Post by The Curmudgeon on Mar 6, 2014 19:01:56 GMT 2
It slowly started sneaking in to the next gen consoles through sharing your trophies and purchases on Facebook, but now it really does look like they are trying to make your social network activities as just another part of the gaming experience. So now you can fill up other people's newsfeeds on Facebook with boring videos of you playing a game, or you can post mundane, poorly written shit onto other people's Nintendo games.
The Wii U now has a function where you can write or draw anything you want either on the main hub of the console itself for others to see, or you can write about the particular game that you both are playing. So, in those terrible bleak times before this sort of nonsense, you would play Mario and instead of seeing a lovely, animated little world full of colour and imagination, that world is now covered in post-it notes full of comments from people you don't know.
How great is that? If your answer was "not in the fucking slightest", advance to the next line of this thread.
Sony obviously believe in this new way of irritating others because they actually went further than Nintendo. Once the level of Mario (or whatever game you're playing) is completed, a pop up appears and asks if you want to write a message about your experience on the separate tablet. The PS4 now has a full button on the control pad designed specifically to share your gaming experience on Facebook or Twitter. Think about that. Not just a "press start, select "Share" - an actual button right on the pad. They obviously see this as being a Big Deal.
And.. well, it just isn't, is it? I've never really been a sociable gamer. For me, gaming is an awesome, SOLO pursuit that, like masturbation, just goes wrong when you start to involve groups of people. I've never really wanted to know how many 14 year old boys my mother has had sex with, so I don't play Call of Duty or any of those other fucking games, and playing online games like Street Fighter or WWE is a frustrating, joyless experience as you inevitably encounter the one dickhead who does the same move over and over and over again.
I go on Facebook a lot. Every day, in fact. And I only know one person who actually shares the videos of the games he plays. And I have yet to even press play on one of them. My time online isn't particularly scarce, but if I'm ever bored enough to sit and watch someone else play a level of Assassin's Creed, shoot me through the mouth.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is the next step in modern gaming. Maybe I'm old fashioned and out of touch when I think the "share" button on most gamer's PS4's is still going to look brand new and untouched in five years time. What do you think?
The Wii U now has a function where you can write or draw anything you want either on the main hub of the console itself for others to see, or you can write about the particular game that you both are playing. So, in those terrible bleak times before this sort of nonsense, you would play Mario and instead of seeing a lovely, animated little world full of colour and imagination, that world is now covered in post-it notes full of comments from people you don't know.
How great is that? If your answer was "not in the fucking slightest", advance to the next line of this thread.
Sony obviously believe in this new way of irritating others because they actually went further than Nintendo. Once the level of Mario (or whatever game you're playing) is completed, a pop up appears and asks if you want to write a message about your experience on the separate tablet. The PS4 now has a full button on the control pad designed specifically to share your gaming experience on Facebook or Twitter. Think about that. Not just a "press start, select "Share" - an actual button right on the pad. They obviously see this as being a Big Deal.
And.. well, it just isn't, is it? I've never really been a sociable gamer. For me, gaming is an awesome, SOLO pursuit that, like masturbation, just goes wrong when you start to involve groups of people. I've never really wanted to know how many 14 year old boys my mother has had sex with, so I don't play Call of Duty or any of those other fucking games, and playing online games like Street Fighter or WWE is a frustrating, joyless experience as you inevitably encounter the one dickhead who does the same move over and over and over again.
I go on Facebook a lot. Every day, in fact. And I only know one person who actually shares the videos of the games he plays. And I have yet to even press play on one of them. My time online isn't particularly scarce, but if I'm ever bored enough to sit and watch someone else play a level of Assassin's Creed, shoot me through the mouth.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is the next step in modern gaming. Maybe I'm old fashioned and out of touch when I think the "share" button on most gamer's PS4's is still going to look brand new and untouched in five years time. What do you think?
