Shouldn't comment but I disagree with a lot of the logic here and it's getting the better of me.
>>139322 (OP)>with elden ring being the most popular thing in the world still>>139384>It's pretty much an afterthought now; Hogwarts is top dog now and it ain't even released yet.Genuinely despise the use of the word "popular" in gamer spaces. People always seem to use it to put other people down - whatever media outlets shill is the new popular game, and not becoming invested in said game means you're not as much of a real gamer dude as the people who actively follow new releases and purchase every semi-notable triple A title. It seems especially ridiculous to call an unreleased game "popular" because it has a lot of negative discourse surrounding it online, which is particularly disingenuous in the case of Hogwarts Legacy, where half of the talk I saw was typical J.K. Rowling shit with no actual relation to the game itself. Now that the game is actually out, it might be fair to call it popular if people generally like it, but there's no objective way to quantify popularity, so comparing Hogwarts Legacy to Elden Ring to whatever the hell else on a subjective "popularity" scale really serves no purpose outside of shaming others for not being as big of a consumer as yourself.
>>142584>One year or two, I don't care, interest dies within the first 3 months of a video games launch.Statements like these are exactly why I think the concept of game popularity is harmful in gamer circles; the popular gamer keeps themselves tuned in to the largest video game developers and biggest advertisers, purchases everything with a significant early following online (or, in some cases, doesn't buy the game and talks about it as if they have for social credit), and drops the game once the next shiny new title is announced. There's nothing inherently wrong with staying up-to-date on video game releases if you love the medium as a whole, but so many people do it to maintain some sort of social standing and whip out statements such as these to shame more dedicated playerbases. Just let people enjoy what they enjoy.
>>142586>the real problem is that literally every new game sucks. I've seen a handful of games worth looking into in the past on things like steam or services geared towards real gamers, and I've passed them up because they ended up looking like garbage in my opinion. I haven't played a single video game since I bought the PS4"I haven't played any new games but they all SUCK I'm sure of it"
This is the opposite extreme of the mentality illustrated above. There's no shame in not keeping up to date with current games; you should absolutely play what you like to play. But there's also no reason to shit on people who do keep up with trendy games and genuinely find fun with them. If there's truly nothing for you in this era, that's fine (although I think anon should either give newer games more of a chance or find another hobby in this situation), but if a game is successful, there's clearly some some of quality aspect that has attracted an audience. Just let people enjoy what they enjoy.
>>142650Not quoting anything specific here because the entire post reeks of elitism and acts as a perfect antithesis to everything I have written so far.
There is no united gamer community. There are communities for people who play particular games, and there are communities for people who keep up with releases from certain game developers, but there is no single unified community under a single unified definition of "gamer." People like different things about different games, people spend different amounts of time on different games in different ways, people are generally different. Classics are subjective, replayability is subjective, our interpretations of other human beings are subjective, and this kind of logic applies to everything in life! We're on fucking bbwchan. Even though we all supposedly like fat women, that manifests in so many different ways; slob shit, blob motherfuckers, the normies into just kinda chubby women, the people here literally just for the art and not real women, so on and so forth. Between every group, every possible descriptor, here's a lot of shaming that happens for no good reason outside of pumping egos. So much of it gets turned on artists, too - take Saxxon in this thread, for example. I'm absolutely not into the crazy planet-busting shit he draws, but I think his writing is kinda fun and he undeniably has an audience that enjoys his work. There's no reason to get at each other's throats and bite the hand that feeds; just let people enjoy what they enjoy.
That's all. Fully expecting the mods to delete this but I had get it off my chest.
