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Fellow oldfags, how are you coping with the fact that nothing is made for us anymore and that all the trash that zoomers slurp up like Battle passes and gacha shit will only get worse?
I'm 35 and all I do is play old games. Nothing new looks appealing and if it does, there's some dystopian GAAS or Jewish shekel mining tactic glued to it.
Anonymous No.714030510 [Report]
good actually.
i'm glad good content is slowing down, there's too many good games to play already.
Anonymous No.714030525 [Report] >>714030694
>millenials get old enough to work in the industry
>video games turn to shit
LOL
Anonymous No.714030601 [Report] >>714030697 >>714039245 >>714044465
>>714030406 (OP)
Videogame production costs have soared so high live-service shit is unfortunately the only way to make them economically viable (outside of freak celebrity one-shots like Undertale).
Anonymous No.714030610 [Report]
>>714030406 (OP)
I am 36 and I play 6 different gachas.
Anonymous No.714030640 [Report]
there are plenty of good new games still coming out, there's just more bad games to sift through
Anonymous No.714030694 [Report]
>>714030406 (OP)
there are still plenty of good games, but I agree that AAA gaming is worse than it’s ever been
>>714030525
>generationwarring
don’t be a retard just to spite OP
Anonymous No.714030697 [Report] >>714030949 >>714043293
>>714030601
The only reason theyve soared is because shareholders and executives think infinite money and growth is actually feasible.
Anonymous No.714030765 [Report] >>714030960
I'm supporting devs that cater to my interests, like Vintage Story.

The problem I have with vidya now is that what few friends I have online are dopamine chasers that go from game to game and never want to play a game to completion. They will ask me to play something with them, they burn out while I'm still playing and having fun, then they ghost me for a long time and then pull the same shit.

It's hard to find good vidya friends.
Anonymous No.714030949 [Report]
>>714030697
I don't know how it is in your country but hiring one in mine has become an absolute financial nightmare lately.
Anonymous No.714030960 [Report]
>>714030765
I have the opposite problem. My online bros of like 16 years only fucking play WoW and Dota 2. I hate both.
Anonymous No.714033002 [Report]
>>714030406 (OP)
I like games with good post-game content, but it's weirdly uncommon these days.
The gaming landscape has changed a lot over the years but I don't mind playing some live service slop or battle pass simulator to pass the time if it has something I'm interested in.
Anonymous No.714033674 [Report]
>>714030406 (OP)
anything like visual novels or turn based stuff can't be made for zoomers. they don't have the attention span. things are still made for older generations too
Anonymous No.714033740 [Report]
>>714030406 (OP)
I'm almost 35 and currently playing Death Stranding 2 and some Swotch games that run better on the SW2. Gaming is fine, if you enjoy platformers we had Astrobot last year and we're about to get Dankey Kang and Stellar Blade just came out on PC. There's plenty of good games coming out especially on steam.
Anonymous No.714034382 [Report]
>>714030406 (OP)
>I'm 35 and all I do is play old games
sames, and I'm perfectly happy doing that to be honest

A bit of Rimworld, some Snowrunner, some Xcom2 and some Total Warhammer 2 and I'm all tuckered out for the week
Anonymous No.714034786 [Report]
I've got a circle of me, 2 dudes and a girl who are all pushing 40 and me have started playing stellaris and it's comfy as fuck. We all shirk our responsibilities one evening a week or so, get a few beers and it's as much as a hang out as anything. It's slow and low key enough that it's easy to pause if someone needs to take care of family shit or whatever and if they need to stop entirely an AI can just take over.

We played bg3 before that but it took the best part of a year to finish.

I just play fighting games the rest of the time because that's all I've really got time for.
Anonymous No.714037018 [Report] >>714038386 >>714043378 >>714043419
>>714030406 (OP)
What are some recommended games that fit this theme anyway? All I can think of is L.A. Noire, Mafia, and REmake 2 with the Noir costumes equipped.
Anonymous No.714038005 [Report]
>>714030406 (OP)
It's been the fact of life of life ever since the late 2000s. All I can do is support the games that look remotely appealing to me and hope it goes in the right direction.
The numbers add up though and even they're starting to blend in together.
Anonymous No.714038386 [Report] >>714038787
>>714037018
Shadows of Doubt
Anonymous No.714038787 [Report]
>>714038386
the reviews say it's a shallow shitty mess of a game, it's beautiful tho
Anonymous No.714039245 [Report] >>714042725
>>714030601
yeah bro, every company totally needs an HR department and parasi- board of executives
Not my problem they cant manage their money well
Anonymous No.714039601 [Report]
>>714030406 (OP)
Doin fine playing Clair Obscur, my man
Anonymous No.714039672 [Report]
all i do is play new games and i'm 58. you have no excuses.
Anonymous No.714041641 [Report]
I'm 53 and I play only 10+ years old games after the dust has settled, and the best games rise to the top, and the fads are not as anonying as they were when the game was new and they have turned to nostalgia
Anonymous No.714042162 [Report] >>714042373
>>714030406 (OP)
>nothing is made for us anymore
On the flip side, everything has BEEN made for us. There are some 50 games, all released before 2010, that I am planning to play through. Already started.
Once I run out of good games to play, I can always kill myself if I want to.
Anonymous No.714042373 [Report]
>>714042162
That's the spirit!
Anonymous No.714042725 [Report] >>714044005
>>714039245

No, dipshit, it’s the fact that AAA games used to list like 100 people in the credits and now routinely list thousands, while also taking 3x as long to make. Trying to pin it on HR departments or “mismanagement” or whatever excuse ignores the very straightforward fact that making more high-quality art assets takes a lot of people a long fucking time regardless of whether you subjectively feel games are worse now
Anonymous No.714043293 [Report]
>>714030697
To be fair, the cost of living has skyrocketed. So some professions where you could scrape by as a junior are no longer economically viable unless you're already cemented in its relative industry.
Anonymous No.714043378 [Report]
>>714037018
A medium population Space Station 13 round where you play as Detective and the antagonist isn't simply a muderboner.
Anonymous No.714043419 [Report]
>>714037018
Deadbolt
Anonymous No.714043495 [Report]
>>714030406 (OP)
I'm not, I hate life, I just cling extra hard to anything I find remotely fun now.
Anonymous No.714043527 [Report]
>>714030406 (OP)
>I'm 35 and all I do is play old games.
Spend 80% of time studying serious literature, 20% playing old games.

You have to change it up; grow, learn.
Anonymous No.714044005 [Report]
>>714042725
doesnt change a single thing I said, if you truly believe you need a 2 hours long credits size team to make a game you have NO IDEA how bad your mismanagement is.
If you are old and believe good games are made with extremely high poly assets so you can zoom on them hardcore to see their expressions in your countless cutscenes you are exactky the kind of retard who will believe whatever these companies shit out and will thank them for it
Anonymous No.714044465 [Report]
>>714030601
AAA can't into live service. They are too used to compensate for their lack of creativity with marketing budgets and fancy cinematics, the exact two things that won't make people play your game for 5 years.
Anonymous No.714045053 [Report]
>>714030406 (OP)
I'm 36, played Midnight Fight Express, Fallout 3, Rogue Trader, Sins of a Solar Empire 2 and Grandia 2 today.
>how are you coping with the fact that nothing is made for us anymore
fine
Anonymous No.714045890 [Report] >>714046285
>>714030406 (OP)
If i wasn't so broke i'd be playing new games. Of the i have about them, besides political crap, is it's just
>run, climb, shoot/hit
>run climb, shoot/hit
There's nothing really intersting, and most you can't even jump. Would've actually tried out Flopspoken if not for the brokeness. Seen some weird movements going on in the one trailer i saw
Anonymous No.714046107 [Report] >>714046309
That’s a solid pistol for close range defense.
Anonymous No.714046285 [Report]
>>714045890
of the gripes*
Anonymous No.714046309 [Report] >>714046789
>>714046107
>less power than 9mm
>obsolete a century ago
eh
Anonymous No.714046479 [Report]
>>714030406 (OP)
I'm 37 and I started feeling like video games weren't being made for me anymore back in the early 2000s. I think there was an E3 where God of War, some RockStar games, and a couple others all had special vignettes made as a way of showing off that they deserve to be GOTY or something, and I thought, "All of those games are gay, who plays this shit?" And then somehow Wop Simulator V became the best selling video game ever and every MMO went on to copy a grotesque, cartoony satire of fantasy RPGs. And at that point I thought mainstream video games were pretty much done.

But this is also when Valve peaked so I pretty much became a Valve fanboy. They stopped making games, but it was around the time FromSoft was hitting their stride with Souls games. And I liked all these games.

From has slowed down and become worse in some ways, but during this time we've also seen the advent of indie gaming. I've loved a lot of indie games over the years, for one reason or another. The problem with indie games is they never feel like a full experience, but it's okay because there's so many of them, it's sort of like eating meals made of mall samples. Both Nightreign and Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4 came out recently and I liked both of them quite a bit.

I think the older you get, the more you realize what it is you don't like (or have had enough of), and this causes you to sort of run out of things to distract yourself with. But that's perhaps a sign that you should be making media instead of consuming it. Why are you waiting for someone else to make your dream game? They're not you. They have a different dream game.
Anonymous No.714046487 [Report]
>>714030406 (OP)
Im just playing through all ps1 classics on a handheld and its comfy as fuck
Anonymous No.714046789 [Report]
>>714046309
It packs more of a punch.
Anonymous No.714046924 [Report]
>>714030406 (OP)
I dunno I still have a pretty hefty backlog I'm working through
Anonymous No.714046980 [Report] >>714047087
>>714030406 (OP)
Play more weird indies
Anonymous No.714047087 [Report]
>>714046980
>no chain smoking cyborg gf
Anonymous No.714047174 [Report]
>>714030406 (OP)
a game that fits the meme guy on the right pretty damn well was just announced this month, but you're too much of a miserable faggot to have noticed it.
Anonymous No.714047408 [Report]
>>714030406 (OP)
>all I do is play old games
There's maybe one, possibly two new games a year if I'm lucky I'll play & actually enjoy to some degree otherwise I'm like you. I go on & off playing games, sometimes I'll drop off & not play anything for a year & then go through what released & catch up if I find anything interesting.