Hardcore gamer = someone who plays only cinematic grizzed white dude games and/or military fetishizing FPS

Casual gamer = anyone that is not a 15-25 yo male, and/or plays anything outside of the previously mentioned games, especially if those games are colorful.

So basically the gaming community is full of gatekeeping, misogyny, toxic masculinity and general chuddery. They make sure they're the loudest voice heard when anything about games is talked about, and won't be happy until all games a homogenous stream of bland, hyper-realistic but with a grey filter slog of mindless action with no heart or soul. And don't you dare force them to read any dialogue or story.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Grizzled "hardcore" gamer brain came to be around the same time as gamergate,

      I disagree heavily, especially if we're going for roots. Hardcore gamer brain was a big thing when Wind Waker came out as they collectively shit themselves that they didn't get Ocarina of Time 2: More blood and tits and instead got something with a different art style.

      Cosmetics for money, lootboxes, microtransactions. People didnt like this, and wanted to stop it, and the only way they knew how was to vote with their wallets.

      And again I'd claim they never did this. , just to give one out for the old heads here. And this shit never stopped, they embraced all the skin stuff with open arms honestly.

            • Sinister [none/use name, comrade/them]B
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              1 year ago

              It was ME3 with the “day one dlc“ thing, where they basically rewrote a major part of their plot just to sell a companion as dlc.

            • 7bicycles [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              Hell we can go further back on that one with Oblivion Horse Armour. But looking back at it with hindsight it seemed to be mostly down to "I pay for the whole disc, I get to use the whole disc" thing honestly. Sort of missing the forest for the trees I guess? That whole approach got thrown into disarray when everything became an always online service and then I guess it was okay.

              I've recently seen some vids about Battlebit, a sort of minecraft-aesthetic battlefield clone and what everyone was raving about is that it's just like BF2 basically. You buy a game, you get a game. Maybe there's a chance here that it's been pushed too far.

                • 7bicycles [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  I think the oblivion horse amour is another good example, because that kinda shit is just the norm now. When that came out people got pissed at bethesda.

                  But it never did stop them. There was outrage and then people apparently kept buying 18 editions of skyrim anyhow. It's for show, and even that has stopped.

    • Retrosound [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      There's also the fact that most games journalists don't like games. They're only in the business to write as a job and to get a better job down the line. You think humans can't tell when journalists despise what they're writing about? Imagine someone who doesn't like baseball being assigned to write about baseball. Imagine someone who hates home cooking and orders every meal Doordash being assigned to the food beat.