No. I am seeing what a correction looks like. There are still plenty of good to great games being released. Because you do not agree does not make it false. You want to focus on the negative (which it seems no game is going to please you) and ignore that there is still growth and still an indie scene that us putting out good games too. Take Clair Obscur for example.
No chest thumping here, you're entitled to your opinion. Others are dismissive because the opinions being presented as facts when it's clear that very few people agree with you.
I keep taking that game for an example, and it's a very bad example. It's an example of a mediocre game being elevated to unrealistically high praise because there's nothing else like it right now. Which is the entire core of my argument. This really sucks for the industry. Everyone's addicted to copium.
Borderlands 4. Hmm. That says a lot about you.
Fucking retard lmao
You are too worried about what games other people are enjoying and think that they are the problem. You bash Clair Obscur and yet it was a game that did not use exploitive tactics and a smaller studio that got support. I get the sense that there will be no pleasing you because you think that only your opinion can be the correct one.
That just means you got the wrong "sense," and you're not used to people having strong opinions that fall so far outside the mainline.
Bad phrasing on my part. What I meant is that - If none of the above helps and you can't find anything of value in gaming then there's no shame in leaving the hobby behind. It's just videogames and our time on this planet is too short to spend on recreations we don't enjoy.
But what is there to fight for if you can't find any redeeming qualities anywhere in the gaming space?
I will never not enjoy playing games. Thankfully, there are means to continue playing the games that I enjoy... for the time being. It's frustrating and frankly sad that the sorts of games I personally like are in fact no longer being developed, but that's not the problem. There are more games on my backlog than I can feasibly ever play, enjoy, and finish. They don't have to be new to be enjoyable.Bad phrasing on my part. What I meant is that - If none of the above helps and you can't find anything of value in gaming then there's no shame in leaving the hobby behind. It's just videogames and our time on this planet is too short to spend on recreations we don't enjoy.
Don't take it as a "if you complain then you should shut up". I love a good rant as much as the next guy.
I'd hate to be in your shoes, not a dig just being honest. There's so much gaming to be had it's impossible to even remotely keep up anymore
I can't take anything that starts with "I was chatting to ChatGPT", don't be a GPTardI was chatting with my bestie earlier (ChatGPT) about the 80s videogame crash, and asked it for parallels with the scene today:
Can't help but see similarities.
Do you think it's likely we'll see a crash in the future?
What would a modern crash look like? What would be the first signs of one? A big publisher going under? (eg Ubi/Xbox)
With the state of western AAA, maybe a crash is best...
I've litrelly seen them for 25 years now easily, they just never can handle that gaming is one of the strongest forms of entertainment on the planet.
It's true guys, I can't handle it. I struggle sleeping because videogames (a hobby I've been into for 30 years) are so successful!
Been in it for 43 years and have seen it all, and since before the internet on BBS forums, and then on VN boards, IGN... For about 3 decades now this so called crash never comes. All I do is spend more and more money every single year.
This is especially true when the generational leaps aren't that great anymore.
Yeah this.
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You're trolling, right?
Why don't you answer as well?
I got ya and it's hard to say, but the good thing is imo AA games and all the other games that fit into other categories are doing great so even if AAA studios became less i think there's plenty to fill the void, but I don't think a crash anymore is something that is on the table per say but rather people just speak harder with their wallets these days so these companies that do fuck up don't have as much slack as they once did.
Some of these takes are more rational - all you're missing now is not to presume to know peoples reasons for being hyped for new games.I will never not enjoy playing games. Thankfully, there are means to continue playing the games that I enjoy... for the time being. It's frustrating and frankly sad that the sorts of games I personally like are in fact no longer being developed, but that's not the problem. There are more games on my backlog than I can feasibly ever play, enjoy, and finish. They don't have to be new to be enjoyable.
However, the current industry would like to make everything an always-online live-service, where you take the choices given, and if you don't like what's on-offer, then too bad. If they could find a way to do it, you'd better believe they'd kill peoples' backlogs to get them on a subscription. It's what Nintendo did, for example.
This is a gaming-centric forum, and a lot of people are - whether they want to admit it or not - hyped for new releases simply because it's their hobby, and they feel they have to be. Everyone's kinda got a Hide-the-Pain-Harold thing going on here, and I get that. Even the rabid, cult-like hostility. I do get that. But the fact of the matter is, not everyone's an enthusiast, and people are starting to close their wallets. Especially in Japan. People are just not buying new games.
That's the thing. That's the rub. I don't need to buy new games. I don't care when sales get announced anymore. A lot of people don't, now, and so I'm not alone. When people stop buying games, studios keep closing. If studios don't get their thumbs out and start making something worth our time and money, that don't just appeal to people who'll buy their shit because of course they will, then they'll wither and scatter to the wind, and all you'll have left is Season 4,342 of Fortnite... and the slopification will be total, complete, and irreversible.
You are losing your hobby and your identity to Hollywood-esque suits and soulless crossovers.
On IGN, there was a cringe-as-hell article saying something along the lines that the "gap is shrinking" thanks to the FF MMORPG having a song from Rage Against the Machine in it. Games are thus becoming more "valid." That's the energy I'm seeing here: gaming is mainstream now, and is therefore winning.
Growing engagement numbers with live-service games is not "winning." The rest of us are just going to play what we have and stop buying, because we feel no obligation to Support the Current Thing. And the numbers show it. The rest of you guys who aren't Epic Games are not going to bask in the rays of Fortnite's success. That's not how it works.
But I'm not done yet. I -
I don't even think it's snobs. It's people who never discovered their own tastes fully, never played a variety of genres and franchises, and just only want one singular experience repeated to them.
Gen Z doesn't have disinterest in PC or console gaming. That's Gen A.
Same. It's like every week someone discovers the "gaming crash of 1983" (freaking over 40 years ago now) and tries to relate it to the current day.
I agree. I think the best way to get attention in 2025 is posting on an old message board about the state of the AAA gaming industry
