It's like going from raves/clubbing in your twenties with all the madness and noise that entailed and now in your forties either sitting in a quiet pub or staying in at the weekend wearing a pair of comfy slippers in front of the TV.Due to a lot of factors around genres and conventions maturing and standardizing, I think the quality of the average game is higher than ever. But the consequence of that is everything feels "samey", resulting in a landscape I find more boring and the highest of highs often being lesser than the past.
I would add if you don't factor in European games as well!AAA gaming is dying*
* = If you don't factor in Japanese games
* = If you don't factor in Chinese games
* = If you don't factor in Korean games
* = If you don't factor in Nintendo
* = If you don't factor in the pandemic setbacks
* = If you don't factor in Publishers outside of the old guard (EA, Ubisoft, WB)
* = If you don't factor in recent successes from 2023, 2024, and 2025
Gaming is doomed*
Dude we already have Sensible Soccer on the Sega Mega Drive. Do you need more?I wish we had more soccer games (RIP, PES!).
Aside from that it's a great time to be alive! Especially for retro gamers!
Looks like Brasilian national team has been playing Sensible Soccer too much recently.Dude we already have Sensible Soccer on the Sega Mega Drive. Do you need more?
That'd mean that modern audience has a chance to leave their woke bubbles. Unfortunately, due to recent discoveries in my own personal life, I doubt that'll happen. People will become just more radical, stupid and immune to reason in the near future.Its not amazing but gaming development is super competetive business, give industry another 5-10years and by next next console gen, so ps7(around 2036)we will be back to proper games that are targeting males, not "modern audience".
Have faith bro, so called "modern audience" barely buys any games, publishers will be forced to course correct after nasty stream of flops, u can already tell some smarter publishers going safe route like rockstar with gta6, they want and need game to sell gangbusters so we have both protags looking awesome- instead of uggly disgusting concord like appearenceThat'd mean that modern audience has a chance to leave their woke bubbles. Unfortunately, due to recent discoveries in my own personal life, I doubt that'll happen. People will become just more radical, stupid and immune to reason in the near future.
Put it this way I spent more the $1,200 the past 2 years buying retro consoles and new items for t hose consoles. ( new wireless controllers, ossc, scart switcher, everdrives.. ect.. ) and I has brought me more gaming joy than all of 2024 - present.
The contrary, gaming is getting more expensive and predatory.There is always things to complain about, but right now it feels like we're going through a useful cleansing. We're seeing studios that treated their audiences like crap, inefficient with budgets, use predatory monetization, and/or have no ambition to do new things die off at a pretty fast pace.
The contrary, gaming is getting more expensive and predatory.
The no criticism thing is strange, reminds me of the type who support political parties, sports teams etc. Must not talk down the side. Maybe they gain such a strong identity from said thing and strong criticism is somehow a betrayal.Makings billions means you're failing, making games no one wants means you're successful, and silently consuming without a critical thought is lauded. I believe we're standing on the cliff of the really bad things to come, and companies appear to be quite happy to sail right over the edge, taking my hobby with them.
We'll get some good games before it all comes tumbling down, though.
Almost everything is a remaster, a sequel or a remake. To be fair, that's the market. Whenever a developer creates a new IP, it gets shit on a people keep buying Call of Duty 1,358.I can put it in this way:
I'm not particularly fond of the DIRECTION the game industry is taking, but I have very little complaints about the options available.
To put it in other terms... Most of the major AAA productions seem to be stumbling under uninspired, directionless leadership these days and trend chasing + attempts at aggressive monetization seems to be the predominant strategy from the big players , but there are great games for every taste out there if you can look for them and enjoy them even without a massive hype cycle.