3 ms·
Long ago when the number of games was much lower, you could count on people to know or hear about all the major games. There was a sense of community, of shared
by b0rsuk 7y ago
Long ago when the number of games was much lower, you could count on people to know or hear about all the major games. There was a sense of community, of shared culture. Just like the first years after communism officially ended in Poland - there were 3 TV stations and there were cartoons at 19:00 every single day, with especially good ones on sunday. You could walk up to a random kid in class and start a conversation about his favorite bedtime cartoon. Or there was very limited choice in common household appliances and furniture, so countless people had the same models.
Yes, it's nostalgia too, but it was fun to have a sense of shared culture. Fragmentation has its downsides. I'm not sure how to have the cookie and eat it.
- thelittleone 7y agoYeah the 90s was a fun time. On EFNET #doom was a great hang, official ID software game releases and updates where announced there too and an occasional AMA with the team (if I recall correct Carmack and Romero participated). Was always elite to get a +v (unmute) so you could ask them questions. That channel had some pretty hilarious bots also.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoPeople are only playing a tiny subset of all games. Kids who follows gaming in 2020 are familiar with most of these games: https://www.twitch.tv/directory https://www.twitch.tv/directory You're assuming things have changed when they really haven't. In fact, there's even more of a shared culture around gaming these days because gaming is mainstream and ubiquitous. Go to r/gaming and you'll see people talking about the same popular games. Besides, when I was a kid, odds were nobody knew what games I was playing because nobody but a tiny minority played games. I just learned to not talk about gaming. Gamers have it much better now.
- _bxg1 7y agoYeah, I'm sure today's middle-school conversations about Fortnite are every bit as prevalent as the GP's conversations about cartoons were