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Either only Fortnite, or a mix of that + Minecraft + Roblox.

Nah, zoomers went through the whole indie horror game gauntlet, Minecraft, terraria, etc.

Edit Addendum: Also, don't forget about games like Friday Night Funkin and the plethora of mods that it spawned. The Five Nights at Freddy's fandom was basically a cult at some point and still memed. Cuphead was a big enough phenomenon to get it's own animated series. Stardew Valley is another game that will doubtless have influence beyond it's years. Motherfucking Undertale, sans memes, etc. VA-11 HALL-A was pretty popular for a while too. Don't forget about Among Us. Lethal Company is still getting updates. SCP Secret Laboratory is another one people forget about, but is still a game with a dedicated player base. Kenshi...oh man great game released in 2018. Fucking Persona 5 and Metaphor ReFantaszio, great games. MiSide is a new game, a horror game that doubtless has a small yet dedicated following. No Man's Sky is great, especially after they fixed it. Many Gen-Z doubtless remember Subnautica. Ultrakill is something that is quite special.

We got lied to so hard on cover art, it took decades to believe anything.

Adventure: Cover.

Adventure: Reality.

This site shows some top lies, and shows that Activision, didn't lie so much.

The point of the meme is the experience of witnessing the unique rate of progress in game engines, not the variety. There's definitely more variety now than ever before, if you go looking for it l, and I say that as a 40 year old curmudgeon.

Some millennial have been playing WoW for over twenty years at this point.

This is an critique on the gaming industry, not the players.

I remember moving from the first sims to the second which was a spectacular difference, and then the sims 3 expanding on the tech with an open world. You could smell the future on the book that came in the box with the disc that you read on the way home.

Compare the early and modern versions of wolfenstein. The first game was revolutionary, can you tell apart generic stills from the last 3 games?

I haven’t seen much improvement to game mechanics or graphics in the last decade, personally. Just little nudges forward, sidegrades, or screaming drops back to the worst, most capitalist parts of the 80s

I would hope it is more of the magic of dreaming of the future of video game graphics. It was so exciting to see the next generation of graphics come out.

I am hoping to see the same with VR. But unless there is some kind of technological breakthrough that they are willing to sell to consumers, I don't see it jumping forward very fast over the next few decades.

This is just perceived technological advances in the same span of time, not what games different generations prefer.

While Moore's Law isn't dead the slow down is apparent. From game graphics to phones and other areas of life, the perception is stagnation.

For example I'd notice little difference in a flagship android phone from 10 years ago or AAA video game compared to something that came out this year. Hell I might gain some features like a headphone jack or IR blaster.

You couldn't say the same if you went back 10 years from 2012 to 2002 tech. You'd go from a smartphone to a cellphone that probably didn't even have a color screen nevermind a camera, web browser, touchscreen etc.

complaining about kids these days not enjoying the same shit you did when you were a kid

I have 0 idea how you could have read that from the image. It's about the seemingly exponential improvement in graphics or just how fast things were changing in gaming.

Problem with your generation is that you get offended by anything. You just proved that point. This meme was just to understand the massive graphical improvement that has been going on through the years.

stop the inter-generational fighting, honestly, it’s cringe and a huge distraction from the fact that the rich fucks in charge are looting us for all we’re worth

Bro, take a deep breath, that is just a meme. People can be nostalgic sometimes, there is nothing wrong with that.

lol chill

Hey dingus, it's not complaining about you, it's about being sad for you that you'll never experience that level of innovation since companies are all "minecraft fortnite skyrim again" and nothing else.

How are you so triggered by this? Holy fuck chill

Zoomers will do this in 40 years too. Same as it ever was.

How did you take this personally? I saw it as a criticism of the industry

Most of these titles don't have mainstream appeal though. The example is true for the majority of players.

I do love me some indie games (probably 95% of what I play atm are Noita and Balatro) but I'll admit it was really cool as a child / teenager / young adult to see the improvements over time.

I mean, millennials also got those

Home console in 1980:

Even as a millennial this is one of the first games I played (and I still love it). I dumped the ROM so I can play it forever.

What's the status of VR right now? Any major advancement? I know oculus got bought by Facebook, so no way in hell I'd ever get that.

Millennials did not play Fortnite.

That's the average "modern thing bad" to you. Especially the ones shitting on things around kids

My take from this meme is that Zoomers and later are more “captured” by a few big platforms than previous ones.

Steam games have been around for a lot longer than 10 years. So has Nintendo. There's no reason a Zoomer wouldn't have played Stardew Valley or Undertale or Mario Odyssey or Wii Tennis.

Like, my aunts and relatives are trapped on Facebook sharing Trumpy memes. Kids younger than me seems to be really into ultra-short videos or mobile-ish games. The only people I know that know how to use a desktop PC, beyond the bare minimum for work are… about my age?

I keep seeing this complaint. I'll never understand it. I definitely know family that have mired themselves in Facebook memes. But its silly to pretend my Blessed Lemmy-4chan-channel is materially better than their Barbaric Facebook-4chan-channel. Honestly, just amazed they finally came around on computers at all. So many of my parent's generation couldn't even check email twenty years ago.

Similarly, the Office Space Millennials seem to have completely forgotten that their non-technical peers exist. Like they've never met an auto mechanic or a plumber or a doctor their age who has struggled with using a computer. I used to do IT for a physicians clinic and it was the Medical Assistants doing all the office work. The RNs and MDs couldn't do shit. Which was ironic, because so much of the IT upgrade was about reducing staff size... but the MAs were the ones who grasped the tech the fastest while the actual medical staff avoided tech like the plague.

And sure, kids half your age don't know DOS commands because they don't use DOS. But there's no shortage of Zoomer/GenA computer geeks. I ran into a gaggle of robotics club Alphas in downtown, near the local convention center, just last week. Every year my office fills up with interns who built their own PCs and threw up their own home PLEX servers for their parents who are my age.

Some of you are just so damned cloistered, insisting the three 14 year olds you know aren't doing Angelina Jolie shit from Hackers in their basements before they're even old enough to drive. But pull down your reading glasses, squint a bit, and you'll see plenty of tech savvy folks younger than you.