Gaming as an adult
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demon of the leaf
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I mostly play older games vs newer ones very seldom do i buy a newer one before it was about the fun now it is about getting down to the grass moving though nintendo seems to be the only company that actually trys to make entertaining games
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I enjoy gaming as if I were still a kid.
I'll say that the gaming industry is suffering from all these shit DLC, early access bullcrap + incomplete games. Back in our days, we would get a full game experience. Now you buy a game and the next week, the company, who made the game, is announcing a DLC like... what the hell? Couldn't you include that in the game? You pay $60 dollars and then you have to pay more? what?
Thank lord that there are emulators so I can play games that I used to play when I was a kid. I don't know about you guys but if people are resorting to play OLD VIDEO GAMES then there's a problem in the gaming business.
Another problem is microtransactions... omg... who in their right mind thought this was an awesome idea. These lazy ass gamers pay for that type of stuff because they don't like to grind? what? Back in our days, we would have to grind our ass all day in order to unlock something that we desired to get. Now? pfft! Let me drop 10 bucks and it's mine! YAY!!!!~ The cancer of the gaming community.
I'll say that the gaming industry is suffering from all these shit DLC, early access bullcrap + incomplete games. Back in our days, we would get a full game experience. Now you buy a game and the next week, the company, who made the game, is announcing a DLC like... what the hell? Couldn't you include that in the game? You pay $60 dollars and then you have to pay more? what?
Thank lord that there are emulators so I can play games that I used to play when I was a kid. I don't know about you guys but if people are resorting to play OLD VIDEO GAMES then there's a problem in the gaming business.
Another problem is microtransactions... omg... who in their right mind thought this was an awesome idea. These lazy ass gamers pay for that type of stuff because they don't like to grind? what? Back in our days, we would have to grind our ass all day in order to unlock something that we desired to get. Now? pfft! Let me drop 10 bucks and it's mine! YAY!!!!~ The cancer of the gaming community.
FreakensteinAG
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I used to be big on platformers and consoles back in the NES days, but that was probably because those types of games were more popular and “easier to produce”. I could care less about story so long as it had great gameplay value. I could not comprehend how to play RPGs, not because you had to read to understand what was going on, but because there were “script triggers” that activated scenes based on what you did or where you went. Coupled with the fact that RPGs were typically open-world, it was difficult to wrap around my 5-year-old head. It was exactly what Egoraptor said about Dragon Warrior: “What do I do!? Where do I gooooo!?” I didn’t see a PC at that time as a legitimate gaming console. I saw it as a work station and the occasional JumpStart educational games. I saw my brother playing several kinds of games on there like DOOM, Starcraft, Magic Carpet, Daggerfall (he banned me from watching him when he started playing that), and Duke Nukem (also banned me), but I could not understand how he played them. Look at all those friggin buttons! My NES has 4 buttons and a D-pad. All of those could not have a specific action.
Now I’m playing most everything on PC. I got hella mellow so now I’m accustomed to and actually yearn for more groundbreaking RPGs that have substantial story. My games still need strong core gameplay tho; it can’t be ****ing Firewatch or Life is Strange. I feel like I can’t get engrossed in actions and platformers anymore. Games without strong storyline/plot give me the “why should I care?” vibe.
One thing hasn’t changed as I grew up, and that was my love of controlling numerous characters at will in a deceptively gargantuan amount of gameplay value, aka Digimon, Pokemon, Suikoden (vetoed because good storyline/plot), and Tactical RPGs (also vetoed). That was actually the one type of RPG I could get into as a kid-- the non-open-world stage-based RPG where there was text to read, but the game did not have you navigating a world to trigger scripts in order to advance the plotline. You had to figure out where to go next in order to advance the game in Pokemon Red ONE TIME. And that was to go back to Viridian City to obtain the 8th badge, then straight left to enter the Pokemon league. Otherwise, the game advanced the plot by itself soon as your ‘stage’ was completed.
Now I’m playing most everything on PC. I got hella mellow so now I’m accustomed to and actually yearn for more groundbreaking RPGs that have substantial story. My games still need strong core gameplay tho; it can’t be ****ing Firewatch or Life is Strange. I feel like I can’t get engrossed in actions and platformers anymore. Games without strong storyline/plot give me the “why should I care?” vibe.
One thing hasn’t changed as I grew up, and that was my love of controlling numerous characters at will in a deceptively gargantuan amount of gameplay value, aka Digimon, Pokemon, Suikoden (vetoed because good storyline/plot), and Tactical RPGs (also vetoed). That was actually the one type of RPG I could get into as a kid-- the non-open-world stage-based RPG where there was text to read, but the game did not have you navigating a world to trigger scripts in order to advance the plotline. You had to figure out where to go next in order to advance the game in Pokemon Red ONE TIME. And that was to go back to Viridian City to obtain the 8th badge, then straight left to enter the Pokemon league. Otherwise, the game advanced the plot by itself soon as your ‘stage’ was completed.
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It is different now. I used to play more multiplayer games with my brother and friends, but he has a kid now and moved away. Don't see play with my friends really. At the same time, when I do get time to play a game (time is very different. Don't always have time to play), it feels so much "more." It feels like a big experience and it didn't as a kid.
I'd say gaming has gotten better for me despite the lack of playing with friends problem. I'm more of a solo player anyway, but still miss it, ya know.
I'd say gaming has gotten better for me despite the lack of playing with friends problem. I'm more of a solo player anyway, but still miss it, ya know.
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You did it absolutely right, mister Yatogami! Glad that you like it too.Ah, The Last of Us was a game i really enjoyed.
Truly a masterpiece. It was so good that i marathon it all the way to the end. Didn't even sleep that day. Totally worth
I'm really looking forward to the PS4-exclusive "Horizon: Zero Dawn". I believe that this game will be the next one that blows me away.. after "The Last of Us" and "Life is Strange".
Yeah, true.
I mean, it would be okay for me if the games just got a bit more expensive, because they are way more complicated and offer way more stuff than before. If we get a complete game and the developers try better to avoid all annoying bugs, then I would pay more. But not when they continue this cancerous DLC-politics. Often, there are DLC announced before the main game is even released xD
There is no way I will ever understand those people who are okay with this and throw their money away like it was nothing.
Well, I think that grinding is really annoying. For real, I understand anyone who does not want to do the same missions over and over and over again unless you get the stuff you want, randomly. That is what made DB Xenoverse such a pain to me. I dropped the game because I was not willing to waste more hours of my time. Games are supposed to be fun, not work.
The problem I see with microtransaction is not the "corner-cutting", but if you get stuff that others can't get without the money. Like.. special items or costumes in a game that you can't get, unless you pay for it separately. That's what I dislike.
Not as much as before. Nowadays, I only enjoy games with a good storyline or very good gameplay...So Metal gear solid 5, rise of the tomb raider, witcher 3, batman, uncharted..Kingdom hearts 3(waiting)....
Destiny was kool but after a while, it started to feel like a job.
Any games that feel like a job(gotta farm shit to get to where you want to be) is a no no to me. That's why I said F division.
EDIT: The Last of Us is one of the best game of all time!
Destiny was kool but after a while, it started to feel like a job.
Any games that feel like a job(gotta farm shit to get to where you want to be) is a no no to me. That's why I said F division.
EDIT: The Last of Us is one of the best game of all time!
