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Top 10 Things About Modern Gaming I Don't Understand [top ten]
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10/26/15, 18:42 Edited: 10/26/15, 22:18
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10/26/15, 18:42 Edited: 10/26/15, 22:18 |
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I have mixed feelings about the YouTube thing, before I got into SoulsBorne I understood it a lot less, but now I follow of bunch of people who plays Dark Souls and Bloodborne all day and I find it endlessly fascinating. Partially because there is so much depth in those games that it's impossible for any single player to see anything, so practically every time I watch a video I learn something, and as my knowledge expands I become a better player. I even posted a couple of videos myself to help out a friend who was having trouble in Bloodborne, it was fun! Also I can think of a lot of games that aren't procedurally generated, in fact the only game I can think of off the top of my head that is procedurally generated is Diablo. I'm sure lots of games are I just don't play them I guess. @New FormsTribalism is as old as time itself! I've been building a PC lately so I've been watching a lot of youtube stuff on video cards and cooling etc. and sometimes I find it nauseating when they inevitably go into an anti-console rant, why can't the PC crowd just enjoy their high end machines that cost thousands of dollars without shitting on the people who enjoy Mario, Halo, or Uncharted? I don't get it. Anyway even in the NES days there was a Sega vs. Nintendo thing so I guess it will never end, best to ignore it! |
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I LOVE Let's Plays and find them FAR more entertaining than watching television.
Has to be a personality that I enjoy, however. That's half the fun.
A lot of the time I learn new strategies for really complex games, like Arumba's Crusader Kings & Europa Universalis videos or Scott Manley's Kerbal Space Program stuff. Other times I'm in it for the laughs, like pretty much anything from Giant Bomb (both West and East-crew).
Why not just play the game? Sometimes I don't have the energy and want a more passive entertainment experience. People do this all the time when they flip on the TV instead of picking up a book. Perhaps I don't want to spend $60 on a title I'm only mildly interested in, followed by dumping dozens of hours into completing it. Let's Plays let me get a taste of something, whether I'm thinking of buying or not. Other times I want to hear commentary from personalities I enjoy and respect. People who might be into niche game genres that are rarely even talked about online or covered by the press.
For example, there's a whole world of YouTubers who only play Mundane Vehicle Simulators like Euro Truck Simulator, Farming Simulator, OMSI, Train Simulator, etc. They're not doing it for laughs. They cover the genre because they have a true passion for it. Just like I do. But no one is talking about these games on NeoGaf or IGN. GameSpot isn't covering them. So I instead get to enjoy listening to people YouTube who are in deep just like me.
There's a wide variety of personality types doing Let's Plays on YouTube. Unfortunately, those with little exposure usually only hear about the most popular ones like PewDiePie. The ones who scream into their mics. If that were the only tone available online, I can't say I'd be much interested in Let's Plays either. But luckily there's also a LOT of intelligent people out there doing smart, entertaining work. And they don't even scream into their microphones!
I understand that Let's Plays aren't for everyone, but man are they golden when you discover personalizes you gel with. And like I said, they're far more entertaining than almost anything they show on TV these days. |
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@JargonYep, out of all the tribes (Apple, Android, PlayStation, what have you) I find the PC Master Race to be the most grating. Probably because it's the most exclusionary and elitist, or at least right up there with Apple. (btw the vast majority of people who play games on PC aren't that way at all, its just the vocal minority of really high-end enthusiasts who are the real jerks) @New FormsHalo was Mac game. Zero said:Isn't Halo on PC anyway? Nope. They released Halo and Halo 2 on PC a few years after the Xbox release, but they've never released 3, ODST, Reach, or 4 and they don't plan on releasing 5. Weird isn't it since MS owns Windows and Xbox? |
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New Forms said:@deathly_hallows
Heck, I'm a pretty avid sports fan and I don't even care that much who wins or loses anymore. Well, let me rephrase that. I do care, I just don't have a fiery passion about it that sends me to the moon when my team loses or a rival wins. It all just feel far more detached. Man, I totally hear you on that one. I used to have good days or bad days based on sports teams. Now (thankfully) I'm excited when they win and if they lose, oh well. (Though playoff losses still hurt and cause the rest of the day to seem darker...) New Forms said:@deathly_hallowsBut honestly, I'm at a loss as to think why I was ever such an a-hole to those who didn't share my common tastes.
The hostility surrounding these subjects just feels tired at this point. It feels tired because you're older now and realize life is too short for that kind of crap, ha ha. Copy-paste the Grandpa Simpson image from above. :) I certainly am with you on the "why was I such an a-hole to people" thing. Honestly I blame insanity. Human beings, myself included, are freaking crazy. We make so little sense so much of the time, then we try to pass it off as normal because we all do it. What a bunch of loonies we are! As for the general list, I agree with most, if not all. Of course, as I said above, we're all nuts, so we could probably make lists of things we had in "classic gaming" that we were ga-ga over and now seems so completely stupid. Level grinding RPGs, for example, and wearing a badge of pride over getting a Magikarp to level 100. |
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