supporting the bases ect.
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I'm aware. I use VR daily, for both work and play. It's not new, though. Luckey's work was a revival, not a conjuring. There was a motion-tracked HMD in 1961, and Sutherland established more or less our modern take on it not long after.
The games and worlds, however, are new.
Aside from Boneworks, the trend is less interaction, rather than more.
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Oh boy, here we go. First, I meant that on multiple levels. Tarkov has some interesting dynamics with competition and dual classes of players, and competing incentives to both team up and betray others based on in-game tasks and rep systems. The high emphasis on looting (my understanding is it's like Rust but more) and penalties for dying (you lose what you brought in), make for tense interactions. They just added in…
Tarkov has the most comically incompetent development team of any game I've seen. They are the polar opposite of the Rust team (big monthly updates, minimal/zero regressions) despite both games using the same engine. The big Tarkov update yesterday just broke a core gameplay component (player scavs killing a _PMC_ now aggros all AI scavs) and there are a ton of graphical regressions in addition to a fun new race cond…
Sometimes that results in the players wondering "what could possibly thought this was okay to submit? Did they even check it at all?" just like every QA department since the beginning probably has occasionally.
The real question will be whether they actually change that when they release 1.0, which is supposedly in a year or so.
I 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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As soon as I see an anime avatar I know it's gonna be "one of those articles" and I move on.
As soon as I see people making broad generalizations I know its gonna be "that kind of comment thread" and I move on
Thank you! I'm just not interested in pouring vast amounts of time into building game skills that have zero applicability elsewhere. Life is too short. In this sense, video games in general are a unitasker[1]. Now, if there are games with some pedagogical value, e.g. puzzle games where we need to apply/develop knowledge of chemistry to solve problems, I could warm to the idea. [1] https://lifehacker.com/watch-alton-b…
Why not play educational games then?
Part of the problem with games is modeling the "fog of war" realistically.
One quickly realizes that logistics, preparation and Destiny are where it's at; the actual fisticuffs start to seem inevitable.