Instead of “it’s not for me” it’s always “this is horrible”. Most of the time I’m on social media I see people talk down to others or ridicule them for liking or enjoying certain games. I get that gamers can be annoying, but it’s just so draining sometimes.
And don’t get me started on this anti-"woke’ movement. Some people are BEGGING to see developers and games fail just because they don’t like their stuff. Not to mention most of their complaints are based in BIGOTRY alone, which is definitely not getting better in the coming years. It’s so fucking infuriating
Plus, In the early times of the Internet, gaming discourse wasn’t this negative at all outside of the stupid Console War discussions.
I’m pretty sure that it’s the way that social media is designed. It’s designed to generate outrage to maximize engagement
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Gaming discourse has been terrible as long as I’ve been alive and probably longer.
Guy yelling into his HAM radio about pong being pinko nonsense
recently?
Recently?
Also, chuds have been poisoning the well basically since 2013 and earlier. To be honest it got worse with the rise of platforms like YouTube and all other social media. There were always shitheads but now they make millions from patreon subs to post slop on YouTube
I remember WoW forums being a cesspit in 2006-ish. Bleh
I wonder how many people that are gaming enthusiasts are depressed and feel less satisfaction with things generally
That’s a good point. It’s kinda a chicken and egg situation, though. Do lonely people get into gaming because they don’t have IRL hobbies and friends, or do the people who are really into gaming become depressed and lonely because of the nature of the activity?
thats literally everybody in every hobby all the time. like what could you possibly be into where you go “oh yeah this is the high time for this, this is going greater (or at least not worse) than ever before”
Because its
They’re pit beasts.Playing Vidya Games for Fun vs. Playing Vidya Games as Personal Identity
Gamers are whiny next question
People don’t even play these games on the whole. Their favourite slop merchant does a react video to someone else playing a game, or more likely the teaser trailer, decides it’s woke, and their opinion is chosen for them.
I dunno, I am definitely a category five hater, but I just play a game and if I don’t enjoy it I turn it off. Life’s too short to spend time caring this much about the size of boobs in an anime game or whatever. This is the most frustrating part of the culture war. At least get riled up about something important.
I’m pretty sure that it’s the way that social media is designed. It’s designed to generate outrage to maximize engagement
I mean besides the cultural war and the social media manipulating things to be always angry comments we also have the enshitfication in general affecting the industry.
Capitalism endgame: instead of artists working on passion projects, it’s corporate slop directed by weird people in suits using soulless algorithms attempting to maximize profit margins.
Like always, people are angry at capitalism but didn’t notice it yet.
It’s been like this since I started consuming video game content in like 2011. The only newish addition is the gamers who call every game woke now.
It is a category of media that attracts children, man-children, and people who can be entertained by slop-level tactile/audio-visual/skinner-box mechanisms. Even the slightest critique of their escapist fantasy causes the whole thing to turn to ash in their mouths.
I’m sorry, but if you didn’t vote Wukong: Unwoke Booba and Rootyy Tooty Western Shooty as game of the
yeardecadecenturyever∞, in every category, you’re woke. I don’t make the rules.I voted Wukong in everything to make all Euroamerican gamers even more upset that the Chinese game keeps on winning. I haven’t even played it. Shame about the misogynist developers though.
For me this is how the gaming community has always been. It’s the reason I’m pro gamer gulags tbh
At least the console wars were entertaining and made for some funny moments. A bunch of people in their mid 30s arguing about “woke” and how games aren’t as good anymore is just sad. Like don’t get me wrong, some gaming genres have suffered badly in the past few years, racing games being a prime example. But other genres are better than ever right now.
I’d say racing sims are better than they’ve ever been and arcade racers are having a major resurgence.
Arcade racers are practically dead outside of Forza Horizon though. As for racing sims, they’ve gotten better at the downside of becoming an obscenely expensive hobby, and aren’t really games anymore in terms of feature set, they’re just simulators and nothing else.
We just got Victory Heat Rally and Parking Garage Rally Circuit last year, Turbo OutRun Reimagined is available for free and there are games based on Virtua Racing, Sega Rally and F-Zero in development, plus older games like Hotshot Racing and Circuit Superstars (iRacing Arcade from the same developers is upcoming). I wouldn’t even call Forza Horizon an arcade racer in the traditional sense.
I’m not sure what you mean by ”aren’t really games anymore”, there are multiple sims with online modes you can play right now. Unless you mean single player content, which is fair but not many people play them to race against AI anymore.
