The 10 Biggest Changes in Gaming in the Last Decade

Since I was in college 10 years ago, and that was right about when I got into the xbox and xbox live, I'd say gaming hasn't changed all that much for me, except that I now have a proper gaming PC and have expanded to a wonderful slew of titles I didn't have access to on consoles, or just better versions of games than what I would have got on console.

I guess I could say I play a lot less direct multi-player than I did 10 years ago (and less gaming overall), but I generally play the same type of games. Except in the past 10 years one of my favorite game series has been stopped, in NCAA football. Hopefully they are able to bring it back at some point though.

Same here for NCAA. I played it almost every year it existed. From the sounds of it, it seems like it might be able to come back as early as 2017 if EA wants to.

I've gone from PC (Shooters (Doom, WOLF3D, Nukem, Flight Sims) -> Console (Madden, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear) -> Console (Madden, FIFA, COD/BF) -> PC (SWTOR, Elder Scrolls) + Console (COD + MGS + Main Titles)

I've noticed changes in my game tastes. I've gone from emersive games to less emersive games. I think that's mainly because of life. I simply can't dump 3+ hours into a game anymore. Really trying to get proficient at FIFA.

I still do games that are just as emmersive. I don't have as much time for gaming as before since becoming a stay@home dad - I used to dedicate some days off entirely towards it, but I've never been one to play multiple games at the same time either. Starting a year ago, Ive gone from Madden, to DA:I, to AC, back to The Witcher 3, and now back to DA:I. Roughly two month spans with one game before switching again, 1-2 hours at night after the family goes to bed.

When I was single (2004 and before), gaming was like a second full time job, but thats a long time ago.

Need an archive link of the original story. I refuse to give Gawker my click traffic.

"Desides wrote:

Need an archive link of the original story. I refuse to give Gawker my click traffic.

Are Gawker and Kotaku the same company? I linked from Kotaku and it seemed to be their story.

Damn it :lol:
I clicked here just to get my "inb4 Des rages at Kotaku" in, but I am too late :lol:

"Unlucky 13 wrote:

Are Gawker and Kotaku the same company? I linked from Kotaku and it seemed to be their story.

Kotaku is the vaguely gaming but really more interested in stirring up SJW BS arm of Gawker.

"TiP54 wrote:

Damn it :lol:
I clicked here just to get my "inb4 Des rages at Kotaku" in, but I am too late :lol:

It's not rage. It's a conscious decision to purposefully avoid anything related to Gawker, much like how one consciously avoids lepers.

"Desides wrote:

Kotaku is the vaguely gaming but really more interested in stirring up SJW BS arm of Gawker.

It's not rage. It's a conscious decision to purposefully avoid anything related to Gawker, much like how one consciously avoids lepers.

LOL ok. For me, I actually find that they post several interesting gaming and/or geek culture items every day. Seems like a pretty good site, but maybe I'm not digging into areas that others are.

"Unlucky 13 wrote:

LOL ok. For me, I actually find that they post several interesting gaming and/or geek culture items every day. Seems like a pretty good site, but maybe I'm not digging into areas that others are.

Take this quote from the article:

There was a headline stat a little while back that women now make up pretty much half of game players worldwide. People rushed to counter this, defending the mantle of “gamer” from this horde of “casual” interlopers. But the data continually bears out that gaming’s audience is diversifying, whatever people might say to counter it. ‘Oh, but women are all playing on smartphones and Facebook!’

The amount of false premises and BS thrown at you in the span of 3 sentences is just incredible.

1. No one rushed to counter the headline. It was celebrated.
2. No one thinks women are only casual gamers.
3. No one puts casual or hardcore in scare quotes.
4. People who play games were always diverse.
5. Women do play more mobile and Facebook games than men.

Kotaku can't resist crapping all over its readers. That's why I refuse to give them clicks.