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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 119 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Boomers my ass. This is Gen X gaming.

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Millennials as well. I get bored with modern games. Grinding all day for a pink weapon skin. Tf, I don't care what color are my skins. Give me a good old challenge

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

I mean it is a nice extra, if and only if the core gameplay is enjoyable. Porbably most triple AAA titles would be fine with all the secondary stuff, if they whould have just put a little more effort into making a fun game first and foremost and then add the other stuff afterwards.

But of course adding loot boxes to a fun game is a different process than designing a loot box ecosystem and then trying to fit a game into it.

[–] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a Millenial and I was the target audience age when CS released.

If you aren't doing it already, I strongly encourage you to undertake an aggressive workout routine, including lots of stretching.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don’t think this is even Gen-X. Certainly this Gen-Xer grew up on Atari with very obvious 8bit and even text based games. I don’t recognize this one and we had few or no first person shooters

My “complex world” game was the computer texting to me “you have entered a maze of twisty passages, all alike”

I don’t know what the tail end of the Xers played, so maybe.

I had to look it up, but the last of the Xers were born in 1980. This looks like a 2000’s game, so they would have been adults

[–] FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

It’s Counter-Strike 1.6, which is from the late 90s.

Lol

Me: Hey Dad, wanna play Counterstrike?

Dad: Hell no, we just had that tile installed. What's wrong with you?

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Yup early millennials too. That game was my go to for most of 2000.

Ahem, and elder millennial