- cross-posted to:
- games@sh.itjust.works
- cross-posted to:
- games@sh.itjust.works
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I love video games but I also really love film. I went from playing Silent Hill games to watching films like Jacob’s Ladder, Lost Highway, and Session 9. I’ve been watching a lot more films lately. David Lynch is one of my favorite filmmakers right now. I guess most of my life I was watching the wrong films. Even today lots of great films are still being made, you just need to wade through lots of shit to find it. For every great film, there’s probably 10 shitty cash grabs. Cough, cough Minecraft Movie.
I’m a millennial but same.
Movies suck ass right now. And honestly videogames too.
Videogames have replay value though so I can stick to the good ones from the past.
Movies have rewatch value up to a point.
Make a movie we want to see and we’ll watch it.
I’d still rather play video games than watch a movie, and I’m in my 40s.
About to turn 51. Same.
It will change, believe me. I have less and less energy to play video games each year.
Not all video games are twitch shooters.
I’m almost 60 and I play almost every day.
Can confirm. They just leave the room. Even if they are half way in.
I wonder if this might be related to the idea that modern media consumption habits are potentially trashing people’s attention spans
No, it is just human nature to want to do things they find more engaging. For most people games are more engaging than movies which are more engaging that books. Younger people are just more likely to have experience with all three.
I’m not sure it can just be that though, millennials have experience of all three too, why does the trend apparently exclude them?
I will sometimes pick a game, sometimes a movie, sometimes a book—all can be equally engaging IMO
Gaming was more popular and more accessible when Gen Z was growing up, so probably more of them developed a preference for it.
Even when I watch something there is a game open in my hands or on another screen.
