Honestly I would argue that the quality of film and television stories has plummeted in the last 15 years to the point of them being a shallow husk that has been gutted by marketing and greed in the film industry.

Most films nowadays are glorified celebrity commercials with more product placements and wanky pop references than story beats.

Being directly in control of the main character puts you in a position to be more immersed in the world and more invested in the characters and story.

Not that the game industry is perfect but it has more going on than just the grids games. That’s the gaming industry’s greed. Live service games are a plague and the artificial padding is designed to sell you their micropayment currency. It’s a scam.

There are tons and tons of highly diverse games for many different skill levels nowadays that will introduce modern gaming concepts slowly and build up a players skill level. Not like the nes and arcade days of them wanting your quarters and making impossible to beat games.

If you need some recommendations on games with an impactful story or that give you an experience impossible with movies I can highly recommend these:

Journey, Outer Wilds, Spec Ops the line, Toem, Unravel, Kena bridge of Spirits, Night in the woods, Hifi rush, Donut County, Firewatch, The unfinished swan, Jusant, Gone Home, Venba, Dordogne, Hollow Knight, Knights and Bikes, Gorgoa, FAR: lone sails, a short hike, shadow of the colossus, bioshock, Spiritfarer

Always struck me as hypocritical that watching movies was always put on a pedestal as if sitting around for 2 hours mindlessly consuming the latest Tom Cruise flick is any more productive than playing a video game. At least there is brain activity involved with gaming.

It’s called a subscription feed that’s chronological and not letting whatever algorithm is analyzing you to sell off your data dictate what you watch.

I don’t enjoy scrolling a stupid algorithm that’s designed to rot away attention spans, all while harvesting as much data about you as possible to sell off.

I enjoy curating my content and getting a feed of nothing but my subscriptions in chronological order. That’s apparently too fucking difficult or not “engaging” enough to make people addicted to scrolling.

Obligatory Fuck Konami.

Arguably not. Especially if you like watching things for longer than a minute and without the most cringy dancing imaginable.

It’s also a known adhd black hole and misinformation haven.

Someone watched you suck at cooking.

It’s literally Chinese spyware ffs.

Do it!!!

Fuck those kinds of people.

You don’t owe them anything that you aren’t comfortable doing OP.

Fuck your cult

Idk. Proper analog movement is a pretty big deal nowadays, especially with third person games.

Mouse aim is still superior but honestly it’s getting better with controllers, gyro and tweakable dead zones/sensitivity really help.

I’m really happy that Sony and others are making accessible controllers that are highly customizable.

Yup, poplar use makes them just a naming convention now.

Just a naming convention.

There are many games where you use the camera constantly. FPS, top down shooters and third person all use the analog sticks more than the face buttons. And I’d argue that’s the bulk of gaming nowadays.

I also have a pro controller with back buttons which allows me to move the camera more freely while having access to jump without taking my thumb off the stick. You get a lot more flexibility that way.

The Xbox position of the left analog stick is really uncomfortable for longer gaming sessions when you are used to the PlayStations more natural thumb position.

Let me know what ya think!

https://youtu.be/vid5yZRKzs0

This is a great video and you should watch the whole thing for context but he goes into RE6 specifically at 14:20.

"By trying to please everyone, you please no one.”

• Resident Evil 7 Producer Masachiki Kawata,

It’s a lesson Capcom had to learn the hard way with RE6.

🙄🤮

Idk about you but my left and right hand are symmetrical and having offset analogue sticks is really annoyingly uncomfortable playing for longer periods.