Goronmon

Goronmon, 10 miesięcy temu

I fucking hate people who write articles to stoke fear for clicks.

What about people who are confidently wrong in their ignorance and post old articles that don’t prove what they think it does?

Goronmon, 10 miesięcy temu

I’m also not sure I’d characterize 8+ years as “released recently” either.

Goronmon, 10 miesięcy temu

I’ve honestly gotten into the habit of checking dates at this point, as I fall into that trap a lot, haha.

Goronmon, 10 miesięcy temu

I’m not entirely sure what connection your comment has to the article itself?

Goronmon, 10 miesięcy temu

Where in the article did they complain about registration or paywalls?

Goronmon, 10 miesięcy temu

That is all that has ever existed in the genre and is all anyone wants from it.

I don’t remember you appointing you as the sole representative for all gamers.

Personally, I think games can be written about beyond “game good” and “game bad”. Or maybe it comes down to whether you find gaming something important, or just a silly way to waste time.

Goronmon, 10 miesięcy temu

Honestly, I hadn’t realized there was a paywall on the article after having signed up a couple weeks ago.

I’ll actually avoid posting their articles here then. Thanks for the callout.

Edit: Though I’m still interested in hearing about where they are hypocritical. People keep saying Aftermath writers say paywalls are bad, but I haven’t seen that anywhere that I’ve noticed.

Goronmon, 10 miesięcy temu

Ah, OP admitted to being a shill! This is a rare occurrence. Let’s continue to observe

I don’t think you know what “shill” means…

Goronmon, 10 miesięcy temu

I’m not thrilled with the idea that we lower the bar for game developers based on how biased we are towards them or not.

I feel like the games should speak for themselves and we shouldn’t aim for special treatment.

Goronmon, 10 miesięcy temu

But whether this stance is going to be accepted (via upvotes/downvotes) in this type of community comes down to a simple popularity contest.

If I thought that Starfield was fun and tried this type of sentiment, I would be downvoted. Would that be because there is some objective measure of quality that separates the two games, or just because more people are fans of Larian than Bethesda?

Goronmon, 10 miesięcy temu

You didn’t say that, so I’m curious what you feel that measure would be.

Goronmon, 10 miesięcy temu

That or they just don’t like the content of the post?

I haven’t upvoted the post because I’m not a huge fan of the “I’m not like other gamers/posters” style of content and don’t really want to encourage it.

Goronmon, 10 miesięcy temu

That BG3 drama was pretty much fabricated to stir up social media engagement. The sentiment you are complaining about really only existed in the mind of people complaining.

Nevermind that neither Larian or Sony are small companies.

Goronmon, 10 miesięcy temu

That’s what sites like aftermath.site are trying to do, but we’ll see if any of them are actually successful.

Goronmon, 10 miesięcy temu (edited 10 miesięcy temu)

We refuse to let our 7-year-old play Roblox, but she’s definitely complained that she has classmates that do. It’s an endless battle for sure.

Goronmon, 10 miesięcy temu

I wouldn’t say its that bad. Various forms of collectibles/cards have been around for a long time. Asking for gametime for a game like WoW isn’t exactly a new phenomenon.

I think it’s just that there are a few specific examples that stand out. Some aspects of Roblox can be pretty concerning.

But if a kid just wants some money for a skin for Fornite, or to buy a specific world setup for Minecraft, I don’t necessarily see that as some scary new thing.

Goronmon, 10 miesięcy temu (edited 10 miesięcy temu)

Super Mario Bros 3 is probably the first game that comes to mind as I was finally old enough to really get excited for specific games, and that one was hugely anticipated at the time. The whole game blew my 7 year old mind (think thats the math at least). Up until that point it was mostly grabbing games based on their box art at the rental place, or based on what looked cool in those displays in Toys R Us. And you played those whether they were good or not. That wasn’t the case with SMB3 though.

Super Mario World is probably the next example, for similar reason as above but even bigger and better. Then into the Donkey Kong Country games. Final Fantasy VI was another game that blew me away when I first saw it. That intro was crazy when you still considered the SNES a new platform. Pokemon Blue for the Pocket I got specifically to play it.

Played lots of the original Diablo, though I was terrible at it back then. Actually didn’t like Diablo 2 that much when it was first released, but got into it again years later. Baldur’s Gate 2 was fun for a while, but never beat it (and didn’t play the first until much later). Lords of Magic was a game I played the crap out of but was terrible at the game as well.

If we are just talking about time played then games like Baseball Stars, Excitebike, Track and Field with the Power Pad, etc. You just played the shit out of every game you owned back then. Because you only got them once or twice a year.