Vinesauce fans reaction to the ENA game is a prime example of why I hate gamers

You finally have a game that is a beautifully animated avant garde passion project that not only wasn't rushed, the dev released it for free. In a year full of overpriced corporate slop and microtransaction BS destroying the industry, It's a breathe of fresh air to have a simple, fun game that is experimental, weird, that is both visually and audibly stunning. And again, it's free.

So how does the chat of one of the most popular streamers react to it?

Try hard

Too weird

Zoomer humour

I'm convinced gamers hate games.

Like I know it's a dumb thing to complain about idiots being contrarian on the internet, because it's nothing new, but it just annoys me that people can't just let something be art. Particularly when this project clearly had a lot of heart and soul put into it.

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I think the way I'd describe g*mers is not exactly that they hate games, it's that the medium is secondary to the consumerism. They're consumers first and foremost, they want to be marketed to and catered to, they rate things based on how well it's been sold to their specific tastes rather than the quality of the work itself. When people respect the medium first they're actually able to look at something that's not to their taste and still see the craft and quality in it.
Anyway fuck em, pearls before swine.

Too weird
Zoomer humor
Didn't Vinny himself voice act in this?
- Yeah he was a spoopy vampire NOT A PENGUIN

I'm convinced gamers hate games.
There's a saying that people who enjoy things are way less likely to be in stream chats complaining about them... or something like that.

Zoomer humour
I hate naming generations its so dumb so so arbitrary and i hate how it eclipses our ability to empathise across generational lines but also more than anything
I hate how much lazy, sloppy thinking it provides cover for. Like, 'cmon. A) anyone of any age can enjoy and/or be completely repelled by a piece of art and SECONDLY ena is steeped in 1990s iconography, from the early internet to the beginning of the anime boom across the english speaking world -- they can't even identify the right box in their stupid arbitrary category
- Yeah I was gonna say, I have zero context for anything in this trailer but the CD-I style animations alone make this 2000% millennial-coded lmao
- Exactly! It's so stupid.
  Even if we are going to seperate stuff into generations (which is dumb for a number of reasons) as a millennial, I think 'zoomer humour' is way funnier then my humour was at their age. But also, the ENA creator is a millennial... so if anything it's millennial humour? But again labelling humour as generational is stupid anyway because surrealist humour goes back further than any of us and most of my humour was formed around media made by boomers anyway.

I mean the steam reviews have it at 97% positive, just ignore the weirdo haters. The trailer was amazing on its own I’m going to start it tomorrow
- I know, it's silly that I let it get to me. It just managed to hit a nerve for some reason.
- just ignore the weirdo haters
  impossible for the slop-fiends

Vinesauce fans are massively parasocial with Vinny too.

I haven't encountered any thankfully. I've mostly seen that Ena is well received.
Still a shame. The game is genuinely great piece of art (and has also become my hyper fixation for the time being). I really got inspired to draw more again because of It.