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dioxxys posted...

Well if they enjoy them that much can they not just enjoy something with a bit more substance? If I try to get that kind of girl to sit down and play a console/pc game while I backseat game and tutor them, will they enjoy it or deep down roll their eyes internally and consider it a waste of their time?

I mean, usually when someone puts someone in that position (in my experience) they try to get them to play a game that's no where near what the person playing would be interested in and then keeps getting annoyed because the person 'isn't doing it right' and 'isn't listening to them'. So kinda depends how you go about that one probably. And with who. Some people really hate feeling pushed, and some may feel belittled by it. Too many factors there to give a one-size-fits-all answer. Are you talking about looking at their likes to pick a game that they have a chance of liking, or trying to get them to play something because it's a 'good game' and a 'must play'?

As for why, sometimes it's just fun to screw around and collect stuff. A lot of mobile games I've played at least aren't any worse than pokemon honestly. Collect characters and battle, level up those characters and eventually just start stomping things. Yeah, some are absolute crap, and there's definitely rampant monetization. But that's happening in AAA games more and more too. *shrugs*

I've encountered console games that 'lack substance' as well, which in some ways there are objective parts to that. I personally wouldn't say that the new CoD being only multiplayer has substance. Also wouldn't say someone's not a gamer for playing it.

IDK, gaming really wasn't a big deal when I was younger in some ways. We all did it, way too much probably. Fought with siblings, got up at 5 am (or earlier) in the summer to be the one to get to the console first. We got the magazines, eventually with the internet we pissed off our parents printing huge guides. So many people I knew pissed of their parents with printing huge guides. They literally added the coin machine to the library printer in large part because of people printing off like 40+ page guides and not paying for them. (Jammed our printer once trying to print an OoT guide. Probably lucky it jammed, it was like 45 pages. x3)

Guys and gals alike, generally playing the same things. (With the exception of like, Barbie games. I tried one, it was okay. Kinda boring IMO, but to each their own. Went back to The Lion King. Thankfully, game rentals used to be a big thing. x3)

Played so many thing. Old PC games (like battle chess), atari (I actually liked ET, played it enough to get good at it, beat that sucker multiple times, once I beat it a couple it was usually easy tbh), NES, SNES, N64, PS, PS2, GC, GBC, GBA, DS, 3DS, XBox, 360, PS4, current PC games. And yes, even some mobile and idle games because why not? Sometimes a person just wants to screw around.

As games progressed they got more divided it feels like to me. Which is part of why I don't care if I'm considered an 'official' a gamer or not. I've spent 8+ hours a day playing video games (DS/3DS usually at this point, also Switch and a little PS4 but I just like having the screen over with me more tbh) and as little as 10+ hours some weeks. I tend to get WAY too into the games I play, often binge playing a game. But as a title... the 'official' gamer title feels pointless to me. Too many people get too honestly snobbish for me to really care if they see me as 'one of them' or not.

I'm just gonna keep playing my games and obsessing about the ones I like, and not playing things that don't interest me. Some say that's a gamer, some say you have to play specific games (usually shooters and Soulsborne games come up). Some people I've met said you have to play competitively even.