It seems like what the author really wants is not to play a video game, but to participate in society.
Honestly, it reads like a preamble to a cheesy isekai manga.
Video games are kinda boring
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#62This reads like someone who only watches Marvel movies complaining about how they've lost interest in movies because they all feel the same. If you don't branch out and expand beyond the bog-standard, yeah, eventually it'll all feel the same. Edit: Some recommendations below. These aren't even wild experimental/arthouse games, just slightly more creative. - Outer Wilds - Disco Elysium - Rhythm Doctor - Return of the…
I still rather enjoy videogames in my advanced age, and yet here I find that your list is the equivalent of white toast.
Even white toast is flavourful to someone who's tired of gruel.
You should share a list of your own recommendations!
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#63There are different goals with games. For the author, they want a specific genre that hasn't really been done before (massively multiplayer co-op) because they want a grand unified goal to cooperate with people towards. That doesn't mean that games are boring though, especially when looking at the subset op mentioned. In most of those games the goal is to beat your opponent (with the exception of metal gear and payda…
Hi! Author here. I do agree, it does read as I'm looking for a very specific type of game, which sentiment many others would not share (totally expected and should be that way)
I hoped to put the focus more on the repetitiveness of innovation within many genres of games. That is somewhat of a product of my own subjective observation.
Let all people find what they truly enjoy!
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#64This is a really childish article. This person is not an experienced player of games.
Not to gatekeep but: trying to say you are an experienced gamer, and proving that with less than a thousand hours of the most popular and normal games of the last 20 years does not lend credence. And your 4th most played needing 14 hours? Please.
There other comment nailed it. This is like watching only marvel and complaining about movies. And not even a lot of marvel movies.
It is not worth my time to dig into the minutea of this, but let me just say: you do not have any idea what you are talking about. If you it don't like video games that is fine, but this article is just bad and ignorant. And written by someone who is not familiar with the medium.
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#65> All I seek is a full sensory experience of what I see and feel within a virtual environment. That's it, huh? Want me to pick up any other scientific advances for you while I'm out? A warp drive or time machine perhaps?
that would be great, thanks
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
You and the author are both making the mistake of generalizing games as boring based on your specific tastes. Unlike the author, I dislike online games, I want a more controlled experience. Unlike you, I dislike plot-driven games. I can't imagine anything more boring than watching a cutscene or reading dialog. The exception is something like Portal where the story is told seamlessly in-game. "Games I don't like are b…
> "Games I don't like are boring" is hardly a subject worth writing a blog post about. I believe that expressing an opinion is a perfectly merit-worthy reason to write a blog post, unless I misunderstand something.
Sure, you can write a blog post for any reason, but writing about something you are not interested in is probably not going to be interesting. Like when teenagers talk about why one genre of music is better than another. It boils down to opinion, there's nothing interesting to say there.
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#67>I am no stranger to video games, consoles, gacha, and playing for the majority of waking hours in a day Person who burned out their dopamine receptors is surprised to suddenly become aware of the fact.
then the dopamine starvation started
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
It didn't claim that video games weren't fun or profitable, and the author even admitted they'd had fun with them. It just claimed that the current status quo of them has gotten kinda stale for them. Video games being stagnant isn't exactly a new idea; we've more or less been stuck with the same interfaces with slight improvements for twenty years now. The author just seems burnt out.
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.
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#69This reads like someone who only watches Marvel movies complaining about how they've lost interest in movies because they all feel the same. If you don't branch out and expand beyond the bog-standard, yeah, eventually it'll all feel the same. Edit: Some recommendations below. These aren't even wild experimental/arthouse games, just slightly more creative. - Outer Wilds - Disco Elysium - Rhythm Doctor - Return of the…
Disco. Elysium. Is so good.
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#70As I've gotten older, my taste in video games has changed and I find most of them unrewarding. But one of my favorite games is Factorio. There's something so satisfying about creating, automating, and advancing civilization on those alien planets. The train system alone is so fun to play with.