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tripleB
post Nov 10 2017, 11:00 AM

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All of us has outgrown gaming to a certain extent. It's completely normal. I was once known as the hardcore gamer among all my friends. It used to be something like a badge of honor, but now I get annoyed by the mention, because it sounds as if I only play games for a living.

I still like to follow gaming news and watching Youtube videos, but actually playing them feels like a chore now. Like all of you, I also used to be able to play games all day long and not feel bored. Now I feel it's a waste to spend long hours playing games when I have other things to do.

Occasionally a game does come along that I play obsessively. Currenty it's Cuphead. The game combines two of my passion: old timey cartoons and 90s era shooters. I've been coming back to that game quite often. After I finish it, who knows.
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post Nov 10 2017, 11:27 AM

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QUOTE(skylinelover @ Nov 10 2017, 11:22 AM)
haha as da saying goes "got time no $$$ then got $$$ no time" devil.gif  devil.gif  innocent.gif  innocent.gif
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Yup. Masa budak we had a lot of free time with no money. Now I have lots more money than I used to, but no time to play. FML cry.gif
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post Nov 13 2017, 02:49 PM

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Part of the problem is that it's getting harder and harder to be impressed as we grow older. I speak as someone who's become jaded with a lot of things in life. Little things that used to amaze me like magic shows, a trip to the zoo/aquarium, watching a movie in the cinema, have now become common. Once you have "gotten over" something, it becomes very hard to recapture that magical feeling. I would actually LOVE to be surprised by something new, but nothing seems to be doing it for me.

In the end, I usually go back to something from my younger days, meaning, something I am nostalgic for. I like to reminisce on times gone by, like 70s-80s music and TV, 8-bit and 16-bit gaming, etc. But I can't claim that today's entertainment is not as good as the old days. Just like I don't like today's game as much as the old ones, it's inevitable that someone growing up with games in this era will not like the games that will come out sometime in the future.


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post Nov 13 2017, 05:51 PM

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QUOTE(svfn @ Nov 13 2017, 04:54 PM)
i don't think it was luck to become famous youtuber/streamer, but hard work also. when you become full time content provider it become like a job, it's not as easy as it looks to be honest.

true that Asian work hours is higher. but also depending on type of job and priorities. some people prefer or would rather socialize than gaming, or these who game after working rarely go out for entertainment. some have kids and they also manage to game still. so imo a gamer will always find some time however little to game wink.gif
i do feel that way too, but there's always something new to discover, not just in gaming but in general. can't possible know/learn everything so long as we keep mind open and sometimes try new things we never thought to do, i bet there's still somethings that have wow factor for you. for me it is probably curiosity and hunger to uncover something good that is worth sharing with others.

yea it's an inevitable sign of being old fart when you prefer nostalgia haha. 90s-2000s PC gaming is still the 'golden era' for me, because the gaming market seemed different then, it seemed devs were more creative and there was more emphasis on gameplay than graphics. so many genre defining games then. now games costs more to develop and it's all about the business model, just see the current trend of remastered games lol.
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I do want to be genuinely surprised again, but it's getting harder as I become older and more grizzled. Even traveling becomes tiresome sometimes, and I've traveled a lot too. That's not to say I don't come across new experiences occasionally. Those are the moments I live for.

Ahem. So back to gaming topic. Yup, I would say the pinnacle of PC gaming was back in the mid 90s. I've repeated my opinion on it many times, but I still stand by it. The 90s was when it seemed new tech was always coming up, new genres defined, and gaming in general was still unexplored. Seeing something like Daytona USA run in 60fps, with bleeding edge graphics to boot, was insanely mindblowing for me. I had the same feeling when I saw Virtua Fighter for the first time. Sure it looked fugly, but I knew right then that polygonal gaming was the future.

Today's games, although they can still be fun to me, are just iteration of things that have been done before. I suppose that's why I find Cuphead to be so endearing to me. Old school gameplay combined with 1930s style animation? They already had my support when I first saw the trailer.


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post Nov 20 2017, 02:59 PM

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I've already made my peace that I'm no longer a hardcore gamer. Although I have so many backlog games, I know I will never finish them in my lifetime. I have games from PS1, PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, Dreamcast and PC that I played halfway and never completed. Instead, I just look for videos on YouTube so that I can have closure, knowing how the game ends. That's mostly enough for me now. The only games I complete these days are fighting games, and occasionally games like Cuphead. Man I love that game.
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post Dec 12 2017, 10:02 AM

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QUOTE(skylinelover @ Dec 11 2017, 12:26 PM)
haha thought I like 2 add another 10 sen here

not just games I abandoned for good,,,even the good old internet I abandoned for good whenever I go 4 the peak kill till 12am daily laugh.gif  doh.gif that feel comes only after 1 month fixing the unifi which FINALLY come my place after I waited like 10 years 4 it rclxub.gif now like feeling redundant the 50mbps better downgrading 10mbps after 30 days hahahaha mega_shok.gif

I think this is the first time ever in my lifetime that I can leave my PC off 4 like 6 straight days per week laugh.gif doh.gif something I never ever done b4 during studying days yo ohmy.gif  ohmy.gif

I guess being self employed is more jia lat than the good old 9-5 office jobs then devil.gif  devil.gif
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Haha yup I know that feeling too. Dulu nak sangat high speed Internet. At the office, during Uni, I couldn't get enough browsing time done. Now that I have 50Mbps line, I don't know what else to do. Browsed Internet and watched videos until I puke.

 

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