There's not much that can be done? You can't get her to share your nostalgia because that's not how nostalgia works. If she was a gamer, she could learn to find the relationships between titles like the Zelda/Metroid influence in Dark Souls or the Half Life influence in Dead Space. But if she's a non-gamer, the best you can probably do is explain that those relationships exist, give examples, and see if you can find any older titles that are legitimately still fun today (Doom and Super Metroid are potential candidates).

Doom 2016. You just rock out to metal whilst slicing and dicing demons

Play the remaster, it has a lot of great QOL improvements that the original didn’t. Then play 2 and skip 3.

Awesome! Destiny 2 sub needs to see this.

Oof currently getting back into Destiny, just realized why I left in the first place: no respawn missions are very hard to beat solo and this game isn't fun without friends 😩

Shoot the bastards!

What sucks is that this is too many people for a dungeon, but not enough for a Raid.

j/k I've met some pretty awesome people thanks to Destiny.

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Just removed it, luckily no burst

makes sense. it’s my first shooter in years after having a sour taste in my mouth from previous games, so maybe my expectations were low lol

Inb4 post lock

Half of this comment section is absolute cancer🤦🏽‍♂️

Sad, that moat answers are bad jokes. I think if you dob't learn from games, you are missibg a big part of the reason games exist.

I learned from:

Minecraft how creativity works and how simple intrinsic livestyle choices can add a lot of value to live

Portal how recontextualising ideas add a lot of value to those ideas

Mario how trying again and again and being ambitious you can beat a seemingly impossible challange

Soldier of Fortune 1 & 2 Are quite graphic and allow you to dismember and massacre both dead and living opponents into red blobs, if you are persistent enough. On lower difficulties the game is quite forgiving, but you can also set custom difficulty, by adjusting the number of enemies that spawn, their aggression, etc.

I sometimes do media for cosplay events and I definitely would have stopped for a picture of yours :)

Those links are quite shady.

They’re like classic movies. Mario 64 pioneered 3d platform in a similar way that Casablanca forged the tropes prevalent in modern romance movies. Or like how mgs opening the door for a new kind of 4th wall break isn’t dissimilar to Ferris Bueller bringing 4th wall breaks to the mainstream. Gotta find the pop culture equivalent and hope for the best honestly

It's console 😂

I mean, just explain it.

You can fairly easily make someone understand why something was instrumental to the creation of something else. Or why it holds so much value to you.

What you can't do is make them share your personal nostalgia or personal emotional investment in it...they didn't live those experiences.

And to be honest I don't get why we put games on a pedestal just for being important in their day. I can acknowledge that Wolfenstein 3D was very important for the development of FPS games...while still thinking it sucks ass as an actual game.

always upvote hoodbobthugpants.

So cool

You drank gfuel as a child?!

Blackface?

Very wholesome! Thought this was on the D2 subreddit lol

I don't think you're going to get even the casual gamer to understand much about Metal Gear games.

I would focus more on how games inspired games of now. Like how instrumental Doom or Half-Life was to first person shooters.

That you neet to get away.