Dad game? Cracked looks at if we're being aged out of video games

xondk

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The idea is interesting, but it doesn't really apply to gaming, this isn't football or such where physical injuries can hold you back, sure there are certain games that are marketed towards certain age group, but the amount of people that have grown up in the 90thies with games is gigantic, and games target them as well, however having been in the 'gaming' part for so long we are perhaps harder to please, especially with the run and gun pew pew that is a dime a dusin, which is where games like Elite, more involving and complex games, attract our attention more? So yeah, don't think gaming can be aged out, it is entertainment, some people play golf, almost regardless of age ranges, some people play computer games....and with computer games age isn't really that much a factor.
 

GluttonyFang

GluttonyFang
"And people need a sense of community to truly and meaningfully coexist with a thing that they love. Just look at furries."

Oh how I chuckled...
 

Janichsan

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That dude makes a few good points (e.g. the prevalent toxicity in the gaming community), but it's also clear he's not much into gaming in the first place. The reasons he gives in the first graphics about why books/movies/music cannot "age you out", while games can, for instance already show he's quite narrow-minded and doesn't look much further than what's the typical triple-A game nowadays. That's like judging all movies by Batman v Superman and all music by the latest American Idol winner.
 

Jukelo

Jukelo
Pretty poor choice of a first image. The rest of the article is some rambling about the AAA industry doing crap because the players are stupid, even the grown ups, nothing outrageous but nothing particularly interesting or new either and the OP clearly only focuses on the most obvious cases.

But really, that first image? What is the writer even trying to achieve here? First off, colored blocks are a huge boom to a kid's mental development. To call them 'narratively lacking and mentally unsatisfying' is plain stupid, they're the polar opposite of that.
But ignoring the writer's failure to recognize it, and assuming he simply needed a quick example to link to to put down the video game industry, and for the sake of the argument, let's imagine he used a different, valid form of entertainment that is 'mentally unsatisfying'. Even then, the real offender is that, if you use such a wide brush as the writer did here, and depict games produced by the AAA industry as repre.senting 'video games' as a whole without any nuance, then you have to do the same for other forms of entertainment. And the whole thing would come crashing down. Movies? Yeah, tell us how popular are trully thought provoking movies compared to the usual action block busters? Music? It's all pop music crap. Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi you say? Sorry, we're painting in broad strokes here. Litterature? Can I interest you in the latest Dan Brown? Or maybe the George RR Martins books? Granted he's managed the feat of being such a mediocre writer he's getting a TV shows which is better than the books... but at least it's not The Republic. Nobody wants to read that.
 
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Privata

Privata
To be fair , cracked have no idea about anything.
They did this video about how Starwars episode 7 does not uderstand the force. and in said video they got every single fact wrong and made so many lore erros if was funny.
On top of that cracked seem to be under the delusion that the fanfic brand ''legends'' or EU as it was called when I was a kid is canon , or ever was... only L canon was ever canon.

I never saw a good article by them
 
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