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BasilZero said:
100% I have 2-3 friends I always hang out every now and then together but the game genres we play are radically different from each other. I prefer single player experiences with games that actually have an ending. One friend prefers games like Valorant Another one prefers games like Destiny 2 The other one prefers fighting games on online like Street Fighter, Tekken, etc We tried playing games a few times but never worked out because the games we tried out never really kept our interest (The Forest, Minecraft, Left 4 Dead 2, etc). I'm gonna try to see if I can get them to play Borderlands but I doubt it. Dont have much time as I used to because we have a child now and I'm more focused on improving the QoL of my family. Nowadays I hang out with my friends at least once a month at a restaurant or somewhere we all decide to go to. I also dont like borrowing things from other people or lend people stuff - games are cheap nowadays , just takes some patience but you can immediately find decent deals for digital games and quicker deals for physical. I think in my entire I only borrowed like two games and that was like back in 2002 or 2003 in grade school - Chrono Cross for PS1 and Capcom VS SNK 2 on PS2 but like you mentioned, kinda awkward to ask to borrow stuff now especially with how available games are and how cheap they are compared to the 90s. When sites like these exist, you will never find issues finding games on good sales/deals. https://psprices.com/region-us/index |
Yeah. I think friendship is tough for a lot of people in adulthood. I was never a social butterfly, but I always had a circle of people to hang out with through college. But after that it's kind of hard. I have a lot of friendly acquaintances. People from work I go to happy hour with, people in my book club, comedians I talk with before shows but I don't have that like Seinfeld or Friends or Sex and the City or Always Sunny thing where there's a group of people I see basically every day. I'm not sure that's really a thing, I think TV shows would just be really boring if everyone just went to work and then spent the rest of their day either with their immediate family or alone. And when I do meet up with people it's rarely just hanging around one of their houses, it's usually going to a restaurant, bar, show, game, etc. Not like I'm going to see their game collection, and I'd feel super weird asking them "hey do you have this random game, cause I've been looking to mooch of someone that has it."
To the point though, I don't think it's super common for people past their 20s to have like a large group of gamers that they see all the time. Good for people who are in that situation, but I'm not sure how many people are. And I'm sure I play more games than most of my friends who do play, so that's actually another reason to prefer digital, so they can't ask to borrow my stuff XD.
