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I was stoked to boot it up and like......what? It's such a stupid game on all fronts. I get that stealing mechanics works if you're into that kind of gameplay, but there's no way that anyone other than pokemon obsessed people enjoy this. Even then, it's such a poor analog for actual pokemon games. I feel like it's "success" is all media buzz. Every actual human in my life agrees it's terrible. Even my partner who is actually pokemon obsessed lol. But the coverage on the internet would have you believe it's goty contender. I have never felt more convinced that we are living in a simulation lol. I can't be alone in this, am I? Is there where I learn that I'm that far out of touch? Like, truly, if you enjoy it, good for you. We all have things we love that others don't get. But like, someone please tell me I'm not the only one lol.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Out of touch is , well, contextual.

If youve played a decent variety of games, for a while, and start to become basically a connisseur...

... you tend to actually understand at a sort of core level... wait, this, and /this/, these are the actual relevant elements of the gameplay, and that and those are actually just functionally a different kind of costume for a said gameplay to appeal to different demographics.

If, on the other hand, you havent played many games, or dont take them very seriously, or are just not really a naturally analytical person...

You will basically either not really know or care /why/ you like certain kinds of games, and thats honestly fine.

Ooooor... you will become deeply invested in the few games you have played, develop objectively incorrect understandings of how your games and games in general actually work, and then youll say a bunch of misleading or objectively false nonsense to other people as basically an irrational fanboy/fangirl.

Yeah, this is the video game community, well known for gamers who generally have no idea what theyre talking about and get extremely emotional when confronted with actual facts that clash with their exuberant cognitive dissonance.

Literally yesterday I made a joke about a potential MilSim Dwarf Tac Squad Game, and this produced a person presenting Vermintide as an already existing MilSim/Tactical Squad Based FPS which features dwarves.

I then pointed out no, Vermintide is definetely not MilSim or a Tactical Squad Based FPS, and then outlined some objectively true differences between examples of them, and Vermintide, which is basically L4D2 in terms of gameplay, just a different setting, art design, styles of ranged and melee attacks.

This person then basically did a reddit 'Hrmph', followed by 'As if theres any difference between FPS anyway, theyre all the same.'

This is not actually a matter of personal preference or taste in games, at this point. This person is simply objectively wrong.

So... basically my answer is unfortunatelt it depends on what you mean by 'out of touch'

If you mean out of touch with an actual knowledge of how games work and what makes them different, then no, you are not out of touch, the vast, vaaast majority of video game players are.

If you mean out of touch in terms of following current fads and knowing what actually drives people to play games, then yes, you are very out of touch...

...but what actually drives most people to play most commonly played games is marketing, peer pressure, word of mouth, coverage by their favorite youtuber or whatever.

Very, very few video game players can actually honestly explain why they enjoy certain kinds of games and not others, and actually be both honest and non hypocritical about this.

Again, for many, this is fine if they dont spout nonsense or bully you into believing things that are not true.

But very few seem to able to do that, and even fewer actually can actually honestlt evaluate /why/ they like certain kinds of games and not others, and also have a generally solid grasp of how games and gameplay actually work, and what differences are actually meaningful in defining experiences, across the broader history and landscape of video games.

Yep, this is basically infuriating a lot of the time.

Knowledge is a curse, blame Prometheus or whatever I dunno.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Lol! I adore this comment. I mean that earnestly too. Quite a ride, but I like your take!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Thanks!

The wild part is... I could have written this sams comment for nearly any decently popular game currently uh, in play.

I managed to avoid getting bogged down in the stereotypical actual horrible conversation with die hard fans of a game, which i would not do well in, having never played palworld.

But... this kind of thing is so common these days that if you think a bit higher level, its not hard to broadly see whats going on.

Long time gamers by now whove grown and matured loathe and despise the nonsense that was the rhetoric and misinformation thrown around during the era where CONSOLE WARS was what defined you as a gamer.

But... the same basically toxic videogame fandom nonsense still happens, just in a slightly more subtle form, and its actually so widespread and easy to manipulate that for over a decade competent AAA studios have banked on it when making business decisions, and its even so easy to illicit and provoke that we are awash in an era of basically trash scam games built more on nice sounding dreams that anything that actually makes sense or is even realistically possible, or not obviously contradictory and thus impossible at a fundamental level, in terms of promised gameplay and features.

Unfortunately, as video games became massively popular, theyve been managed as a new form of bread and circuses, and new way for people to argue endlessly about extremely technical but hardly ever meaningful statistical differences between sportsball teams, as a means to foment devotion.

Consumerism, basically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's sexy when you talk to me this way

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahhhh Im actually quite an autistic nerd!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hey, own it, werk it!

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