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RE: Lord Of The Rings Online Feels Like Home
"in-game Fashion Wars"
To an extent these can be fundamentally a desirable attribute. In Second Life, for example, it is the main draw, in fact. In Valheim and etc, construction is almost a game in itself, and mirrors the draw in games like Sim City and many other games.
However, I remember when I took a look at WOW when it first came out and replaced the RTS earlier WOW games. I found it's more flashy graphics anti-immersive, as you relate, and vastly inferior to Everquest because of it. That also drew an entirely different crowd, which at the time was enormously different from the Everquest role players, or from what yet is found on NWN, and LOTRO. I've never even glanced with interest at any AAA game AFAIK, because of these issues. I, like you, prefer the more immersive, less flashy, games of our past.
NeverWinter Nights for damn sure is my 2nd all time fav game, especially the player made custom modules. I follow a blogger on blogspot called Lilura1, and older gamer lady from the 80s who runs an excellent retro RPG blog.
https://lilura1.blogspot.com/p/baldurs-gate.html
Values are changing. People no longer play video games just to chill for an hour. It's now almost a half-day job. People no longer enjoy the experience of a well crafted game, but rather chasing the incentives and superfluous accolades (Steam achievements, loot-boxes, collectibles, in-game items/fashion/housing).
I saw this video the other day...i feels it in my ❤️ man
Look at how sad that is...this is the gaming landscape. People from my generation (Gen Z is it called? Millennials) managed to escape this trap, being born in a time when digital influence (from technologies) didn't have such a great effect on actual physical daily life...we remember playing football in the courtyard...we remember radios, TVs, technology that was specifically external to our entertainment consumption...meaning you actually had to get up and press a button, or dial a knob to make a phone call etc etc; sometimes you may even need to take a slipper to the TV box and do...
Now...the generation after mines are born co-existing with technlogy and the digital world. They don't know what the 90s, 80s and 70s, even the 60s must have been like. It's unfathomable and that life back then is not considered freedom to these new creatures (wtf is up with your new DNA ehh? Oh you didn't know???). The digital world, with all the flashy AI genearted images, or websites, or blockchains, or tokens, or whatever, that...is freedom to them.
I spoke with some people who played a game called CyberPunk 2077...a lot of these people actually wish for the future to be like that. They like that Fifth Element, BladeRunner type world. It's SAD!
Look at this shyte here...
https://guildjen.com/gw2-fashion/
https://www.valheimians.com/builds/tag/spotlight/
https://cosmeticlotro.com/
WHY????
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