Overall, How do you feel about the State of Video games today?

Are you happy with modern vidoegames and Game practices overall?

  • Yes! Never a better time to be alive! Digital gaming at a click of a button! Great Value!

    Votes: 30 12.4%

  • It's Ok! Things could be better and things could get worse. I'm ok with it!

    Votes: 114 47.1%

  • Kinda Disgruntled! Not enough games I want to play and getting too expensive!

    Votes: 42 17.4%

  • Shit! Most Modern releases are Shit! Prices increases while Quality decreases

    Votes: 56 23.1%
  • Total voters
    242
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".
 
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Hardware prices are getting a little spooky but otherwise things are very nice. I've never had so many good games to play.
 
A lot to dislike about modern gaming, but I can't complain, when I have too many games I want to play and not enough free time.
 
It's fine. It's hard to weigh it all cause there's lots of positives to be excited about and lots of negatives in the industry and externals factors like politics affecting things.
 
bender said:
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.
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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.
 
"Shit! Most Modern releases are Shit! Prices increases while Quality decreases"
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You've lost the plot mate. Take a break. Touch some grass. Spend time with the family. Come back when you miss gaming. You'll be happier.

My vote: <It's Ok! Things could be better and things could get worse. I'm ok with it!> Though I'd probably say it is a bit better than that if I wrote it myself. Meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same.
Ryan Gosling Hello GIF by The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
 
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I would have voted shit because I dont have enough time to play all the awesome games that come out.
But ive decided to keep my FOMO in check so voted second option, certainly NOT the best time to be alive but its a great time to be gamer.

My backlog is so long if nothing came out for the rest of the year id still be fully locked in till next year easy work.






I havent even started Atelier Yumia because im going through Expedition 33, then I have to think about Doom but before that Monster Hunter Wilds is calling.....I never got to play Xenoblade X so im glad they did a definitive edition....when will I have time for that?
Probably after The Hundred Line.......I should probably actually go back and Dysnasty Warriors....im huge Musou fan.
I hear Civ7 has been patched enough to warrant playing now, I should probably get it.
^Thats just this years releases I havent cleared yet.
Theres still more from last year in the log.
 
March Climber said:
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*
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I would add if you don't factor in European games as well!
 
Parazels said:
I wish we had more soccer games (RIP, PES! 🥲).

Aside from that it's a great time to be alive! Especially for retro gamers!
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Dude we already have Sensible Soccer on the Sega Mega Drive. Do you need more?
 
I wish the state of AAA was much better but I'm fine with it. Gaming needs another crash and we're going through it again. This time it isn't as immediate but eventually a lot of the mass market will drop off because their expectations will become impossible to meet in the yearly releases they consume.

Regardless, I will never run out of cool games to play and there's always something interesting and cool around the corner if you keep your eyes peeled.
 
There's more games than ever but I miss the golden age of getting a sequel within 2-3 years and wish we could go back to that. Especially when you get a turd of a sequel like waiting 10 years for Dragon Age only to get Veilguard was awful.
 
Haven't bought many AAA games these last few years. But there's been plenty of great games to play from the AA/Indie scene, so it's all good in my book.
 
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.

Meanwhile it seems each month now there is some AA to indie budget thing that comes out of nowhere on Steam to do huge numbers, while costing a fraction as much. We're seeing options to take games on the go for half the platforms (Switch, PC), with the other 2 likely following suit. Remasters and re-releases bring easier access to older games, just recently Breath of Fire 4 hit GoG DRM-free...not to mention Emulation keeps getting better, and decompilation getting more common.

Hardware prices and AAA game pricing do suck, but there are so many options of cheap games everywhere all the time if you're not addicted to FOMO. I still love gaming now, and the things I hate be crashin'.
 
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PeteBull said:
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".
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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.
 
vodka-bull said:
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.
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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 appearence :D


So hated and despised "male gaze" is now most welcomed once again :messenger_ok: :messenger_beaming:
 
I play on PC and the Steam Deck so my perception of things is quite different than most people here. I also have a Quest 3 but barely use it. My Switch hasn't been turned on in years.

The state of console gaming is pretty screwed up with pricing and I feel that AAA gaming lost its charm a long time ago. Games take way too long to make for experiences that are marginally better than a decade plus before. The only thing that really hits these days are remakes and indie games. There is something seriously wrong with large gaming companies these days because they rarely produce anything worthwhile.
 
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There's lots of games I want to play, but they're too expensive at launch to justify buying them.
I chose "it's okay". Ask me again in a year now that the Nintendo model is gaining traction.
 
Still waiting for digitial games to become cheaper than physical retail releases. They used to tell me it was to protect brick stores.
Now they spend money to ship boxes with codes? Makes no sense, where are the savings? Where are the cheaper mid gen refreshes?

Are companies going to reduce prices now that Trump has reduced tarrifs with China? or are these companies going to keep the new prices and profits?

Overall it's headed down a terrible path which our youth is going to pay through the teeth for. V-Bucks, Battle Passes, 2K VC, Subscriptions. Microtransactions, DRM and over priced boxes.

Gamers lost the war, it's over. We're eternally fucked.
 
I continue to be frustrated by Nintendo and don't understand why Sony got into vr if they don't want to support it.

But there's so much creativity all over the industry. Solid B- grade
 
RoboFu said:
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.
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Absolutely nothing wrong with that... I've been thinking of getting a PS2 with the PixelFX mod to play native HD, I have a fully modded DC which is gold, thinking of getting the wireless controller for it!!
 
Durin said:
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.
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The contrary, gaming is getting more expensive and predatory.
 
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Generic said:
The contrary, gaming is getting more expensive and predatory.
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It's only getting more expensive in the AAA space, which is now a tiny fraction of the releases each year, and they're the space experiencing the most lay-offs. Service-based games have always been predatory, especially Chinese & Korean MMOs/Gatcha + mobile for years, but government regulation is starting to happen that could offer some improvement there.

Really, it's the hardware costs that are the universal problem.
 
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It's aite. There is more crap out there than ever, but there is also more gold out there than ever too. The problem is being able to find it.
 
My poll answer is vastly different if you're talking about big publisher AAA games vs. gaming as a whole.

Regardless, there are an insane amount of options for gaming these days, so while the tentpole releases have been disappointing me for the most part of the last 5-7 years, I can't even play the games I want to play because there are so many and my time is limited. Plus when you have a backlog that deep, you can afford to wait for sales, so I've never spent so little money on games as I do these days.

I do like that the pendulum seems to be swinging back the other way as far as agenda-focused mentality is concerned. Maybe another year of big budget failures and we should be clear of that crap for a while. Here's hoping, at any rate.
 
I'm optimistic for:
- Nintendo
- Asian games in general (Japan, China, Korea)

Pessimistic:
- PlayStation, Xbox
- Western games in general (except GTA6)
 
I voted "disgruntled" and the shit option and that's only because Clair Obscure is such a wonderful game and it reminded of having a positive connection to a game.

The same old stuff is getting worse of course, microtransactions (if $150 is micro) and the people that happily pay for them like its a social status, game prices, game quality, being sold broken games and having to wait months for a fix if you are lucky, CEOs no longer caring about what they say or how they treat us, CEOs crying about how expensive games are all the while they get an even bigger multimillion bonus, personal opinions and views taking over from non bias professionalism in both media and creation, and so on.

Clair Obscure though, fucking brilliant.
 
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.
 
It's going ok, I think. There's still plenty of stuff coming out that I want to play. Not a fan of the big three trying to raise prices like they are. It won't affect me because I can wait for most games to drop in price. I'm hoping for a course correction from them but I'm not counting on it.

I guess the most surprising thing about the current landscape right now is how people are kinda annoyed on multiple levels with all three companies.
 
ZehDon said:
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.
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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.
 
Hardware side is bad but the software is good especially with older titles I have yet to play. I just stay away from live services. Yes, while I do play Fallout 76 putting over a thousand hours on it, I didn't even spent a single cent on add ons and bought the base game at $10. Best money ever spent.
 
Very happy

Doom Dark Ages is looking to be the best Doom game ever after Doom 3.

Stellar Blade's PC release and looking forward to the sequel.

Lots of Resident Evil games coming.

Oblivion Remaster being out, Skyobivion coming and Skywind later.

Fallout 3 Remaster coming next year.

Tides of A

Metroid Prime 4

Mario Kart World

Possible Half Life 3

Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 3

Possible FFIX Remake revealed in it's ANN during July.

Witcher 4

GTA VI the greatest and biggest game of all times!!!!

ELDER SCROLLS VI THE GREATEST AND BIGGEST GAME OF ALL TIME the year after GTA VI!!!!!!!!!

FALLOUT 5 THE GREATEST AND BIGGEST GAME OF ALL TIMES a year after ELDER SCROLLS VI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So yes I'm fucking happy with gaming right now!
 
Most AAAs are a joke. Bland, boring, uninspired, no risc, no creativity and many are infested with political correctness.
Without AA, Indies and Retro (includes remakes/remasters) i think i would stop playing.
 
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I actively play from the 2nd gen through the 9th, a wide berth. Overall it's still good. But if the 10th gen is all digital I'm out.
 
It's pretty good. Previous times had their problems too.

Open world with open narrative games has gotten really good.
Roguelikes has gotten really good.
Online shooters has stagnated a bit, but there are interesting games on the horizon.

Missing 3D platformers and RTS games from my youth.
But they are still being made, just not always with enough talent and budgets.
We have seen other old genres come back with bang, such as boomer shooters and turn-based RPGs, so I am hopeful.
 
It's ok, there's a TON of waste, from what would be otherwise good single player games ruined by truly awful writing and either annoying or non memorable characters, through to endless wasted resources on doomed to failure Gaas games often made by otherwise renowned single player game studios. So it's a loss of the games that were never made in service to chasing the dragon.

But there's still a lot of games, and there's been a lot of great indies and Asia has been propping the industry up. It's most western Aaa that has been a shitshow. Maybe it'll recover, maybe many will go under collapsing under catastrophic losses, but from the ashes new studios will be born.
 
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.
 
Sentenza said:
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.
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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.
 
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