Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Isn't it?



I bought Watchdogs day 1 back in the day. Fool me once.

They replaced the gamer devs with activists

And now you see the results

Nope.

It is the dogs who are watching you.

Downloaded FF7 Rebirth (freaking 160gb and I hope it's justified with the usual FF eye candy) like a month ago. Still haven't bothered to turn it on. It just feels daunting.

Then booted Xanadu Next from my backlog.. and it's been a BLAST!
Who knew an N-gage(!) game from 2005 would feel this refreshing.

I played Xanadu Next on Steam.

It is indeed a charming game. I had loads of fun with this little gem.

We're in such a drastically different online/gaming landscape than 20+ years ago that I don't think you can overstate the impact it has on how we judge games now vs then.

Just about every game I bought when I was younger was me just looking at the back of the box, or asking a friend or someone at the game store. Now people have consumed 50hrs of content, opinions, livestreams, reviews, breakdowns, alpha/beta/early access testing, dev blogs, and seem to know a companies financials, before they even boot a game up. That combined with the 900000 other ways we can all occupy ourselves in front of a screen, we're not even living in the same world as back then lol.

If a game sucked when you were 13 you just left it in the drawer and got something at blockbuster that weekend and went about your business. Now people pay their bills perpetuating the content rat race that imo is built on negativity for engagement. So yeah some new games suck but is it really that the games are that bad? Idk

At this point??? Welcome to Dec 2019.

He? Many stupid people died without help from Fauci. Not enough I admit.

Its all been downhill since Monopoly.

@Vrye I still miss your chipmunk.