Reasons Why Younger Gamers Don't Get Older RPGs?.

[octavius]

i speak english fluidly but my speling is whorible, lol

 

[Robotigan]

Same reason Codex barely talks about pre-90s RPGs.

 

[Old Hans]

yea I dont understand why Brayden the 11 year old zoomer isnt excited to play Bard's Tale 1 on my amiga 500

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Hardcore gamers will play and try to master any game because they're are the gamers legends are made of. It don't matter how shitty the game is, they will try to master it and always look out for new insight in any game. Likely, they are quite insane by normal gamer standards.

 

[octavius]

yea I dont understand why Brayden the 11 year old zoomer isnt excited to play Bard's Tale 1 on my amiga 500

I wish I could again capture the feeling when I as a teen played BT1 on my brand new Amiga and saw those glorious monster portraits and the fantastic monk chanting in the temples...

 

[octavius]

Hardcore gamers will play and try to master any game because they're are the gamers legends are made of. It don't matter how shitty the game is, they will try to master it and always look out for new insight in any game. Likely, they are quite insane by normal gamer standards.

CRPG Addict.
Not quite as hardcore gamers care about game mechanics and good design. Good audiovisuals is a bonus and a good UI even more so.

 

[anvi]

My nephew got a PC and I really hoped he would find his way to some epic gaming like I did. But it was a shitshow for him and he ended not using the PC after a few years and just plays his Xbox with friends sometimes. Even that he isn't interested in. He was gaming on iphone, tablet and consoles since he was a baby but just lost interest even though he's about 15 and even with a top of the line PC they wasted their money on. He barely even played anything on it, the latest CoD, Minecraft and a few other big name shits. I had thousands of suggestions and he had no interest in any of them and none his friends knew anything about any of them, he didn't even want to try anything I talked about or look into it. And if I suggested something like maybe try Arma instead of CoD he would look at the graphics and say it looks worse. I would try to argue it's a better game even if the graphics aren't as a nice and he just thought it was some old shit because it didn't look as good. I tried to explain that he loved Minecraft even though that was ugly and basic but I don't think he even understood my point.

To be fair I didn't really try very much, I should have given him games and sat and played stuff with him but he lives too far away. And at some point I felt like I was bullying him trying to get him to enjoy something he wasn't interested in. When I was a kid I was desperate to try everything so nobody had to talk me into anything, but for him it is the opposite.

 

[octavius]

Sounds like some messed up kid who's more interested in girls than CRPGs.

 

[anvi]

Totally I just wished he could have both! He's a bit young for girls but soon they will have him hooked and I doubt he will play games ever again. But he just thinks they are shooting or mining lol. If I could have got him to build a city in Skylines or explore a dungeon or fly in space or something, but he wasn't interested in any of that. He doesn't like movies or sci fi or anything. I am like k well enjoy whatever.

 

[Hammer Of The Heretics]

Some people are just born to be boring. Best to accept it and let them get on with it.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

yea I dont understand why Brayden the 11 year old zoomer isnt excited to play Bard's Tale 1 on my amiga 500

I wish I could again capture the feeling when I as a teen played BT1 on my brand new Amiga and saw those glorious monster portraits and the fantastic monk chanting in the temples...

 

[The Wall]

My nephew got a PC and I really hoped he would find his way to some epic gaming like I did. But it was a shitshow for him and he ended not using the PC after a few years and just plays his Xbox with friends sometimes. Even that he isn't interested in. He was gaming on iphone, tablet and consoles since he was a baby but just lost interest even though he's about 15 and even with a top of the line PC they wasted their money on. He barely even played anything on it, the latest CoD, Minecraft and a few other big name shits. I had thousands of suggestions and he had no interest in any of them and none his friends knew anything about any of them, he didn't even want to try anything I talked about or look into it. And if I suggested something like maybe try Arma instead of CoD he would look at the graphics and say it looks worse. I would try to argue it's a better game even if the graphics aren't as a nice and he just thought it was some old shit because it didn't look as good. I tried to explain that he loved Minecraft even though that was ugly and basic but I don't think he even understood my point.

To be fair I didn't really try very much, I should have given him games and sat and played stuff with him but he lives too far away. And at some point I felt like I was bullying him trying to get him to enjoy something he wasn't interested in. When I was a kid I was desperate to try everything so nobody had to talk me into anything, but for him it is the opposite.

Zoomers play video game that's called: Social Media. That's their entertainment, that's their culture, that's their life. Web 2.0. Instagram - Tiktok - SnapChat triangle. Nothing mysterious or hard to understand about them, as generation. Zoomies are also incredibly tech illiterate, to the point that when they see someone with laptop and black box of windows command prompt with green letters on it, they are scared that you'll hack their brainz or somethin. Don't worry little Zoom-Zooms, there's nothing to hack up there

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

Zoomers make me think of that crazy red headed hyperactive kid on his go-cart "zooming" around the neighborhood and knocking trash cans over while packs of dogs bark and chase him.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Zoomers make me think of that crazy red headed hyperactive kid on his go-cart "zooming" around the neighborhood and knocking trash cans over while packs of dogs bark and chase him.

That was a boomer activity, it's likely that you were that kid. I was that kid as well. We were all kids once, that's okay. Today's zoom zooms prefer watching tiktoks about a kid doing that thing you described instead. They got it from their older brothers who thought it was better to watch someone else playing a game rather than doing it themselves.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

I got to a few times because neighbor loaned it. Same with the minibike. Mostly.... just bike or skateboard (le sigh). Fucking go-carts were are awesome.

Where are tracks now?
Where are the bowling alleys?
Where are the miniature golf parks?
Where are the skating rinks?

Sure are a lot of homeless sleeping in skate parks though. :/

 

[Axioms]

The reason is expectations. Some of the old RPGs were legitimately impressive if not mindblowing. At the time. Now they are boring and mundane. Also as far as graphics the games that hold up best are stuff like KoDP. Games that were trying to push the medium forward visually look like shit now.

People like the video games of their time is as boring a take as people like the music of their time on average. But even lamer because the mechanics of music hasn't really changed for decades whereas game tech has changed drastically. Also modern kids have way more stuff competing for their attention than people did in the old rpg era. There is functionally a limitless amount of TV, movies, books, music, games, etc.

"Modern kids don't read!" Well generally true but there's more readers now than there were in the 80s-90s-00s just because of population growth and economic growth. Lots of them don't see the point of RPGs.

 

[AscendedFlames]

Hardcore gamers will play and try to master any game because they're are the gamers legends are made of. It don't matter how shitty the game is, they will try to master it and always look out for new insight in any game. Likely, they are quite insane by normal gamer standards.

About fucking time someone says it and on page 9 too. While page 1 had some good insights, the entire thread except Falksi and toro are massively fucking coping. When I played older games, I never once gave a fuck about UI or how the graphics looked, I dove right into the fucking thing without knowing anything and FORCED my way through and liked it. It was my father that first threw right into my desk a copy of Arcanum and said to play that shit instead of the garbage I was playing at the time, I didn't ask him what it was, how did it play, or to give me some "tips"(fag), I shoved that shit right into the disk drive, installed it and dove right in. Loved it from beginning to end. Young gamers can't get into CRPGs the same way these faggots can't get into tabletop when they sit at my table, they are passive, meek, have no imagination, they have no drive, or any impulsive to try new things, they constantly are wary of their PCs dying, they take no risk, and get anxiety attacks whenever a challenge arises. And god forbid that there isn't some joke or meme told within the minute and a half or else they'd really start sweating.

I don't know what gave rise to these low energy complacent freaks, whether it be the microplastics in their meat or the constant gurgling of McDonalds shoved directly into their ass, all I know is that something has this generation by the balls.

I will give credence to the fact that most "gaymers" these days are sorely doing it because gaming is now normal and a thing that most guys do, but a long time ago I read a good steam statistics how the vast majority of Steam users barely play any games beside the ones that are already socially acceptable and team based. Not to mention that even though they had accumulated hundred of games due to sales, they not only finished any of their games but have yet to even start them. Yet have thousands of hours on the typical garbage like CSGO, DOTA, TF2, COD, etc. So the number of hardcore gamers are actually really small.

 

[Norfleet]

Zoomers make me think of that crazy red headed hyperactive kid on his go-cart "zooming" around the neighborhood and knocking trash cans over while packs of dogs bark and chase him.

I thought they were named that because of that stupid Zoom thing.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Zoomers make me think of that crazy red headed hyperactive kid on his go-cart "zooming" around the neighborhood and knocking trash cans over while packs of dogs bark and chase him.

I thought they were named that because of that stupid Zoom thing.

It's a deviation of boomer. They are called "zoomers" as a version of boomers with a Z. Don't blame me, someone thought it was a good idea to pay attention to retarded sociologists and now we're stuck with this crap.

 

[bandersnatch]

Playing RPGs with controllers leads to testicle shrinkage and ED. Real men use keyboards while letting their cocks press the space bar.

 

[Norfleet]

The answers is actually really simple and I can prove it to you asking a different question which will have the very same answer.

What's the reason most Codexers didn't play Prelude to Darkness?

Never heard of it, for starters. Wasn't on any of the release sites. That seems like the reception for it was particularly unpopular.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

press the space bar.

To pause?

 

[Norfleet]

Zoomers play video game that's called: Social Media. That's their entertainment, that's their culture, that's their life. Web 2.0. Instagram - Tiktok - SnapChat triangle. Nothing mysterious or hard to understand about them, as generation. Zoomies are also incredibly tech illiterate, to the point that when they see someone with laptop and black box of windows command prompt with green letters on it, they are scared that you'll hack their brainz or somethin. Don't worry little Zoom-Zooms, there's nothing to hack up there

That's pretty weird. Are we going to see an inversion of the usual rules where, instead of the old people going to their kids to make some techno-widget work, it'll be the other way around?

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

That's pretty weird. Are we going to see an inversion of the usual rules where, instead of the old people going to their kids to make some techno-widget work, it'll be the other way around?

Yes because zoomers and younger are technologically illiterate, 99.9% of their time is spent on phones and macs. And problem solving isn't exactly their strong suit.

 

[octavius]

In the future I think very few of the younger generation will think out solutions to problems or create. They will just ask some AI bot.