Gamers, more than any other consumer demographic, embody that Calvin and Hobbes strip where he collects the cereal box tops for weeks to buy the motorized propeller beanie hat he thinks will grant him the power to flyhttps://twitter.com/SaddestRobots/status/1339378541536948247 …
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The sheer depth of his despair and rage and bitter anguish that he turns outward against everyone in his life as he realizes the thing is just spinning in place and that's all it actually does
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Except gamers go through this same thing like every 2.5 years well into adulthood and never seem to actually learn the lesson Every single time they just go right ahead and pay the $120+ for the Collector's Edition preorder with the Season Pass
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See in ANIME i get why the same tropes are trotted out ad naseum, that fanbase is eternally hooking new teens and burning off older fans. But games demonstrably HAS elders. They practically birthed the youtube review scene
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and this is seperate from the Sports gamers and the Shooty gamers. They buy yearly releases cause thats like one of 3 games they buy every year to play with friends. Cyberpunk is not that market.
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It was the same thing as No Man's Sky People were totally fucking losing their minds, like actually convincing themselves this game would let you disappear into a virtual world and live a new better life Like Calvin imagining putting his hat on and flying away into the clouds
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My personal distaste for open world games is that I *agree* that open worlds are attractive because they try to fulfill the "basic promise of gaming" -- that you can go anywhere and do anything and it's a genuine alternate reality But that promise is always fucking broken
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I think it's actually hilarious that the ramp-up to Cyberpunk had all these weird fanboys shitting on old faves like Skyrim or GTA, picking up all the flaws in their worldbuilding and saying Cyberpunk would leave them in the dust And turns out Cyberpunk is worse than all of them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns
I only played Cyberpunk for 1 hour so far but it's very different to those games (different style of environment) and I enjoyed walking round the city observing the environment.
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