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[BossLackey]

Just ridiculously entertaining. I haven’t taken a break from them longer than a week in 30 years. There’s just ALWAYS something I wanna play and the shared experience between friends is like nothing else.

Knowing someone you just met played Dark Souls immediately gives you dozens or hours of relatable experience. You know their struggles and vice versa. Same could be said for most games.

The hardware, collecting, tweaking things on PC, achievements on consoles, the ever progressing technology, the trailers, the hype, the stories, the PLAYING!

I think sometimes we forget how lucky we are to have them.

 

[64gigabyteram]

controversial opininon on GAF (and most gaming forums tbqh), prepare your flame shield for the antiwoke doomers

 

[Arachnid]

Video games are for children. Grow up.

 

[yogaflame]

 

[Badlucktroll]

i will forever praise the sun that Konami, one of my favorite developers my entire life, is back

 

[pudel]

Video games are for children. Grow up.

 

[LectureMaster]

 

[Ritsumei2020]

Games are awesome but so are comics and movies and books.

For me it took a while to figure out what kind of games I like so I didnt have to feel like I had to play everything that came out.

I don't care abut MP, gacha games, GTA, COD, Assassin Creed, side scrolling platformers, any kind of 8 or 16 bit retro looking games.

I like Dark Souls, Resident Evil, 2D and 3D fighting games, JRPGs

Knowing this I can just focus on the stuff I like and ignore what I don't.

 

[XXL]

I agree.

There are soooo many good games releasing constantly.

I'm super fucking excited for Hitman on PSVR 2 tomorrow.

I can't keep up with all these games.

 

[BossLackey]

Games are awesome but so are comics and movies and books.

For me it took a while to figure out what kind of games I like so I didnt have to feel like I had to play everything that came out.

I don't care abut MP, gacha games, GTA, COD, Assassin Creed, side scrolling platformers, any kind of 8 or 16 bit retro looking games.

I like Dark Souls, Resident Evil, 2D and 3D fighting games, JRPGs

Knowing this I can just focus on the stuff I like and ignore what I don't.

This has been a long time struggle of mine. I have a lot of hobbies and video games are just one of them (albeit a big one).

Legit have the exact same taste in games and I also read books and comics (more manga these days).

It’s an embarrassment of riches when it comes to entertainment.

 

[jshackles]

 

[onQ123]

Just ridiculously entertaining. I haven’t taken a break from them longer than a week in 30 years. There’s just ALWAYS something I wanna play and the shared experience between friends is like nothing else.

Knowing someone you just met played Dark Souls immediately gives you dozens or hours of relatable experience. You know their struggles and vice versa. Same could be said for most games.

The hardware, collecting, tweaking things on PC, achievements on consoles, the ever progressing technology, the trailers, the hype, the stories, the PLAYING!

I think sometimes we forget how lucky we are to have them.

No No No! You need to stop enjoying the games & come online to complain!

 

[Topher]

Video games are for children. Grow up.

I tried it. Growing up sucks

 

[Guilty_AI]

Why is there no video games 2 then?

 

[Kenneth Haight]

 

[RagnarokIV]

easily up there with shagging and taking cocaine

 

[nkarafo]

Yeah, they are still awesome. But they used to be even more awesome. Glad i was there.

 

[Sooner]

Hell yeah

BossLackey be playing with power!

 

[Crayon]

 

[digital_ghost]

Video games are for children. Grow up.

I don’t wanna

 

[SomeNorseGuy]

Hell yeah! Apert from a couple of years lost to partying (made me miss Morrowind, damn you alcohol lol) I've had year after year of amazing experiences.

I'm guessing 99% of people here feel the same...which is also probably why we're so protective of it.

 

[analog_future]

Couldn't agree more OP.

Nice to see more and more pushback against all the over the top negativity that's been rampant here in recent years.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Bro please

We have a thread for this

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/what-are-your-actual-hot-takes-regarding-video-games-i-mean-actual-stuff-that-would-get-people-riled-up.1681769/page-12#post-270213734

 

[RoboFu]

That's what she said.

 

[Elfstar]

Cringe

 

[Topher]

Cringe

 

[rofif]

Dark Souls - play the OG on 360/ps3 or the OG steam port (patched, not 1.0).
Remaster got broken background audio.

Other than that - yes. gaming is awesome.
Continuing with Dark Souls example - you get sucked into this world, you explore it, feel it. It's so amazing when you think about it.

 

[Skifi28]

GAF tends to forget with the constant warring and bickering over everything, but once in a while it's nice to take a step back and appreciate what you have.

 

[HRK69]

Y

Dark Souls - play the OG on 360/ps3 or the OG steam port (patched, not 1.0).
Remaster got broken background audio.

Nobody cares about your preferred way of playing something

 

[Sept Terrion Of Nothing]

Video games are for children. Grow up.

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional

 

[rofif]

Y

Nobody cares about your preferred way of playing something

I know. But dark souls was mentioned and I learned this recently.
Huge difference. background audio like wind are gone if you die in that area and reload in remastered

 

[Holammer]

 

[T4keD0wN]

 

[Kacho]

Get ahold of yourself man. Good god.

 

[hussar16]

controversial opininon on GAF (and most gaming forums tbqh), prepare your flame shield for the antiwoke doomers

i disagree ,were you born yestrday?

 

[Ritsumei2020]

I know. But dark souls was mentioned and I learned this recently.
Huge difference. background audio like wind are gone if you die in that area and reload in remastered

Git gud scrub

 

[PisswasserYellow]

No doubt. I have a great group of friends that I talk to every day in a party chat and I'm grateful as hell to have that.

 

[sachos]

You just hyped me up to go play something!

 

[DAHGAMING]

easily up there with shagging and taking cocaine

Sometimes at the weekend If im lucky I bung a few lines up my bugle and get my maggot sucked while playing EA FC 25 on my Microsoft Xbox Series X.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Too full of tourists and casuals who appropriate the hobby these days and full of grifters for new and old games.

I enjoy it but for the history of what I can look back at. Any modern news is bleak.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

Too full of tourists and casuals who appropriate the hobby these days and full of grifters for new and old games.

I enjoy it but for the history of what I can look back at. Any modern news is bleak.

agree save for the last bit

gotta sift through a lot of garbage but there's still great stuff coming out

 

[64gigabyteram]

i love the fact that "there's too many good video games for me to play" is a problem that I have. I think a lot of people need to change their mindset and focus on their backlog

 

[mansoor1980]

 

[ReBurn]

Video games are for children. Grow up.

I did that. Then I got bored and played some video games. The cool thing about being an adult is now I can buy way more games than I'll ever play.

 

[Humdinger]

Videogames are like anything else - about 90% are crap. Fortunately, that still leaves 10% to enjoy.

 

[TwiztidElf]

I've been playing for 40+ years, and I do agree. However, I cannot remember a time when the forward release schedule looked so anaemic.
Regardless, there is always more awesome content to consume than there is time to play.
Also, thankfully Nintendo is coming to save the industry next week as they always do.

 

[ZehDon]

Really? In front of my disgruntled gaming forum?

 

[SHA]

Then what men usually do besides playing video games? I hear that argument dozens of times and usually they end up doing something worse. I'd say the opposite, if you care about your kids grades on school then obviously you know what to do.

 

[yogaflame]

For me, along with exercise, proper diet and prayers, Video games is also good for the health especially for the mind and also helpful to retain that youthful glow. Videogame is also a catharsis for me. Example of games that are catharsis for me are Ico, Gta vice city, OG FF7, Stellar blade, Death stranding, and GT7. And it may sound strange but also Doom 1 and 2 on Ps1 during my youth days in gaming. I repeat all the stages multiple times during ps1 era.

 

[DKPOWPOW]

You damn fucking right.