No.2269
It's fun and stuff
No.2270
A game with a good story can be like a book, movie or any other narrative driven medium. Multiplayer games can either be coop, fun to play like TF2 or mentally stimulating.
>>2268I more or less gave up on multiplayer games with ranked matchmaking because of this, and because the MMR hampster wheel does nothing for anyone.
No.2272
>>2266It causes a change in my internal state, that's pretty physical to me.
No.2273
>>2266It feels good. Which is a bad reason.
No.2274
>>2268At least you learned creative ways to trash talk people
No.4477
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Generally, I see media as some kind of delayed communication, as in, I'm engaging with whatever the creator(s) wanted to express. It's kind of like a way to see the deeper ideas of what's going on inside someone's head without the need for real-time conversation; instead, I can just see their creative output. Hefty media consumption/engagement acts as some kind of surrogate for real conversation with others. In real life, I have to go through a lot of awkward small talk to get to the cool stuff, but when I'm watching an anime, I am immediately seeing what the creator finds cute, what philosophies they think are interesting, their perspective on (or rejection of) the world, etc. I actually have never cared much for multiplayer games for this reason, they are almost the 'small talk' of gaming in my mind.
No.5185
>>4477>In real life, I have to go through a lot of awkward small talk to get to the cool stuff, but when I'm watching an anime, I am immediately seeing what the creator finds cute, what philosophies they think are interesting, their perspective on (or rejection of) the world, etcreading the backlog of someone's blog (or twitter or tumblr or formspring etc. account) is this in its most concentrated form
I like games because they make their own little worlds to mentally inhabit. From the standpoint of addressing what you want out of it, games are communicating the things that are less easy to say in words. Stuff like aesthetics and mood.
No.5199
>>2266What are your reasons for living if you're going to die anyway in 60 years?
No.5327
i play video games because they have more limited possibilities than reality and so dont cause as much anxiety
No.5345
>>5330Yup, I'm in it for the spiritual gains that pass over to NG+
No.5356
>>4477This is how I like to approach media as well, and usually why it takes me a bit longer to watch stuff I find good since it's more like trying to find out what the author or director was saying at any given moment assuming they have a voice. I like it and it makes media appreciation feel a lot better than mindless consumption.
No.5361
>>5330Tell that to all the Egyptian Pharoahs, they're hanging out in the afterlife with their concubines, cats and assyrian figgie collections
No.5364
>>2266They’re one of the very few things that can bring me joy in this wretched world; moreover, they’re the only way I get to interact with other people, even if only indirectly, like stated in
>>4477 No.5367
>>2266If my brain gets to relax and rest after a shit day at work and uni, I'm sorta physically gaining something.
No.5496
>>5495Funny you would say that, I was worried about the topic for the same reason. I pre-ordered it with Mario Kart World, so if you're getting that one as well, maybe we can smoke some rubber!
No.5786
>>2266they allow me to forget the miserable state of my life.
No.5788
>>2267Couldn't have said it any better.
>>2269This is also true.