Yeah thats one thing I’ve been really disappointed by with the new consoles. Nothing really jumps out at me when I think of exclusives or “next gen” gaming experiences. I think part of the issue is the pandemic really messed up development, but also I think these consoles need to stick around longer.

After 3 or so years they consider the consoles “dead” and then it feels like everything just shifts towards the next console. I would like to see these companies taking more creative risks like we saw in the 90’s and 2000’s. The past decade has felt…very stagnant

The only games I’ve been paying full price for are games that I have been looking forward to for a very long time/games that I know for a fact I will 200% enjoy. Otherwise I’m waiting for steep sales of at least 50%, but usually more.

The only exception are Nintendo games because they rarely go on sale and when they do it’s not a super amazing sale price. But because of that I buy way less Nintendo games and only buy the ones I absolutely know I’ll enjoy. It’s a lot more rare that I’ll take a risk.

Something in my gut tells me they might stop making consoles and move towards subscription services. Which seems like we’re repeating 2013 all over again. Which would be a major shame because it took them a decade to come back from their stupid decisions with that console.

I want to like this gane so badly but I can’t seem to get past the ARR content.

My biggest issue is that aside from dungeons there isn’t really a good reason to group up. It kind of felt like my friend and I were just playing a single player game where we could see each others characters lol. I figure one day I’ll just need to sit down and chug through that content to get to the good stuff

Ah yeah I’ve heard it can send you into a spiral if you aren’t careful. I get pop ups from time to time but I think the algorithm knows exactly what I like now. I mainly get food videos, science, cute animals, gundam, gunpla and crafting, travel, video games, anime and streamers lol. I guess it’s just visual junk food.

Anything political, or news related I avoid and spam the “don’t show me this” button lol. It’s really weird seeing the main page of youtube when you’re not logged in. It’s so different!

I still browse from time to time, but my usage has absolutely tanked after moving over from reddit. I’m just not browsing social media like this much anymore. I actually ended up using YouTube more now? It’s weird. In some ways I feel like my mental health has improved. But I also feel like I’m out of the loop. I don’t know what’s going on outside my immediate bubble for the most part. For better or for worse, I’m not really sure.

One negative thing I suppose is that I’m feeling less connected with others. I feel more isolated now

All that said, boost has made browsing lemmy a much better experience

Maybe not the best comparison considering in the past couple years inflation on food has been artificially inflated due to corporate greed.

I wouldn’t mind paying slightly more for games if the money was actually going into developers pockets.

All that being said though, unless it’s a very specific title, I’ve been waiting for sales for the past decade. I only buy a game or two for full price a year (usually Nintendo because they rarely do sales)

Only some are purchasable at the moment. Last I checked there’s a rumored remake being done or something so that might be why they were removed, but I have no clue really.

I wish they would bring back the rest of the splinter cell titles. I waited on them too long. I’ll eventually have to go hunt down the discs

I think a common timespan for games is around 1 year. If you look up a list of when games have been added it might give you a rough timeline on when games could possibly be leaving

I’ve always associated quake with twitchy face paced keyboard and mouse gameplay. Anyone played it with a controller? How does it stack up?

That’s surprising, I wouldn’t have expected that. It seems like it’s not really advertised really well.

I had no idea that the series X just overwrites old captures if it gets too full. It didn’t used to be like that. I’m sure a bunch of my captures that I haven’t gotten around to moving are gone now lol

The ads have been on the dashboard since the 360 days. I don’t think they’re going anywhere unfortunately.

It died for me a couple weeks ago