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The sad state of video gaming in 2024


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GeorgeTaylor
Title: Miss Madness 99
Joined: Sep 09 2012
PostPosted: Aug 28 2024 08:20 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I like many of you grew up playing the NES. That said I feel I have enough experience to say this is truly the worst era of video gaming ive ever seen. We have had technological and graphical advances where it shouldn't be this way. It seems like video game companies don't give 2 shits about our generation anymore. I get we are older but weren't we the generation that made video games mainstream? Wouldn't we still buy games and have shown to do so for decades on end....

My lulz moment for when modern video games jumped the shark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPdZknLy02M


There have always been bad games sure, yet I have never seen respected AAA developers drop the ball so badly with longer development times with games that aren't even fun. I mean its like the people who enjoyed making video games died or something or were laid off. I still remember playing KOTOR in 2005 and being like this is just a well put together game that didnt make me miss older consoles. It was a game worth taking off work. Now barely any games fit into that category. If i can play a game for more than an hour and not be bored thats a win. Its like cut scene after cut scene and weird button mashing. Even my son doesn't like cut scenes and he is the prime gaming age!


Modern Examples of disappointment.


Bethesda- Starfield is just terrible, even modding it doesn't fix the core issues with the game. These are the people that made Skyrim. Heck Fallout 4 from 2015 was hugely better and some were torn on that one.

Ubisoft- Star War Outlaws- Never seen such an uninspired attempt at a Star Wars game. I mean you would think the people who grew up watching the prequels who make video games now would be excited at making a great Star Wars games.. How long has it been since Jedi Academy? Ubisoft makes junk food games but why not even try with an IP that is exciting?

Obisidian- They did awesome with KOTOR and Fallout New Vegas but now they just make mid games like The Outerworlds. Its like a less fun Destiny or some shit.  They are like Bethesda where they are resting on past laurels. Its like they dont know how to make an awesome game when they had the formula already.

It seems the only good games people play are Honkai Starail or some Anime based games that are after our generations demographic. I didn't grow up on Anime so its not my thing. I don't hate anime but I am 41....

Then there is a good game called Elden Ring but thats about it and doesn't check all the boxes for everyone. That is the only game that is considered universally a 9/10 type game in the last year. There is also Balders Gate 3.


Am I having a old man yells at cloud moment or is there something more to this?

I still think Capcom and Rockstar haven't fully gone to shit. Probably Valve too to be fair. Nintendo still milks the casual audience but I am talking about engrossing games here. We all know Nintendo is its own genre.


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DarknessDeku
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PostPosted: Aug 30 2024 08:25 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I think it's hilarious that many of the biggest games right now are remasters and remakes. I always preferred the older games, and it looks like I'm not the only one.


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PostPosted: Sep 03 2024 12:42 pm Reply with quote Back to top

DarknessDeku wrote:
I think it's hilarious that many of the biggest games right now are remasters and remakes. I always preferred the older games, and it looks like I'm not the only one.

Heh, it's so true.

The big exception was Baulder's Gate 3, I think. Like yeah that was a sequel, but it was so groundbreaking that having a series name on it hardly counts.

But that's one of the few.


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LordHuffnPuff
Title: Mahna Mahna
Joined: Jan 12 2009
Location: Fairyland
PostPosted: Nov 17 2024 08:42 am Reply with quote Back to top

You are having an old man yells at cloud moment. 2024 is one of the best years for games in the medium. There are simply a greater volume of games coming out, and so more bad games are being made. You will also have a highly inaccurate view of things if you confine yourself to a narrow slice of AAA games.

Here is a list of just some genuinely worthwhile games that came out this year:

1000xRESIST
Astro Bot
Slitterhead
Another Code: Recollection
Tsukihime Remake
Nine Sols
Famicom Detective Club: Emio the Smiling Man
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
Stellar Blade
Helldivers 2
UFO50
Metaphor: ReFantazio
Fantasian Neo Dimension
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Indika
Mouthwashing
Solium Infernum
Harold Halibut
Crow Country
Slay the Princess: The Pristine Cut
Animal Well
The Rise of the Golden Idol
Balatro (maybe)
Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania
Stellar Blade
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
Sonic & Shadow Generations
Unicorn Overlord
Clock Tower Rewind
Silent Hill 2
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
Platform 8
Hades II (early access)


I can keep doing this! This is just a few!


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