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0 pointsSohcahtoa823y ago0 comments

> Video games? 40+ years old.

As a gamer, I find this is incredibly dismissive.

There's still tons of new ideas in games being explored. Factorio introduced the factory building genre in 2014, and we're still seeing new takes on it. Satisfactory made it first-person and beautiful. Dyson Sphere Program made it multi-planet and interstellar. Captain of Industry made destructible and moveable terrain.

The colony sim genre as we know it today did not exist 10 years ago. Now we have RimWorld, Banished, Oxygen Not Included, and more.

Even puzzle games continue to innovate. Baba is You is probably the most unique puzzle game I've ever seen, and then there's all the Zachtronics games...

So yeah...the product of "video games" might be 40+ years old, but it's silly to claim that there's nothing net new coming out.

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j2bax3y ago

I think OP was referring to major new verticals... Video game vertical is 40+ years old now. Sure still lots of innovation happening within the vertical, but anything that is going to change the trajectory of humanity?

Sohcahtoa82OP3y ago

I think it's silly to expect every innovation to "change the trajectory of humanity".

Sometimes people just want entertainment and that's fine. Based on the OP's response to my comment, I wonder if they consider leisure time to be wasted time.

th1s1sit3y ago

Humans went millions of years entertaining themselves without computers.

Why keep chucking real resources down the drain for Zachtronics? If you want logic puzzles there are simple paper books full of them.

This is peak entitlement; the future must cope with your leisure preferences. Not voting rights, or clean water; you are owed video games.

You would defend until the end your right to not sacrifice any scrap of figurative identity. How incredibly dismissive of future peoples entire existence.

Launch the nukes, Putin. If we’re just going to iterate like mindless dweebs into collapse of the species why not go out in a blaze of glory; that would truly be metal af

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MikeTheRocker3y ago

Virtual Reality is an increasingly popular vertical that's emerged in the mainstream in the last decade. Mobile gaming too.

th1s1sit3y ago

I have built engines for my own games and worked with the big engines; I’ve modded games going back to Doom.

I’ve built game loops and models; I know how games work.

The suggestions you cherry picked still do not come with any fundamentally new technology behind them as it’s still a machine of known constraints.

Rockets to nowhere is nostalgia for the Spaceship. Cherry picked games are nostalgia for playing Super Mario. It’s all a huge waste of real resources, the real deficit we’re leaving the future, since the fiat money one is a shared hallucination detached from that material reality.

P5fRxh5kUvp2th3y ago

Games are entertainment.

Part of the frustration I have with the game industry is taking themselves entirely too seriously.

It's like watching Dr Seuss search for some deeper meaning outside of simply entertaining and teaching children.

Why can't being entertaining be enough?

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0 pointsSohcahtoa823y ago0 comments

> Video games? 40+ years old.

As a gamer, I find this is incredibly dismissive.

The colony sim genre as we know it today did not exist 10 years ago. Now we have RimWorld, Banished, Oxygen Not Included, and more.

Even puzzle games continue to innovate. Baba is You is probably the most unique puzzle game I've ever seen, and then there's all the Zachtronics games...

So yeah...the product of "video games" might be 40+ years old, but it's silly to claim that there's nothing net new coming out.

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j2bax3y ago

Sohcahtoa82OP3y ago

I think it's silly to expect every innovation to "change the trajectory of humanity".

Sometimes people just want entertainment and that's fine. Based on the OP's response to my comment, I wonder if they consider leisure time to be wasted time.

th1s1sit3y ago

Humans went millions of years entertaining themselves without computers.

Why keep chucking real resources down the drain for Zachtronics? If you want logic puzzles there are simple paper books full of them.

This is peak entitlement; the future must cope with your leisure preferences. Not voting rights, or clean water; you are owed video games.

You would defend until the end your right to not sacrifice any scrap of figurative identity. How incredibly dismissive of future peoples entire existence.

Launch the nukes, Putin. If we’re just going to iterate like mindless dweebs into collapse of the species why not go out in a blaze of glory; that would truly be metal af

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MikeTheRocker3y ago

Virtual Reality is an increasingly popular vertical that's emerged in the mainstream in the last decade. Mobile gaming too.

th1s1sit3y ago

I have built engines for my own games and worked with the big engines; I’ve modded games going back to Doom.

I’ve built game loops and models; I know how games work.

The suggestions you cherry picked still do not come with any fundamentally new technology behind them as it’s still a machine of known constraints.

P5fRxh5kUvp2th3y ago

Games are entertainment.

Part of the frustration I have with the game industry is taking themselves entirely too seriously.

It's like watching Dr Seuss search for some deeper meaning outside of simply entertaining and teaching children.

Why can't being entertaining be enough?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse