That’s just it. It’s like watching a movie on Netflix, you can spend hours just scrolling around trying to make sure you pick something that doesn’t suck. At least we can do that from the living room now, without having to physically go out and experience the Video Store vortex.
Yes. But if you found a film that you are interested in you’ll watch it from start to end - right? That’s the same in the 80s: We just played a few games from the beginning to the end.
You play fewer games, but you repeat the best ones over and over… until you become so obsessed with them that you you join a forum 30 years later to keep talking about them. 
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This might be very individual, but I know people who aren’t interested in new point-and-click games any more, because they believe that they were too busy.
Movies seem to be much more popular, because of their limited play time. That’s why I understand Tim Schafer’s statement regarding the length of Full Throttle.
Personally, I prefer longer (more epic) games, if they are designed well, and I rarely watch a movie. Though, I’m probably not representative of the average gamer.
In an age where people binge TV shows for hours and hours on end I don´t believe that for one second.
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Well, maybe they are just too lazy and passive to play a game and prefer to chill on the couch and watch. Also, they can use their hands for eating some snacks when they only watch TV.
Whenever they tell me that they were too busy, I don’t believe them either. It just depends on their personal priorities.
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Yes, it’s hard to believe, but there are people who think that (point’n’click) games and chilling were two different beasts.
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But that’s also valid for all other genres. For example I can’t imagine to relax with a RPG.
RPGs have way more dead ends an unwinnable situations than any PnC Adventure ever had.
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I didn’t mean to say that all games were relaxing. I’ll never forget how much I became upset when I was playing some certain jump & run games and died frequently.
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Which makes me think of the problems I have with some of those studies that investigate the effects video games have on people and especially children. They tend to come to the conclusion that it makes you nervous, it´s bad for your attention, etc etc yet they never seem to factor in the kind of game that was played and most importantly the level of sucess. When I rage quit a game I´m feeling nervous and unattentive and generally bad. But if I master that same situation in that same game I feel calm and relaxed afterwards when I end it there. I´ve never seen a serious study factor that in, they just don´t care about the content of the games themselves.
That’s true. The same issue applies to studies which tell us that rock and metal music would make people aggressive. After all, it depends on how much the listener enjoys it.
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Oh yeah, I absolutly can´t stand anyone quoting that nonsense with Mozart and the plants anymore.
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That game is pure garbage. Everything is pretty bad.
I hate the most the retcon about Herman and Elaine, and the f*** robot monkey at the end. Talk about jumping the shark on that one.