I think a lot of people don’t realize that their pleasure receptors aren’t the same anymore (or are willingly blind to that fact?) and even if you recreate scenarios that might be as enjoyable as the ones that were 20 years ago, for a lot of people the sense of “childhood wonder” is either dulled or gone entirely after so many years so the result still wouldn’t be the same.
One of those times where it needs to pivot to an entirely different approach to the genre to make it viable, and I don’t see anybody doing that… yet?
Like. Not against it, I occasionally play 2009scape because I just think it’s fun, but that’s about it. I just also know that it won’t be the same, and it rarely will be from a game that’s similar to your childhood ones. You have bills now, and your friends aren’t off the clock when you are anymore
I think a lot of people don’t realize that their pleasure receptors aren’t the same anymore (or are willingly blind to that fact?) and even if you recreate scenarios that might be as enjoyable as the ones that were 20 years ago, for a lot of people the sense of “childhood wonder” is either dulled or gone entirely after so many years so the result still wouldn’t be the same.
One of those times where it needs to pivot to an entirely different approach to the genre to make it viable, and I don’t see anybody doing that… yet?
Tell that to the players of https://2009scape.org/ and similar
WoW classic servers, OSRS, etc etc.
Like. Not against it, I occasionally play 2009scape because I just think it’s fun, but that’s about it. I just also know that it won’t be the same, and it rarely will be from a game that’s similar to your childhood ones. You have bills now, and your friends aren’t off the clock when you are anymore
Ah yes the daily grind tries to suck the life out life but we must not permit it