Stop playing repetitive, competitive, multiplayer games. Especially the battle royale style ones.
Oh you just played another 20 minute match where you died to someone out of nowhere at the end, possibly a cheater, shouted bullshit at the screen, didn’t win and didn’t achieve anything? Better re queue to do it again! Hey while you’re in the menus, do you want a new £15 skin? Do you want the battlepass QUICK BEFORE ITS GONE! THE SKINS WILL MAKE YOU HAPPY IF THE CONSTANT LOSSES DONT. I wonder why you’re bored and depressed with gaming.
The most popular steam games? Constant repetitive, competitive, multiplayer games. “I do the same thing with the same guns on the same map every day and I’m bored. Gaming is boring.”
But if I get good at cs:go my parents will finally accept me.
See I tend to gravitate toward creative games. Minecraft is a little too open for me, but something like Satisfactory where “Here’s a few square miles. Build a factory in it.” can keep me going for months.
I mean that’s more of an issue with the horrific monetization of those games, their abuse of FOMO, and shit matchmaking (and/or the player’s shit skill). There’s nothing wrong with the genre itself, some people just genuinely enjoy it. There’s a reason it’s popular.
Meanwhile: Baldur’s Gate 3
I don’t understand how there are so many youtube videos talking about how “gaming is dead” when we had so many big hits like this just this year alone
I think people who claim “gaming is dead” are just burnt out of games. Doing anything for long enough requires you to take a new perspective eventually, otherwise it feels so samey.
Whenever someone talks about how “games aren’t fun anymore” and such I always think they either need to take a break and do something else or completely change the way they look at/play games, maybe with a different genre, franchise, era, challenge runs such as speedruns or fan mods, and so on.
Anyone saying gaming is dead either doesn’t play indie games, Baldur’s Gate, or doesn’t consider Nintendo to be “gaming.” In either case, it’s their loss. I’ve played so many amazing games this year.
Hammerwatch II and Sea of Stars just in the past few weeks. En Garde not far off. The hardest part of gaming is finding the time.
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Maybe we just want good fps games
So say fps gaming is dead, don’t try to claim all gaming is dead.
I mean fair but at the same time if I only played fps games then that’s all gaming is to me.
So saying “gaming is dead” would apply since those are the only games I play.
This is a hypothetical btw I play more than fps and agree some companies are still producing quality content but you also can’t deny that most companies have definitely lowered their quality.
Newsflash: your experience is not universal. Just because you exclusively like one genre doesn’t make it accurate to say that that genre is gaming itself.
I didn’t say that the Premier League was dead during the first third or fourth of last season just because my favourite team played like crap and frequently got unlucky in the few games they didn’t. Because that would have been equally ridiculous.
I know…I said that already…
Depends on what you’re looking for in FPS games, but Battlebit Remastered is a good time.
It definitely seems like it but it’s not available on Xbox
And we all know if One game in One genre isn’t on One console then gaming as a whole, the entire industry and hobby, is dead.
RIP in pieces Gaming.
I think it’s because there’s another brand of mfers out there that see good games and go “it’s not for me, therefore nothing is”.
Yes, you dislike Tears of the Kingdom and Baldur’s Gate, hypothetical chucklefuck, here’s your award. Can you tell us what you DO like besides that instead? I finished (eh) Noita and Sonic Roboblast 2 last week, and have started Triangle Strategy and Prey. All good shit. Good games exist in everywhere.
“Finished” Noita? Or “FINISHED, FINISHED” Noita? 😬
negativity = business. its why so many people seem to suddenly hate bethesda
The message should really be "stop buying unfinished AAA games
Buying games on release is for suckers and rubes. Stop being suckers and rubes.
I’ve been playing mostly retro and haven’t been happier. Sounds like a sucker problem.
I almost never buy games on release anymore. Only for games I really want to support, like Final Fantasy 16 or Baldurs gate 3. Other than that, I always wait for sales. Save more money, games are “finished” and patched.
Games aren’t objectively better or worse than they used to be. AAA devs can release unfinished trash and patch it later, which I think is super annoying, but we enable this behavior when we pre-order games simply because it’s the next iteration of our favorite series instead of just waiting to hear the impressions of other gamers.
Also, as an adult I lack the time and patience to play the same kinds of games I used to play, so I’ve had to adjust my play style to suit my schedule better. That means I enjoy casual singleplayer games more than what I used to play growing up. It also means you have to avoid the temptation to buy games you like, but you know damn well you won’t ever actually play.
Games aren’t objectively better or worse than they used to be.
Untrue. Games were at their absolute worst during the Xbox360/PS3 era. Games still have a lot of problems but they’re better now than they were then.
Enjoy your endless parade of jingoistic brown shooters.
Ah yes the jingoistic shooter, minecraft. No, wait, Portal 2. No… Skyrim? Nope. Batman Arkham Asylum? Still not it. Dark Souls? Wait, that’s not a shooter. Bioshock? Not jingoistic. Fez? Journey? Braid? Starcraft 2? Assassin’s creed? Right, you meant GTA 4 and red dead redemption, right?
The point I’m making is that I know there was certain style of gaming popularized by COD, but it wasn’t the entire generation. The X1/PS4 generation is also filled with bloated formulaic open world games (popularized by AC2, FC3 and Skyrim, all 360 era games BTW) but it doesn’t mean the entire last gen sucked. Just because you played “shit” games during the 360/PS3 era doesn’t mean the entire era is trash. It’s your own poor decisions that made it trash, for you.
What the honest fuck are you on about?
I don’t recall Dead space, gears of war, dead planet, rainbow six Vegas and Vegas 2, Halo 2 or 3 (to name a few) being “jingoistic Brown shooters”.
Are you really under the impression that 2000s gaming was all extremely politically incorrect?
Oh, I didn’t know that. Thanks for clarifying.
Stop BUYING unfinished AAA alfa asset abandonware
I’m turning 40 this year and what’s been refreshing after not gaming for the last 5 years or so has been playing older games from the 2000s that I’ve missed. Great prices on these older titles and I’ve been having a blast playing them.
Similar situation here and I recommend playing roguelites (Hades, Vampire Survivors, FTL, Slay the Spire, etc). There’s an appreciable power curve in each play through sitting. Each experience and play through is self contained and satisfying. There’s good use of time rather than lots of “dead” time or loading/matchmaking time.
The past few years where awesome for gaming and if you don’t think so, you missed some great games.
The world needs more Boondocks memes.
It amazing to see Gary Anthony Williams go from cool chill uncle to saying how scary a job application is 😄
I’m glad due to lack of money and just change in my tastes in games/content in general has lead me to enjoy some pretty great indie titles that are at least not getting constant updates that try to fix millions of bugs.
I enjoyed Far Cry 3 recently on my PS3.
Then I got Far Cry 4 on my PC and it’s kinda fucking awful.
I had finished Heretic on modern source port lately, and I had a blast, so no, gaming is definitely not dead, lol.
Yep, I was getting a bit down on gaming. So I went back to one I love (Horizon Zero Dawn) and started one that’s not usually my type (Hollow Knight). It’s like I’m 12 years old all over again, and now I want to play every indie platformer out there lol
Stalker gamma really sucked me in earlier this year, greatly recommend it despite its steep learning curve.
Has this even been a problem for a few years? The only real guilty parties I can think of recently was Battlefield 2048 and that came out in 21.
