What happened to this country?

[Sweatlord_STG]

Just clicked on this random video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zHorlNrOKg

It was extremely shocking, sad, and disturbing. Maybe they should have interviewed old people instead. Seems like young people are full of shit.

[EmperorIng]

So, Japanese yute's play
-gacha shit
-idolshit
-nintenslop
-jarpig
-gta online
-rhythm games
-fps games
-yakuza games

I suppose this shouldn't be surprising, this is a high-dose of normie-core, nearly lethal levels.

[Sweatlord_STG]

So, Japanese yute's play
-gacha shit
-idolshit
-nintenslop
-jarpig
-gta online
-rhythm games
-fps games
-yakuza games

I suppose this shouldn't be surprising, this is a high-dose of normie-core, nearly lethal levels.

LOL, well said. No of course it's not surprising. It's not like I just woke up form a coma after 25 years. I was just trying to make the post a little more funny in order to hide that I've become an old man who yells at clouds

[BryanM]

Imagine still paying money for video games after instrumentality kicks off. You'll crash home on the pile of leaves in your living room after a hard day of collecting bugs. (It's hard to find enough of'em to even continue to function, since they're having a hard time of things too.) You want to play some old fashioned Ketsui to remember the better times, but the overlord system will be like 'you dun have enough credits lol.'

So to get enough credits you have to spend eight hours inside the torment nexus. But those eight hours feel like 600 days, because, you know, torment nexus.

You get out, your hands rattling, and start a round of Ketsui. And accidentally bump into a bullet on the first stage like a scrub. Humiliated, you go to restart a fresh run.

Not enough credits.

....

I think it's super that young people can find joy in playing Red Dead. Life's only gonna get worse for them from here out.

[orange808]

I think it's super that young people can find joy in playing Red Dead. Life's only gonna get worse for them from here out.

It's certainly nice that there's interest in gaming and the title has fans.

With that said, what exactly is the joy in combining a grind fest with the "on rails" narrative?

Other than visuals, where does the game rise above previous open world tropes and why am I constantly jamming this button to keep my horse running?

Did they ever fix the clumsy gunplay and load out management? I doubt it.

It felt like the game's biggest advantage is a young audience that hasn't played other games...

[EmperorIng]

There will never be a generation of g*mers who are not taken in by the latest, shiniest AAA-slop.

Myself included - Zelda seems to trick me every couple of years!

[BryanM]

Other than visuals, where does the game rise above previous open world tropes and why am I constantly jamming this button to keep my horse running?

Similar reasons to why people like Genshin Impact (a game about picking flowers, looking at sunsets, and hanging out with chuuni imaginary friends). It's to be a pretend cowboy.

Cartman knows the way.

Pretty much all narrative/vibes type stuff is trying to get as close to shoving a neural lattice into your spinal cord and kicking reality to the curb as much as possible.

.... one of the cursed problems I've been dwelling on these days is how dependent on content jRPGs are. How to get ~8 hours of fun out of one, in the very, very limited number of tokens PICO-8 allows. Action games are so much easier in those old ROM constraints, when it comes to the longevity front... A jRPG is like three different games in one and each gobbles down space like crazy....

[Hazuki]

I mean, what did you expect? Those are the current trendy games over there. Nothing abnormal about that.
They're not going to say they're playing SFC, PC Engine, Mega Drive or 80s/90s arcade stuff. That's a thing for our generation instead.