Re: Bye Bye, Monolith

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 17:14 this Saturday (GMT):

On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 15:10:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
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Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 02:58 this Saturday (GMT):

Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote:

On Thu, 06 Mar 2025 21:36:06 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

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Heh, I used to love to replay, rewatch, etc. when I was younger.

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Exact opposite for me. When I was younger, I needed to constantly play
a new game. I never stuck with one game for long. It partly explains
why I own so many games.

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But these days, I prefer sticking to one game for a long time. To
prove my point, I am still playing Project  Highrise, the FIRST game I
got from Spalls from his giveaway.

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Yeah, I try to avoid playing new full games.

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I usually don't play modern games, because 1. my computer doesnt support
it and 2. the microtransaction hell. Indie has gotten quite good.

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While the microtransaction shit is awful, in many games it _is_
completely avoidable if you don't care about cosmetics and other such
nonsense.
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A lot of games I really enjoy I realize after the fact have all this
nonsense DLC attached to them. But I just shrug, and say, 'Nah, I'm
good with the base game' and move on to the next experience.
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There are too many games, sure, which fuck up their own gameplay and
make it so grindingly awful that MTX solutions become the only way to
enjoy the game, but most MTX in most games I play are about new hats
or a different skin on a gun... and I couldn't give a damn about those
things.
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That's not to say I defend the practice; the publishers are literally
charging us for stuff that used to be in the games by default, and
their loot-box tactics are unabashed gambling mechanics made to keep
you buying more and more in hopes of getting that shiney new hat that
you really want... but if you can just control your desire for shiney
hates, then a lot of that nonsense becomes inconsquential
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(admittedly, a lot of people have problems with that step, which is
why MTX is so corrosively evil)
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TL;DR: don't avoid modern games just because of MTX. There are still
good experiences out there if you ignore the unfettered greed of the
publishers preying on your FOMO.

Right, MTX is one reason, but it's somewhat hard to play any modern
games on an older linux laptop :P but if i do get the chance i may try
some?
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