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SvennoJ on 22 October 2025
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Mummelmann said:

I suppose you're right. Cinema has gone much the same way after the advent of streaming and much better home-cinema equipment. I know for my own part that I rarely get excited about movies any more, and I almost never go to the movies any longer. 

Twitch streamers and the like often dictate adoption rates and hype surrounding game releases now, to a much greater extent than the developer and/or publisher themselves. I rarely see proper commercials for games nowadays, only the very biggest releases get some love. Recently, there were quite a few Battlefield 6 posters and events around, but the game itself is huge and the developer has their main office here in the city, so that kinda makes sense.

To me, it almost feels like "gaming culture" has died, at least to some extent. If I don't want to be a part of the noisy crowd that enjoys streamers and the like, I'm left mostly on my own (mind you - I'm fine with that as well). But I do miss the discussions and general fanfare around gaming back in the days, one of my childhood friends used to download and burn the trailers from events and shows, and then we watched them together on a big screen. 

Yeah, the rise of digital and decline of game stores killed the old gaming culture. Midnight launches, regularly visiting game stores, browsing the discount and 2nd hand games sections, looking at the upcoming releases, all things from the past.

Gaming commercials seemed to have died along with cable tv, I can't remember when last I saw a commercial for a game release. I can't even remember if I saw any commercials for Switch 2... crazy. 

And like you, Twitch and Youtube streamers are not for me. Maybe the new gaming culture is there. 

However also the online gaming landscape has changed drastically. Since party chat became the norm, playing against 'randoms' only got worse and worse. Bad enough for me to give up on online gaming altogether. Which also led to less engagement on forums for those games. For me the favorite era of this forum and others coincides with the favorite era to play online. PS3/360 and WiiU by proxy (sharing levels etc)

Gaming became routine instead of feeling new, exciting with endless possibilities. VR revived that for a little bit but didn't catch on and is falling into routine as well already. (But still hyped to play FS2024 on PSVR2 next year, never thought that could happen)