Games in general? or just on Steam?

[Kursis]

Are pc games so bad now in general, or only those on steam? The quality of games on steam seem so bad now. I remember way back when 9 out of 10 games were worth playing, now it seems 1 out of 500 are decent now.

[Trollhammer]

OK... Define "good game".

[Start_Running]

So What you're saying is develiopers aren't catering to your narrow tastes.

[steven1mac]

It is easier to list games on Steam now, so instead of a dozen big publisher you have hundreds of little publisher trying to sell games.

[Warlander]

steam is all crappy "porn" games and forever in "early access" and of course asset flipped chinese and russian garbage, its the amazon store of the game world now.

[Reggaejunkiedrew]

Well, most PC games ARE on Steam.

The amount of Epic exclusives seems to have slowed in recent years, with most that were ever exclusive being Steam at this point. And looking at say Ubisoft, Far Cry 6 and Watch Dogs Legion aren't exactly the pinnacle of gaming.

It's easier to make games than ever before and easier to get them on Steam than ever before. The result is there are a lot of amazing games made by smaller devs that could've never been made a decade ago, but also a lot of asset flips made by people trying to make a few bucks off something that probably doesn't deserve it.

Best way to browse the Store imo is to use this page, sort by user score and narrow by tag depending on what your looking for.

https://store.steampowered.com/search

Doing this in browser with the augmented Steam extension for Chrome or Firefox will give you a lot more flexibility as well for narrowing your search, so you can say, sort by release date, but only games with >70% score and 10 reviews, for example.

[Kursis]

I love how the trolls come out to play. I do not have narrow tastes, I just have a lot of experience playing GOOD games. Been gaming a long time, and in the last few years it just seems that for every one Good game (one lacking game breaking bugs, well optimized, good writing, good programming, replayability, and originality) there are 500 games that are game breaking bugged to hell and back, writing that a kindergarten student could outdo, so boring as to be non-playable never mind replayable, unfinished for years, and unoriginal unless you are on psychedelic drugs playing it. Lazy developers, who bite off more than they can chew. Who do not follow through, and pretty much scam people who buy the early access. If you can stomach all this than you are not a better person than me, you are a spineless blind worm who can not see the garbage, and can not stand up for yourself if you did.

[rawWwRrr]

Origineel geplaatst door Kursis:

I love how the trolls come out to play.

Ironic.

Origineel geplaatst door Kursis:

pretty much scam people who buy the early access.

Ahhh... someone else who feels they got burned after buying an Early Access game but failed to read the huge disclaimer on the store page. Makes sense now.

Origineel geplaatst door Kursis:

I you can stomach all this than you are not a better person than me, you are a spineless blind worm who can not see the garbage, and can not stand up for yourself if you did.

Vote with your wallet.

[Tsubame ⭐]

There are lots of good games out there. Just that there are a great ton of games available, so you may have to skim a bit.

[Trollhammer]

Origineel geplaatst door Kursis:

I love how the trolls come out to play. I do not have narrow tastes, I just have a lot of experience playing GOOD games. Been gaming a long time, and in the last few years it just seems that for every one Good game (one lacking game breaking bugs, well optimized, good writing, good programming, replayability, and originality) there are 500 games that are game breaking bugged to hell and back, writing that a kindergarten student could outdo, so boring as to be non-playable never mind replayable, unfinished for years, and unoriginal unless you are on psychedelic drugs playing it. Lazy developers, who bite off more than they can chew. Who do not follow through, and pretty much scam people who buy the early access. If you can stomach all this than you are not a better person than me, you are a spineless blind worm who can not see the garbage, and can not stand up for yourself if you did.

Again, define what a good game is. Or just name a few is it's easier for you.

[I have quit gaming]

Seems like you are already having the same problem for 4 years (2018), when you created a similar thread where you said:

Steam is just getting flooded with meh games now. You can't see the forest for the trees... Starting to not be able to see the worth of Steam due to the trash...

Maybe it's just because you've gotten older. Maybe you just don't enjoy games in general anymore and maybe finding a completely different hobby is the best idea.

[NOTimpressed]

Frankly spoken: you're the problem, not the games.
There have never been more high-quality games in almost every genre.

[T9]

People are happy with trash games.
It's hard for sane people to embrace it.

[Crazy Tiger]

9 out of 10 games were worth playing? When was that? Certainly not in the last 35+ years.

If one can't find fun games these days, one is either very narrow in taste or one doesn't actually try to look for them.

[-$ilver-]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2116790/Warlocks_Quarry/

I've been enjoying the heck out of this game and the base game (one world) is free. The paid for game has basically an unlimited amount of worlds with different rules and laws of physics so to speak.

Also you just have to know what you are looking for. If you mean there is a bunch of poorly made games, then yes, yes there are. But that was a thing even before Steam. Steam just makes it easier, or I should say the free game engines they make them on and then sell or give away as free on digital stores like Steam makes it easier. But there are also many great or at least decent games as well.

Now if you mean completely unfinished, shipped out the door, loot box infested games, then yes, that is a rather new thing. There has always been patches, but some of these triple AAA devs are getting ridiculous with it. Again not really a Steam thing in general.

[Kael]

Origineel geplaatst door Warlander:

steam is all crappy "porn" games and forever in "early access" and of course asset flipped chinese and russian garbage, its the amazon store of the game world now.

Yeah this, it all got worse when they got rid of the Stream Greenlight thing. Although I see the same sort of "games" seeping into PS5 store too so the problem extends far past Steam.