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What's the point of gaming anyway?

Grauken

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What's the point of gaming (below is for RPGs, other genres have other aspects)?

  • Encounter Design
  • Monster Design
  • Combat Mechanics
  • Overall Art Direction
  • Dungeon Design
  • World Design
  • Story
  • Writing
  • Economy
  • Itemization
  • Dialogue System
  • Puzzle-like situations (no puzzles per se)
 
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DalekFlay

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What's the point of... Fucking ?

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For competitive games (fighting games in particular) gaming used to be about expression for me. But then the Internet happened and that went to shit, because everyone plays exactly the same way.

I rarely play videogames anymore because their only purpose to me now is nostalgia. I can nearly always think of something better to do with my time. Reading, biking, working out. I haven't "felt" like playing a videogame in over a decade. It is a symptom of mental illness to me now - when I can't muster the will to do better things, I resort to shutting myself in and forgetting about the outside world.
 

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For competitive games (fighting games in particular) gaming used to be about expression for me. But then the Internet happened and that went to shit, because everyone plays exactly the same way.


:hmmm:

You couldn't be more wrong. If anything even when playing the same character people use them in completely different ways.
 
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No, they don't. They copy what the top players are doing to a T, because there is an information overload. You see the same thing with strategy games (card games in particular - netdecking is 100% of the experience).
 

DJOGamer PT

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No, they don't. They copy what the top players are doing to a T, because there is an information overload.

Not really.
The pros pride themselves in doing their own thing, even the koreans who are super autistic for analysis always come up with their own style/signature. Because that's part of the fun and it sets then apart. Further more in games with very high skill ceiling it's really hard to end up playing the exact same way as some else.

Hell even in single-player games this happens. There are playstyle differences between the guys that make combo mad videos.
 
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It's actually fairly difficult to kill yourself if you got one hand on a mouse and another on WASD.
 

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It's actually fairly difficult to kill yourself if you got one hand on a mouse and another on WASD.

Or one on your pause and rewind controls and the other...
 

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