Why don't modern games have any soul?

Minish cap is SOULLES

god damn I can't believe I never played this on GBA, it looks extremely soulful.
I'm going to emulate it later, thanks user.

Based minish cap poster

You're just not playing the right games, as a general rule avoid anything AAA.

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Original had no soul to begin with, at least not in that pic

Oracle of Seasons>Oracle of Ages>>>Minish Cap

It is not the games that have become soulless, but the world.

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based and soulpilled

What's with that game of the Minish Cap graphic designer that also screamed soul?

>why can't all games look like shit?!?

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>implying the world(aka human nature) has changed at all since the dawn of man

Yikes bro. There is nothing new under the sun. Soul is everywhere if only you'll look for it. If you don't see it it means something is wrong with you, not the world

>omg kodo sawaki so much soul!

Double yikes! He was beta and bluepilled

Before when gaming was niche they would do anything they could to make you want to play the game. Part of that is creating a beautiful world.

Now it's the complete opposite. Fans will kill you for even suggesting flaws exist in the game. You are privileged just to get to play the game, or so modern devs think.

In short, back then normal people did not like video games, so good games were rewarded with sales while bad games failed.

Now everyone is addicted to video games, so screwing over the player is rewarded and making an exceptional game that people want to play, brings almost the same reward as making a slightly tweaked generic game that people already like (Roguelike/Survival/Crafting/Randomly Generated/Battle Royal/etc.) BUT with dinosaurs, underwater, in space, with zombies, on an island, in a city, etc.

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woah, are there more like this?

>mfw cody and jessica

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holy shit

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the real answer is the global economy
before people lived happily in the comfort of having to work only a bare minimum to cover life expenses and spent the rest of their time doing things out of pure love and not money constraints

Because you retard buy everything as long as the brand is on the cover

Because there is only a finite number of souls. When you got more NPCs than humans on earth, soul games become rare.

HD development apparently takes exponentially longer to do everything, so there's no time or budget to throw in "pointless" interactions that enrich the world and play with the aesthetic until everything is just right (plus the common use of middleware). And any company that actually does have that budget will be so large their only concern is pumping out yearly profitable releases anyway.

BoTW has soul if you ignore the cutscenes

Minish Cap is a modern game, zoomer.

damn you are one pretentious cocksucker dude

Yes, you did list the order of the three best games of all time.

Limitations with things like graphics, mostly.

>soul
Quantify this in words

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>Now it's the complete opposite. Fans will kill you for even suggesting flaws exist in the game

This has literally always been the case.

The ammount of artistry in the industry hasn't changed. In fact, it's gone up significantly in the last 20 years. You couldn't get a game like Undertale 20 years ago.
The difference is, you're older now and wiser to the tricks of the trade.