Why are games rated so much higher nowadays despite the overall quality of AAA Games being piece of shit low effort...

>either follow the evolution of vidya
this game is like few steps back if we talk about """gameplay"""

grade inflation
same thing happens in schools
everyone needs an A to get into college
everyone needs an A in order not to kill themselves or other kids
everyone is sad and angry and fat
the scale has shifted up, soon we will need to use the jap S rank for shit

Compared to what?
The garbage rpgs of the 16 bit era where you just watch a terrible movie that never ends?
Or the countless hack and slash games on ps2 with any many cutscenes as modern games and far worse gameplay?

Take any popular modern AAA game & release it in the PS2/GC era, none of them would be remembered fondly today due to how much they rely on aspects strictly related to superior technologoy like Graphics & open worlds. So when you properly downgrade them for the time, they woud have nothing else going for them. Whereas if you took any classic game from the 90s or 2000s, even something niche like The Longest Journey & released it today as an original game it would be universally considered a genre defining masterpiece simply by giving it current gen graphics & gameplay while leaving everything else about the game the exact same

Journos appreciate their share of the $500 million in marketing.

That's because Japan is actually capable of writing good stories & characters, especially ones that are homosexual. Whereas there hasn't been a single well written gay character in a western game that wasn't incredibly forced, poorly written & downright insulting

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TLJ had bad puzzles don’t try to bullshit.
TLOU would be genre defining no matter when I was released.

Sure the cash grab open world garbage won’t be remembered but neither will the 50 billion sports and beat em up games the older generation had

lol

Modern philosphy of game design changed from story, innovation & making something fun to play to realistic graphics, cinematic interactive movies with little gameplay & online only multiplayer shooters. People develop games to pander to Journalists or political ideals instead of based on geninue passion & trying to make the best game possible

Your version of homosexuality has nothing to do with real homosexuality.
It’s simply two little girls making out so you can rub your dick to it.
Wow such a strong a good characters right there

Trevor Phillips

T. Tranny who unironically thinks Life is Strange was well written

>due to how much they rely on aspects strictly related to superior technologoy like Graphics & open worlds
I give you graphics, but GTA was THE 6th gen defining series.

Durrrr imma beaten oh no
Durrr you a tranny hahaha

thanks for proving once again you lack a brain.

GTA San Andreas is the only game from that era that people actually remember today, VC is only relevant because of its soundtrack

>he thinks horizon aka shitty far cry is better
dont reply to me

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>GTA:SA
>2004
>only game from that era that people actually remember today
top zoomer

>using one of the worst series in modern gaming as a comeback
>forgetting the hundreds of forgotten retro series that were simply too shitty to continue into the modern age
It would have been nice if you had done something with your brain but it’s probabaly too late now

Nobody cares about any GTA from the PS2 except San Andreas. MGS objectivity defined the 6th generation alongside Resident Evil & Metroid Prime 1-2

Name one retro game that wouldn’t be just as successful as Horizon if it released today as an original game with a AAA sized budget

>That's because Japan is actually capable of writing good stories & characters

stopped reading their. You have proven yourself to be not worth speaking to.

Developers, Sony especially has cracked the focus tested formula to get high scores every time.
>Third person
>Massive budget
>Slow walks to admire graphics and set-pieces
>Scripted kill animations to make you feel cool without having to master inputs
>Shallow upgrade/crafting systems
>Open world or some level of freedom
>Safe and inclusive characters

It is documented fact that publishers pay megabucks to journalists and social media platforms to shill their garbage and feign satisfaction.

AAA trash is rated highly for the same reason tobacco was once sold to children: Companies paying people to lie

Keep seething WRPG kun, why not post that autistic chart while you’re at it Soiboy?

Ammo quantity was super transparent.
You were always kept in a range of ammo. You could stealth kill 20 pistol enemies, but if the game decided you should only have 19-22 bullets then and you had 21, you aren't getting a bullet more.
I hated it.

Companys pay reviewers and some do it for free because games have politics in them they want to endorse.
Also, anyone who uses a number scoring system is a fucking brainlet and their opinion doesn't matter.

Looking at ps2 here:
God of war (if it was done in the old style)
Anything by team ico
Okami
Devil may cry
Soul caliber
Splinter cell

You bait isn't too good lad

>Using soiboy unironically
So youre generation z then?
Please stop posting in this thread

>Companys pay reviewers and some do it for free because games have politics in them they want to endorse.
Correct.
>Also, anyone who uses a number scoring system is a fucking brainlet and their opinion doesn't matter.
Incorrect, but it's understandable that you hold this opinion. Ratings inflation on video games "journalism" sites have had a catastrophic effect on people. Many people on Yea Forums sincerely think that a 6/10 isn't a good game.

> Old God of War
Literally just Bayonetta
> SoulCalibur
Literally the 2nd highest rated game ever, if you released it as a original game today it would win every award
> Team Ico
This has to be bait, SoTC would get a 97 like BOTW. As it’s already considered Sony’s equivalent of OOT
> Splinter Cell
Stealth Genre is dead, if Chaos Theory came out today it would blow people’s minds
> Devil May Cry
See Bayonetta

Bayonetta is only popular because of nostalgia for better games

Nice cope

>firefights where you were more scrapped for ammo than any resident evil game
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3dm2lBzm2AE

Games are much higher quality these days, you have to be a complete retard not to see that. The people who don't like modern games don't like them because of the direction they have took: trying to be an HBO drama instead of a game.

But it seems like you're unable to form your own thoughts, only parroting Yea Forums: "They said this game is bad! It must be because it's low quality!" No, it's because it's trying to be Walking Dead.

A combination of journalistic corruption and the budget/profits for games skyrocketing to previously undreamt of figures creating an alignment of interests in the media and advertising to promote substandard work. As always, play the stuff you like, don't believe the hype, ignore the reviews and come to your own judgements.

T. Zoomer, imagine actually believing that rehashed pieces of shit that follow the same 3 formulas in every AAA game is good

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The Last of Us is probably the first slow-burn and lengthy triple a game of its type. Whereas before it most games were just trying to put you on a railroad for 3-6 hours and be done, The Last of Us did none of that. Its only blockbuster moment was in its opening, after which it became very mellow by comparison.

>SoulCalibur
>Literally the 2nd highest rated game ever, if you released it as a original game today it would win every award
No it wouldn't. SoulCalibur is THE game to quote when pointing out how journalism could be just as shitty back then as it is now. The game was rated highly because it was a port that actually looked and played better on console than arcade which was a huge deal in 1999 next to the PlayStation and N64.

Tetris

This, it's pretty much a check list aimed at pleasing 'journalists'.

way to completely miss the point of my post

TLoU was just lucky lmao, if GTA released earlier no one would have given a single fuck about it after 3 weeks (like it happened with BoTW/Horizon)

The game was mechanically flawless & as someone who played it for the first time this year it’s objectively as close to perfection as any game has ever been. It honestly deserves a 99 only Uneducated zoomers don’t understand just how amazing that masterpiece really is

Well TLOU best game ever made to date objectively

Why would you play a long dead fighting game for the first time this year and think that less than three months with it gives you authority to speak on the mechanical perfection in a genre that takes a global network of pros to figure out?

Your pic unrealated.

Reviewers will never go lower than 6 if it's a AAA game, no matter how bad it is.

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>gaming citizen kane moment
So to this people the 90s never happened? Consoles and PC changing the way games are meant to be enjoyed wasn't a thing? How ironic that the only people who seem to forget is millenials, I though they were proud of being 90s kids?

Game was good until the DLC came out making Ellie gay and ruining the multiplayer with OP weapons you had to pay for.