Growing up poor I thought everyone who could afford video games played a wide variety and was DEEP into the hobby and sought out all kinds of different experiences, but it turns out most people play a game for a few hours then drop it to move onto the next FOMO or just replay the same handful of games they played in their childhood over and over and over again.I look back on the kids I was jealous of now and they were such surface level casuals, despite having the time and money to not be.
name 10 examples or fuck off
Growing up I thought the internet would stay this beautiful place where messages are worth reading
>>12640348Poverty was the better way to experience gaming. I would rather play one great game to death instead of 10 decent to good games for a few hours.
Being a wide-eyed kid on niche 2000s internet forums, I assumed that everyone online was a witty, well-spoken individual with interesting, worthwhile things to say about the subjects I enjoyed. I couldn't wait to grow up and join them. Oho, what a lark!
I don't like south america
>>12640376>>12640391No one forces you to read posts you don't like. No one forces you to post in threads that don't appeal to you. You do it to yourself, and that's what really hurts.
>>12640348Anon, what you're describing has more to do with most people being normies than anything else, but your summation is accurate. The same kind of person exists today and has thousands of games in their Steam library but only plays two or three multiplayer games on repeat for years. In the past, those same people would have only had the top 3-4 games for whatever systems they had and never cared to look for hidden gems.Hidden gems do not exist to the normie. Anything outside of the public view is unverified and scary to them. This is true in all aspects of their lives, not just vidya. You will never convince them to play anything you present to them as underrated. And in the off chance they actually try playing them, they'll never dig deep enough to see them as such. The only exception is if some youtuber with millions subscribers says it's ok to, because then it's verified as socially acceptable in their minds.
>>12640408schizos shitting threads up drive quality posters awaythis board is a living example of that
>>12640408Don't be disingenuous. Nobody WANTS to read or be around nonsense, they go to platforms looking for strong conversation and don't find it. You don't know what's going to be good or not before you try it. If the level of quality drops entirely without your involvement, that's a problem with the community, not you.
Growing up poor I rented games almost every weekend and if they were good enough we rented them again, and sometimes even bought them for christmas or birthdays because they were so good.
>>12640416In my book, that makes you rich, not poor. Renting games? Rich fuck.
>>12640419Rentals were $1 per day for NES games at the local rental place where I lived in the early '90s.At Blockbuster it was $5 for 3 day rentals from the mid-'90s through the mid-2000s at least.I was a poorfag but those were considered good prices at the time. Also it's crazy to think about now since you can buy whole ass games for those same prices over 30 years later even with the crippling inflation.
>>12640391You must feel suicidal looking at any board nowadays, then. Let alone going anywhere else on the internet besides this basket weaving forum
I grew up poor, so just pirated games. Had no internet. In my mind back then, the gaming world was amazing, i couldn't comprehend how many amazing games were out there and how great the games could become in the future.Nowadays i know most games till the 7gen, barely play any game. And the gaming world is already dead with nothing new or good releasing. So I choose to stay in the past with old games and drowning myself in nostalgia
>>12640412>hidden gemAs much as I agree with your post, I can't take this term seriously anymore. It's long since been poisoned by people who get their tastes from numbered lists and believe Secret of Mana to be some obscure cult classic.
Money was limited, but even if you were rich, time was limited. I got The Pagemaster as a gift as a kid. It was fine, I enjoyed it, but it wasn't great, so I wasn't going to waste hours trying to beat it just so I could say I beat it. I'd much rather spend time on some weekend rental or playing another game I enjoyed more. For better or worse, I think the backlog mindset has given people the feeling that playing and beating certain games is a duty in and of itself. Also have to keep in mind that it was harder to get information about what games were worth your time back in the day. Ultimately I tended to be busy enough playing the obviously good games to spend a whole lot of time mining for "hidden gems."
>>12640348You realize what you're doing is coping, right?
>>12640376nice try larping zoomie. internet discussion has literally always sucked
I grew up poor-ish and had a shit load of varied games and systems because thrift stores and flea markets were a thing.
>>12640813>I think the backlog mindset has given people the feeling that playing and beating certain games is a duty in and of itself.At a certain point...it is. If you're IN in, if video games are your main thing, then you probably should play the classics even if they're not balls to the wall fun, for context and historical purposes. Just like people who are obsessed with films watch stuff from almost 100 years ago. Of course there's idiots who waste huge amounts of time trudging through games just to posture about them online, but there is something to be said for fully exploring the history of video games and the games that changed the industry.
>>12641061Not him, but I agree with this. I want to be an expert on video games, old and new. Even if I don't have a lot of fun playing a certain game, there are always interesting design choices. Some catch you off guard.
>>12641061I certainly agree. But most people, especially kids and teens, playing games in the 80s and 90s were playing them as free time entertainment, with no real intention to make games (or at least not seriously enough to consider the idea of playing as research), writing about games, making videos about games, or really doing a whole lot with games beyond playing them and maybe discussing them with friends. That said I do think there are people nowadays who wind up turning the simple act of playing games into a task to mark things off a list or wave their epeen around or to feel like they're actually accomplishing something with their lives.
>>12640348Flavor of the month is FotM, not FOMO (fear of missing out), retard
>>12640348>play a game for a few hours then drop it to move onI'm 31 and still do this>play dq4 for 20+ hours>drop it after doing a few bosses with the entire party together>play Shadowrun on Genesis for 10+ hours>make the matrix minigame my bitch but lose interest after going through the upgrade cycle a few times>play 10+ hours of Shenmue>get bored talking to every npc and making zero progress only to find out there's tons of missable cutscenes that do a significant amount of world building On the other hand, I've been playing the fuck out of pic related on and off for a month now so maybe I'm just playing games I don't really like, idk
>>12640348My experience was the opposite. My best friend in grade school was a a normie chad that was great at sports and had mostly middle of the road interests, and his family was relatively wealthy compared to us. Always had the coolest gaming stuff but was barely even into it. He always had absolute elite tier games that everyone recognizes as classics nowadays but weren’t as well known back then - super metroid, legend of the mystical ninja, super punch out, bomberman 64, in addition to all the stuff that was super popular back then. I always annoyed him because I’d be glued to the TV when I stayed the night at his house. I was always a generation behind in gaming so when he got a 64 he gave me all his snes stuff and I played the absolute shit out of all of those games
>>12640348>Growing up poor I thought everyone who could afford video gamesVideo games are not expensive. You could afford video games. Even if you lived in some shithole 3rd world country you could afford video games.
>>12640391Forum posters were cringe as shit. They would dickride the mods and prolific posters. Shit was embarrassing. I still miss them but man everyone was as gay as in here, just in a different way.
>>12641757$50 is very expensive anon. If you don't think so you never experienced struggle. You were obviously spoiled as a kid and born with a silver spoon in your bussy.
>>12641757>Video games are not expensive.I grew up in Ireland, which isn't a poor country but it's not cheap to live there either. My family were penniless, we grew up on bread and butter sandwiches. I had two pairs of clothes most of my life. If my shoes got holes in them I'd have to wear them for another year or more. Eventually I scraped together about 80 euros to buy an ancient Dell laptop and start emulating GBA games, because that was all it could handle. Be grateful you grew up so comfortable you can't even imagine poverty.
>>12641757Those who have never lived in poverty have no right to make such claims.
>>12641757That might be true today but it wasn't always true in the past. Games were also a lot more expensive in the '80s and '90s when you account for inflation. And even without accounting for that, new SNES games were $60 or more. If you were lucky you might find something used or on sale for $15-20 for ANY system.Today you can amass hundreds of games literally for free on GOG and Epic if you just wait for the giveaways, or search for the $1 deals, or pirate for free. But if you were poor in the past it was always a big event when you got a new game, which was usually used or borrowed from a friend. I'm not complaining though. I did still get to play lots of games but I didn't actually own that many.
>>12640348I was poor but I rented game all types of games trying out stuff, lucky they had like 3 and 5 dollar rentals for older stuff and my local video store in a super market never got rid of it's N64 games till it shut down in like 2017 also they had an unopened for sell Hockey game from 1994, that game sat there for like 20 years.
>>12640348poors are so whiny holy shit
>>12642881Spoiled brats never grow up, holy shit.
