I genuinely can't find the time to play all the good stuff coming out and there is SO much good stuff coming out, so, no?
I played the demo, and just I can't get past the presentation. The character sprites barely animate (even the ones in Tactics Ogre from the freaking SNES have more animation - even the GBA spinoff has better sprite work!), the voice acting of the main character is legitimately painful to listen to, and the combat is just so sluggish. Everything feels like it takes an eternity to resolve.
I have plenty of vacation time banked, but I have no idea where I would even go. Not by myself, at least. I've been so isolated for so long that I can't really fathom traveling by myself, I'd just be throwing money in a hole and setting it on fire to be depressed and alone somewhere else. And that's to say nothing of COVID concerns.
To me it feels like your mind is stuck in the "good old days".I don't even really know what I'm getting at right now, or if I'm even making sense. I'm just so utterly discouraged by the direction the industry is heading on the whole. Basically every franchise I really care about is either dead, has been warped beyond comprehension, or is on a hiatus so long it might as well not even exist. Nothing new seems conceptually exciting because virtually every game is targeting the exact same kinds of demographics and gameplay styles. Monetization is rampant, live services secrete out of every orifice, and entire genres and playstyles are being swept off the board to make room for more of the same homogenized, gray nothingness.
I just need to know that I'm not the only person who has literally nothing to look forward to anymore. I feel like I'm in Tartarus - it's like everyone around me has something to play or look forward to and I can't even zero in on a single game that appeals to me moving forward. Is this what it feels like to be completely left behind by your primary hobby? I'm just extremely unhappy at the moment and having your main hobby basically do an about-face and walk straight away from you when you need something to drag you out of the pit is really extra painful.
I certainly agree that "BUt theY alL HaVe campS and TOwers" is very reductionist take about about game structure, thank you for demonstrating.vastly different like one game has towers, and the other game has walking towers and another game has enemy camps that if you clear them work like towers
You did! I actually just searched through my history there to find the original thread and you were going against that sort of take. My bad, when you said you were the one who posted that thread my anxiety kicked in and I felt terrible. Anyway, I rescind my previous apology and replace with this new one haha. Good to know you were on the side of sense in that original thread :)Well I made the thread going AGAINST the take that game writing is on the whole worse than film and tv. And people debated me on it.
Hopefully this doesn't read like annoying armchair psychology and apologies if it does. This is just based on what you wrote in this thread about how things are for you outside of games.I'm agonizingly tired of action RPGs on a general level. I am tired of "smash the square button a million times, doing negligible damage to the enemy, but they can flatten you like a pancake with a single hit, better have them perfect dodges!" as a central gameplay conceit for 40 to 60 hour long games. I'm worn out, depressed and fucking exhausted by even being alive right now. I want something I can chill out while I'm playing instead of being expected to be perpetually on every time I play.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6j0zKSXAFE
Please watch this and tell me this hobby is devoid of creativity
I understand some of what you're saying, but it isn't that serious. PS just misses the time when the hobby was "for them". Sometimes its hard to acclimate to the shifting dynamic of the game industry.My man really wonders why he gets dog piled in one thread and does this. At some point you gotta stop beating your head against a wall, you don't like the hobby; you barley like anything at all; walk away dude.
Or maybe you actually like being a forum celebrity, maybe you like being the "Negative Nancy of Era"? Like, people guess if its a "Planet Smasher post" just by how it's worded; but you like that don't you? That's why you keep doing this?
Anyway,
Gaming is awesome currently, lots of diverse experiances out there. Sorry it doesnt speak to you anymore.
I honestly don't think he misses when "the hobby was for him" I think he misses how his life was at that time.I understand some of what you're saying, but it isn't that serious. PS just misses the time when the hobby was "for them". Sometimes its hard to acclimate to the shifting dynamic of the game industry.
Cynicism is very often warranted. The rigidity could use some work, though.
We are often at the forefront of gaming news, (trailers from the heavy hitters at e3 get posted INSTANTLY and instantly start generating discussion as an example), and places outside of Era don't generate the same quality or frequency of discourse. The double edged sword of that is that the games that get the most attention tend to be the ones where publishers spent tens of millions on marketing. Still, a lot of niche games get brought up here. Which arguably shifts the perception that those games are way more paid attention to than they are by the general gaming audience.It still boggles the mind for me how an enthusiast forum like Era can have such a 'AAA only' mentality.
Yeah, a flatmate of mine is challeinging him to see how many games he can run on his older linux thinkpad...not even 1080p...and there is a schocking amount of not so old games that works on it, and emulation aond indies... hundreds and thousands of games.Even if you got some lenovo Thinkpad, as long as it's been made in the past 5 years you can still emulate fairly recent consoles. I doubt you've played every PS2 JRPG worth playing. And I seriously doubt you've hit the bottom of the well on SNES JRPGs. Same with PS1. Maybe it's time for you to reject modernity and return to tradition. Especially with new fan translations for games that never got localized in English.
Oh, and the Shadowrun Returns games are on console. Dragonfall and Hong Kong are great. Their graphics suck though so.. you're gonna have to get over that. (I think they're pretty but it ain't AAA.)
AAA games (most games, really) sell the bulk of their copies in the first week. Hence, the games with the biggest marketing budgets use that money to drive the hype sphere for that week. And those same games usually have a bunch of MTX, so they can get a degree of recurring revenue from those buyers caught in the hype cycle.Mind you, then youre usually out of the hype sphere, that DOES kinda revolve a lot around those big AAA microtransaction multiplayer releases... and thats maybe part of the problem here...
Ive probably asked this before PlanetSmasher but why dont you play Final Fantasy 14?