Is it just me or have games become a lot worse recently?

This year has felt empty as shit, that's for sure.

“You’re just old” so what is that code for? You’re smarter? Wiser?

What does this buzzword even mean? Are you “young” enough to still enjoy games “old” people don’t?

You’re * xD

>Battlefield

Nigger are you serious? BFV isn’t only garbage, as of right now it’s unplayable broken garbage.

It's just you. Games these days are funner and more revolutionary than they've ever been.

Is it just me or does every thread on Yea Forums has something to say about transvestites

no you're just old
die

But the vast majority of popular games have those features, and they used to not have them. Are you talking about indie games?

Yeah, the Capcom resurgence has definitely gave me a lot of faith in Japanese devs, although SquareEnix has been complete fucking garbo and Konami killed themselves on the vidya front.
God of War was a lot less shitty then I was expecting as was the Spider Man game. The Crash and Spyro remakes weren't nearly as "soulless" as people implied, but I don't know if remakes can be counted.

>old
>buzzword
Yea Forums brain

What would you recommend, as a connoisseur?

>more revolutionary

What? Revolutionary in what sense? What game released in the last five years introduced a mechanic or quality that has never been seen before?

Do you like pay-to-win mechanics?

no there's still plenty good games

>everything is shit thread: the 9 trillionth
bait, go home and rethink your life

>no argument
>doesn’t answer my question
Proving my point

your opinion is not an argument, sorry

They have. Funny enough, so have gamers. So conditioned to how things are now, they can't acknowledge how crappy things have gotten.

zoomers will never experience the golden age of the internet and games from the 80s and early 90s growing up
mandatory microtransactions and poor character writing is the minimum standard for games these days and that's all they consume

its probably a combination of:
all games having a map in-game and quest markers, that totally ruins the exploration
trying to be a movie, that hurts the gameplay and inmersion in most cases
Internet, you used to figure out things before, but now you just check online for awnsers as soon you feel a bit challenged by the game.

>another dodge
Whew

I don't play mobile gacha garbage so it doesn't even exist to me, western has it's fair share of lootbox shit so I don't see what argument you're making

>no argument
thanks for agreeing with me
i accept your concession and your apology
end of discussion, don't bother replying

honestly you might just have shit taste

>western has it's fair share of lootbox shit
You just complained about identity politics.
>Western games have gone downhill because they have a tendency to virtue signal through identity politics having old single cat ladies as the writers and cuckold s*yb*ys as the lead directors

yeah they're pretty shit

It's you, 2017 was a golden year, and 2019 hasn't been a bad year.

This. We went from “releasing dlc as opposed to a full experience at launch is not ok” to “it’s ok, but withholding content behind a pay wall is not ok” to “it’s ok, but pay-to-win content is not ok”

The expectations get lower and lower as the younger generation forgets a time before horse armor dlc and passively accepts MTX and shit writing through the ass.

>and another dodge
Whew

It's not like old games have disappeared from Earth.

Old games are finite. It sucks not being able to look forward to games that will have good writing and be free from MTX

DUSK
Marble It Up!
Amid Evil
Mario Maker 2
Bloodstained (Looks bad but the game's pretty good)
Katana Zero
Devil May Cry 5 / Resident Evil 2 (I'll give you that there are microtransactions in these but I literally never saw the option to buy them)
Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers (Might not count if you don't like MMOs)
Void Bastards
Crash Team Racing Nitro

And that's just my personal favorites, there's tons of great games to come out this year, not even counting all the games later on like DOOM Eternal, The Outer Worlds, etc. AAA gaming is shit but indie games aren't a total wasteland, and there are fun games to come out from AAA publishers.

all AAA titles are complete trash yeah, but I think we've been having an indie renaissance lately
All I enjoy now are roguelikes though, so maybe i'm biased

Don't worry, one day the bubble will burst (I hope so).

They do not exist in the mind of little Zoom-Zoom.

I hope so, and I hope it’s soon.

>trying to be a movie
i wish games stopped this

>Resident Evil 2
Is the REmake good? Tried emulating the original but it just felt way too old for my personal tastes.

This but instead of suicide get into pottery or photography

Unless you're wasting your time on western trash it's much better than last gen. Japan has been on fire these last few years

It's not just you. In 2007, things started to change when corporations saw the business potential that new technology offered, and eschewed intellectual and artistic stimulation for easy money schemes that would attract mass consumer appeal.

In 2010, the last vestiges of soul were eradicated from the mainstream market, leaving us with the world of shit we live in today.
Face it. Millennials and Zoomers fucked the world.

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Which was the last western AAA game with a multiplayer that didn't had MTX?

Take off your nostalgia goggles

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>don't play the games most talked about on Yea Forums
>do play the games most talked about on Yea Forums
Well which is it?

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It’s Money.

Video games are now a much more expensive investment, and budgets have increased. Developers and studios aren’t able to take as many risks, which is why so many games nowadays are totally derivative of other more successful ones with widespread appeal.

Battlefield 1 had dlc but no MTX

Stop licking corporate boots

Partially true, although I prefer to play older games that I’ve never played before than modern day AAA games

>Long-tail console and PC titles designed to keep players engaged for years will grow the overall games market, rather than make it more difficult, according to Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot.
>"Those types of games, we think we'll be able to increase the number of people playing those type of experiences. The market is also going to grow quite a lot: more countries, more people in each country - because the cost to play those games per hour is less than we used to have. If you look at a 15-hour game that costs $60, that's $4 per hour. Now you can play games for 200 hours, a thousand hours and still for $60, plus some investment in the game. It's more like 20 to 40 cents per hour. So you can [justify] playing many of those games if you have time."
gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-07-24-yves-guillemot-service-based-games-will-grow-the-market

>In the firm's latest financials, the firm's executives regularly referenced "recurrent consumer spending" as a key source of revenue, with prime examples being in-game transactions for Grand Theft Auto Online and the NBA 2K series.
>CEO Strauss Zelnick identified the Rockstar title as "the single largest contributor to recurrent consumer spending", while also noting that purchases made in NBA 2K18 are up nearly 60% over the previous version.
>And the publisher doesn't intend to stop there.
>"We aim to have recurrent consumer spending options for every title that we put out at this company," Zelnick told shareholders during an investor call, transcribed by Seeking Alpha.
>"The business that once upon a time was a big chunky opportunity to engage for tens of hours or perhaps 100 hours has turned into ongoing engagement, day-after-day, week-after-week. You fall in love with these titles and they become part of your daily life."
gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-11-08-take-two-wants-recurrent-consumer-spending-from-every-title-wont-always-be-microtransactions

>japanese weebshit
no thanks, I'll stick to western gucci

Only a zoomer would say this because even when they were young, games were already shit.

Well, pardon us, Mr. Gucci loafers.

For the most part I'm also pretty disappointed in the industry, but there are a few great ones coming out of the indie sector.

Outer Wilds was fantastic imo. Simple concept that really brought a lot to the gameplay, great music, great everything. Will admit I did have to google a couple things.

Subnautica I played right after. Good in a different way. Really get to experience a fear of the unknown here.

Journey just had a PC release so I got to play it for the first time. If you get into soundtracks this game is a solid 10/10.

Yakuza 0 came out on PC sometime last year. I never played or really looked into the franchise but played this on a recommendation. At first it seemed like total cheese, like a Japanese drama. And it is. Turns out I love that. Also fun fighting gameplay.

I've got Yakuza Kiwami ready to go after I finish a playthrough of GTA Vice City.

here's my thesis on why vidya sucks nowadays:
in the old times,everything needed to be invented,see philosophers,drawing artists,anything of the like,they had nothing to base their ideas upon,anything they made up was new and innovative;
nowadays,everything is based upon something already done,you just can't have anything new or "it's shit",but why you ask that? because everything,every "rehash" of the current day is already based upon an already successful idea and it makes it hard for something new to compete over it,regular people will look at a rehash and think it's better than anything trying to do something new because it's an already established idea,and regular people are the worst of all this to judge,and based on statistics,there's way more money to be earned from normalfags than autists who actually like vidya for real,and every coorporation's target is money,because in the truth,they are also made up of normalfags taking advantage of other normalfags,another reason most people of the old times who were considered genius,died poor.

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Thanks.

I was under the assumption that AA games had all but died out, personally. Budget-wise, niche shit either has all the funding of blockbuster titles or is borderline indie.

Stardock, Paradox and Nordic are AA, I think.

I used to believe this, but it's actually your gaming experience rubbing against the lack of new experiences for you to have as a gamer.
The younger you are, the less you've probably experienced. An idea you find droll today might've been exciting then.
I'm in the same boat. I probably latch onto one or two new games a year at the most. I used to be able to solidly keep playing game to game... but now less interests me because I feel like I've been wherever that experience might take me.
But for me though right now, it's Subnautica.

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just you
guarantee you that I'm older than you spend more time playing games than you and I've never felt this way

It’s not shit if I like it

Sort of.
Large companies have effectively ballooned their own budgets chasing, largely, superficial things. To make matters worse they sink no small sum of money into marketing their shiny, puddle deep experiences.

Tge people is these companies simply know their customers and are giving them what they want. The people they sell too aren't looking for deep, mechanically nuanced games. They're looking for pretty looking entertainment they can zone out to for an hour or so.
The same people the big AAA games are targeted to are the same people who go see the mediocre, dime a dozen crap Hollywood pumps out on a yearly basis.

The sad reality is that this shit is not going to go away since they are catering to what the majority, the lowest common denominator, wants.

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PLAY SWTOR
SPECIFICALLY SITH INQUISITOR
IT'S A GREAT SINGLE PLAYER GAME

12 years is recently to you?

>recently

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Nah, you're just older and more cynical. Don't worry, I'm the same as well. I can sit down and enjoy a game anymore.

depression should be last.

Games have always been bad pic related

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That was a literal unlicensed game, tho.

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And it was still a video game sold in stores somehow

zoomer

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Games are better now than they were last generation

they have no choice if they want to keep their jobs honestly

Just the western AAA ones.
Trash like Anthem, Far Cry New Dawn, The Division 2, Days Gone, Crackdown 3, all were mediocre to shit.
And even the upcoming games like Destiny 2's DLC, the Star Wars shit, Gears 5, Ghost Recon Breakpoint, etc. etc. all look so fucking boring and empty.
Western AAA games really have hit a new low, which I didn't think was possible.

But BF1 does have MTX.

No that's why a zoomer would post the image I responded to

Did you even look at the image? It was one big "fuck you" to the 2010s.
No Zoomer would be on board with that.

>No Zoomer would be on board with that
You're out of touch. Zoomers romanticize the past.
t. Zoomer

You're unusual then. Most Zoomers despise the past.
Most Zoomers refuse to engage in any media before 2000 at least, and many refuse before 2010!
I'm not saying all Zoomers are like that, but an unwillingness to appreciate the past is a big component of Zoomer culture.

They have, truly enlightened individuals just keep replaying old games and check out the good games that are still released every now and then.

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Have you been asleep the past 13 years?