To be fair, for most of those other mediums don’t need as much time to consume. An old song takes a few minutes to listen to and a movie can be watched in a couple hours, but I have played thousands of hours of Minecraft (and will continue playing it for the foreseeable future).
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apotheotic@beehaw.org 4 weeks agoI don’t entirely disagree with you but, does every medium not have to compete with a growing backlog of classics?
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Most will listen to songs a great many times, and movies get rewatched too, books reread. I get where you’re coming from though.
boonhet@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
No, books written before April 2025 are already trash and who’s gonna rewatch an old movie or listen to 80’s music nostalgically?
apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Hard to argue with that. Garçon, I am ready for my next short form video!
boonhet@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
In seriousness, I think gaming has LESS pressure from past titles because while classics still get played decades later, many games don’t even work on a modern operating system and many are so janky that you can instantly tell they’re old. Games often don’t age well. You could argue that the same happens for other media but IMO games depreciate more because of the technical aspect.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
I would agree, yeah. Thankfully you have folks like GOG doing work to preserve older titles
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I am happy you don’t need an /s behind there as your tone is obvious even to the dubest of us.
boonhet@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
If anyone does miss it, they’re a lost cause anyway IMO