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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 16 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

My nephews (10 and 13) stayed with me a couple of weeks ago, and I got a chance to see them game. And yeah they are playing mostly Fortnite these days, but they love it. Further, it actually looks pretty intense. Like the editing and jockeying for a clean shot is more nuanced than what I was getting up to.

Like was my obsession with Quake 2 DM that much more elevated? True we had a lot more variety with mods and maps, but if I'm being honest most of my time was just spent running around Q2DM1/The Edge and a handful of other vanilla maps. I did love that Homer skin though, lol.

Anyway, I see them hooting and laughing and the whole time they're chatting with their little friends from school. I can see the joy in it. I wish it wasn't on this centralised, monetised, company platform. But I can see what they like in it.

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low poly model of Homer Simpson grimacing while holding a shotgun

[–] xye@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

It’s the metaverse in practice but don’t let any reptile people know that

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Fortnite gets a lot of hate but they've built something unique.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

And then lock it up.

something unique, better even, something fun.

[–] krull_krull@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

In their defense, games starting from 2016 kinda stopped having any actually meaningful graphical upgrades.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 40 minutes ago

I think that's the point they're making.

Ehhhh a PS5 game can look a lot better than a 2016 AAA

I'm not saying it's everything, and I'm not saying every meaningful upgrade is worthwhile, I'm just saying.

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

I’m not sure it’s about graphics. Fortnight was never king of graphics mountain. Its probably favored games in the consciousness. But i think millennials still apart of the Minecraft era

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 16 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

My take from this meme is that Zoomers and later are more "captured" by a few big platforms than previous ones.

And perhaps earlier ones, too.

Like, my aunts and relatives are trapped on Facebook sharing Trumpy memes. Kids younger than me seems to be really into ultra-short videos or mobile-ish games. The only people I know that know how to use a desktop PC, beyond the bare minimum for work are… about my age? Other than a senior dev.

This is a huge generalization and small sample, but still. I'm not worried about other generations doing things I don’t like (that’s always true, and a good thing), I’m worried about them being more trapped.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

My take from this meme is that Zoomers and later are more “captured” by a few big platforms than previous ones.

Steam games have been around for a lot longer than 10 years. So has Nintendo. There's no reason a Zoomer wouldn't have played Stardew Valley or Undertale or Mario Odyssey or Wii Tennis.

Like, my aunts and relatives are trapped on Facebook sharing Trumpy memes. Kids younger than me seems to be really into ultra-short videos or mobile-ish games. The only people I know that know how to use a desktop PC, beyond the bare minimum for work are… about my age?

I keep seeing this complaint. I'll never understand it. I definitely know family that have mired themselves in Facebook memes. But its silly to pretend my Blessed Lemmy-4chan-channel is materially better than their Barbaric Facebook-4chan-channel. Honestly, just amazed they finally came around on computers at all. So many of my parent's generation couldn't even check email twenty years ago.

Similarly, the Office Space Millennials seem to have completely forgotten that their non-technical peers exist. Like they've never met an auto mechanic or a plumber or a doctor their age who has struggled with using a computer. I used to do IT for a physicians clinic and it was the Medical Assistants doing all the office work. The RNs and MDs couldn't do shit. Which was ironic, because so much of the IT upgrade was about reducing staff size... but the MAs were the ones who grasped the tech the fastest while the actual medical staff avoided tech like the plague.

And sure, kids half your age don't know DOS commands because they don't use DOS. But there's no shortage of Zoomer/GenA computer geeks. I ran into a gaggle of robotics club Alphas in downtown, near the local convention center, just last week. Every year my office fills up with interns who built their own PCs and threw up their own home PLEX servers for their parents who are my age.

Some of you are just so damned cloistered, insisting the three 14 year olds you know aren't doing Angelina Jolie shit from Hackers in their basements before they're even old enough to drive. But pull down your reading glasses, squint a bit, and you'll see plenty of tech savvy folks younger than you.

[–] sfu@lemm.ee 5 points 11 hours ago

I started with Atari 2600 on a black and white TV. PS2 is the newest console I have. I'm still buying and playing PS2 games. Haven't seen a need to go any further (other than a couple games I'd like to play.)

[–] Downpour@programming.dev 17 points 18 hours ago (5 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.

[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You missed the entire point of the post

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

What's the point? I thought I got it, and that I agreed, but now I'm not sure anymore.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Top post plays multiple types of games. Bottom posts entire gaming life is spent in one game.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks. I'm not sure how accurate that is, but I also like variety.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 hours ago

Its not accurate at all. Sure some people now do only play fornite but people back in the day only played cs or tf2 or wow or runescape or any RTS. The difference is the games now get content updates whereas back in the day these people were playing the exact game over and over for 10 years.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 14 points 14 hours ago

I mean, millennials also got those

[–] rbesfe@lemmy.ca 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

2 of those examples are 6 years old, and the other is turning 10 soon

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Zoomers aren't teenagers anymore. Well, some might be; I'm not sure where the cutoff is exactly, but the oldest zoomers might be 30 already.

Though I'd also say that millennials, Xers, and boomers got each of those games, too, if they were interested. Hell, even the silent and greatest generations probably have members that enjoyed those games, though probably not so much for the WW1 generation.

And in the other direction, I've enjoyed games that were popular before I was born, so if gens alpha and beta want to claim them as well, I'd allow it.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 19 points 17 hours 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.

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