What are some extremely popular games you find soulless?

[Incarnate]

I find it common that sequels are often only produced solely because the devs felt obligated, and didn't put in the kind of work or passion that they did in other games. Like there is some emotion absent or element missing or attention to detail that should have been there.

They might be fun for a while, and even polished, but you feel nothing playing them for hours.

[AJOTA]

The sims 4

[White]

Skyrim/Oblivion

[R-]

call of duty, fifa same game over and over again

[Angry Gandalf]

Life with a College Girl

[Incarnate]

Originally posted by ⛧:

Skyrim/Oblivion

Yeah, Skyrim never worked for me.

It feels like GTA V. All spectacle and flash, but hollow inside, like they had used up all their good ideas already.

[Schindler's Lifts]

I do not understand how people can get into sports games like FIFA. It just feels like such a corporate product, with no real difference from one instalment to the next.

[Incarnate]

Originally posted by Schindler's Lifts:

I do not understand how people can get into sports games like FIFA. It just feels like such a corporate product, with no real difference from one instalment to the next.

FIFA's no different than Ubisoft's slop or the yearly Call of Duty. Ubisoft, EA, and Activision have a monopoly on their niche genres.

If you only have one specific interest in gaming these games fill the void. The number of licensed football titles, legit AAA FPS games, and polished open world games is extremely low.

[MEGA MAN]

basicly everygame that was made in the last 10 years

[Mr. Malum]

Starfield.

[Pierce Dalton]

CSGO/CS2
Minecraft
Fifa

[Goldias]

Starfield.
Mass effect Andromeda.
Every Final Fantasy after 10

[Grumb]

Modern Pokemon. Arceus had its charm but the mainline games have all felt churned out recently

[Uncle Sam]

Modern Call of Duty with MTX's everywhere, modern FIFA with MTX's & gamble boxes aka loot boxes everywhere, Fornite, Starfield, Cyberpunk 2077 on release, etc.

[TwisterCat]

Most popular games have a rich history, most popular games were made with a distinct vision. But not every one.

PUBG. Damn that game. It's pointless. It has no real reason to exist. It's a corporate recreation of H1Z1 by some South Korean company. I'd say it *improved* on that formula, loosely, but it was more-or-less a weak revival of something that was otherwise a misadventure.

It survives off nothing other than how addictive the genre is.

[Electric Cupcake]

NewDoom is a mockery of real Doom.

Bioshock is a pale shadow of System Shock.