Adulthood is realizing the simple things about gaming are best.

>>714136963 (OP)
he's right, I threw $20 at zomboid and got 1k+ hours of fun out of it, most AAA titles can't even get close to that price-performance ratio

Millennials can't reach true adulthood as youre still playing games for childhood

>>714137197

Your definition of adulthood is embracing death.

>>714136963 (OP)
>indie roguelite
threw up in mouth

>>714137197
And you're still here why?

>>714136963 (OP)
Adulthood is realising that roguelikes are a cop-out because developers don't want to have to design levels or tune their difficulty balancing/progression.

"Just keep playing bro the RNG will eventually give you a weapon/item good enough to beat the game"

>>714136963 (OP)
as jaded as I am, I can't help but flip playing retro games rammed through mesen or dosbox

>>714136963 (OP)
If I don't get 1 hour of fun per dollar I spent I consider the game a bad game. There are very, very VERY few AAA games that can live up to this standard, because they're expensive as fuck and they're designed with like 20 hours of content to move you onto the next slop as fast as possible. Whereas with indie games, I find myself meeting or exceeding that threshold nearly every time.

Even if an indie game is a 2 hour 2d action platformer I spent $10 on, if the game is fun I'm obviously going to replay it every now and then, just like I emulate classic games in the genre every couple of months, eventually surpassing the 10 hour mark. When's the last time you replayed ANY $80 AAA game? They're disposable garbage.

>>714137097
the thing is you get older, you get a job, and you stop having so much free time
its one thing for a game to have 1k hours of depth and another for it to have 100 hours of depth with 900 hours of busy work mixed in
some people like that aspect of course but not me

>>714137692
To help you see the truth and move away from your self destructive actions

>>714137197
Steve Albini died young.

Why did he do it?

Adulthood is realizing indie games are the same as AAA slop and gaming was solved 20 years ago

>>714138309
>le job le heckin adulthood le heckin work to death culture
fuck off boomer

>>714138976
naw man i still game like 30 hours a week
i just dont game 80 hours a week anymore

>>714136963 (OP)
Big Mac Large Meal in local prices $8.99

Loaf of bread $2.19
Black Forrest Ham 1/2 lb $6.49
Muenster Cheese 1/2 lb 3.94
Total = 12.64

This guy was a hack.

>>714136963 (OP)
Platformers maybe, but the other two are some of the most heavily padded genres made specifically to sink large amounts of time into relatively little gameplay.
May as well play survival crafting at that point.

>>714140157
you know that makes more than 1 sandwich, right?

>>714137427
>death = not playing bing bing wahoo like a 3 year old
very interesting, anon.

>>714140157
it was roast beef you idiot

Literally not a single AAA game has appealed to me in the last ten years with the exceptions of MGSV, RD2, and BG3.

>>714140363
for me it was shadow of war and elden ring if you count those as AAA. not so sure about the latter

>>714136963 (OP)
adulthood is realizing that if you spend more than 70 dollars on a game, you

>>714140423
me?

>>714140296
Nta, who says we play some bing bong wahoo?
Are you a retard, perchance?

>>714140520
because anon said "Millennials can't reach true adulthood as youre still playing games from childhood" implying childish stupid bullshit like JRPG nonsense and bing bing wahoo, which you then went on to claim that simply stopping playing with childish toys like that means "you're literally embracing death bro" which is overdramatic as fuck

>>714140663
there are many boomers who just wait for their death, doing nothing in their lives, or doing stuff they don't really enjoy. Maybe he meant that.

>>714140157
Are you eating an entire loaf of bread for a meal? Are you retarded? Don't answer those questions, piggy, we already know.

I enjoyed axiom verge more than most of the AAA slop I played and for a similar run time too

>>714136963 (OP)
>good
>jrpg
Pick one.

>>714138814
>gaming was solved 20 years ago
/thread

>>714136963 (OP)
>which you will enjoy much more
yeah nah lol

>>714136963 (OP)
>indie roguelite
Id rather play with my shit like a jeet

>>714140296
you're right. being an adult means playing regurgitated fromslop

Noita is probably the best value i have ever gotten out of a game considering how cheap it is vs the amount of content and playability

>>714137197
Only children care about looking mature

>>714140243
What, am I supposed to eat the same sandwich every day? That shit goes bad quick.

>>714141091
>fromslop
bing bing wahoo
ah yes the only two options in gaming

>>714136963 (OP)
He's partially right but he looks like a massive twat and mentioned roguelites

>>714141356
its a fake quote you retard. google him

>>714136963 (OP)
steve is a hack

>>714138276
I agree, but not every game needs to be replayable or enjoyable for hundreds of hours. Still, aside from Elden Ring I honestly can't name the last AAA game I bought, much less one I paid full price for. I recently got back into modded Minecraft with a friend group I usually play Zomboid with. It's wild to think about how a game I bought over a decade ago for $15 I'm still getting new enjoyment out of. AAA could never even begin to scratch the surface of that kind of longevity or value. DRG is by far my most played game on steam with 1.1k hours. That was also $15.

It's honestly painful that AAA studios, even in their decline, are still as successful as they are. I honestly have no clue why the masses eat up getting raped like that so hard for a truly mediocre product. Indies are king. They aren't beholden to publishers or top down studio management, which allows them so much more freedom to stick to their guns or listen to the community they've garnered and give them what they want. Either way they go, it results in a better game than something designed by a board to either keep you addicted to some live-service skinnerbox game or to have you move on from one $70 AAA experience to the next every year.

>>714141782
His videos about recording are comfy.

>>714141356
>not knowing steve albini
What are you? 12?

>>714136963 (OP)
>Steve Albini

>>714138309
If anything, when I got older and had an actual career and family, I stopped buying games at all and only play the same things I've enjoyed in the past. The last major purchase I made (Over $5) in video games was Frostpunk 1 in like 2020. It's been nothing but retro games for NES/SNES/PSX, Quake, and a few newer games like FTL, DotA, and Path of Exile that have kept me occupied.

This hasn't stopped me from buying indie games on sale for $5 or whatever, but most of them sit unplayed or played for five minutes and so I try not to bother anymore. Even when I forced myself to download demos and play them during NextFest, I didn't play anything for over an hour or so. With my time limited, I'd rather just come back to an old favorite than try and pick up something new and have to waste an hour or so learning how to play.

>>714140363
There hasn't been a AAA game published since the end of 2011.
Large and overbudgeted games perhaps, but nothing that suggest competent and coherent management of a large team of skilled developers. AAA isn't just a word, it implies a secure return on investment and practically all of these "AAA studios" are just as likely to flop and die as they are to produce slop and continue meandering on.

>>714142925

>>714136963 (OP)
What's the original quote? I remember it being posted all the time. Wasn't it a /lit/ meme?

>>714146829
It's a /mu/ meme from the lead sing of Big Black

>>714136963 (OP)
>roguelite
>jrpg
>platformer
Slop genres.

>>714137097
I bought a fighting game on release for $60 and played it almost every day for 2 years straight.

>>714140219
This. Gameplay concept and execution has to be absolute fire for a roguelike to stay fun for any amount of time. When being roguelike IS your selling point, then you fucked up.