Comic: https://www.deathbulge.com/comics/441
Alt text: Yeah yeah, there's always exceptions, I mean look no further than the game in the 2nd panel, not the most thrilling gameplay, is it?
Comic: https://www.deathbulge.com/comics/441
Alt text: Yeah yeah, there's always exceptions, I mean look no further than the game in the 2nd panel, not the most thrilling gameplay, is it?
Lets be real:
Most console gamers, console primary gamers… have no idea what an indie game even actually is, let alone how many of them there really are.
(Indie means self-published, btw… Independent -> Indie)
The expections to this are the ones that specifically hunt for really niche, not advertised things, or go hard into emulators.
Only true console peasants are in hysterical despair right now, or denial, or whatever stage of grief.
If your brain can only process passive consumption, if you’re not capable of or willing to actively seek out specific games, find out which ones actually jive with you, put in some effort?
Then you have an abusive parasocial relationship with a or multiple corporate entities, which is mostly just sad.
Maybe try like, actually talking to someone, an actual person, who actually knows games, instead of just following the herd and listening to marketing branded as ‘journalism’?
While there is some truth to this, as an almost exclusive console gamer, I play hella indie games. SolarPunk this month, Ive also 300 hours in stardew valley, Indika was a cool story game, inKONBINI was really nice too, Im trying to think of others, The Long Dark, Limbo, (just downloaded Inside yesterday) but Ive played so many smaller indie games on console.
I recognize the monopoly/issues, I dont pay for gamepass, but I do have access. I have played so many smaller/indie games, I might not have tried because it is on gamepass. Ive even bought some after trying them there first, like HouseFlipper 1&2.
Yes Ive heard people say I play videogames all the time, and Ill be like, oh yeah what do you play? and they say, Call of Duty, and I know to exit the conversation. But, we out here, I activley try the smaller games, all the time.
The only games I have on steam (we have a Lonovo Leigon Go) is Civ 6, Paralives and Rust. It’s kind of a shitty set up I have, with a tiny tiny bluetooth keyboard. It hurts my hands so I dont play it as much. And Rust hasnt worked since the jungle update anyway, I get like 25fps. Its stupid
You are precisely the kind of exception I was trying to describe.
I know not all console primary gamers pretty much only play games from well known publishers… but most of them mostly do, as you seem to agree.
‘Casuals’, as we used to say, though the vocabulary has changed in the last 20 something years, so thats probably not a great word to use these days, as ‘casual’ is now more of a genre or an attribute, games that tend to not require intense/precise input sequences, or very much thinking, are designed to be low intensity, low frustration.
Back then, we meant it as ‘casually interested in the hobby of gaming’, as opposed to some kind of diehard nerd that was always looking intently for the best or the weirdest or rarest, or something like that.
I hear you. Really. I dont think Ive ever seen a CoD type player play their game with low frustration though lol But I understand. Felt the need to voice “it’s not all of us!” is all :)
Yeah haha, ‘casual’ as a word for that… I tried to expand on the meaning confusion via stealth edit, I may not have been fast enough lol.
But yeah, a lot of bog standard dudebro games are not casual in the sense of uh … sweatiness?
But they are casual in the sense of ‘you only have to be casually aware of video games to know… CoD, or Zelda, or Halo’… like, opposed to niche, basically.