justdaveisfine

What games are you into then?

I find when people don’t like any of what AAA has to offer, its usually because they’ve found a subgenre or niche that is extremely their jam, and the big budget games usually aren’t aiming at that market.

I enjoyed Journey and I don’t mean to cast it in a bad light, but I think a lot of it is about the ‘era’ its from.

It released when there really wasn’t a lot of indie games on the consoles and most people really only played games from the AAA lineup. So for many players it was a unique high quality ‘indiefied’ experience that didn’t rely on classic tutorials, voice acting, or whatever.

If you had played nontraditional storytelling games from that time or played Journey much later, it may not have the same impact.

I find this tends to happen as your gaming tastes age over time. You start to find what you really like and then fall into a niche where you start to know the space really well and then all these big game marketing hype cycles just become noise.

If I may ask, which aspect of it bothered (or bored) you?

I’ve found the ‘wait at least a week after release’ method has saved me a lot of money for this reason.

You can tell the ninja is going to be a bad candidate.
Good ninjas are hard to find.

A lot of people I know are struggling and I don’t know how to help them.

They have vaguely asked me for help but they all have difficult problems that I can’t do a whole lot about. I know its not necessarily my responsibility to fix things for them but I tend to have a ‘fix things’ mentality and I get stuck thinking about what I can possibly even do.