I don’t know, I can’t agree with this sentiment. Because, sure, there are a lot of terrible games, and the biggest titles tend to be rubbish, but we’re also at a point where smaller devs can enter the market with relative ease, and we’ve gotten a ton of really great games that would’ve never gotten greenlit by anyone aiming for mass appeal.
And sure, many devs use updates as an excuse to release a buggy mess, but many devs also use it to legitimately add loads of great new content.
Almost all of my favorite games are relatively newer, and I can’t really say the market is at an all time low.
So, I don’t think the games industry is at its worst; I think it’s at a point where the consumer just has to be smart about what they buy. It’s not as easy to look at a game and assume it’ll be good, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t amazing games around.
Admittedly, this forum consists of mostly shooty shooty pew pew players, and the shooty shooty pew pew market in particular [i]does[/i] seem rather rubbish at the moment. I can think of Remnant, and Risk of Rain 2, but other than that, no other recent shooty shooty pre pew games come to mind that are good. Not until Splatoon 3 comes out, anyway.
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Yeah but even with that being said. Back in the day you could grab a random game off the shelf and it would probably be good. Now you have to search through the bs to find something good. Your talking about indie games and even alot of them are meh.
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I’m not exclusively talking about indies, we have some great AAA games, too, like NieR: Automata, most stuff made by Nintendo, and Remnant (I think Remnant’s AAA, anyway). Indies are definitely a big part of my argument, though. Ultimately, it’s a tradeoff. What do you value more; big updates & DLC, or the lack of day 1 patches? The ease of entering the market, or the ability to grab a random game off the shelf? For me personally, I like DLC, even if it means some devs abuse it to release broken games, and if me having to look into my purchases before buying a game means we get amazing games like Hollow Knight, Sakuna, and Skullgirls, then that is 100% worth it. If I was given some reality bending machine that would let me either keep the industry as is, or revert it to how it was X years ago, I’d leave it how it is without question. Because when you get right down to it, if anyone tries to take away my hack ‘n slash rice farming simulator, I’m going to murder them.
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Edited by Psyntifik: 1/31/2022 12:23:14 PMYou stepped in the way of my reply button, Aifos!