Going the Distance

Recently I did a video talking about how people distance themselves from video games nowadays, now that statement can be taken in several ways and realistically it’s up to interpretation, but I tried to cover as much as I was willing about the so called ‘taboo’ subject. Why is it taboo? Do you hear anyone talking about this, I bet you don’t, people tend to shy away from this subject and why do they do it? Whether it be intentional or not people tend to be extremely biased when it comes to games, if they don’t buy games day 1, they fan boy over their favourite franchise. If they don’t fan boy over franchises they like, they buy games day 1. The duality of man, lol. Distancing yourself is the act of distancing yourself, plain and simple. Okay, really, it’s whatever you interpret it to be, for myself I made points in the video attached to this post. It can be many things, but the plain and simple would be ‘purposely or unconsciously not involving yourself in the inner works of the video game world, whether it be research into a company before you buy a game or not accepting criticism for a franchise you enjoy’ those are just vague reasons, like I said it varies from person to person. Hype is a disease, and no one wants a disease, right? Hype can cause distance and make you do things you’d normally not do, hey, I’m as excited for GTA VI as the next person but it still won’t change the fact that I’ll wait for PC and a steep price drop, and if that doesn’t happen then I’ll simply won’t play it. I won’t make the mistake of what I did with Red Dead Redemption 2 and play it on PS4, I think that was half the reason I got a PS4 because the only game I ever actually finished on it was RDR2. Had a few other PS4 games but never finished them, still waiting on CTR: Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fuelled PC release, like that will ever happen.

The key point is to have standards when it comes to games and not to just except bad practises from these companies. If you really want to play a game judge whether it will come to your platform of choice and if it is great, then how much is it worth to you, in my opinion no game is worth $60/£50. Let’s use the recent CTR: Nitro-Fuelled, I think it’s worth £25 at best, again this is my price point not necessarily what the game should be sold at but what I’m willing to pay. So, this means I’d have to wait for a sale, then it’s not on PC so I’d have to give in and get it on something like PS4 or Switch, or, I could just say no, I’m not willing to purchase it on those platforms and wait and hope it comes to PC. It’s having standards, we’re all adults here (I hope) so you should value your hard-earned dollar and what you choose to spend it on gaming wise. Not throw 60 bucks at it day one and barely play it because it’s not what you expected it to be. Have some damn self respect.