I have been playing video games for a long time, before I even had the internet. Video games, when I was younger, meant a lot more to me because it was completely up to me to figure out how to beat them. I was looking at a forum the other day of someone who spoiled themselves on a Kingdom Hearts game they were unable to beat, and I was stunned. Think about it, how many times have you or someone you know, get stuck in a video and automatically look up the answer on the internet? Because of the internet, most gamer's don't try to figure out the boss battle for themselves, instead they look up how to beat it online. Even when games come out in Japan before other territories, people will look at the ending and spoil the game for themselves before they even play it. That's not to say that if you spoil something for yourself, you won't be able to enjoy it, but at the same time there's something fulfilling about figuring out the process for yourself. What do you guys think about this happening with current generation gamer's? And for those of you who have been playing as long as I have, are you shocked by how many people just look up the answer online instead of trying to figure it out for themselves? 

From what you're explaining, it sounds more like video gamers are losing their patience

 

Video games will always be magical

Video games and the accessibility of information is changing. All you can do is get used to it.

I do it all the time even when its something obvious. Is it making video games lose its magic, I somewhat disagree because it just depends on the will power of the individual if the want to spoil or cheat by using the internet. I spoiled most of DDD for myself like a year or two ago so I am the only to blame if I get bored with 3D when I play it eventually. Now when it comes to cheats it depends on the situation like if I am lost in a temple in any Legend Of Zelda game I will eventually look it up because I suck and need help. There is nothing wrong with getting help from time to time even if it is something simple.  

 

The only thing that is making video games lose their magic is getting older and worrying about bills and such,I really don't understand how people can juggle all of that plus the expense of gaming all at once. I might even stop gaming all together when I become fully independent but I will try to stay with it. 

Back in my day we only had strategy guides to go on if we got stuck, but isn't the internet just the strategy guide of the current generation?  I suppose you can argue that this generation of gamers doesn't have the same kind of perseverance, but keep in mind 1) a lot of modern games tend to coddle players about what to do, so getting stuck can be seen as a problem rather than as something to overcome, and 2) perseverance is also up to the individual--I've always been a total wuss when it comes to games, even before I knew the internet was a thing, so when the slightest thing went wrong, HELP!  If I had the internet at my fingertips when I was five, you're damn straight I'd look up the answers. (And probably get get early trauma in the process, this being the internet, but whatever, it'd have built character.  Probably.)

You're right. I see this all the time. I'm guilty as well! It takes away from the overall experience, which in turn provides a less interactive experience. 

When I get stuck on a boss I look up a strategy for that boss and avoid everything else. When I say "stuck" I mean if I can't beat it after multiple attempts with different strategies. Like 5-10 times depending on how bad they're beating me.

The video games aren't losing their charm, just people think "why bothering scouring this area for -x- when I can google it and go straight to it?", that's not the developers or video games fault, it's the gamer themselves for being so impatient and unable to control themselves.  Like I don't try to spoil myself, in fact most things that get spoiled for me, are accidentally with people posting fan art or status' or gifs.  There's probably something like Tumblr Savior for the whole internet to black list stuff so you don't end up accidentally spoilt.  More generations in this age of instant information are just growing up wanting the game to just throw the answers at them to feel the achievement of finishing it without actually finishing it themselves.  I personally think if someone wants to spoil stuff for themselves or google the answers, they can, it doesn't affect my game play.  I just felt a wave of disappointment seeing a yahoo question saying "How do you jump in Mario?"

Honestly, I don't have time to go looking for every collectible to achieve some really cool prize at the end. I have no shame in looking up locations for hidden objects or answers to beating incredibly difficult areas or solving puzzles because I simply don't have the time to do it. That's not me being impatient. When it's something I have FUN doing, then I'll spend all of my free time doing it. But scouring an entire area for a bunch of feathers, or notes in bottles or whatever isn't enjoyable to me. Grinding in RPGs isn't enjoyable to me, either, and that's basically mandatory for every one there is.

NO.

I like spoiling games I do it all the time, except when the game is released the same day in all places. I know people hate spoilers, I don't. When KH3 is released, I'm sure I'll spoil the whole thing, even if I try not to. But even if I do it, I will love the game. I've done it a lot, there have been games where I've spoiled the final boss, or one of the main twists, and I've played it and love it. It's actually good sometimes, I wouldn't have played some games if I hadn't spoiled myself, because by spoiling myself, I realized they were actually interesting.

 

Just to give you an example, my first KH game was Days, and I didn't have ANY IDEA of the plot of the series, I actually thought Roxas was the main character. But I decided to look for info about KH and discovered that the MC was Sora, and that Days was just a small part of the story. If I hadn't look at that, I might not have become the KH fan I am today, I probably wouldn't have finished Days because I wouldn't have understood some things. So yeah.

Not everyone does that. I personally avoid doing that unless I have no freaking clue what to do, and I never look up the ending of a Japanese game (However, accidental spoilers always happen to me... -_-)

Sucks for you

It's not that game is losing it's touch, but the players these days are just impatient, and you know it's not their fault. For instance, I used to solve puzzles just on my own, but you see it takes me hours and hours to figure it out, and after that I had realized that I wasted a day of gameplay by solving a puzzle. So I got tired of spending countless of hours figuring out the puzzle when I could be possibly finishing the game by now, so I began to look up answers online.

Edited August 24, 201411 yr by Noel Vermilion