Is gaming dead for you?

[Akimoto]

Nope, gaming is still alive for me and I'm glad to have a wide range of platforms to choose. Sure we've had flops and disappointments but that's not the sum of the gaming industry, right?

I think we're just going through a phase similar to adolescence and I point most of the blame to gamers and game creators as a whole - trying too hard to justify games.

Games has always been seen as infantile and childish, but someone came along and tried to justify games as being an art form like movies. Games as a whole is probably at a stage where it's experimenting between being entertainment and a story telling medium.

Hopefully we'll clear the air and find our identity soon.

 

[Kal-Adam]

Of course not! In fact, I think we'll see now pretty amazing stuff from gaming pretty soon. With gaming become a more accepted and popular medium, and an increase in popularity with programs like Kickstarter, I think we'll see some very interesting things happening in the gaming industry as a whole.

 

[Phlakes]

No. That would be ridiculous. It's video games. I just like to play games in peace and enjoy the good things instead of complaining about everything else.

 

[KRbertsproduck5]

Its not the same. I havent had that "holy shit that was awesome" feelings in some of the newer games. All these run and gun games just don't do it for me as much as a nice RPG on the PS1 or 2 did.

 

[Yali]

PC Gaming can never be dead to me. It?s my passion and has been for a very long time. It has changed a lot, though. Some things are better nowadays, others are worse. If I can?t find a new title to play, there are tons of older titles that I can fall back on.

Console gaming has always been dead to me, though. So dead that I don?t even bother to go and poke it with a stick. Sometime I think of it as the spoiled brat evil twin of PC gaming who insists on ?having it MY WAY!!!!? like when developers opt for pleasing the console crowd and forget that console UIs look like shit when you look at them from 2 feet away.

I just hope Kickstarter will be successful, alive and well for a good while. The way things evolve in that department are really exciting. And what?s not to like about supporting the underdog developers

 

[pilouuuu]

Games are changing. With all the talk about gaming as art, I think videogames are finding its own language. How to tell a story with interactivity. I think games are on the verge of becoming something magnificent if developers do things right.

 

[orangeban]

No, gaming is alive and kicking for me. Firstly, far as I remember, games have always been buggy pieces of shit, at least some of them.

Secondly, the sexism and violence of gaming is only an issue because games are growing up. Suddenly they don't get to protect themselves by saying, "We're just games!", instead they have to actually face being an artform.

 

[NoobSaibot]

Sort of. I don't like how things are changing with DLC, online passes, always online DRM, and things like that. I find myself more and more attracted to older games where you can just put in the disk and not worry about stuff like that. I'm buying less and less new titles because I refuse to dish out for DLC, or buy games with online passes, and because of such, my pool is becoming smaller. I won't stop with gaming with new consoles unless the companies do something absolutely stupid (like blocking used titles, which probably won't happen).

As for sexism and violence, we could use more decently clothed females, but that's always been an issue and it hasn't stopped me from enjoying what I already do. Those issues has existed since Doom and they're probably always going to be there.

 

[Iwata]

Gaming?! Dead?!

Dear god, no! By no means is it dead, it's quite alive and well!

 

[CarlMin]

as totalbiscuit said , gaming is maturing and with that come changes and people start accepting those kind of topics (in this case rape)

Not that I'm in a habit of agreeing with TotalBiscuit, but that's by far the best explanation of what's going on in the gaming world today. Namely what has always been going on, irrational people worrying about some sort of end for decent gaming, when really the market is just changing.

 

[Laurents van Cauwenberghe]

as totalbiscuit said , gaming is maturing and with that come changes and people start accepting those kind of topics (in this case rape)

Not that I'm in a habit of agreeing with TotalBiscuit, but that's by far the best explanation of what's going on in the gaming world today. Namely what has always been going on, irrational people worrying about some sort of end for decent gaming, when really the market is just changing.

i don't really think that the market is changing as much as the main audience for games are growing older, the people who enjoyed games were the kids who played games when gaming was still a new thing.now they are adults who are able to handle this kind of thing and they also will be able to have the right emotions when a character gets involved with these kinds of moments (rape , torture etc.).
well... this is what i get from all of this , and from me growing up with games and brothers who play games.

 

[WaysideMaze]

You're asking the users of a very popular gaming website if they think gaming is dead? Surely the popularity of websites such as Kotaku, Destructoid and The Escapist is evidence against that.

For me, no, gaming is not dead. I'm currently going through a lull where I am a bit bored of gaming, but I'll pick it up again soon. This happens for a few months every other year.

 

[Pink Gregory]

If gaming is dead, then I'm going to continue digging up it's corpse and toying with its decaying nadgers as long as it entertains me.

 

[Dante DiVongola]

Gaming is kinda meh to me. More or less because I'm growing up as a person rather than games potentially getting shittier. As a kid, I would spend all day playing one game. Now, I spend maybe 2-4 hours on a game, then I'm done for the day (possibly stretching out till the next day). The only thing I will say about games these days is that I would really like it if they made something like Conker or Gex again. Just some wacky, goofy game with a loose plot and filled with lots of humor. I might be missing it since a lot of indie games have come to fruition these days, but feel free to point 'em out if there are games like that.

 

[Vegosiux]

Idea for a social experiment:

1. Get an indie developer to develop a SNES game (or a game that was within the SNES' hardware limitations)
2. Release it on some ROM site, with a couple of "fan made" trailers for it to promote it
3. Claim that it was released in 1993/4/5
4. See gamers play and love it
5. Reveal that it was made this year
6. ???

Well, um, what exactly would you prove by doing something like that? Plus, I doubt thhat would fool anyone who seriously gamed in the SNES era. It would be really hard to believe that suddenly a new game from mid-nineties popped up that the entire SNES bunch completely forgot about.

But yes I bet you'd get some hipster kids, yes, of course, but we know that without doing the experiment.

 

[TheLizardKing]

Gaming isn't dead for me yet, but the way things are going it will be.

Btw this is my opinion so don't go around saying that i'm claiming it to be fact as alot of you do on here.

 

[InsipidMadness]

I think it's all perspective, at least for me. Most of us started when we were coming of age (I assume) so there were things back then that just WOWED us and blew our minds. While gaming may be in fact getting better, we just don't have that mind blown effect. We'll look forward to a game, buy it, play the stuffing out of it, and set it down to either never been seen again or picked up here and there, but it lacks the nostalgia that our former games have had. And to that, I believe it's all perspective.

Take this year for example:
Resident Evil 6
Hitman Absolution
Splinter Cell Blacklist
New Tomb Raider
Halo 4?

The Last of Us
Watch Dogs

I was contemplating retiring gaming altogether around a year ago or two, the remakes weren't interesting, the friends list was slowly disbanding, and yet, suddenly, a lot of games I'm looking forward to are coming out all around the same time. Sure they won't be great, new, or mind blowing, but I'll have a helluva lotta' fun, so why hate just because it won't become your new #1 fantasy blowing away all the dreams of your past, Ya'know?

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Is gaming dead for me? Fuck no. As far as I am concerned, gaming is better than it has ever been.

The better question is: Is this forum dead to me? And the answer is..... Almost. No other site I have seen has festered the silly arguments as much as we have. I straight up left for several months during the whole ME3 shitstorm. For the last few weeks, the news, the threads and the videos have been almost entirely about things like the nonsensical accusations of sexism that the OP brought up.

Yes, SOME discussion of these things should take place, but when the entire first page of threads is how much someone thinks ME3 sucked, how bad sexism is and how taboo rape is, something is very wrong.

Damn.... I've needed to get that out for a while.

 

[Beach_Sided]

As quite a few others have said, gaming for me is better now than ever. I?m 35 and have been gaming since I was about 4 or 5 years old, but I am still not jaded by it at all.

There is so much choice now for game type and gaming platform, gaming is also now even more convenient than ever.

I play fun games like?Hero Academy and Plants v Zombies on my way to and from work, and can then settle down with something like Max Payne 3 or Skyrim when I get home.
(wife permitting.... )

What?s not to like?

 

[4173]

Just on distribution alone this is the best of times. Until next year.