MMGN.com writes: I’ve been a gamer since before I could talk coherently. My parents have often told me tales of how I would escape my crib at ungodly hours to beat them at Super Mario Bros. with ease. Since then I’ve moved into a career that is centred around my passion, love and understanding of the video game medium. Investigating, writing about and playing games is what I do for a hobby and also my job.
That’s why I was so taken aback when I struggled to come up with an answer to what should have been a seemingly simple question for a hardcore gamer.
“Why do you play games?“
Microsoft is a little slow this month when it comes to announcing the Games with Gold lineup for June 2022. This has led to the lineup leaking ahead of the announcement.
This is just plain sad, they are basically charging you for online and that's it, I guess this goes hand in hand with the "tell me you only play AAA games without telling me you only play AAA games"
Both Gamepass and Gold games offerings have gone way downhill.
Super Meat Boy was a Games with Gold title back in 2016..It's leftover Meat from 2016
I actually really enjoyed Aven Colony when it was on Gamepass. I got it for free from Epic Store a few months back.
I’ll give it another go.
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They put Celeste in the honorable mentions. Such a shame, this game is premium in platforming. Rayman is also def a 10/10 platformer.
The point is that when you are kid you don't need hardcore games because you can't play them anyway (they are usually too difficult and hard-to-understand for children). But it changes once you grow up. That's why gaming journalists and the vast majority of people calling themselves gamers are more interested in GTA 5 and The Last of Us. Sometimes I play Counter-Strike 1.6 just for fun - it has no story and graphics are crap, but the multiplayer is ridiculously simple and fun. However, every news of GTA 5 or The Last of Us catches my attention and I want those games. I enjoy playing hardcore games mostly because realistic graphics and gameplay makes me feel like I am in the game's world, forgetting about my own problems.
Some people are enough of playing fun-only games and we call them "casual gamers". They don't need to be involved in story or feel like they are the heroes of war. My mom plays Solitaire for 10 years already and still enjoys it.
i had fun playing Bioshock, UC's and had fun watching heavy rain.
I honestly feel sorry for the gamers who aren't having as much fun now as they did years ago. As realistic as these games have gotten, they're all all fantasy. They aren't real, we aren't talking with aliens, no man can slip off a cliff as much as drake, our health doesn't regenerate if we hide behind a wall. I guess I don't get as angry as some others if there's a glitch in an animation, an arm goes through a wall. Because I know humans are making these on limited hardware. Unless they were working with the power that avatar or Pixar works with then i'm expecting anomalies. It takes a few bad releases for developers to start getting laid off. Id say instead of hoping the grass is greener on the other side, start having fun with the fact that most of the games we play still have tons of fantasy elements, lower your seriousness.
I still have alot of fun playing on PC and Wii, sometimes even ps3/xbox 360.
I'm having a blast playing a mix of indie and full retail software