My return will be great!

Jokes aside, it's because I'm busy playing some old MMO that got shut down, on a private server. I launch it through Playnite and not Steam (since Steam can't count the hours) so you mostly see me doing nothing, lol.

See, he doesn't even game much these days. "3.1 hours past 2 weeks."

He's a dabbler, keeps trying all kinds of demos for ten minutes. But one day he'll be back in full force. The spark will return, and he'll find the joy in gaming once more. That will be a beautiful moment, like coming home.

What will be the catalyst? What will it take? Will it be a specific game release he'll have anticipated, or will it be a completely unexpected game? Will something just spontaneously change in his psychology? That remains to be seen, but there's little doubt that he will be back.

Time flies when you are having fun...

Nah, he's retired these days. Old age got to him.

I'm glad you like it, lol. I worked hard on it with some unicode shenanigans.

that games lineup text box makes for the best profile on steam, i say

🤝

Fr

I saw what you commented on Chocos Ramabotti profile. And I agree with both of y'all. I think this generation of gamers hand are being held by these "assists" stuff

but when you coat in a way that people get "excluded", "gatekeeped" basically minorites "supressed" then you emotionalize this whole affair, gaining favor of ignorants, who canot distiguish between activists and other ignorants, who don't wanna be on the "bad side".
It's a real ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and its impossible to point on the underlying motives that reach far deeper political wise.
Most things are deemed to become "relative" losing a sense of value, just to appease to people who hardly can find hapiness in life.

Thanks for the head-ups, yes videogames have have become significantly more uniform over the last couple of years, in the manner how they tackle certain topics I would say it really has gone haywire toward 2018 and upwards. That's why this "accessibility" topic is really becoming an issue for this medium without people realizing. There is a certain crowd of intersectionalists with strong postmodern beliefs, those are the ones with los of ties in the industry pushing that "inclusivity" narrative that is completely disjointed from what many videogames actually try to achieve.

Great player, a true gaming enthusiast and the most importantly a friend you can only get once in your lifetime. Grateful for every moment, cheers for many more

Right, yeah. At least the ideological pushing seems to be coming to an end. It seems that the industry has finally realized that injecting woke ideology into games just damages sales.

The real break point is somewhere around 2015 to 2018 (or 2017), but yeah. I'm sure you get the idea.

I didn't even mention the microtransactions plaguing almost every single "big" title nowadays. 60-70-80 damn doubloons and they have the gall to ask for more money? Bugger off.

The short answer is that it's partly because games are slowly losing their souls and/or having irrelevant ideas injected into them to further some political/ideological purpose. Couple those with ballooning budgets and declining quality across the board, and you have the current industry. It's an unsustainable and intolerable mess.

A lot of my favorite games were released in or before 2015 or 2016. Like Vermintide 1, Terraria, Ori 1, Shadow of Mordor... Most games I play these days are either indie titles or titles I already played before. You can include a lot of 2016 titles too, like Dark Souls 3 and Titanfall 2. Battlefield 1, as well. It just went gradually worse after 2015-2016 as a whole.

I have been playing on a private server of Dragon's Dogma Online in the past 2-3 months. That game was originally released in 2015 and shut down in 2019 alongside Capcom's other online/MMO titles. The combat and the atmosphere is still not replicated by anyone, not even themselves.

Hmm, I'm interested why you feel 2015 in particular?

I absolutely agree.

I don't have much to add, honestly. I feel like things just went downhill for the gaming industry as a whole after 2015. Including the players, mind you.

It didn't allow me to post it in one part. Now they're the wrong way around, but whatever, lol

I remember when I tried Diablo 4 (and many other games.) I found the game(s) way too easy and googled around. Of course I found mountains of "the game starts in X difficulty" threads. Okay, so why am I forced to waste my f*cking time on some glorified tutorial then? Why do I need to suffer just because the lowest common denominator supposedly needs this braindead gameplay?

You could say this take is "elitist," but it's not. It's just expecting good design instead of padding. Locked difficulties are padding because they force you to play the game over and over again in a sub-par manner instead of getting a good experience straight away. Difficulty options are supposed to be there so that everyone can play at a level suitable for them, not some rewards for finishing a game. The only exception is some ultra hard secret nightmare mode, though I would argue even that should be open from the start, with an explicit warning.

I'm glad to hear that.

Yeah, most people don't seem to understand things such as incentive, sense of accomplishment, player agency, and so on. There's a reason games don't give the player the powerful stuff right away. It should feel earned, and there should be a sense of progression, both in terms of mastery/skill and rewards in terms of gear/stats, etc.

The most baffling thing to me, though, is how often I hear the "the actual game starts 30 hours in." People throw that around like it's something acceptable and normal. I swear I see that argument at least a few times every month.

I was just messing with you since you kept zoning out lol

+rep been fun playing atlyss with you, and no i am not smoking ''zones'' or whatever

+rep for Sigmar!

A Chad gamer!

thanks for the rune arcs lmao

I could use one too, lol.

If only i had a shock collar to avoid me going into the discussions in steam.

Bruh...

Someone said to me but they edited their post
"I am done with this id1ot"

All i wrote was "Weren't you done with this "id1ot, follow your own word and be done"

:,)

true words! blindly defending a product like their life depends on it, shutting down any criticism or differing opinion to their own. good health to you!

Based, checked and gigapilled

you should watch eraserhead

ahaha i meant in other games not vs xD

Indeed. Who would have thought we'd meet in Vintage Story?

It's really cool! Would have been even crazier if we all found each other by accident in game rather than the forums/discussions. xD

oh wow what a small world , was browsing the MH:W and recognised a familiar name ! :P

Hey! Yeah, I play Vintage Story! Aura Fury is the only MP server I play. :)

Happy new year 2024

We can only hope Steam bothers to do the same someday.

Pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ based

+rep A belated "thank you", for the motivational lift. Brothers indeed.

May your armor, shield and sword shine bright, to light a path through the current, glooming post-factual age.

"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true." -Socrates


Oh and:

My biggest congratulations to such a fancy -rep decoration. I'm sure it will go fabulously with your green tan, dear sire.


Keep on keeping on!

+rep, scholar and a gentleman

Never thought someone who is in the process of being twisted by a death cult would ever crap on my reputation. Truly, an honor. I gleefully accept.

-rep average conspiracy theorist

+rep

+rep just bc Mr. September

+rep a true friend. And one of the few people who I can call as "my friend".

A badge of honor from lowest of the low. Hey, I'll accept it.

-rep scammer with a big skill issue

Thank you for your work in the monster hunter community :D