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10/18/2020 7:37:54 PM
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Nailing down a less discussed issue.
People who game as a hobby or even as a profession are called gamers. There is obviously a number of subcultures within the gaming community, but there is one, in particular, that seems to have been relegated to the back burner of the gaming world.
It is one of the original groups of gamers. It is, for the most part, those of us who knew what it was like before video games were popular, or even widely available. The ones who grew up satisfied with a stick and a hill of dirt. Imagination was completely necessary and prerequisite to fun.
Personally I used to get locked out of the house from breakfast to lunch, lunch to dinner during the summer, and I roamed the entire surrounding county, forests, hills, river and all, completely unsupervised from the time I was old enough to ride a bike.
When video games came along, we were easily amused, we enjoyed hours, days, even years of going through the same missions over and over in different and more difficult ways.
We CREATED challenges when the game became too easy.
It was this group that inspired games, like Halo, Gears of War, command and conquer, age of empires, etc. Easily some of the best rated games of all time,
Destiny, in its original form, was the dream of a guy who grew up without video games, it's depth, it's story, it's growth and style all reminiscent of those, "okay now the woods are full of ghost soldiers" moments of pure imaginative fun.
Then, the growing presence of another culture began to shift things.
This group has grown up with Halo being a classic..instead of groundbreaking.
They grew up seeing video games as a sport, rather than an extension of leisurely play.
They grew up with a sort of inherent value placed on their ability to "keep up" in video games.
It became a different space. Not some place to ignore the world's problems, or your limitations anymore.
It became more hostile, more greedy, and people started to covet things in video games, as well as berate and belittle eachother for skill level or whatever other thing is popular at the time.
I don't profess to know which one better funds game companies, nor do I think either culture is right or wrong.
But when we think progress, for the sake of progress, we tend to favor the younger, more intense gaming culture.
I believe that we need to take a look back at the roots of gaming, and get some balance between the constant "beat the Joneses " style progress and game development we have been seeing, and the grunt birthday party/splocket racing of the days of old.
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14 RepliesAbsolutely agree man. It’s a major problem with today’s gaming industry, and not just with Destiny 2. I was fortunate to be an 80s child as well, and some of my favorites are still from that period and the 90s. My first experience was my friends copy of The Legend of Zelda. Or how my father went out and purchased the last new physical copy of Metroid in my area. I remember how fn awesome that game was, and still is to me to this day. Sure I can play that game or others in a few hours today, but to me they are still fun as hell to play compared to today’s market. Just recently I’ve been playing some games I have always loved from the past. Games I grew up on. Games that today I still have fun with, and fond memories of. Just the last few I’ve been playing: The Legend of Dragoon Final Fantasy VI (ff challenge with the wife) Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete Phantasy Star IV Suikoden Final Fantasy Tactics (current game playing) Xenogears (upcoming) All of these titles have meaning to me, and are still fun as hell to play. It’s not nostalgia for me. It’s the games themselves. They are fun, and remain to be to this day. Today’s day and age, just does not treat games the way they used to. It’s not about the fun anymore. It’s more on the lines of how can we make money off something with so little effort. Capitalism has gotten out of hand, and the gamers of today just help to fuel that fire. For every one or two good game now, there are hundreds of cash grab titles. Yeah some of them are fine, but it gets just sad over time. I go back to some of my classics (which I still own hard copies of all of them) to remind me of what gaming should be like when today’s games and how they are handled depress me. Introducing my wife to some of these classics (we are doing a single player numbered ff title challenge, most she never has played in her life, and it’s fun watching her get so much joy out of these games. For those who wanted to know, she’s currently through most of FF V right now.). Last night I was cracking up at messing with Algus/Argath in FF Tactics and embarrassing the crap out of him with a class setup I have never used against him before, while my wife completed Battle of the Big Bridge v Gilgamesh, and is now under Castle Bal/Val farming job levels, cracking up at the ghost statues die to softs. It’s why I think though that unless the gaming industry has a major crash again, we probably will never relive those moments with present gaming, at least not to the degree we should. Because it’s less about the care of the game and more about the money. Which is a real shame. Lol, I just noticed my list is mostly classic RPGs, my genre of choice ironically. I’ll have to add a few non-rpgs to my list at some point, lol.
