Why do most games suck now?

[CHEWY]

yeah I said it, where my veterans who grew up in the 80's?

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Why do most posts on here suck.

Yeah I said it, where are my edgelords who grew up non-conforming.

[Bee🐝]

It's not really that they suck but rather that genres go in and out of fashion. Games sporting certain mechanics are still being made but you have to go looking for them. Heck, there are programmers that still use the original engines program games. Edit: You can buy new commodore games.

I don't mind things changing; the quality of life improvements alone are worth it.

[Start_Running]

I did,, but clearly you didn't grow upn in the 80's Games have always been ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Ursprungligen skrivet av CHEWY:

yeah I said it, where my veterans who grew up in the 80's?

I feel old now. The 80's, pffft.

[CHEWY]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Start_Running:

I did,, but clearly you didn't grow upn in the 80's Games have always been ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

nah bro you where just ass at them

[Crazy Tiger]

Nostalgia goggles detected. Plenty of games back then sucked, plenty of games now are great.

[kitt]

you said what exactly? i dont see any ground for a discussion other than you being stuck in the 80s.

[Bee🐝]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Crazy Tiger:

Nostalgia goggles detected. Plenty of games back then sucked, plenty of games now are great.

So much this!

I think people forget great moments like - not having The Gem 85% into Space Quest 1, crouching by a random wall in Castlevania (the early 90s?), or how fast can you pour beer before all your quarters are gone...

[CHEWY]

Ursprungligen skrivet av kitt:

you said what exactly? i dont see any ground for a discussion other than you being stuck in the 80s.

Of course not I posted this after a couple of beers lol

[ReBoot]

Heavy marketed A games suck because that's how to make the most money (which big companies are after).
But there's absolutely no excuse for not having anything decent to play. There's just so many great games out there, it's easier to run out of time to play great games than out of great games to play.

[AguilaDeAcero]

It's all about graphics and hype. Not real content or fun to be had.
There are exceptions for sure, but it's not like before when you had multiple great games in just one year.

[ReBoot]

Ursprungligen skrivet av AguilaDeAcero:

It's all about graphics and hype. Not real content or fun to be had.
There are exceptions for sure, but it's not like before when you had multiple great games in just one year.

You're kidding, right?
2020 had Half-Life Alyx, Among us, Ghost of Tsushima, Cloudpunk, Final Fantasy 7 (while a remake, it does a heap of stuff different from the prevoous), Persona 5, Hades, Flight Simulator, Yakuza 0 and I could go on and on. That's multiple great games. 2021 is very young, but already had Hitman 3, Dragon Quest and Little Nightmares 2.

You're either kidding or you're voluntary limiting yourself to heavily marketed A games. In that case, your own fault.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

They definitely don't make games like they used to -- in the sense that big-name companies don't make the same sorts of games with the same sort of stylistic influences.

Whether this is good or bad depends on your tastes.

[Ogami]

I was born in 1978 and grew up with games in the 80s and games have never been better then today.
Are you kidding me, 80s video games SUCKED.
Not because of the graphics, but the design. Most of them were really short ( often under an hour) and to raise the lifespan of a game they usually were brutally and unfairly hard.
That was not fun in the 80s and is not more fun nowadays.

While for sure some classic series were born in that time you need to have some MASSIVE Nostalgia Googles to think games in the 80s or 90s was better then nowadays.

[crunchyfrog]

I grew up in the 70s. You're wrong.

The thing is nostalgia is powerful. It's important to realise when you're being biased, and I think you're being biased right now.

It's easy to look at the FIRST games in a genre as breathtaking and wonderful because, well, they're new. Everything's more impressive then.

But that does not mean they are BETTER.

And I am in the lucky position that I don't sell my games or platforms and play them all regularly. From my early kit computers and cassettes to modern day consoles.

And frankly here's a list of why things were ♥♥♥♥♥♥ back then.



Enforced difficulty to mask longeivity.

Too many arcade ports and generic games (something that hasn't changed as there are still every bit as many trend chasers).

Limited memory and capabilities leading to far smaller games which can be completed far quicker.

Limited capabilities resulting in limited scope of games (you can't effectively create a 3D world like minecraft of anything pre-3D).

And so on.


So yeah, there's some great games back then, as there always have been. But you need to be HONEST. If your argument is concerning the state of triple A publishers and risk aversion in the industry, I'm right there with you. But to make sweeping daft assertions that new stuff bad, old stuff good is just laughably disingenious.