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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That’s a brutal representation of how we feel as gamers. Utter trash recently. What happened!?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Venture capital took over AAA studios.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Is it utter trash? I wouldn't know. I haven't been able to afford gaming since the ps4 came out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

AAA consolidated. Indie became the AAs of the early 00s. Pacific Drive, Inscryption, Omori, Deep Rock Galactic, Elite Dangerous, Divinity: OS2, Boneworks 1, etc etc. There's lots of AA games and indie stuff you shouldn't sleep on.

Sure, the Dices, Biowares, Mojangs, and others have been bought up. Doesn't mean you have to play their stuff, though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good old midnight club—that game was fun as shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I gotta agree with that, there was something about that game that made me keep going back to it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Depressing how much longer it takes games to come out now. Not that I want them rushing things.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's not so much the development time that bothers me here, it's the lack of diversity. They took forever making GTAV after IV, but in the meantime they had a bunch of smaller, lower budget releases. Nowadays big publishers go all in, a game is either a $200m blockbuster or it never makes it to production.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Which also means they won't take risks and most games are kinda samey.

The fun franchises of possibilities keep dying off. An indie-like attempt might get a new idea out sure, but they almost always end up bought out and closed and wallowing in forgotten IP land.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The indie game scene is really fun.

If you can't be bothered to read about games just check out Splattercatgaming on YouTube. Splattercat plays a new (or upcoming) indie game every day for 30 minutes mostly from start, so what you see is what you get pretty much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Why make games at all when you can just milk the same game as a subscription service over and over?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

manhunt2 for wii...what a coup