Is the 'indie games are all shit' sentiment actually real, or is it just people pretending to be retarded for (you)s? (or extrapolate that because some people who make indie games are really annoying on Twitter all indie games must be shit)
Hell, since 2017 we've had >Super Cloudbuilt >Rain World >Darkwood >Hollow Knight >What Remains of Edith Finch >Nex Machina >Everspace >Night in the Woods >West of Loathing >Hidden Folks >Golf Story >SteamWorld Dig 2 >Pyre >A Hat in Time >Dead Cells >Heat Signature >Card City Nights 2 >OneShot: Solstice >Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment >Dusk >Lethal League Blaze >Runner3 >CrossCode >ZeroRanger >Frozen Synapse 2 >Into the Breach >Guacamelee! 2 >Iconoclasts >Overload >Celeste >Return of the Obra Dinn >Baba is You >ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove >Shakedown: Hawaii >Slay the Spire >Minit >Underrail: Expedition >Risk of Rain 2 EA which were all excellent games
i was browsing steam and came across an early access indie game it was open world, with crafting and zombies and looked ugly therefore, all indies are bad!!!!!
Oliver Cruz
Any sentiment that starts with "All (x) are.." isn't real. Except for this one, because it's a paradox.
Landon Lewis
99% of them are objective shit, 1% remaining is subjective to taste, like of your list i see nothing that i like.
Camden Rodriguez
the industry would be stale af without indies
Zachary Roberts
None of them are hyper realistic FPS COD clones, therefore, 90% of the Americans on here won't play them, but still claim they are shit.
Nolan Wilson
People shitting on indie games are victims of the sunk cost fallacy. They've been paying $70+ plus tip for years for AAA console dogshit that if they see someone having fun with a $20 indie they think "There's no way that guy is having that much fun, he barely paid at all! He's clearly a shill, so I must shitpost." It's really quite sad.
I really doubt that given the large swathe of genres this list covers
Camden Myers
no, it's not real, it's a retarded strawman
think about the level of mouthbreathing retard who goes 'indie bad AAA good oh god yes i love you EA and activision and ubisoft uhhhh more AAA for me only AAA'
Gavin Lee
I hate indie games, they pretend to be some innovative solution to AAA games but they just chase different trends
Half of them are spiritual sequels where the Dev stolen a popular game font and is pretending that's enough to be like that game, most of the time it's enough to trick idiot into donating at least 500k$ to a Kickstarter that doesn't deliver
Then there's the roguelike game, why bother with actual game design when you can just throw some bullshit about how your game is impossible to beat?
Luckily we have been spared all the walking Sims as the genre has lost its gimmick appeal to normies
Minecraft clone are a-plenty, I don't fucking want a game that has no objective, "make your own fun" tells me you have no fucking idea what makes a game good
And then of course there's like a billion of 2D sidescroller, all of them looks like ass because good pixel artist have been fucilated
Then when you get past all of this you have to deal with all the wokeness and asshole and some of the worst PR that would sink any other business that doesn't have client as retarded as ones that buy a product that doesn't even exist
Oliver Bennett
oh lawl
Robert Sullivan
>you have to deal with all the wokeness and asshole and some of the worst PR that would sink any other business
What exactly does this have to do with games themselves? Do you play their Twitter feed?
Logan Jenkins
>Super Cloudbuilt Shit >Rain World Shit >Darkwood Good >Hollow Knight Good >What Remains of Edith Finch Good >Nex Machina Good >Everspace Shit >Night in the Woods Shit >West of Loathing Shit >Hidden Folks Shit >Golf Story Good >SteamWorld Dig 2 Shit >Pyre Shit >A Hat in Time Shit >Dead Cells Shit >Heat Signature Shit >Card City Nights 2 Shit >OneShot: Solstice Shit >Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment Shit >Dusk Shit >Lethal League Blaze Shit >Runner3 Shit >CrossCode Shit >ZeroRanger Shit >Frozen Synapse 2 Shit >Into the Breach Shit >Guacamelee! 2 Shit >Iconoclasts Shit >Overload Shit >Celeste Shit >Return of the Obra Dinn Good >Baba is You Good >ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove Shit >Shakedown: Hawaii Shit >Slay the Spire Shit >Minit Shit >Underrail: Expedition Shit >Risk of Rain 2 EA Good
Here this is a perfect example of what the average indie game is like
Someone pretended to be castlevania Got 150k out if thin air Missed the promised released date by 3 years Replaced all the character with nigress because "muh reparations"
Not really real. The indies may make some solid games, but they also have a habit of being garbage human beings. Guess nature has to balance itself somewhere.
Nathan Cox
>which were all excellent games here's the thing user, you might not get this but just give it a second to sink in: people have different fucking tastes. half that shit you mentioned has zero appeal to me, could not give two fucks
James Lewis
Reminder that indie > AAA
Lucas Clark
indie games are better than AAA games nowadays. both have absolute obscene amounts of shovelware but for every AAA title worth buying that came out this decade, 3 or more good indie games matched it.
Andrew Hernandez
Indie games are to the industry what MCDonalds is to food, cheap comfort food and fulfill the need of people who don't know any better.
Justin Long
>Indie games are the mass market slop that everyone eats >Not AAA games You 'avin a giggle m8?
Joseph Taylor
still better than AAA. Dog food in diamond cans
Luis Collins
>>Lethal League Blaze >Shit
2014 Yea Forums would have castrated you for speaking ill of a Lethal League game
William Howard
Something tells me (You) haven't played all of these games
Jace Martinez
>>SteamWorld Dig 2 >Shit >>Pyre >Shit >>A Hat in Time >Shit >>Dead Cells >Shit >>Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment >Shit >>Dusk >Shit >>Into the Breach >Shit >>Guacamelee! 2 >Shit >>Slay the Spire >Shit >>Underrail: Expedition >Shit Bait
Grayson Long
this is 2019, if you aren't a caricature of someone who hates absolutely everything and exists only as a mouthpiece for political views, you aren't allowed on Yea Forums
Levi Wright
user, why did Frozen Synapse 2 have to die? It was so fucking fun to play multiplayer
Colton Cox
I certainly find more consistent enjoyment playing indies than I do playing AAA games these days. Not trying to sell me fucking microtransactions or loot boxes at every turn helps too.
Matthew Lewis
Please remove that game in the middle. It was a horrible playthrough.
I mean Yea Forums also seems to define "indie" as "low budget and made by 1-2 people".
Hitman 2 is an "indie game" too.
William Taylor
>Hitman 2 >Published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
You so smart user
Cameron Garcia
just add some censor bars user
Ethan Perez
95% of indie games are shit just like AAA games.
Nicholas Jackson
So the game's bad because the characters aren't white?
Jaxon Morales
Some people are so stupid they need a million dollar advertising campaign to tell them what's good.
Kevin Reyes
>they need a million dollar advertising campaign to tell them what's good. This is probably also why they complain about Steam having no curation.
Parker Martinez
No, it's been fake for a while The issue is primarily that indie games have their own fads and trends (particularly pixelshit) The other issue is indie games being overpriced but that's present in AAA games as well I've had tons of fun with different indie games
