Do you play games because it's cool or because you enjoy them?

[ATenderLad]

I think we're all kinda misunderstanding the point here..

It's  cool to play things like Fortnite, Valorant, and Genshin Impact. We're not the cool ones for playing things like Ocarina of Time, Umihara Kawase, or bootleg Digimon games.

Okay, when you put it like that, with current multiplayer on one side and 90's single-player games on the other, it seems like the question is "Do you still play with your childhood toys alone in your room, or do you have fucking friends, nerd?"

 

[χKai]

Idgaf, games are cool as fuck and there's so many good ones out there to play.

Personally, I've always been a fan of couch co-op multiplayer games, my favorite way to play games.

 

[Your_Homie_Gale]

I still play Team Fortress 2 because it is really enjoyable. A lot of people find it cool but a fraction of those who say it's cool actually play or enjoy it. I think it is one of those rare instances where there's more hype than actual players that stick around. I've been playing since early 2014 and I know others who have played it since before 2010 or the game's release in 2007. There really is no other game out there like it, and anybody who compares it to anything really hasn't played TF2 all that much.

 

[jankusanagi jankusanagi]

Playing games for "status"? Wow, that would be dumb...

Like so many other dumb things done only for "status"

 

[TrashChamp]

100% because its cool. I actually hate games to be quite honest.

 

[Potapota]

I stick to things I find enjoyable. Public opinions be damned.

 

[JackNoir413]

I think we're all kinda misunderstanding the point here..

It's  cool to play things like Fortnite, Valorant, and Genshin Impact. We're not the cool ones for playing things like Ocarina of Time, Umihara Kawase, or bootleg Digimon games.

i dont know. i talk to my normal people friends and they dont really talk about it like its cool. its just socially more acceptable? like you're not gross for playing valorant but its still not cool and as soon as you stand next to someone with a hobby like idk reading you ARE gross by comparison.

they dont introduce anyone as "the guy that plays valorant" they just say "yeah this is jeff he doesnt do anything in particular"

I also have that same effect in me; whenever something is well established in society and everybody likes it, I lose all interest in it. Like, one of the biggest appeals in music for me is digging until I find something obscure that's really good, so I can share it with people that don't know about it. Same with games, same with movies, same with lotsa stuff.

SO TRUE
this is why i only listen to incelcore and AI covers of english songs until it becomes popular.
i already got my eyes on african vocal instrument music for when what i like becomes mainstream.

I like to press buttons and see explosions

this is what gaming is all about at its core.

 

[Badseed]

Sweet! favorite arcade games? Or were you always strictly a console/PC player?

I've played it all. fav arcade: Disks of Tron, Sinistar and of course Street Fighter II. Fav Console: Dreamcast, Vectrex and Intellevision. The best PC of all time is still my trusty old Apple IIC

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Ahhhh sick list @Badseed !

 

[Hourai]

If I play a popular game, it's by complete accident, or is because someone whose opinion I trust sold the idea of playing it to me. Whenever I try to play a game simply because it's popular, I find myself hating it. Especially beloved western games, but the PS360 is the only retro console where those are more common than beloved Japanese games. Reminder that reddit is a cesspit with terrible taste.

As for playing for social clout...not really. The last large community I was a part of prior to here was on GaiaOnline, back in like 2012. Even then, I mostly isolated myself to a Harvest Moon guild. I have no real benefit for playing games for that reason, and most of the smaller communities I'm in are either into obscure things, or know my tastes enough to know I'd talk about things like Last Bible Special because I wanted to try it (I hated it because I realized you can recruit the class that starts with the Maragi staff, strip them, then boot them until your actual party has six staves).