Why do games suck so much nowadays?

[Sudor]

Like, I'm really happy about the recent PlayStation additions to steam but those are just older games, gunning for bloodborne personally but God of War is pretty great.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

i think they are running out of ideas

[Castyles]

Do they? Perhaps it's a player issue?

[Sudor]

Originally posted by Castyles:

Do they? Perhaps it's a player issue?

Ayo, I finished the entire fromsoftware library with a Nintendo Wii steering wheel.

[Devsman]

Video gaming has sucked these days for decades.

Maybe you just recently reached your edgelord years.

[Volfogg]

And I'm just sitting here playing Fallout 2 from 1998, contemplating concept of early game hell in RPGs... I'm going energy weapons for extra challenge.

[Castyles]

Originally posted by Sudo:

Originally posted by Castyles:

Do they? Perhaps it's a player issue?

Ayo, I finished the entire fromsoftware library with a Nintendo Wii steering wheel.

I'm afraid bragging won't do you any good. Besides, I never asked.

Seriously, though. Enough jabs. You should look outside the familiar and the mainstream. Plenty of great games elsewhere.

[fakeloo]

Some combination of Sturgeon’s law and big developers/publishers playing it safe with lame-but-profitable decisions like making hyper-curated live service multiplayer games with microtransactions, making movie games that look good in promotional material but have 2011 gameplay mechanics still, or churning out some straight-up garbage for an Epic paycheck.
But I don’t think newer games are all garbage, you just have to look for the good stuff. Haven’t played Barotrauma in a while but that’s a newer game that kicks ass

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

did we need a new star wars battlefront - the graphics were really really good

[The guy from Ace Attorney]

Even if you think most newer games suck, which there's a lot that I'd say are still great, even in mainstream AAA spaces, that just means you can just go back and play a bunch of cheaper, older games you haven't gotten to yet.

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Originally posted by HypersleepyNaputunia:

did we need a new star wars battlefront - the graphics were really really good

I just want a remaster of the original.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Castyles:

Do they? Perhaps it's a player issue?

Well said.

[crunchyfrog]

Dpeneds what you mean by "nowadays".

If you mean in the last year or so then there's one big reason - COVID. That ♥♥♥♥♥♥ everyone over and nobody is creating stuff when they can't get work done properly.

If you mean furhter than that, then triple A has been bloated for years now. They've always been victims of their own demise.

The trick is look elsehwere - indie has ALWAYS been the space for innovation and great ideas.

So how to solve this? Easy. Education.

Go and look up metacritic and gamefaqs. List EVERYTHING for a platform and scribble down everything you see interest in and reasearch each one.

It's what I've always done and I buy just as many hundreds of games every year s as I've always done.

[Phirestar]

Originally posted by Devsman:

Video gaming has sucked these days for decades.

Maybe you just recently reached your edgelord years.

I think back to around 2016-2018, which is where I personally began hearing people talk about how gaming is dying / dead / going downhill / etc.

And then I consider all of the games that released in that time period that I've played and loved, and to those claims all I can say is... really? You sure about that?

[Devsman]

Originally posted by Phirestar:

Originally posted by Devsman:

Video gaming has sucked these days for decades.

Maybe you just recently reached your edgelord years.

I think back to around 2016-2018, which is where I personally began hearing people talk about how gaming is dying / dead / going downhill / etc.

And then I consider all of the games that released in that time period that I've played and loved, and to those claims all I can say is... really? You sure about that?

First I remember hearing it was 2005-ish.

[Χάρης]

Not all of them suck. The way I would ask this question is " why are there so many crappy video games nowadays? " and the answer is that anyone can create them nowadays.

Learn how to use unity or whatever, throw a few assets in there and you're done.