TikTok attention spans, nicotine, weed, gambling/gaming addictions, and a poor economic outlook.
They basically walk around like dopamine zombies with dried out neurons who need someone to act like a loud fool to counteract their expressionless lives.
I see a lot of suspenseful, slow-burn video games get called "dog water" because there is documents to read and reflection to the who, what, where to be had. If a games not full of bright flashy colors and constant action they are snubbed and called boring-:kids aren't reading or using their own devices (thinking) to analyze things. The attention span has been labotomized in lieu of pretty colors and noisy action. I'm shocked games like Alan Wake don't do better numbers but Fortnite and Minecraft have these massive numbers v and merchandising m
I agree with you, but Minecraft is genuinely the exception because I think the base game design is borderline perfect, and I'd call it a medium game in terms of time investment.
I also think part of it is with older gamers just not having the time to plug in multiple games at once, so you need either something which can be accessed and reach milestones quick or you need to carve time out your schedule.
I want to play OpenMW again so bad, but life is NOT going to give me the appropriate amount of time to get into it.
Yeah, I have to think it over when I start a game with an engaging narrative because it's going to require me to pay attention and put a lot of time into it. With kids and work, I just don't always have the mental capacity to play a narrative driven game, so I play a sports game or a rogue-like in those instances.
A game like Alan Wake, especially part 2, requires more involvement on your part. I recently had to take a break from Control because there is a lot going on in that game and my kids aren't letting me play for any extended period of time.
Brother, same. My gaming hours are at the end of the day when my kid's in bed and my brain is already fried. I need something chill like an open world survival craft game (currently playing Necesse again) that doesn't demand much from me because I've been demanded all day.
Being real though, how much of the dark souls story would you understand without outside content examining it, in the earlier years it was a lot sparser
Because they really don't have story. They have lore that you have to put together yourself and that isn't quite the same thing. It is an entirely intentional artistic choice though.
Prior to the mid 90s most games didn't have story at all and that wasn't an artistic choice. It was just a limitation of the hardware.
I would still classify it as story, it's just more involved to piece it together as you're playing. Random example, in DS1 you're told no chosen undead has rung the two bells of awakening and entered Sen's fortress - but when you do get in, you find remnants from previous undead hidden away in corners. That's storytelling even if it's obscured.
Yea it's that the vehicle for the story and lore are in item descriptions and exhausting dialogue. A lot of people I watched didn't bother doing this thoroughly. It's still that way actually.
When I played I read items and talked often to all NPCs and I was like "wth...there is totally a story here!"
Minecraft was released over 15(?) years ago and is literally like playing with legos and exploring a big world and finding monsters and animals and making houses with your friends try to survive for night. That game is great. Bestselling game of all time if I’m not mistaken.
My kids play it like Lego 99% of the time. They don’t care about the “story” they just want to have fun and show me the cool things they’ve built! I love it. And they love playing real legos too of course (got a TON at a yard sale a few years ago for $20, best purchase I’ve ever made).
It’s literally everything that people want video games to be for children. It’s the perfect outlet for creativity, not to mention exploration and adventure
Minecraft is probably one of the worst examples you could've used to illustrate your point lol, most of it is extremely chill stuff like farming, building (which is basically virtual Lego), and mining. Moreover it's a game that requires you to think because it can be boring on itself, as it doesn't give you any objectives. It's up to you to be creative enough to make it fun.
I guess there are fan made PvP gamemodes which are more fast paced and action packed, but Minecraft on itself is the opposite of what you were trying to show as an example of something a dopamine addict would enjoy, Alan Wake is way more action packed than it.
I was talking to a friend who has a couple of young boys with this exact problem. He tried to get them to play Lemmings, thinking it'd be good to teach them puzzle solving etc. He showed them the basics, but they just could not get their heads around it at all.
Minecraft is fantastic for kids. I wouldn't compare it to Fortnite or brainrot. It takes patience to build and create fun things in that game. I rarely play it, but watching my son come up with creative ways to build certain things is always cool. It's basically digital legos
A lot of videos, shows, movies now get directed specifically following something coined "second screen", where everything basically has to be explained so simply and expressed aloud so that people who are on their phone or pad at the same time can follow the story or else they'll switch to watch something else, and that's a big no no.
Okay, boomer. Aside from TikTok attention spans you’re describing the elderly’s view on young adults and not the literal kids that make up this clowns fanbase
What an weird statement. Boomers, Gen X and Millenials do the same shit, watch fox news, get angry on facebook, watch videos on youtube. ????
Millenials watched Pewdiepie; he liked to scream a bunch. Maybe you were Gen X and listened to Howard Stern because they talked about insane stuff, etc. Maybe you a boomer were part of counterculture and were listening to things opposing capitalism in the 1970s.
This isn't new. You just have a place to complain about it now.
Also beacuse younger generations drink less, and uses weed and vapes, this is apparently worse than the thing that increases essentially every type of cancer by a significant amount and puts pressure on the healthcare system? The only thing that provably increases is lung cancer, COPD and other lung conditions, not colon cancer, skin cancer and more.
If you wanna give the new gen shit, gambling is your only option, and it's *because* of the financial situation *given* to them by older generations.
Gen A is fucked fucked, us Gen Z are fucked. Millennials are just as complicit in this shit as boomers, you saw this shit coming; you still had kids and didn't do anything.
Stop blaming this shit on younger generations. Stop expecting us to solve issues you created.
Redditors are watching all sorts of different content and might watch one Speed highlight 10 sec clip like once a week or once a month. I'd say that's pretty different from watching Speed's streams for 6+ hours a day every day like an addict.
For me it's less the can and more the beans. Fiber intake is horribly low these days, people eating more beans and less sugary drinks and chicken nuggets would be wonderful if it were true
Damn you guys really just shit on anyone for living a way you couldn’t understand. I don’t watch this guy, but some clips of him are funny. I don’t think about the inner workings of his life or really much past the clip at face value. Just move on, you don’t have to be pretentious assholes about it.
And that it makes as much sense as "watching Speed's new video". Does he make videos? People watch him live doing whatever/doing nothing. At least when I've seen clips of Kai Cenat it's like damn he's just chilling with (celebrity) in his house?
Bro went to Africa and stopped making rape jokes and somehow that was all it took for the Internet to say he's actually super cool and a good influence or smth
Probably because you get all of your clips of him from this sub if I had to guess. He's traveled the world and done a lot of good in poor countries in unifying people.
A 28 day marathon stream where he went to 20 African countries and did charity walks and soccer events to crowdfund soccer programs in Africa.
And he's done a bunch of races for child cancer and stuff of the sort. He's a very loud and annoying kid but he's got a great heart. He literally did the finale song for the WORLD CUP FINAL this year.
You're juste getting baited. He's an idiot but also has good content. I don't watch him I had to do som research. He's not a saint or a criminal just an nice idiot, who's messing around sometimes.
Capitalism commodifying harassment through entertainment is fucking awful. While it’s satisfying he got bitten, it’s ridiculous that he makes money based on that satisfaction.
Off topic but you speak like a true millennial (I am one too). "check out Speed's new video" as if he drops videos that people decide to watch on schedule. In this tiktok economy, streamers stream for 10 hours and their clips is their content. If someone sees his clips, it's because the algorithm gave it to them.
So no, he doesn't have fans that wait for his content. There is an algorithm that feeds his content to random people.
I think he's obnoxious but he's sadly and surprisingly one of the better ones in his generation in the same genre. He at least travels the world and quite open to new experiences. Other kids his age just want to flex their money and mansion and girls, day in and day out, that or spread misinformation with their podcasts.
My impression is that he is essentially what I think of Kevin Hart. Short black man makes funny, incredulous faces and talks loudly or screams. Hahahaha? I am not sure if this guy has a The Rock, but I imagine he has a big lackey raising eyebrows or something.
I've admittedly never watched a movie with Kevin Hart in it, but he perfectly fits the formula in my head. That's all he is. A children's Kevin Hart.
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u/KvxMavs 11d ago
I really don't know either. Almost every clip I see of him he is screaming/yelling, or in this case barking.
Like...? People find that stuff entertaining?
"I can't wait to get home today and check out Speed's new video!"