CladInShadows said:
AlfredoTurkey said:
And, another nail in the coffin for me. At this point, I'm in the doorway, looking out. Growing up as a kid in the 80's, I've watched the industry go from plug and play to... something else. Whether it's good, bad or somewhere in the middle one thing we can all agree on... it's entirely different. Streaming services, digital distribution, pay-to-play-online, DLC, chopping up games to sell in small chunks down the line, shipping buggy games and using consumers as beta testers, Amiibo.... it doesn't even resemble the industry I fell in love with so long ago.
To me, it's like a marriage. Sure, you can stick it out. You can pretend that she's still the woman you met. You can push through, trying desperately to hold onto something for the sake of doing so... for the sake of those vows you made decades ago. But you know it and so does she... whatever there was that initially got you into it, it's no longer there. In its place is an imposter. Something different. Something else.
Sorry to get all prose on your guys. But, gaming has been a big part of my life and everything from the companies making and selling them, to the hardware, to the people playing them... it's all changed and what I loved about it is gone.
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You've summed up my feelings pretty well. I am able to find enough in the current industry that I like, but there's much more in the current industry that simply does not resonate with me as a gamer anymore.
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I think I was in your mindset for quiet a few years before I arrived here. Hopefully you can find enough to remain in the game (no pun intended) for the rest of your life. I wish I could but, I just... *sigh*
I think for me it started to become obvious that my time was about up when the idea of playing Super Metroid or Contra Hard Corps. on my SNES and Genesis was more exciting than new AAA games. That, and the ugliness of the community now. There are some good people on here and within the community but for every one of them, there are hundreds of mentally unstable, socially unadjusted people who... idk... I just don't relate to that at all. I just can't relate to the idea of this all being life and death important. Back in the day (and by back in the day I mean 80's and 90's) playing games was just something we did for fun. Now, it's like... a religion and a lot of the people are way too obsessed and wrecked over it. I don't understand that whole thing.
