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That’s a brutal representation of how we feel as gamers. Utter trash recently. What happened!?
Venture capital took over AAA studios.
Is it utter trash? I wouldn’t know. I haven’t been able to afford gaming since the ps4 came out
AAA consolidated. Indie became the AAs of the early 00s. Pacific Drive, Inscryption, Omori, Deep Rock Galactic, Elite Dangerous, Divinity: OS2, Boneworks 1, etc etc. There’s lots of AA games and indie stuff you shouldn’t sleep on.
Sure, the Dices, Biowares, Mojangs, and others have been bought up. Doesn’t mean you have to play their stuff, though.
Good old midnight club—that game was fun as shit.
I gotta agree with that, there was something about that game that made me keep going back to it.
Depressing how much longer it takes games to come out now. Not that I want them rushing things.
It’s not so much the development time that bothers me here, it’s the lack of diversity. They took forever making GTAV after IV, but in the meantime they had a bunch of smaller, lower budget releases. Nowadays big publishers go all in, a game is either a $200m blockbuster or it never makes it to production.
Which also means they won’t take risks and most games are kinda samey.
The fun franchises of possibilities keep dying off. An indie-like attempt might get a new idea out sure, but they almost always end up bought out and closed and wallowing in forgotten IP land.
The indie game scene is really fun.
If you can’t be bothered to read about games just check out Splattercatgaming on YouTube. Splattercat plays a new (or upcoming) indie game every day for 30 minutes mostly from start, so what you see is what you get pretty much.
Why make games at all when you can just milk the same game as a subscription service over and over?
manhunt2 for wii…what a coup
