i have four newphews. they only play minecraft, robolox, and fortnite. they very rarely try other games but have 1000s of hours in those.
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DeadMartyr@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
I feel like the rise of live service games and rogue-likes that are based around incremental progression definitely shifted the status quo to everyone having like 1 game, maybe 2, where they spend most of their time. Every game seems to demand you commit more and more time.
The only exception I can think of is Paradox Grand Strategy type games (which is my secondary “main” game)
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Minecraft isnt a game. Its a lifestyle.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
i played it for like a few months in 2009 and never touched it again. it was a novelty but the novelty wore off really fast and i was bored once i got diamonds.
never understood why people like it so much.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Oh boy. You have not seen what its become. There’s literally chemistry involved now. It can be as complex or simple as you make it!
And im old, but I still enjoy it. Its more fun with a friend’s server. I dont enjoy the grind, but I like to play to level up and build some bases and try to kill the hard mobs. Eventually it becomes a grind and we drop it for a year and then come back and start it up again.
There’s farming, mining, building, enchanting, fjghtng…it really has it all. Circuits too if youre into that, im not.
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 16 hours ago
Roblox is like a YouTube-style gaming platform with its own game engine. There are some really cool projects on there if you know what to look for!
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Its so crazy to me. They’ll play only the newest game and nothing else. I regularly play n64, genesis, ps1 ps2, xbox, game arcade, pc games from 99 to now… like these people have no idea about gaming history.
But I’ve never cared much for games. When it became about fifa being able to see a nostril hair, gaming was dead to me (outside of the few good new ones and indie games). That and these games that are purely server driven and will be shut down within 2 years of their release. Trash.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
All AAA games are trash.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
I wouldnt say all. I dont play them, because I wont pay that much for games and usually they are unoptimized and reliant on craopy anti cheat
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
usually they are unoptimized and reliant on craopy anti cheat
Exactly my point.
Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
It’s funny because Victoria 3 is basically all I play now
But I also consider it a secondary game, since I just put it on to relax so I might as well be meditating or something. Those games are so oddly peaceful.
Sektor@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
It’s by design. They want to lock you in, with the progression tailored specially for you. It’s not that you want to play that way, you are directed.