New good game comes out

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Why does this always happen?

Is it me or has gaming largely become "nomadic"? I remember when you purchased a SP game and sticked with it for years, built up communities, really got everything out of the game before moving on (unless you're speedrunning, in which case you'll stick with the game for eternity and master it to an autistic level).

Nowadays it seems people roam around from game to game. Only MP "Flavor of the Month" games seem to attract stable and healthy lifespans, and not even good ones at that, but Twitch e-celeb garbage like DOTA2/CSGO/Overwatch/PUBG.

Why do good games die and shitty games get a solid lifespan? It blows my mind.

1.) Because there is actually no such thing as decent modern games with actual staying power. That's why all new games ride on the hype train

2.) There are no decent AAA games either, but AAA games cost money so they actually become subject to sunk cost fallacy

What the fuck is there to discuss?
Its a 6 hour long linear shooter. Do you want every game to devolve into cuckchan /vg/ tier generals?

In the case of Cuphead, I imagine it's not being discussed because everyone's beaten it already. It's agreed on that it's a good game, we've exhausted all we can say about it. Why keep going on about the same thing?

You literally can't discuss games that came out a few months ago here unless they have a multiplayer element or are one of those highly moddable RPGs like New Vegas. Seriously, try to discuss a game sometime after its hype died down and you'll get the hivemind saging your thread and telling you that "hurr durr we already discussed this game to death fuck off"

Stop imagining stuff.

The only ones that seem to stick still are the ones with all that whale baiting crap. It just goes to show most people are plebs that don't actually appreciate video games and just want new stuff or feel like they're getting something out of something besides a good time.

If you're speaking in regards to Holla Forums, good games will likely reach their target audience within a certain amount of time, and get brought up less and less frequently as time goes on (IE: barring the recent Kamiya shitposting prompting a thread, how many years had it been since a Ghost Trick thread here? I feel it's a worthy example as it's a seven or so year old Holla Forums favorite that just doesn't seem to warrant discussion anymore here). Meanwhile flops, especially ones that were offensively bad, can live on for a much longer time in the way of mockery (see ToRtanic and DmC). Of course, there's also an issue of saying positive stuff about upcoming/recently released games getting construed as shilling attempts, though I've also seen people claim positive discussion of years of not decades old games to just be shilling as well.

How many old games are played nowadays or still talked about "monthly"?

Old games seemed to "last longer" because the market wasn't saturated.

The flavour of the month thing is because of the internet, there's so much new and interesting stuff people don't need to focus on only one thing, and they get bombarded with constant new ones.

Plus any attempt to form a community around a game (that isn't primarily multiplayer) just results in the fandom effect and the absolute scum and cancer of the internet finds its way in and ruins it. I watched that shit happen with Undertale. Whatever you think about the original game, in the first few months after it came out there was a lot of cool and chill people who liked it. Then, they all moved on and all that was left were the screeching children and tumblr autists, and before you knew it they were the face of the entire fandom, and by extension the game. Nobody wants to go into that, I certainly didn't, so all the sane people fucked off and stopped talking about it, while they keep on going. It's happened with a lot of games, Cuphead being a good example. Try looking for any Cuphead fan groups or forums or fan art now, I guarantee you will find nothing new that isn't complete cancer.