New games

[BrainMuncher]

Why?

Not speaking for myself, since I'm not going to buy or play for free a buggy pile of crap when I can just wait a few years until it is community patched into a playable state. But I can think of reasons why:

a) They have already played all the other stalker games a million times and all the mods, and every other remotely similar game that might have scratched their itch. So the new thing is the only thing they haven't already played to death.

b) Quite a lot of people play games, watch movies, watch sports, and read books so that they can talk about them with their friends who are consuming the same things. It's like a shared social experience even though they are doing it alone at home. They don't want to miss out on the thing their friends are talking about. Or maybe they want to farm buttons by posting about how shit it is on the codex

c) This doesn't apply to single player games but for online games many of them tend to deteriorate over time, with power creep, inexorable bloat, and dwindling player base. So the best (or perhaps only) time to play them is often close to release.

d) It's just a way to kill some time with minimal effort and whatever new thing is most immediate gets chosen. They are not looking for the ultimate experience. "Why? Why spend money on something that is objectively bad?" think of it as the equivalent of getting drunk at the pub - an equally pointless activity, objectively bad drinks with poison in them that turns you into a retard. $60 for stalker is probably cheaper than the drinks

 

[Spike]

I play new games because a very good number of them are actually good or I will enjoy some aspect of them. Take Ghost of Tsushima.
EDIT: To elaborate, I love GoT's setting and the combat looks cool. So, this looks fun to explore and "check out" at the very least. I can never stop playing action games so this kind of dovetails with what the above post said, point (a). I want to play something fresh even if by the end of it I feel it is inferior to an older game that tries to do something similar. This is okay. I usually enjoy it while playing it. Usually.

It's like this. I also love watching martial arts films. You can probably go back to 20 films in total for the rest of your life. But why would you do that when there is so much out there and a great deal of it is exciting? So I watch tons of martial arts films and wuxia films, mostly from three decades (70s-90s, a little early 2000s). I just love it. This isn't quite as fair because this period was the golden age of martial arts films, and I almost never watch modern martial arts films. But even modern games which have declined aspects usually have something interesting in them worth sticking around for if you like the genre/setting/whatever (again, Ghost of Tsushima is the perfect example of this).

 

[Fargus]

consumer mentality

 

[Fargus]

In the past 12 months I've played games like Morrowind, Planescape: Torment, Arcanum, Baldur's Gate 1&2 (EET mod), TToE, HoMM3, Stronghold Crusader, Icewind Dale II

You are way too based for this forum

 

[NecroLord]

I have not played any title which can be considered "new".
The Triple A slop? Forget about it.
I'm into making a sort of catalogue or encyclopedia of old games which I have not played yet but plan on doing so.

 

[Spike]

consumer mentality

I do not play just any AAA goyslop. I only play games that have been affected by slop, not ruined by it, if I am going to play any AAAss game at all. Like GoT.

 

[Machocruz]

So I watch tons of martial arts films and wuxia films, mostly from three decades (70s-90s, a little early 2000s). I just love it. This isn't quite as fair because this period was the golden age of martial arts films, and I almost never watch modern martial arts films

Incredible run of films coming out of Hong Kong and China, and then if you add in the heroic bloodshed genre, Wong kar wai, Zhang Yimou...what a time to be alive, as they say.

It did all kind of come to an end in the early 2000s with Hero, HoFD, Kung-fu Hustle, In the Mood For Love being the end of the incline. Zhang Ziyi is in her 40s now and seems like only yesterday I too was still a young adult when these came out.

 

[Spike]

So I watch tons of martial arts films and wuxia films, mostly from three decades (70s-90s, a little early 2000s). I just love it. This isn't quite as fair because this period was the golden age of martial arts films, and I almost never watch modern martial arts films

Incredible run of films coming out of Hong Kong and China, and then if you add in the heroic bloodshed genre, Wong kar wai, Zhang Yimou...what a time to be alive, as they say.

It did all kind of come to an end in the early 2000s with Hero, HoFD, Kung-fu Hustle, In the Mood For Love being the end of the incline. Zhang Ziyi is in her 40s now and seems like only yesterday I too was still a young adult when these came out.

Absolute incline of a post. Bittersweet, brutal feel. Zhang Ziyi peak waifu. I was only a child. I think the most kino moment in my life was wanting to see Hero with my dad over Spider-Man at age 8.

EDIT: To be a young adult at that time must have been kino. Like experiencing Tom Green and New Grounds at that age. Big up, cheers.

 

[Machocruz]

Absolute incline of a post. Bittersweet, brutal feel. Zhang Ziyi peak waifu. I was only a child. I think the most kino moment in my life was wanting to see Hero with my dad over Spider-Man at age 8.

EDIT: To be a young adult at that time must have been kino. Like experiencing Tom Green and New Grounds at that age. Big up, cheers.

I'm not one to complain about or dread aging, but it is bittersweet. All the cliche sentiments are real, like "where did the time go?" and "if I knew then what I know now..", etc. Strange how those times feel both far away and not too long ago. I remember seeing Hard Boiled for the first time during the summer following high school graduation, before my first year of college, and I was buzzing afterwards. Like being born again, having the scales lifted from my eyes, while someone dumped a bucket of ice water on me, there was something so fresh and exciting about the film-making; I had seen The Killer, but that had a more somber energy while HB was like a sugar rush. That I had left shitty high school and was looking forward to the exciting prospects of going to "real" school in the city probably enhanced the energy. Was also at/near my peak of physical/health and optimism, which didn't hurt . Seeing Drunken Master 2 about a year later almost had the same impact. There were great HK action films in the 80s, but the production values/aesthetics really took off in the 90s imo.

Well, the early 2000s were the last hurrah for a lot of things to a lot of people. Asian film, anime, PC games, popular music. Some would even say Return of the King signified the last of quality, big film entertainment in the west.