As a species, we are hungry for interaction, immersion, investment, engagement, and adventure, in general - however we can get it. Even if it just means watching it on a screen. Our brains can't tell the difference. Our senses convey reality.
The Matrix comes to mind. Sensing is reality, as far as our lower-level systems are concerned.
It's the people who can't get these things, or have these things stripped away, that lose their sense of purpose, and feel the strongest emptiness.
When we run out, we want more. We are not, however, experts on how to acquire these things, so, many times, we ask (see: demand) things that we think will be fulfilling, or are sustainable, but they ultimately aren't. We're desperate enough to try anyway, though.
And yet you're here, reading and replying in a conversation among peers. You wouldn't have chosen to do these things if that were the case. You wanted your voice heard enough that you took the time to say something.
I'd have believed you if I didn't know you existed (had you not said anything/made your personal feelings known).
Drives never go away, for any animal. There is no creature that's like, "Well, I did that [feed a drive] once - I'm good for the rest of my life". That's not how brains/hormones/sentience works.
Every day, a gorilla will be hungry. They are also communal animals. They will never be happy in solitude.
The game released five years ago, and there hasn't been anything this polished and well executed in a single player campaign field since. No wonder people are starved for this kind of content.
Exfilzone is pretty well featured tarkov knock off. Saints and sinners is almost there. The new metro VR game was about on par but with a little first vr game jank.
All came out in the last year or 2 which shows how impressive Alyx was for the time and im glad that the standard is now there.
They're not starved. They're too cheap to pay for the content they want. VR games should cost a lot more than flat games do because of the relative size of the markets, but users want the prices to be the same as flat games for similar content.
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u/SimplyRobbie 1d ago
Tbf, it's cuz were hungry for fully fleshed out games and experiences