Sometimes I make the mistake of wishing /v/ would, but most importantly COULD. Talk about videogames.

Because I think the lack of actual videogame threads is a symptom of an inability to actually talk about videogames meaningfully and indepth.

People will point to the generic problems; The gacha spam, The coomer subhuman spam, The Eceleb spam, The Twitter Screenshot spam, The quasi generals etc.

But thats just the "obvious" problems. Atleast for those who pretend that their particular threads are more vidoegames because its more immediately tangential.

Even looking at a more necessarily "videogames" thread like the perpetual Deltarune threads. Nobody is talking about videogames. Everything is a meme about deer, or "rape", or love interests, and such. And even when the actual game itself is talked about. Youre more likely to hear talk about the music than the actual game.

One might say "youre just nitpicking a particular general about a particular game that isnt particularly gameplay heavy, and is more story focused". To that id say youre missing the point.

Everything is a "meme" which to me is essentially a reductive representation of a feeling, thought or experience through pictures, drawing, and text.

If I look at a Donkey Kong Bananza thread. Not a single person can actually talk about the gameplay itself. Everything is abstracted to a set collection of commonly circulated easy to understand (and therefore hollow) characteristics to support a narrative or counter narrative
"Its too easy"
"Its just fun"
"Its soul"
"Its soulless"
I'm both sidesing, because its not about which side is right, its that there is a narrative that creates sides at all, that defines the game, not the game itself.

There have been multiple threads on games I've wanted to make here that I decided against simply because I dont think it could matter, the only reason to express thought publically is to entertain new perspectives. But there are no "unique perspectives". Only narratives.