How much is it telling others not to have fun, and how much is just expressing disappointment? Not everything is a contest on how much we can sway someone to our side, sometimes we just want to express how something could be better.
Not everyone has fun buying the same thing over and over again while most anything new and original languishes in development hell.
The one that inspired this post was about the free remaster to Witcher 3. Free.
Disappointment is when you’re sad because you were expecting or hoping for something and didn’t get it.
So if you’ve somehow picked up Black Ops 6 as the first CoD game and were sad that Black Ops 7 was basically the same, that would be disappointment. If instead the last Call of Duty game you played was the original Modern Warfare 2 in 2009 and have since never played the series because you realised in 2011 that the series wasn’t really evolving, I think it would be misleading to call it “disappointment” that Black Ops 7 is not much different from 6.
At that point I think you’re not really disappointed, and are just criticising something that you don’t like. And of course, criticising stuff you don’t like is not automatically bad, but it becomes something different. And in this case often the criticism could be well voiced as “I don’t play these games because I played one in 2009 and look for new experiences” rather than “these games are bad because they don’t offer new experiences compared to 2009”.
Not everyone has fun buying the same thing over and over again while most anything new and original languishes in development hell.
But surely this isn’t how you feel? If I had 100,000 hours to play games I think I’d have 1,000,000 hours of games to try to cram in. There are so many good, original games.
Not everyone enjoys every type of game, either. Just because theres millions of hours of gameplay available doesnt mean that those hours would be worth trading in.
Personally I’m not a fan of how some games want to add conflict to gameplay that had no need of it. Sometimes i just want to have fun building through an interesting automation game without having some random alien horde messing everything up.
I have no problem with people having fun, but my cousin buys fifa or Football manager every year. Which is fine, he has fun with it. Good. But recently he asked money for fuel. And I lost it. All he wanted was 60 dollars because he ran out budget and is maxed at credit card and payday is 3 days away. I refused stating he has spent over 90$ just this week on a game with no meaningful upgrades. never got big limits, he only has one card of $4k, so not financially irresponsible, but starting to with these kind of decision making. And I need to stop it it’s track.
I can’t understand decision making like this, he is smart enough to know how much fuel he consumes, he bought the game when his tank was around 20-25% full. 3 days later tank is empty and now it’s borrowing time? No man fuck that.
Thr 90 dollar game is jot his problem, he probably spend hundreds or thousands on fifa microtransactions.
I can understand being unwilling to enable his bad habits, but why does game choice matter? If he spent it on indies you’d have helped out? I think that’s just as bad.
That’s a fair point though. Although he needed money only for three days. And i guess I would’ve lent him because he would return it. Come to think of it, I’m feeling like the asshole now.
Any advice on how else can I make him understand priority?
Maybe talk about how you know asking for money sucks and how by budgeting and prioritizing he can not only never need to ask, he can find himself getting things that he wants more and not having to worry about running out of money for things he needs.
If you were to tell me some game dev is releasing a 4 player split screen fps, I would be on board. I haven’t had that much fun since screen cheat.
There are loads of local 4 players games, not always split screen though.
There definitely are plenty of them. But nearly all the ones I know are 5+ years old.
The vast vast vast majority of the best things on the world (including games) are 5+ years old.
Wow, a post about me personally, without mentioning me, or the event that spawned it? I feel honored!
For anyone not knowing what this post is, just check our interaction with scrubbles here:
Felt that it was better not to mention anyone specifically, and while it was inspired by that, it was caused by several threads yesterday I saw of everyone just bashing games left and right. However I saw your update, and while I still don’t understand why you’d want to call out the game at all if it’s not your thing, I do respect admitting you were incorrect. That’s hard to do online and rare to see, I respect that.
Yeah, me not knowing about other threads and seeing the comment, followed by the front page post meme was a funny experience. Such a deeply human-drama situation, Lemmy really is awesome haha
If you’re curious, I wrote a few of my thoughts on a comment here, kinda sorta answering why I made that call-out.
If it’s got four player split screen multiplayer it’ll probably be fun.
What games?
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It is becoming strange that the only games I seem to be looking forward to were from asian developers. But at least there was something to look forward to.
Spending $100 on a game with a 1 year shelf life and still not getting all the DLC is worthy of some hazing for sure, yea
so much drama around GTA6 and it hasnt been released yet. and rockstar making ti worst by trying to subpeona the leakers.
GTA was in my mind but worse this thread was started because I saw someone post complaining about the free Witcher 3 remaster. However yes the hate here for GTA 6 is becoming more annoying than the issues themselves. Everyone has to make sure they’re seen on the bandwagon.
Hazmat suit on.
I didn’t see any comment at all when i browse this morning, it’s all 0 on a 5 hours post.
