How's your next gen Gaming Soul?

Dead. I still love gaming and see it as my number one hobby for decades to come, but my next gen soul is dead as far as gaming is concerned. I'll just buy what I want for the PS4/ Xbox One and Switch, but if it doesn't come out for those and my PC can't play it, then it's not happening.

Love gaming as much as ever. I only slowed down buying new releases in recent years mainly because of huge backlog, Game Pass, and the market is so saturated I just wait for opportunistic sales.

If my gaming soul has been wounded by anything this gen, it's partial due to gaming media, probably since start of this gen most YouTube channels and gaming websites and even these forums we nothing more than regurgitations of NeoGAF threads, compounded by a compulsive group thinking enforced by banning users who refused to conform to the site being anything other than a Sony fanboy circle jerk safe space with a social influence of a Russian troll farm. I miss the days when gaming media was more about - hey, check out this gem of a game you probably didn't know about. Instead, gaming media feels overwhelmingly negative about everything, especially on YouTube side of things.

As for games, I find myself missing out on a lot mainly because games are too damn long, many just shallowly padded time drains. I still manage to keep playing great stuff but find myself avoiding even well celebrated games on account I don't want to commit 60-100 hours into something. Still, no problem finding good fun in games where this isn't an issue.

With Hytale out next year for PC I am in a very good place. The think I want to see is the growth of the building game genre. It is a young genre and has a TON of room to grow. I cannot wait for new developments in that genre.

Work's been crazy busy after a promotion, and when I do game, I just want to relax with an easy game like Monster Hunter or something. Lol Haven't actually played an MP game in a while, and as fun as it is, just haven't been feeling it. @BassMan has asked me to play BF5 a few times, and have just been busy with other things. Sorry, Bass!

Once work settles down, I'll have more energy to put into gaming. My car's transmission also died on Friday, and I needed to get a new car, so that was a whole day gone just spent at the stupid car dealership.

No worries, we all have priorities and other shit to deal with. Just hit me up when you feel like playing.

I'm less tolerant of certain things even more. I don't care for video game stories in general bar major exceptions still, in fact I'm pretty convinced that video games will never be a good story telling medium no matter how hard you goons try to make excuses for it. Unskippable cutscenes are not my jam, but i can still tolerate all that shit for the game mechanics.

So long as there is a meaty game, with me to git gud at stuff, I can get into it. Dad of War much like the previous God of Wars does not stack up favorably to Bayonetta or Devil May Cry or what have you, but like God of War 2 n 3, it's just fun enough that I appreciate the combat for what it does right, even if it lacks for technical play. It's head and shoulders over the shitty combat systems found in The Witcher 3 or Batman combat n shit.

Multiplayer wise fighting games are great, I love learning them. Rocket League is rad. The FPS scene has never been worse, Siege is great tho. A diamond in a sea of garbage, it's a shame to see the once majestic PC arena shooter be basically dead sans a few one v ones you can get on Reflex discord or mess with Quake live.

The indie scene is rock solid.

I just don't have the free time to play as much as I want. Nowadays I'm running my own businesses while still handling all my taxing duties keeps me out of the house most of the day, so when I do get to play a lot of times it's like do I want to learn a new system or do I want to play a fighting game I've already learned/play some DMC5.

I really hope all 3 start making games for PC, because I'm tired of paying for consoles, they suck.

I think most conversations about games miss the forest for the trees, but I aint got time to care for more things other than educate a jabroni or two on action games n fighting games (the best genre in gaming).