I Found Out How to Make Gaming Fun Again

Gaming is boring (I will not play anything without a gun or a ball in it).

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Does this sound like you; augh, man I used to love playing games as a kid, but it just seems like gaming is so lame right now. Game’s are more bloated than ever, cost more than ever, and are generally worse than they have ever been. Then congrats you aren’t alone, and in my opinion, aren’t without a solution. You see, part of the problem of gaming being so “boring” is that gaming is now so saturated. Every year we have endless games that are open world, or live service, or both, and if you aren’t into those then it feels like the whole genre isn’t made for you. The easy rebuttal is to “play indie games” and yea, sure, but that too is so oversaturated that it’s hard to separate the Undertales from the Deep Space Waifu’s, and chances are, you have a job, so spending hours sifting through the mud until you find a piece of gold isn’t viable. To try and solve this for you, I want to talk about some games and methods that will possibly reignite your love for the hobby, and after, try to figure out how we got here in the first place.

The first game I want to talk about is Haste, a game that, as I’m sure you can see, is heavily inspired by Sonic The Hedgehog, and it illustrates one of the ways that modern gaming can feel lame, and how to alleviate that feeling. Sonic, according to some fans, has been consistently going downhill, no pun intended, and that would suck a lot. The solution, see what other developers are doing within that niche. Haste takes the same concepts of sonic, high speed, precise platforming, and puts it into a different aesthetic, world, and incorporates some rogue lite elements to make each playthrough a little different. When we consider that it comes at a fraction of the cost of current Sonic games and further consider that you might have more fun, it could be a great way to reinvigorate your love for the genre.

Gaming is boring, supposedly, but why gaming is boring is something that has always interested me. More notably, how to make gaming fun, or get to a point where I feel that gaming is fun again. This video will try to show you how to make gaming fun again, especially in our modern gaming landscape. Many claim modern gaming is boring, but why modern gaming is bad or even more broadly why gaming is bad might be a more internal battle larger than the gaming is not the same anymore scapegoat. This video looks at finding the answer.

Haste stars Zoe, a courier who’s confused as to why the world is falling apart. As you play, you’ll constantly be outrunning the terrain behind you collapsing, acting as your pseudo time limit. As you rush through the different areas you’ll encounter different characters, uncover the mystery of what’s going on, and engage in the buttery smooth gameplay. Haste runs well, and has no issues keeping up with the fast paced movement. Said movement sees you launching yourself off the terrain to gain height and momentum, and then diving down to carry that momentum forward. It’s like that shitty Dune game for the iphone if it didn’t suck dick. The gameplay finds ways to keep you engaged and the boss fights are just a dream to play through. Finally, the soundtrack is absolutely killer, just listen to some of this