june gloom on 5/12/2020 at 11:17
I think the thing that I find most funny about this thread is the idea that a "consume mentality" actually exists. It doesn't -- it's just more right-wing nonsense, a bizarre, self-aggrandizing fantasy in which people who like "popular things" are merely zombies, out to "consume" whatever the speaker doesn't like, and whatever the speaker likes is the true gold that these brainless drones are ignorant of.
And my feeling on that is, instead of doing that, why not just jerk off in front of a mirror? It's several minutes faster and nobody else has to experience second-hand embarrassment.
PigLick on 5/12/2020 at 12:28
several minutes?
Thirith on 5/12/2020 at 17:18
@june gloom: How is that notion a right-wing thing? I've definitely seen that kind of thinking from people across the political spectrum, but perhaps there's something I'm missing here.
EvaUnit02 on 5/12/2020 at 22:37
Quote Posted by june gloom
why
wouldn't you want to buy the Sequel To The Game You Liked? It's either this or heroin and video games are slightly less expensive.
I sweatergawd, "hardcore gamers" just love shooting themselves in the dick. It's 2020, let people be happy.
Especially after this year.
I would love to, trouble is AAA games keep getting shittier and shittier.
* Bioware exists in name only these days and they don't make great games any more. Andromeda was okay, but Anthem was a colossal pile of shit.
* The sequel to the fantastic Deus Ex: Mankind Divided got cancelled for that Avengers game, which was utterly dreadful.
* I had some fun with The Outer Worlds, finished it the other day after probably 50ish hours. Even that is utterly pedestrian when compared to Fallout: New Vegas from a decade ago.
Holy fuck, the quality bar has dropped. Can I please get more high quality, immersive sim-esque WRPGs? Not everything has to revive isometric 2D view.
The best gaming experience I've had all year has been replaying the classic Halos through MCC PC and classic Doom mods. My GOTY from 2019 was made by probably less than a dozen Japanese people working out of their home offices.
I wouldn't even say that I'm getting old. I spent probably the first half of 2019 putting probably 300-400 hours into the Ass Creed Origins/Odyssey and Far Cry: New Dawn altogether. For the longest time I felt that Ubisoft are making games specifically for me, when I get stuck into one of their open world SP games I stay there and find it hard to leave. Far Cry 4 is my "Game of the Generation", the core gameplay is just so much fun.
I hope that they don't screw up Far Cry 6 by making it into a glorified reskin of pseudo-MMO The Division (i.e. like which happened to Ghost Recon: Breakthrough, after the very good Wildlands). The fact that they announced the game 6 months ago but have yet to show ANY gameplay footage is not a good sign.
SubJeff on 6/12/2020 at 00:58
Sounds like you should quit gaming.
Or play all the PS4 exclusives.
june gloom on 6/12/2020 at 03:48
Imagine looking only at "AAA games" and thinking they're at all representative of the state of modern gaming.
Go play Celeste or something.
Pyrian on 6/12/2020 at 06:20
I wonder what was the last AAA game I played? Deus Ex:Mankind Divided? Heaven knows they shoehorned microtransactions into that, for all the good it did them.
june gloom on 6/12/2020 at 11:24
Quote Posted by Thirith
@june gloom: How is that notion a right-wing thing? I've definitely seen that kind of thinking from people across the political spectrum, but perhaps there's something I'm missing here.
Oh sure, everyone has critiques of consumerism. What I'm talking about specifically has little to do with, say, leftist critiques of things like disposabilism, forced obsolescence, the social and environmental impact of the large industries that sell us meat and computers and other things (think about how migrant workers who grow the vegetables in all those fast food burgers get fucked over, or how electronics are seen as disposable despite the horrible working conditions that go into their production or the dwindling supply of rare earth elements that make up the materials.) It has more to do with how the right-wing frames consumerism as a social ill driven by big corporations who, in their fantasy, are more interested in pushing a "social agenda" than maximizing profits. To the right-winger, a "consoomer" is little more than a mindless drone that exists to be willingly exploited by an evil cabal, rather than an individual person with a life and needs and desires and personality who buys things they like because it makes the dopamine work. It's just another extension of the NPC meme, which is a reformulation of the P-zombie thought experiment in yet another attempt to dehumanize progressives... using deterministic results, revealing right-wingers to be the real P-zombies.
Threads like this are little more than regressive autofellatio.
Quote Posted by PigLick
several minutes?
In the time it takes someone to write a short post lambasting complete strangers for buying things the poster doesn't like, they could just as easily have jerked it in front of a mirror at least twice. They get to feel good about themself while the rest of us avoid having our time wasted. Win-win.
Nameless Voice on 6/12/2020 at 11:44
I still feel like this thread is missing out on the actual reason we buy games in the first place - to support the developers.
That's especially important for small/indie studios, but even for big AAA games, the developers' jobs depend on the sales of the game. If you want to support those developers and want them to make more games like this one, then you should buy their games. And you're supporting them more if you buy the games at full price.
heywood on 8/12/2020 at 19:04
I sometimes buy games early at full price even if I'm not going to play them for a while and I know the price will come down. The reason is to support the developers. But I only do that for games that I know I'm going to eventually play. I stop short of prematurely buying something not knowing if I'll ever get around to it. Prey is a recent example where I did that. I'll be buying Cyberpunk 2077 at full price but I really don't know when I'll have time to play it.