Anyone else doesn't like video games and why?

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[–]RedEyedWarrior 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Don’t get me started on in game purchases. Fuck's sake, I already paid €70 for the game disc. I’m not spending anymore.

Furthermore, gaming consoles and PCs are more powerful than ever, but loading times are even worse and they crash the internet? Why is that? Because video games run on 5D 3840p graphics. I know I’m being hyperbolic, but video game developers are investing in higher resolutions and more "realistic" animations. Which might seem fine, but all this does is use up more RAM, more storage and more internet bandwidth. "Are games are more powerful than ever- gamers living in rural areas and with data limits can go fuck themselves".

The PS2 was the best selling games console of all time. It had a vast library of video games. Most of which were amazing. Yet it had no internal memory, so you used memory cards that went up to 8MB. I’m not joking. 8MB was enough in 2000 to store your gaming data. Mostly because you did not need to download an entire game onto your console - you just put the disk in and play. And the DVDs those games came from were 8.5GB, which was enough for Grand Theft Auto. Now you need at least 1TB of storage on your console to play a decent library of games, because you have to download the bloody game onto your console from the gaming disk before you can play. So what’s the point in this disk?

[–]Bigs 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, I had a PS2 for a while, was a fine little machine though already 2nd hand and old by the time I got it. I played some 3D thing where you hunt down and climb up giant monsters, was pretty good.

I wouldn't touch the latest Xbox, as it's just more Microsoft spyware in your house and I already have a PC... I was very interested in the new Playstation but they also did some dirty shit, can't remember what but I recall deciding they can go fuck themselves too.

The only reason I'm using this gaming PC now is cos my other machine's motherboard finally died (RIP Winnie 7..) so this was my spare. I have a Steam account and there are loads of games installed on this machine but I literally can't remember the last time I played any.

It sort of feels like re-reading a book I already read as a kid. In some ways it's new, but I sort of know where it's going. Same old shit, same shallow gameplay, same chasing the latest video card to play the latest games, which is out of date by the time it's on the shelves cos the latest games need even more blah fucking blah.

Same old shit and I'm just tired of it.

And here's another thing, while I'm ranting.. sex? Why is there so little sex still? With literally gigabytes of RAM we should have 4D wibblevision with Sniffomatic sensory goodness, you know, save the damsel and get a blowjob? But nooo, same "keep grinding for a better weapon and armor, just to face better monsters and bad guys anyway, rinse and repeat forever, with no blowjob. Ever."

And I have to pay for this shit?

No.

[–]RedEyedWarrior 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My brother had the PS2. I got the Xbox just to have a different machine and the GameCube lacked a DVD player. I loved my Xbox but I can see why a lot of people didn't want it: too big, smaller gaming library and the fact that it was made by Microsoft. I picked the Xbox 360 over the PS3 but I now picked the PS4 over the Xbox One because I widened up to Microsoft's behaviour.

I can see your point about revising old video games. It is like picking up an old children's book. Can't deny it would be a lot of fun but I know it's a hassle to download an emulator onto a computer. Furthermore, my laptop is relatively powerful but it's not a gaming machine. But for now I'm preoccupied with my job, my livestreams and other stuff so I don't have the time right now to get back into video games.