>be singleplayer gamer>everyone I know irl, through social media or discord only plays live service crap>finally give in after 30 years to download some gacha and hero shooters>be thrown into a mobile menu with a million things to click on>marvel rivals trying to shove unskippable shit in my face to try and make me buy it before i even do anything>already getting me to claim shit>be thrown in the most obnoxious tutorials possible>the shittiest most cringiest dialogue possible with gacha>finally get to play and I already hate everything about these games and how they feel like mobile slop>get flamed in one game when i just started the fucking game>gacha game already begging for my money>DAILIES CLICK HERE DAILIES DAILIES BUY THE BATTLEPASS>immediately give up and uninstall everything>feel sad that this us what everyone plays now and I’m a fucking weirdo for not touching this shit to the majority of normalfagsVideo games are a raped medium. I dont know how the fuck this happened. 500+ games beaten and I feel like an outcast to most “gamers”
>>733040035>iPhone filename>retarded postEvery single time. There's a tonne of multiplayer games you can play that are not live service oh so intelligent single player gamer.
>>733040035play indie games
>>733040035>get flamed in one game when i just started the fucking gameAnon you're supposed to respond in a gay black lisp and bait them into responding with slurs so you can get their 2000+ hour account banned for hate speech. At least that's what I did when I tried to get into Valorant.
>>733040035Just play the games you're interested in. It's that simple. Doesn't matter if its the least popular game ever made or whatever, play what you want to play.
>>733040035what you enjoyed about videogames was a byproduct of technological and societal conditions that no longer exist. that quaint little package of pulp entertainment you love? it was something that made sense at the time.
>gacha>playing
>>733040035>finally give in after 30 years to download some gacha and hero shooters>after 30 yearsHow old are you? How do you not have any other hobbies than playing video games for kids and teenagers?
>>733041372>for kids and teenagers?Actually, that's specifically the Nintendo fanatics. Although the overwhelming majority of games are for that demographic, you do have the games for 18-24 year olds too for what it's worth.
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stop caring about normies and just play the games you want to play
>>733040035>Emulate more>Watch more movies/tv series>Pick up a cheap $30 tablet and learn how to draw your fav characters, weapons, settings, etc.>Buy some growing kits and a recipe book online to learn how to cool vidya food irl>Buy a 3D printer and make a bunch of little figures for you to ogle at and play /tg/shit with>Lift for whatever's closest to what you'd call a waifu/husbando>Sift through music-oriented sites and download a shitload of music to listen to while you do any of the above>Download Pokemon GO and go for walks>Fuck off to /vr/There are some options, give one a try
>>733043780I
every hobby is deadwork until you die
>>733046414post nose
>>733043780>>733046135-PAH!
>>733040181This post means jack shit ever since /v/ started using the term "indieslop".
>>733040035That's why the only online games I have on my PC are TF2 and HalosThe rest is just singleplayer games
>>733046649>I can't play that, what if /v/ makes fun of me!?good goy
>>733046921The idea that flatly saying "just play indie games" doesn't hold water anymore because there are also indie games that this board sees as derivative schlock so either be specific or fuck yourselves.
>>733040035>everyone I know irl, through social media or discord only plays live service crap>>finally give in to download some gacha and hero shootersI think I've solved this problem. By not having friends.
>>733046135G
>>733047163We aren't mind readers, faggot, nor are we your personal consoler to trauma dump onto. Talk to a professional who gives a shit because the state of vidya clearly isn't the problem.
>>733040035Just play shit you like and tell people about it when they ask what you're playing. No need to complicate shit or force yourself to play stuff that doesn't interest you. This anon posted some good alternative hobbies though worth checking out >>733044637
Don't know what kind of person you are but if you're looking for another hobby that is videogame adjacent, 3D modeling is pretty fun. I haven't done it in a long time since I got busy with college, and I want to get back into it, but I had a lot of fun learning all sorts of techniques I hope I can remember when I get back into itIt's also fairly safe from AI at the moment. Yeah, you have those programs that can generate a 3D mesh from an image, but they still make a lot of shitty meshes with awful topology, aren't the best at texturing and baking normals and AO maps, and still needs a while to go before it gets good at rigging and weight painting. Even then, I imagine you'll always have those weirdly wealthy furries who want their custom VR chat avatars made specific to their liking and more often than not, AI can only get you an approximationNot saying I am an authority on anything. I feel ashamed of pic related with how high poly I made some of the smaller features
>>733047163>>733046649If you're a grown adult male, it's sad that you let the opinions of shitposters dictate what you're allowed to enjoy this much. Think for yourself man. Be your own man. There's a loud minority of faggots on /v/ that do not play video games at all, they only come here to follow whatever culture war drama is going on and to complain about what other people are playing no matter what.
>>733051496Good job on that topology. You're not bad...for a city slicker.
If a game needs another person to be fun its not worth playing, Anon. You know that.
>>733051698co-op games are fun and cozy tho
>>733052558Fuck no they're not.
>>733047163>>733051139Honestly this. You sound a lot like me. You either need to make compromises and lower your standards a bit and be happy with what you have, find other social circles, look for other games that'd peak your interest or learn to be content with just yourself. If nothing else you should seek counseling because asking a bunch of maladjusted deadbeats for advice isn't going to help you figure yourself out.You wanna play games with your friends, but you're not into the shit they play. Do you feel the same even if/when you hang out with them irl?Have you suggested or even asked them what other games they like and if they'd be interested in playing something else?What kind of games do YOU even like?
>>733040035>I need to find a new hobbyYeah I think you should stop sucking guys dicks too
>>733052637You've clearly never played Turtles in Time or Isaac with a bro
Board Games.
>>733052962Yeah I have, they steal the pizzas. Multiplayer is a joke.
>>733040179fpbp
>>733053057I said 'with a bro', not with random niggers online, and you snooze you lose pal.
I don't blame you, most vidya is pretty shitty but you can have a search button and search things to find gaymes and then they come up on the screen where you can buy them.just stick with indies and jap devs, that's what i have done for years outside very select titles
>>733040035why the fuck do you give a fuck about what other people are playing?
>>733050595G
>>733040035>Video games are a raped medium. I dont know how the fuck this happened.gaming has been shit for 2 decades anon
>>733053409gtfo no it hasn't - there has never been a better time to be a gamer. you'd have to be a fuckin retard to actually think this.
>>733040035>30 years old>discord
>>733053662Yeah it's only /v/ I see that mindset. You have access to every game ever made right now for free in most cases, and while the mainstream AAA is dominated with a lot trash there is always a slew of hidden gems and sleeper hits coming out that even if you don't know about them now they always rise up to the top over time. Then that's not counting all the modding communities and communities that are litterally bringing back online multiplayer for older games.
>>733053915Also forgot to add, we're in real time seeing a resurgence in demos being commonplace for games for the first time in like 15 years
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>>733053915>>733054039problem is>most older gamers played them all or at least the majority of what they wanna play>younger people do not give two fucks about older games and just wanna play roblox, GaaS slop or just watch tik tokIf you're old, you dont have anything to look forward to. If you are young, you are a slave to GaaS and roblox slop till you dieThis is why games are worse than ever. Anytime I see your retarded responses of OMG SO MANY LE GREAT OLDER GAMES TO PLAY, i just cringe because that only works for the very rare old newfag in gaming. Everyone here and online just assumes you are a newfag to games when the people complaining already exhausted almost every old game they wanna play and all they have left is nothing to look forward to and zombie normalfags that only play GaaS slopGaming is dead
>>733054356sounds like a skill issue
>>733054356Sounds like a personal problem. I don't care what older games or younger gamers like. What matters most is what I like. I've been playing games since the PS1 in the 90's and to this day I'm still finding shit I like regardless of console or release date. Stuff I couldn't afford growing up, or stuff I'm just now hearing about. Even some of the new shit coming out today that I end up liking and playing. If you can not find anything you like in the sea of choice that is absolutely on you.
I'm just playing single player games. Video games as a social outlet of any form har always been the big gay.
>>733040035Same, except I like Marvel Rivals and gacha because my dick actually works.>>733054356KEK. Yeah. Everyone here is underaged. Muh le hidden gem. Yeah, sure buddy. Its like that meme image with that one faggot and the caption "Huge Earthbound fan excited to play it for the first time"
>>733044637There are some good ideas in there. Don't participate in the live service/gacha circus.
>>733054356There are hundreds of quality games across many decades. Don't give me that "nuh uh old games don't count" crap. If you want to save the broccoli heads from being permanently stuck in GaaS hell then share your favorite vidya with them and make them aware that better options exist.
>>733055363>share your favorite vidya with them and make them aware that better options exist.why would anyone want to educate them? it's way better to laugh at them
>>733054356I'm gonna guess you're a tendie or just very narrow-minded because there are thousands of half-decent at worst games out there that you definitely haven't played yet, and you could always replay a beloved game with mods or a self-imposed challenge. Games are meant to be enjoyed, not as just another box to check off your Backloggery account.
>>733055523>Being elitist about video games in real lifeThat will just make you look like a manchild faggot. The gatekeeping thing only works online.
>>733040035Don't worry anon. I don't get it either. It vaguely reminds me of those vegas one armed bandits. I don't understand the appeal there nor in modern "gaming."
>>733055523why not both? teach those that listen, laugh at those that don't
>>733040179>doesn't list anyTelling....
>>733055859https://store.steampowered.com/category/multiplayer/
>>733054195R
>>733055980>gacha slop>gacha slop>wannabe gacha slopAnon.... These were the top three.
>be me>this game looks interesting>dont want to spend money>remember emulations a thing>download a bunch of things>play for 2 minutes and close out>go back to refreshing 4chan and doing nothingi wish i could bring myself to play shit
>>733056154Well you can't play those on a phone anywho ya silly billy
>>733056225you're gonna have to break the endless doomscrolling loop
>>733040181spbpIndie is still good. You played obscure single-player games back when everybody thought you were a nerd. No reason to stop playing obscure single-player games just because a bunch of normalfags have started playing Call of Duty-with-gambling-mechanics.
>>733056972how
>>733040035just keep playing single player games then? or buy multiplayer games you think you'd like and make friends there. also yeah the gacha live service stuff sucks but if the game is fun underneath idk it doesn't really bother me that much anymore. isn't the main thrust of games like marvel rivals is just a competitive hero shooter? me and my friends spent many nights on overwatch in the past and had fun. my favorite multiplayer stuff lately has been tarkov, arma reforger, squad, hell let loose. We got hell let loose vietnam coming soon. Hardcore FPS/milsim-lite chads have been eating good for a while now.
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>>733056154how are the first 2 gacha games? because retards can buy cosmetics?i stopped playing helldivers 2 but I never had any trouble unlocking stuff. To unlock stuff you just have to keep killing shit, which is the main draw of the game...
>>733040035You could always just fire up a smaller, older MMO and find a non-shitty community>Project 1999 (classic Everquest server from around the titular year, very faithful and a mature, welcoming community)>Turtle WoW (classic WoW with a lot of new content; mixed bag but decent enough community)>Ephinea (Phantasy Star Online: BB server with fairer loot rules and custom content; decent community)>Champions Online (janky F2P superhero MMO with a great costume creator and casual structure; mostly decent with a few crazy people, good crazy and bad crazy, a human zoo really)>Kingdom of Loathing (ancient .php turn-based humor game, mostly single player but some multiplayer features; decent community)
>>733040035>gaming is his only hobbyi'd kill myself irl
>>733057937I want to recommend Secret World Legends as well for anyone interested. Tons of content and every quest has animated cutscenes and VA. Small but active community. A bit of a must checkout for anyone into paranormal/conspiracy stuff
>>733040035They really are. I've recently dropped all MMOs after snapping out of the FOMO mindset. Comfortably playing singleplayer games like modded Skyrim. Thank god for mods, really.
>>733054356>If you're old, you dont have anything to look forward to.There will always be a new Doom WAD. There will always be someone playing UT, Quake, or TF2. Occasionally a studio does something good like the SH2Remake. It's rough out there but I know how to survive.
>>733057937if you're an old MMO enjoyer you gotta check out Dark Age of Camelot. Eden is the best server currently. Jumping in now might be a bit too much for a new player, but the community is pretty good.When a new season comes the population explodes and everyone is restarting from level 1 again, you should absolutely get into it. Just incredible PvP even if you're shit at the game. And you can start PvPing right from level 1 all the way to max level. over 40 different classes and like 19 races, depending a bit on the timeframe the private servers are emulating.
>>733057937>playing with random P**pleI dont wanna play with p**ple unless I have a friend
>>733058626>SH2Remake>good
>>733040373This.Why exactly do you care what the rest of the mainstream masses of NPC sheeple play?
>>733057937i've been playing Maplelegends all year. chatty playerbase, lots of interactions with anyone and everyone.
>>733057937I recently started playing a 1x L2 server and it feels so comfy. Not worrying about any meta or endgame bullshit, just enjoying the exploration and grind.
>>733040035You waited 30 years to care about what normies think?
Is it me or has recently, or maybe even more than recently, there been a trend of /v/ caring what the fuck normalfags and the majority think and buy? What causes this? It never used to be this bad.
>>733060438/v/ is compromised
>>733060438COVID brought in a billion phoneposting normalfags and indian niggercattle across some of the bigger platforms on the internet and their only 'interests' are sports, e-celebs, and voicing their midwit opinions on shit they barely understand
>>733040179>tonneLol
>>733060438/v/ is tired of pretending that it enjoys being a den for undesirables
>>733058695I wish DAoC wasn't stuck on the NetImmerse engine of all things, it's still the best PvP MMO to date but the controls and combat need a major overhaul
>>733061190>pretending We were here first fuckfaces
>>733042112Normie slop is even more "for kids" than Nintendo is.If you want "grown up" genres, you're pretty much looking at CRPGs and air traffic control simulators.
>>733054356You have not played every good old game. You've probably played like five.
>>733060438/v/ is filled with normalfags what did you expect?
>>733040035>marvel rivals trying to shove unskippable shit in my face to try and make me buy it before i even do anythingIt does it once when something new in the store releases and that's it which is like once every two weeks.>already getting me to claim shitBecause you logged on during an event that gives you a free emote. The last time they did that was like a month ago.>gacha game already begging for my moneyThere's literally no gacha in the game. There's one single event that this is the second time they've run in a year now where you can use skin currency to pop a balloon to get the wedding skins if you want and it's entirely optional.>DAILIES CLICK HERE DAILIES DAILIES BUY THE BATTLEPASSWhich they only do once. The dailies and weeklies can be stockpiled for around two weeks, you don't even need to play daily. I play it like once every week and a half for a few hours. The BP only prompts you the very first time it comes out and then grants you stuff in the background. You have to intentionally go into the BP menu to see anything in it after that which you likely do as a F2P since you still get free skins.You're making an enormous mountain out of a molehill and are also playing a F2P game on top of it that has by far one of the most hands-off monetization models out there.
>>733040035This is the problem with faggots like you. Just complaining about shit you can ignore. Miserable retards like you can't help but create problems just to be even more miserable over.
>>733060438People stopped sagebombing threads that talked about having a girlfriend or wives like 15 years ago. You just haven't been paying attention. Now normalfags think it's normal to say one of those two things in general discussion when it was assumed you were the spitting image of Fatlus.
>>733061996People have literally never sagebombed threads for those reasons.
>>733062040They did. We used to even get W40K posters who would gorebomb any thread with Fox, Krystal or anything related to games with animals for a year at one point making it impossible to have Star Fox threads.
>>733061870What a fucking mistake.
>>733040035There's about 40-50 years of video games to play. You don't need to play new ones. Maybe someday they'll pull their heads out of their asses and course correct but there's enough content to wait it out until then.
>>733040035Playing gacha is pure pussy repellent. Only losers play those, not normalfags. The point? Stop caring so much what fucking retards on the internet are playing.
>>733062062this literally never happened.
>>733062062As cringey as those guys were (though gorebombing was quite rare) I hated the furfags and bronies 100x more, Sonic and Crash threads in particular harbor some of the most uptight, porn addicted sperglords alive
>>733040206Holy based
>>733060438You can blame zoomers for that
>>733060438If you want a real reason why /v/ the video game board cares so much about the normies goycattle it's because those same normie goycattle control the entire industry and what games get made.They have power because they buy the games full price on day one and then play them contributing to the CCU count.Meanwhile you have no power because you pirate them and don't even count as playing the game on any steam player count list.Enjoy the truth nuke. If you can handle it.
>>733062190Yes, it did. It was people spamming "EXTERMINATUS" and then proceeding to make random Space Marine quotes or just dumping imagines. A simple example I can find is of an actual furry thread at >>20933966 having it done to them.https://old.sage.moe/v/thread/20933966Obviously images don't exist anymore, these are just text dumps from the time in a better visual format, but it happened. "Yiff in hell" in all caps was also regularly spammed while they were doing it.>>733062246Yeah, they were awful early on in the board since it was nonstop spam from them and diaper fetishists abound. Star Fox just got caught in the crosshairs due to them spamming Krystal threads.
>>733062554I have literally never seen a Starfox thread get driven off the board.
>>733062593Krystal (Or Star Fox threads with Krystal as the OP to get people in the door) threads were page 0 staples and some people got sick of it. The entire reason why /vp/ exists is because of this same sort of mindset of there being at any point in time an Erika thread, a Misty thread, a trading thread, a Sabrina thread, and a normal Pokemon thread on page 0. If I remember right this was page 0 on /v/ before /vp/ existed.
>>733062523>They have power because they buy the games full price on day one and then play them contributing to the CCU count.Only retards do this
>>733063027You are correct and he is correct. The retards are numerous and retards will consume
>>733063246>>733063027>>733062523And there's nothing at all we can do about it.
>>733060438/v/ is full of normal fags and bots/shills anon, that's why you see FOTM getting spam 24/7, gacha shit, online shit, X or Z developer games getting spammed (like Ubisoft, Larian or Capcom) etc
>>733063574>the pain dimensionwait a min, i though this was the pain dimension
I'd just like to point out based on the archives that this faggot >>733054356 mostly visits culture war threads and also visits the Deadlock general. Just sayin'.
>>733063581YeahShits fucked
>>733060438If your game isnt popular and played by most people then it's the worst slop. Popular=good. It's simple.
>>733064189That's the opposite though? Slop is the thing that's played by most people
>>733064189gr8 b8 m8 I r8 it 8.8
>be singleplayer gamer>play singleplayer games>enjoy myself>play singleplayer gachashit>enjoy myself>sometimes friends want to play together>play some coop games>enjoy myself>not interested in moba/fifa/shooterslop>don't play those>enjoy myselfReally is that shrimple.
>>733040035>>>/vm/2027274unironically just lean in to nostalgiafaggotrythe servers are low/no pop so you can singleplayer while still seeing what others have built (i.e. an environment created for you)
>>733064984Post your Steam recent activity games right now.
>>733040035>likes single player games>tries multiplayer games >doesn't like them>"waaahhh, i can't play any games anymore"You sound like a fucking retard. Just keep playing single player game you window licking cunt.
>>733065120DST doesn't count, I just log in for daily bonuses.>inb4 too little hoursI play like 2 hours a day man
I’ve noticed women are into gachaslop
>>733065120>SteamI play singleplayer games on PCSX2 like Ar Tonelico and Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance and of course the best Dynasty Warriors.Steam can't track PCSX2
>>733065327good boy
>>733062554seething about furries was a something awful meme that retards took way too seriously. the more that 4chan became distanced from sa the better, which is why the pre-gamergate costanza.jpg era was the absolute apex of this shithole.
>>733065327>DST doesn't count, I just log in for daily bonuses.this game have dailies now?
Why is everyone such a fucking pussy now? It's like if it was 13 years ago someone who hates competitive team games plays CSGO and league and then complains that it's not something he likes and getting flamed for not knowing spray patterns or basic mechanics.YOU ARE IN CONTROL OF THE GAMES YOU PLAY, IF YOU DON'T WANT GACHAS OR BATTLEPASS SHOOTERS DON'T PLAY THEM
>>733044637>Forming a family
>>733067823lol
>>733040035Thr only live service games worth playing are Valve games.
>>733066550Not really, it's just this free lootbox of cosmetic shit.
>>733040035Boy OP got a lot of seething replies from gacha-brained zoomoids whose formative years were spent looking at lootbox screens.
>>733066046Based emuchad
>be singleplayer gamer>Bored at work because everyone who works under me is all set for the day>finally give in after 30 years to download some gacha anime horse girl racing game>be thrown into a mobile menu with a million things to click on>Trying to shove unskippable shit in my face to try and make me buy it before i even do anything>already getting me to claim shit>be thrown in the most obnoxious tutorials possible>the shittiest most cringiest dialogue possible with gacha>finally get to play and I already hate everything about these games and how they feel like mobile slop>gacha game already begging for my money>DAILIES CLICK HERE DAILIES DAILIES BUY THE BATTLEPASS>immediately give up and uninstall everything>Don't feel sad that this is what everyone else plays now and go back to playing single player games that I enjoyWow... SO fucking hard!
>>733071731It actually is really hard for the broken brained faggots who post here these days.>NOOOOO I MUST LIKE WHAT NORMALFAG GOYCATTLE LIKEIt's mind blowing what happened to this website
>>733071924grim
>>733040035I can't stand that daily shit. I tried the Pokémon TCG and even if it's just 10 seconds to log in and get your daily booster it just started to annoy me a week in. Maybe it's just an age thing, I could play WoW MoP with it's dailies no problem back in the day.
>>733062523Well said. They're also the ones that are fine with games being $80 now, because "uuuh dude it's still cheaper than that concert I went to, what is your problem?"
>>733072851>even if it's just 10 seconds to log in and get your daily booster it just started to annoy me a week in.Did this for Red Dead Online and I'm glad it was never taken to the extremes that other people went with it. Fuck that pathetic shit especially for a game that was effectively abandoned by the parent company. Because they didn't make all of the money on MTX jewery. Making people jump through all of the hoops in anticipation for the things that will never arrive.
