Path: ...!news.nobody.at!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Justisaur Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Can Games Get Any Better (2024 Ed) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 15:30:13 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 87 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 22:30:16 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="91f22a4f0b5cf9462c2291f0fabb1b42"; logging-data="2520889"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/NELAa0/qS+u+qDpjvoOXI0P9du8CKf2c=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:N77yacFVrEiEYQAOCFVHz3/tH1c= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 5221 On 3/26/2024 7:56 AM, Zaghadka wrote: > On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 07:09:16 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, > Justisaur wrote: > >> On 3/26/2024 4:47 AM, Werner P. wrote: >>> Am 26.03.24 um 12:47 schrieb Werner P.: >>>> Am 22.03.24 um 17:54 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson: >>>>> In other words, are modern games better? More advanced? More fun? Do >>>>> you think games will be better or different in the future? Or are we >>>>> perpetually stuck in the doldrums? >>>>> >>>>> (And finally, do you think we'll all be around to revive this topic in >>>>> 2035? ? >>>> >>>> well many games like movies have become formulaic spreadsheet todo >>>> lists in game design, the bigger a game the more likely this is to be >>>> the case. >>>> Add on top that we are in phase agewise where we literally have seen >>>> everything in this area just with less sophisticated graphics. >>>> >>>> So yes the games industry has gone the way of the movie industry, >>>> formulaic games, indie games which try to do something new or are just >>>> junk and from time to time a really good title which tries to break >>>> new ground or at least does not feel formulaic, like BG3 for instance. >>>> >>> PS I am slowly phasing out gaming as my hobby, i frankly do not have >>> time for it anymore, and the have seen everything effect is big on me. >>> So expect to hear and read from me less and less unless I got rid of my >>> gaming fatique! >> >> I feel like that to some extent, but physical limitations keep me from >> doing too much else so I go back to it. However I'm also at the point I >> get fatigued much quicker than I used to and can't play as much, and >> faster twitch games while I can keep up with them a little typically >> leave me in a state that feels like it's getting close to death's door. >> >> My other hobby has mostly moved past me. D&D I don't like the new >> rules, I can't find a group that's like the old ones, kids make it >> difficult to schedule, and our last move left me with nowhere to play it >> at my place. >> >> Unfortunately that leaves me with two habits I'd really like to stop, or >> at least curb considerably watching youtube and reading reddit which >> just feels like waiting to die. > > You interested in a paid game? $25 a session, Pathfinder 1e with 3.5e > supplementation. Basically OP 3.5 with PF skills. Played over Roll20 and > Discord. Sessions meet every other Wednesday at UTC 18:00. Next session > is April 3rd. Traditional dungeon crawl. > > A good friend of mine went pro-GM a couple of years ago. He's put a lot > of work into it. Email me at my header address if you'd like to try it > out or join. Thanks for the offer, but I prefer to DM, and PF just felt like 3.5 taken to 11, which was the wrong way to go in my opinion, it needed to be reigned in a bit. The only game I ever payed to be in (well if you don't count paying for entry to a con of which I've only been to 3) ended quickly and very poorly with the DM tearing my character sheet up after targeting me for 1 damage from each of a hundred bees as the first encounter. Back in the early days of Player vs. DM of course in 1e. So I'm a bit shy of doing that. I'm tempted to check into if WotC has 'living FR' or whatever it is now games at the local comic book store, as I ran a few of those games I had a blast at with a bunch of teens in the 4e days (Yes worst edition ever, but the kid's enthusiasm more than made up for it.) I tried running my own homebrew edition a couple times at meetups and the comic book store, but only had 2 newbie takers as overflow from one of the 5e games one time, it went o.k., but they were more interested in trying 5e. I thought I was feeling some hostility from the 5e DMs there, but it could've just been me, or maybe it was from the comic book store as I wasn't using the books they were selling. -- -Justisaur ø-ø (\_/)\ `-'\ `--.___, ¶¬'\( ,_.-' \\ ^'