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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I Love resident evil 4. Great game.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Real boomer energy. While graphics improvement flattened out, other things (that are more important) have continued improving.

Off the top of my head.. Zoomers got: Disco Elysium, The Outer Wilds, Undertale, and a million other indies.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

I mean, millennials also got those

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Most of these titles don't have mainstream appeal though. The example is true for the majority of players.

I do love me some indie games (probably 95% of what I play atm are Noita and Balatro) but I'll admit it was really cool as a child / teenager / young adult to see the improvements over time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Minecraft for me lol, from age 9 to 20 (zoomer)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (11 children)

this is just a millenial version of a boomer meme. you guys are really shaping up to become what you hated. complaining about kids these days not enjoying the same shit you did when you were a kid. what next, you gonna complain about how gen alpha are destroying the economy because they're not buying avocados or something?

stop the inter-generational fighting, honestly, it's cringe and a huge distraction from the fact that the rich fucks in charge are looting us for all we're worth. let's fight them, instead of eachother

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

complaining about kids these days not enjoying the same shit you did when you were a kid

I have 0 idea how you could have read that from the image. It's about the seemingly exponential improvement in graphics or just how fast things were changing in gaming.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

stop the inter-generational fighting, honestly, it’s cringe and a huge distraction from the fact that the rich fucks in charge are looting us for all we’re worth

Bro, take a deep breath, that is just a meme. People can be nostalgic sometimes, there is nothing wrong with that.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Shit like this made me think we would hit singularity around now,

Oh boy, was I naive

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

VR actually went through this from 2014-2024 or so. the original Oculus DK had such chonky pixels, very rudimentary tracking, game integration sucked, no hand controls. it rapidly got better to the point where playing Riven is like straight up being teleported into the world..

..except for like, being able to run around or touch things. so it's stayed niche.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Not as widespread as the systems shown above though. Older VR games and even VR in general is pretty niche.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

What's the status of VR right now? Any major advancement? I know oculus got bought by Facebook, so no way in hell I'd ever get that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

regrettably, Meta is the state of the art for VR. the Meta Quest 3 is stunningly crisp for the price point. it's almost retina-scale with the pixels, the head/spatial tracking is extremely accurate and doesn't require any base station or wired attachment, and you can fluidly stream VR games from your PC wirelessly at 1080p and like 120fps with nearly no latency or reality sickness.

I played Myst and Riven while I was sick with COVID last year, and it was one of the top five visual experiences of my lifetime (along with seeing the Grand Canyon and taking psychedelics.)

Meta has also recently finally cracked the holy grail of non-chonky AR glasses with full FoV, though the gallium nitride waveguide process is quite expensive and yields are too poor for them to sell it. but they look like slightly nerdy glasses that let you see holograms superimposed on your vision, even outdoors in the light.

unfortunately, VR is still anti-social and there's not much content there, and the company leading the way is awful. but even just for Riven alone it was worth it to me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah hopefully other companies will advance becuase there is no way I'm giving my money to that shit company

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Strong rumors of Valve's new VR launching this year. Quite excited for that. Otherwise, the status (in my opinion) is stagnant. I still have fun occasionally getting into VR though.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Gen X version:

Year 1: Pong

Year 5: PacMan

Year 10: Super Mario Brothers

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We got lied to so hard on cover art, it took decades to believe anything.

Adventure: Cover.

Adventure: Reality.

This site shows some top lies, and shows that Activision, didn't lie so much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Don't you dare knock Adventure!

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