Has datamining killed exploration and secrets in video games?

Oh really?

fuck you rob

The problem is people talking about the vidya just drop the secrets like its nothing, which can be especially irritating when the flow of the conversation changed so fast to the spoilered vidya that you didn't have time to bail

Is this the original rule34?

All these people do is cycle through all items that are in the game by manipulating exported savegames, they can't actually go through the game files with extractors.

>have lurked here for a long ass time
>have never seen this image

fuckin' aye

People have been writing about "things getting worse" for thousands of years. Ancient greek philsophers did that shit all the time.

The only difference is, the way I see it, that we have never been so far ahead, with so large a disconnection with the skills needed to actually survive on the planet rather than just in a city.

Before, if "civilzation" was lost, you just didn't have paintings and huge buildings being made - that's it. Everyone knew how to hunt/farm/cook/build. Now, if youtube tanks, there is almost no fucking hope for survival whatsoever.

It's not that the human situation has changed, it's that the stakes have changed due to our quite recent mastery over our environment.

Eating utensils are restricted and regulated in the UK, for example it's illegal to sell forks to minors.

The thing is datamining makes developers less likely put those types of secrets into games because they know someone is going to dump it all online a day or two after the game releases. Look at how Sakurai wouldn't put the sub-space emissary in Smash 4 because he knew someone would put all the cutscenes on YouTube. I know it's retarded, but that's how devs think.

Please tell me this isn't real