(October 17th, 2016, 02:57)Sirian Wrote: Anyway, while watching the above-linked video, there was one section where the speaker talks about our brains having an inherent defense against memes that offer no survival benefits but only entertainment, which leads us to render them "old" or "obsolete", block them out and move on in search of new ideas.
A lightbulb went off in my head. This sounds very much like the process of losing interest in a video game. The idea behind any video game, no matter how sound and entertaining, eventually grows old, loses fun factor. Loses newness and a sense of relevance. Loses ability to hold the player's attention.
If this idea is valid, then we are genetically wired to tire of any given video game and move on from it.
If the game is MP, do we bypass this brain-circuit b/c it triggers the human-to-human competition circuits instead? That might explain some of the longevity of team-based competitive MP games.