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Video games are kinda boring

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Re: Video games are kinda boring

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Post by adt2bt »

Blammar wrote: post #89

Something I've always wanted to work on but now that I've grown older after ~47 years of playing computer games I'll need to pass on to the next generation: A Natural User Interface To Games. Right now, there's a translation layer in the way -- your controller, keyboard/mice, wands all get translated into in-game actions, and in different ways from game to game. You always have to spend time learning this translation…

I’ve always been surprised there aren’t haptic gloves with accurate feedback for VR/AR. It feels kludgy to hold a big plastic brick. Problem is, I just don’t know where to start cracking the nut, never had any hardware experience.

Re: Video games are kinda boring

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Post by AndrewOMartin »

Blammar wrote: post #89

Something I've always wanted to work on but now that I've grown older after ~47 years of playing computer games I'll need to pass on to the next generation: A Natural User Interface To Games. Right now, there's a translation layer in the way -- your controller, keyboard/mice, wands all get translated into in-game actions, and in different ways from game to game. You always have to spend time learning this translation…

I always used to dream of this, but now I think, "if I need to do a high kick, or back flip, I'm screwed". I guess the popularity of sports games and martial arts games is the ability to see things done that you could never do in real life.

However, and to avoid being completely negative, I think you'd get a surprisingly close experience if you took Resident Evil 4 on the Quest 2 to a sports hall, so you could take full advantage of the body tracking (so you walk in game by walking in real life, with a quick reorientation when you're near a wall). Most of the in game actions are very close to your physical actions, e.g. aiming a gun, pulling a trigger, swinging a knife, grabbing goodies. Maybe that will fill a gap? :)

Re: Video games are kinda boring

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Post by AndrewOMartin »

adt2bt wrote: post #91
Blammar wrote: post #89

Something I've always wanted to work on but now that I've grown older after ~47 years of playing computer games I'll need to pass on to the next generation: A Natural User Interface To Games. Right now, there's a translation layer in the way -- your controller, keyboard/mice, wands all get translated into in-game actions, and in different ways from game to game. You always have to spend time learning this translation…

I’ve always been surprised there aren’t haptic gloves with accurate feedback for VR/AR. It feels kludgy to hold a big plastic brick. Problem is, I just don’t know where to start cracking the nut, never had any hardware experience.

There are plenty at current VR trade shows, it's just a very difficult thing to get right.

Also each experience world be characterized by a different range of haptics, so you either have to make an impossibly complex glove for all situations, or a simpler glove that's compatible with only one game/tool. You actually see the latter in research and industry, they're just obviously expensive.

Re: Video games are kinda boring

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Post by DancesWTurtles »

Of course games are boring, the same way an old towel, a broom and bucket for your head are boring. The purpose of the game is giving you a few (ok, maybe a few million) rules so you can make your own fun out of a couple random things that would not be that interesting otherwise. The fun depends on, among other factors, what would you be doing otherwise, who else is playing with you, how seriously you take it... the "fun factor" of the game itself comes only from how many opportunities does it give you or wastes for you.

Re: Video games are kinda boring

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Post by dekelpilli »

Shadonototra wrote: post #90

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 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 games they've played to the entire market in general, while dismissing the not-boring time they've had during those 2000 hours.

Re: Video games are kinda boring

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Post by ljloisnflwef »

Gaming was over / Early Sell signals:

* Valve going full cosmetics

* Half Life 3 never being released

* Biannual Call of Duty titles

* The end of community hosted servers & server browsers

* The rise of Early Access & DLCs

* John Carmack leaving id software

Re: Video games are kinda boring

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Post by 7speter »

psacawa wrote: post #56

There's a video game that never bores me called Linux. You should try it out. In Linux, you can download software, and learn to use it to solve a wide array of problems. You can edit files, one of life's simple pleasures. If you find yourself repeating a task, you can find ways to automate it. Doing an old task faster means you levelled up, which gets the blood flowing. You can explore vast worlds (ecosystems/code ba…

> All of this is lots of fun if you're not doing for $JOB.

It seems that if you become good enough at this game you can make a good career out of knowing the ins and outs of it from what I observe…

Re: Video games are kinda boring

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Post by bytehowl »

maerF0x0 wrote: post #2

I too have found video games boring. I want something like a MMORTS with automation and no hella long timers, on a multi faction map (4?) where you wage war and the game is intended to have an eventual total winner (maybe across 3 months?) Where wins create real consequences like buffs, resources, strategic locations etc. Then it can reset and we can play again. I could see roles and interactions playing out a lot li…

Not EXACTLY what you described, but kinda close? https://np.ironhelmet.com/#landing

Re: Video games are kinda boring

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Post by PawBer »

Markoff wrote: post #83
tomatowurst wrote: post #10

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…

Yeah i noticed this blog advertised already second time this week, first time it was stupid comparison of photo in PNG format (!) with amazing small WebP (I mean anything would be amazing next to photo in PNG), now for change he is expert on games, dunno who upvotes this...

People sometimes upvote posts based on their discussion value. It's a simple post with a lot of counterarguments to be made.

Re: Video games are kinda boring

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Post by elefanten »

This 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”

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