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First time out of the vault
I am a 22 year old gamer with 15 years of experience. I played anything from Battlefield 1942 to GTA Vice City.
I know that there are many definitions of "fun" but there is only one "true" fun. When you laugh and/or have a good time. This was the purpose of a game, originally, and it was developed in many different ways. Nowadays people mix "fun" with interest, fear but most importantly, and sadly, with seriousness. A game initially was made, like football (or soccer for USA) and yes this is a game too, to make a band of people join together and make them have genuine fun.
Genuine fun is when you laugh and have a good time by making jokes and chat your daily stuff while playing a game. One of the main reasons that things go completely wrong was Tournaments, aka seriousness. You lost the meaning of the game (as a term) completely when you become all serious and just want to complete the game with perfect scores, no deaths, etc. But most importantly gamers are called no lifers because exactly what these two words mean "You have no life". Gamers nowadays just want to complete a game and "enjoy" some time, escape reality, because they have miserable life, such bs.
Gamers just lost the concept of a game completely. There is more than just playing the game. Each game has story, history (in many but not all cases), looking for secrets (come on who didn't grin because he/she found a treasure/out of the game thing for no reason), game mechanics and various other than COMPLETING THE GAME. That's not a reason to play a game. Unfortunately we, as gamers, don't thing as such. Actually we don't think at all. In many cases, many of you must have played games such as CS:GO, games have no reason or gives you any purpose to play the game. You just go in and shoot everyone for no reason.
All these being said, not all games are the same. Some have different purpose of existence. CS:GO for example simply wants you to protect a location from the terrorists and vise versa. But most games have, but the gamers don't see is that the games don't force you to play the game as the developers ask you. That's by actually putting your little touch on the game by interacting with it. Troll a bit, say something but the thing is you don't. Either you cant (developers' stupid idea) or you just don't have the guts to do so. That's where modders and youtube channels come in.
Modders just add things that was not present in the game in the beginning and youtube channels by commenting/explaining the game. Why are so dumb as to listen what other people say about it and not have our own opinion about it? The thing is, and its the most troublesome of all, that we cant express that opinion we have because no one will give a damn about it. That's wrong. And that's another reason why we are called no lifers.
Internet is one of man's greatest inventions and yet we, our generation, don't use it at all. Many older, than myself, people will use the internet to do more things than just view porn or watch the latest news. Another reason why gamers are called no lifers is because we don't get out of our home (myself excluded, I'm not there yet). Why? Because we are antisocial cowards that don't have the guts to speak with a neighbor or the grocer.
How to fix that? By playing multiplayer games. Yeah you would say that there are kids and people in general that take multiplayer games seriously. If you do think that then start reading again from the beginning. The last thing I am going to say about this is that no one will care what I say, or anyone else for that matter. Why? Because nobody cares. (And I lack publicity).
Say your opinions, even if that's three or four words. All gamers should have and must have an opinion in this.
PS English is not my first language so forgive any mistakes. Also writing essays is not my thing.
I know that there are many definitions of "fun" but there is only one "true" fun. When you laugh and/or have a good time. This was the purpose of a game, originally, and it was developed in many different ways. Nowadays people mix "fun" with interest, fear but most importantly, and sadly, with seriousness. A game initially was made, like football (or soccer for USA) and yes this is a game too, to make a band of people join together and make them have genuine fun.
Genuine fun is when you laugh and have a good time by making jokes and chat your daily stuff while playing a game. One of the main reasons that things go completely wrong was Tournaments, aka seriousness. You lost the meaning of the game (as a term) completely when you become all serious and just want to complete the game with perfect scores, no deaths, etc. But most importantly gamers are called no lifers because exactly what these two words mean "You have no life". Gamers nowadays just want to complete a game and "enjoy" some time, escape reality, because they have miserable life, such bs.
Gamers just lost the concept of a game completely. There is more than just playing the game. Each game has story, history (in many but not all cases), looking for secrets (come on who didn't grin because he/she found a treasure/out of the game thing for no reason), game mechanics and various other than COMPLETING THE GAME. That's not a reason to play a game. Unfortunately we, as gamers, don't thing as such. Actually we don't think at all. In many cases, many of you must have played games such as CS:GO, games have no reason or gives you any purpose to play the game. You just go in and shoot everyone for no reason.
All these being said, not all games are the same. Some have different purpose of existence. CS:GO for example simply wants you to protect a location from the terrorists and vise versa. But most games have, but the gamers don't see is that the games don't force you to play the game as the developers ask you. That's by actually putting your little touch on the game by interacting with it. Troll a bit, say something but the thing is you don't. Either you cant (developers' stupid idea) or you just don't have the guts to do so. That's where modders and youtube channels come in.
Modders just add things that was not present in the game in the beginning and youtube channels by commenting/explaining the game. Why are so dumb as to listen what other people say about it and not have our own opinion about it? The thing is, and its the most troublesome of all, that we cant express that opinion we have because no one will give a damn about it. That's wrong. And that's another reason why we are called no lifers.
Internet is one of man's greatest inventions and yet we, our generation, don't use it at all. Many older, than myself, people will use the internet to do more things than just view porn or watch the latest news. Another reason why gamers are called no lifers is because we don't get out of our home (myself excluded, I'm not there yet). Why? Because we are antisocial cowards that don't have the guts to speak with a neighbor or the grocer.
How to fix that? By playing multiplayer games. Yeah you would say that there are kids and people in general that take multiplayer games seriously. If you do think that then start reading again from the beginning. The last thing I am going to say about this is that no one will care what I say, or anyone else for that matter. Why? Because nobody cares. (And I lack publicity).
Say your opinions, even if that's three or four words. All gamers should have and must have an opinion in this.
PS English is not my first language so forgive any mistakes. Also writing essays is not my thing.
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