Are video games getting worse or better?

[Hank Hell]

I think they are getting better. I used to play Atari and I really only had a few games but one of them was called 'Red Sea Crossing' i remember it was so cheesy and awful. Every time you jump it plays music and it was just awful i doubt you could find it online it was so lazily made and terrible. For this reason i believe newer games are better because they are more polished. What do you think and why?

[Tux]

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Technologically, yes.
But the standards and business practices some developers and publishers have is another story.

everything other than actual game play aside for the moment I would say that the game play experience has improved DRAMATICALLY over the past 3 years to the best its ever been in the history of gaming.

[Chemistara]

Graphic-wise, yes
Gameplay-wise, no.
Most newer games feels stale now

[Hank Hell]

Red Sea Crossing had awful gameplay compared to new games that are aaa

[Rio]

AAA are way dumber, but indie aren't always.

[hi friends]

Some games are good. players have ruined it however

[The nameless Gamer]

Ever progressing technology offers more and more potential for improvement. Some developers use it and make their games ever better (Example: Arc System Works and the Guilty Gear franchise). Others try to turn a niche game into an E-sport and butcher it (example: Relic and the Warhammer 40.000 Dawn of War franchise). And there are those who resell the same old game with a facelift in an attempt to achieve maximal profit with minimal effort (Example: Ubisoft and the Assasin's Creed franchise).

[[LEO] Audrey]

worse....T_T

[Unexpected]

i would say 95% of newer games are getting worse and worse

[TwinEdgedBastard]

Better than a few years ago, but still worse than pre gen 7 console era (360, ps3, etc).

Some AAA devs have realized that quality beats quantity, but I feel that they still rush things and don't fully embrace creativity, as well as still force overpriced DLC, pre order bonuses and the more recent Loot box garbage in their games.

DOOM 2016 is probably the best and most recent example of a game that steered in a good direction but still fell short a bit (still a good game imo). Single player was more or less as good as it could get, but the multiplayer still showed obvious signs of investors and publishers infuencing the design of the game, by forcing the inclusion of an uninspired multiplayer imitating the COD formula to an extent. Multiplayer was also the only part that they developed DLC for, most likely because the publisher thought this was the selling point of the game. Snap map also isn't as good as it could of been though it did recieve some decent updates.

I think once the gaming community stops begging for sequels, purchasing bad DLC and pre ordering games for exclusive bonuses, we will see game companies start to put the game first instead of money. (although money will probably always come first in the AAA industry).

[Hank Hell]

I think they are getting better too they are getting less casual and more tactical games are coming out like Day of Infamy, Insurgency, Rising Storm 2, Escape From Tarkov, and lots more games like this. Slower games like the COD's from last generation are dying out and being replaced by more faster paced games like Battlefield 1 and Arena shooters are back which is awesome. Quake Champions, Lawbreakers, Dirty Bomb, games like these are just awesome.

[hedy]

They're getting better, developers just abuse it.

[shoopy]

Slowly better, but it is not very hard to be better than the garbage there was during the crash of '83

[KingCringe]

castlevania was quite good in its day

[Mivo]

The production values and graphics get better, and games are now more complex than they were 20 or 30 years ago, because the hardware is substantially more capable and there is more design history to learn from, but there has been relatively little innovation in the past 15 or so years, at least compared to the 80s and 90s when new genres were born. New ground is rarely broken now, there is just a lot of rehashing going on.

Gamers don't really reward innovation these days, either. We expect fleshed out, proven concepts, high production values, and we are not very forgiving of problems and quick to downvote. Making games is much more expensive now than it was two or three decades ago, and that does not invite experimentation.

[Dogui]

Video games are getting more varied, which is great.

Better or worse games are timeless