this post was submitted on 24 May 2024
121 points (90.1% liked)

Games

16835 readers
922 users here now

Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)

Posts.

  1. News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
  2. Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
  3. No humor/memes etc..
  4. No affiliate links
  5. No advertising.
  6. No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
  7. No self promotion.
  8. No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
  9. No politics.

Comments.

  1. No personal attacks.
  2. Obey instance rules.
  3. No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
  4. Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.

My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.

Other communities:

Beehaw.org gaming

Lemmy.ml gaming

lemmy.ca pcgaming

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
nanoUFO
121
Gamers Are Becoming Less Interested in Games With Deep Strategy, Study Finds (www.ign.com)
submitted 6 months ago by nanoUFO to c/games
92 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I would bet it's more like "gaming has expanded to a larger market". Gamers who were willing to fiddle with computers and online gaming, hell, up till the late 2000s are probably also the same type of people who are willing to be patient and fiddle with a complex game and learn where the fun is. Now playing a game is easy as 1,2,3 no matter where you get it, I'm not talking down on anyone, and I don't care if that's where the AAA trend is going, just that when the access gets easier the group expands to more and more casual audiences.

Also, console games have always been way more "casual" as those markets expand gamers kind of defacto have a larger preference for casual games.

[–] minibyte 12 points 6 months ago

I was deep into Strategy and lore – preferring games that ate hundreds of hours. Unfortunately these days my available gaming hours are reduced to a mere handful. It’s difficult to remember everything when I can only play sparingly.

Thus, I’ve resorted to smaller indie games that can be enjoyed in a smaller amount of time, with less of a learning curve. I’m a casual gamer now. What can you do?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

As soon as some technology becomes so accessible that anyone can use it, the platform becomes populated by morons and it's essence is diluted by all sorts of rules put in place so the morons can't damage each other.

[–] captain_aggravated 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile I still think there's that group of folks out there who want to decompile the game looking for lore in the code comments.

There's a Rat Man den in Portal 2, it's in a later section of the game after you've climbed out of the depths, you can get behind the scenes and there's a niche with a big fan in it, and Rat Man has built kind of a shrine of coffee mugs. And if you listen, under the harsh electro music and the sound effect of the fan, you can hear a sort of insane jibbering, as if Rat Man is still there raving to himself.

Fans of the game hungry for any more lore or story hints, have put more thought into this sound clip than the folks who made it and put it in the game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

put more thought into this sound clip

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.