Same in all accounts including the timing of the noticing.
Some of the most fun gaming I've had has been in the past year playing the original 2000s PS2 God of War for the first time. Playing classics for the first time or revisiting classics > FOMO over slop any day of the week
My father had a saying from G. K. Chesterton: 'When a new book comes out, read an old one.'
I feel that holds more true about video games than books.
I never played the games you're talking about, but I have so many unplayed games on Steam (hundreds) that I see no necessary reason to even purchase another game, knowing that I won't even play most of those.
The PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 eras were quite something. The PlayStation 3 era was when the DLCs and microtransactions really picked up, and the PlayStation 4 era was when I really felt the degeneracy seeping in.
Physicality is fast disappearing - gone are the days of cases, manuals, and, growingly, even discs - indeed, most PlayStation 4 games did not contain a manual, and the PlayStation 5 is already split between models that have and do not have a disc drive, foreshadowing a soon-to-be discless future. I don't imagine any real improvements other than the technological - the graphical, maybe the player counts in online games. So there is no real appeal to even buying the PlayStation 5 for me. I imagine, for instance, that subscriptions will cost more and more and from them you will get less and less. Or that the console will simply be inoperable whenever your internet goes down. Or that simply not even playing a game for a few years will lead to both an erasure of your save games from the cloud and your loss of said game - the logical next step from what the OP's topic is.
If you use PCSX2 - nowadays very good as long as you have a decent PC - or similar software, there is no real reason why any gamer can't greater explore the myriad games of that time period rather than being constantly disappointed by, having his bank account drained by, and having his mind warped by, all the DLCs, microtransactions, degeneracy, etc. in whatever comes out these days. You don't actually need a PlayStation 2 to enjoy those games anymore. Some young gamer born in the 2000s or 2010s is far better off - better for his mind and his bank account - putting down the latest games that his Mum bought him last Easter, getting a good PC, and going back to playing those games from before his time, because he has no idea what he has missed.
The 'latest' games I played on PlayStation 4 were Mad Max (2015), Metal Gear Solid V (2015), and Far Cry: Primal (2016). Of those, I'd only recommend MGS:V to other gamers. The other two games are purely okay. That means that there's now ten years of video game releases where I've played nothing except the odd Android game or remaster. And, as previously stated, nor do I care. I have simply have too little curiosity about all that has came out since.
Older people care less about keeping up with new shit because we don’t have a common thing to rally around like the youth. If all the high school kids and my friend group are playing Goy soldiers 3: Closed market strike, then I want to play it too. Now that I’m older I don’t care and instead buy old games for cheap because new stuff sucks
I'm gonna disagree with you that Mad Max (2015) is purely ok. I think it's one of the few games of the PS4 era that is amazing.
It was how I love open world games to be. Had some of the best combat I've played (It's arkham style combat, but it feels even more brutal and impactful) and when you pull out the shotgun in the middle of combat it feels so good, cause it hits so hard and the shotgun needs to be reserved for when you really want to use it. It makes you feel like you're this legend of the wasteland, which Mad Max is supposed to be. It basically took all the testosterone that was missing from Mad Max Fury Road (the action scenes were great but it was a feminist movie where Mad Max was a damsel in distress more than an action hero with furiosa being the true protagonist) and pumped it into that game.
I also will never not find it funny that the villains name in the Mad Max game is "Scrotus". Funniest sounding villain name of all time.
But yeah, everything in that game just feels great.
I love open world games where you feel like Alexander the Great, going forth and conquering where the meta is you're growing your legend. I have no idea what the actual story of the game is as I skip the cutscenes like most games. The game in my head is, "here's an apocalyspe, you're Mad Max, make people fear and respect you as you tame the apocalypse in whatever way you can).
I wouldn't say it's a top ten game for me, but it'd probably crack my top 30. If I made a top ten open world games of all time, it'd certainly be on there.
Having "Platinum'd" Mad Max, I'd still insist it's average. The repetition wears you down, in particular. Some of the challenges or whatever they are called (especially the one to kill something like 8-10 enemies in a few seconds) were a real nuisance, and finishing all of them is required for one of the trophies. I think the last trophy that I got, however, was the one for finding all scrap in all camps.
The game does have its moments (e.g. blowing enemies to pieces with the thrown explosive, some of the combat finishing moves), and there is a certain kind of unexpected picturesque beauty to certain areas where I felt like a screenshot was necessary.
'Growing your legend', incidentally, is a lot of MGS:V, which does that far better than Mad Max. Right down to the specific usage of the term 'legend' in the game's copious dialogue.
Same in all accounts including the timing of the noticing.
Some of the most fun gaming I've had has been in the past year playing the original 2000s PS2 God of War for the first time. Playing classics for the first time or revisiting classics > FOMO over slop any day of the week
My father had a saying from G. K. Chesterton: 'When a new book comes out, read an old one.'
I feel that holds more true about video games than books.
I never played the games you're talking about, but I have so many unplayed games on Steam (hundreds) that I see no necessary reason to even purchase another game, knowing that I won't even play most of those.
The PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 eras were quite something. The PlayStation 3 era was when the DLCs and microtransactions really picked up, and the PlayStation 4 era was when I really felt the degeneracy seeping in.
Physicality is fast disappearing - gone are the days of cases, manuals, and, growingly, even discs - indeed, most PlayStation 4 games did not contain a manual, and the PlayStation 5 is already split between models that have and do not have a disc drive, foreshadowing a soon-to-be discless future. I don't imagine any real improvements other than the technological - the graphical, maybe the player counts in online games. So there is no real appeal to even buying the PlayStation 5 for me. I imagine, for instance, that subscriptions will cost more and more and from them you will get less and less. Or that the console will simply be inoperable whenever your internet goes down. Or that simply not even playing a game for a few years will lead to both an erasure of your save games from the cloud and your loss of said game - the logical next step from what the OP's topic is.
If you use PCSX2 - nowadays very good as long as you have a decent PC - or similar software, there is no real reason why any gamer can't greater explore the myriad games of that time period rather than being constantly disappointed by, having his bank account drained by, and having his mind warped by, all the DLCs, microtransactions, degeneracy, etc. in whatever comes out these days. You don't actually need a PlayStation 2 to enjoy those games anymore. Some young gamer born in the 2000s or 2010s is far better off - better for his mind and his bank account - putting down the latest games that his Mum bought him last Easter, getting a good PC, and going back to playing those games from before his time, because he has no idea what he has missed.
The 'latest' games I played on PlayStation 4 were Mad Max (2015), Metal Gear Solid V (2015), and Far Cry: Primal (2016). Of those, I'd only recommend MGS:V to other gamers. The other two games are purely okay. That means that there's now ten years of video game releases where I've played nothing except the odd Android game or remaster. And, as previously stated, nor do I care. I have simply have too little curiosity about all that has came out since.
Older people care less about keeping up with new shit because we don’t have a common thing to rally around like the youth. If all the high school kids and my friend group are playing Goy soldiers 3: Closed market strike, then I want to play it too. Now that I’m older I don’t care and instead buy old games for cheap because new stuff sucks
I'm gonna disagree with you that Mad Max (2015) is purely ok. I think it's one of the few games of the PS4 era that is amazing.
It was how I love open world games to be. Had some of the best combat I've played (It's arkham style combat, but it feels even more brutal and impactful) and when you pull out the shotgun in the middle of combat it feels so good, cause it hits so hard and the shotgun needs to be reserved for when you really want to use it. It makes you feel like you're this legend of the wasteland, which Mad Max is supposed to be. It basically took all the testosterone that was missing from Mad Max Fury Road (the action scenes were great but it was a feminist movie where Mad Max was a damsel in distress more than an action hero with furiosa being the true protagonist) and pumped it into that game.
I also will never not find it funny that the villains name in the Mad Max game is "Scrotus". Funniest sounding villain name of all time.
But yeah, everything in that game just feels great.
I love open world games where you feel like Alexander the Great, going forth and conquering where the meta is you're growing your legend. I have no idea what the actual story of the game is as I skip the cutscenes like most games. The game in my head is, "here's an apocalyspe, you're Mad Max, make people fear and respect you as you tame the apocalypse in whatever way you can).
I wouldn't say it's a top ten game for me, but it'd probably crack my top 30. If I made a top ten open world games of all time, it'd certainly be on there.
Having "Platinum'd" Mad Max, I'd still insist it's average. The repetition wears you down, in particular. Some of the challenges or whatever they are called (especially the one to kill something like 8-10 enemies in a few seconds) were a real nuisance, and finishing all of them is required for one of the trophies. I think the last trophy that I got, however, was the one for finding all scrap in all camps.
The game does have its moments (e.g. blowing enemies to pieces with the thrown explosive, some of the combat finishing moves), and there is a certain kind of unexpected picturesque beauty to certain areas where I felt like a screenshot was necessary.
'Growing your legend', incidentally, is a lot of MGS:V, which does that far better than Mad Max. Right down to the specific usage of the term 'legend' in the game's copious dialogue.