Why do people get upset by OPTIONAL difficult assists?

[HoloDust]

omarct said:

HoloDust said:

Yeah, I'm fairly old, 50 is not that far away at this point.

I've always kinda gravitated to mostly more niche genres (back in 80s graphic adventures, war strategies and flight (and sub) simulators, then in late 80s I got into CRPGs) and A and AA games rather than, what we now call, mainstream or mass market AAA games. Occasionally there was AAA game got all my attention and love (like Tomb Raider back in days), and there still are AAA games that I find worth the price and my time, it's just that they are extremely few and far between.

Luckily, there was indie explosion, which is slowly turning into steady A and AA growth, and at the same time there was boardgaming explosion, so I could actually never get to play everything I wanted even if AAA industry completely vanishes.

I am always fascinated by older gamers mainly because of how rare they are. I wonder now that gaming has become so mainstream will we see an explosion of old gamers in a decade or 2, and how will that change the gaming market to have such a huge age gap/range between their audience.

I think in 20 years gaming might be fundamentally different and way more widespread than today. That is, if they figure out how to do "direct to brain" VR. Mix that and sofisticated narrative AIs and you have worlds (and not just games) that most people will want to enjoy, not just what we call gamers these days.

Other branch of that tree depends on if there is viable solution to tabletop volumetric displays in said future - long before video games, there was experience (and there still is) of siiting around the table and playing games. Put some sort of volumetric display in center of that table and all of the sudden there is all sorts of different games you can make specific for that sort of entertainment, combining board and video games.

At least this is what I think are most probable things that can happen in foreseeable future.