Rants from a disillusioned aging gamer…

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Uh, yes, here I am, OK, now, hello there.

Sony - Game quality and quantity has suffered. Almost everything I want is on PC now where it looks and runs better. The new predatory pricing is just the final straw for me. If anyone needs me, I will be in my angry dome.

Nintendo - Tell them I hate them. The patent shit is ridiculous. I also can not get over how bad the switch 2 screen is. The lack of VRR kills me on the big screen. I have also been disappointed in both the game offering and the price increases.

Microsoft - To shreds, you say.

NVIDIA - Driver issues. I rolled back to a really old drive to prevent issues I was running into. NVIDIA removed a feature from my card post release. Going from a mining focused company to a AI focused company is like telling someone you don't want to take the pill… Good News! It's a suppository.

AMD - Ryzen 6 delayed, all hail science! Now rumored to be end of 26. Should have been a worthy jump for CPU bottle necked games.

Intel - No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it… I was a fanboy once.

Valve - Feels like it's winning by just existing. Who knows, Steam OS might become PC gaming future if Microsoft keeps going down the current destructive path. At least Valve has taught me that anything can happen at any time for no reason. At least the Steam Controller 2 looks like it could be good. Looks like the ideal BDO controller.

I now look forward to indie games, Larian Studios and updates to old MMOs. If the current state of gaming was a planet, I don't want to live on this planet anymore…

This is not a sympathy post… Life is good. I don't even know if I have outgrown the hobby or the hobby turned its back on me. With my last words, I curse Zoidberg!
 
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Okaay Ok GIF by MOODMAN
 
Yea hardware is a rough spot atm. But I also see the brightside. The $50 price point games breaking through (E33, Mafia, Hell Is Us), and F2P games that are worth playing (Where WInds Meet), and some quality VR titles still trickling out (Metro, Daredevil).

Eastern devs and a lot of indie devs are still delivering. Hopefully Sony and others are pulling away from GaaS, at least most of the effort.
 
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I agree with everything you say but hey, there's tons of games to play and cool stuff still manages to get released from time to time, so it's not all bad.
 
For me, I'm done with most gaming companies and totally done with traditional console hardware. Switch 2 was my last hardware purchase and from now on I'm just buying games for the systems I own and then will rely on my backlog until I'm done with gaming.

Reason being is gaming is headed in a bad place, with long dev times, content that doesn't interest me, mtx and gamble mechanics getting out of hand, terrible people developing games that I don't want to support in any nature, lack of ownership.
 
You are too worried about nothing. The only thing close to actual games was talking about Sony's quality which hasn't been that bad either.
 
The OP raises some valid points. Just because there are lots of games to play, doesn't mean video games are in a good place right now.

Whats funny is the same people telling the OP to "get off my lawn" are also the ones complaining in threads about dev times, "wokeness" (whatever that means anymore), pricing, monopolies, value propositions, "slop", etc…
 
Well, i'm pretty damned happy with the state of gaming. So many great games! Only downsides are the obviousy huge price increases (a pretty big downside) , and the fact that I don't have enough time to play all the games I want to play (a positive "downside" )
 
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Schnauzer said:
Uh, yes, here I am, OK, now, hello there.

Sony - Game quality and quantity has suffered. Almost everything I want is on PC now where it looks and runs better. The new predatory pricing is just the final straw for me. If anyone needs me, I will be in my angry dome.

Nintendo - Tell them I hate them. The patent shit is ridiculous. I also can not get over how bad the switch 2 screen is. The lack of VRR kills me on the big screen. I have also been disappointed in both the game offering and the price increases.

Microsoft - To shreds, you say.

NVIDIA - Driver issues. I rolled back to a really old drive to prevent issues I was running into. NVIDIA removed a feature from my card post release. Going from a mining focused company to a AI focused company is like telling someone you don't want to take the pill… Good News! It's a suppository.

AMD - Ryzen 6 delayed, all hail science! Now rumored to be end of 26. Should have been a worthy jump for CPU bottle necked games.

Intel - No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it… I was a fanboy once.

Valve - Feels like it's winning by just existing. Who knows, Steam OS might become PC gaming future if Microsoft keeps going down the current destructive path. At least Valve has taught me that anything can happen at any time for no reason. At least the Steam Controller 2 looks like it could be good. Looks like the ideal BDO controller.

I now look forward to indie games, Larian Studios and updates to old MMOs. If the current state of gaming was a planet, I don't want to live on this planet anymore…

This is not a sympathy post… Life is good. I don't even know if I have outgrown the hobby or the hobby turned its back on me. With my last words, I curse Zoidberg!
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If gamers use the 5090 to cover broken games a$$ then naturally, expect a shorter lifespan for that specific usage cause it ain't right. Just do the right thing and never care about specs, laptops looks fine to me.
 
I think we're definitely in a rut and have been for the last few years. This gen has not been a great one. The tech has been a disaster, which has really never been the case before - between the hardware, the engines, and the gimmickry (read: frame gen, upscaling algorithms, etc), essentially everyone shat the bed. From a game standpoint, it really depends on what you're looking for. There are some obvious gems and it's hardly like there's nothing to play. But if you like AAA-style spectacle, those games have never been worse. Everything still wants to incorporate RPG elements and way too many gameplay systems, and open worlds are as big and boring as ever. That's been disappointing.

So, I get the rant. I've been playing a lot more old games this gen (a lot like I did during the peak of Calladuty clones ruling the roost) and I'm discovering a lot of really excellent stuff I never played back in the day, so I'm hardly losing my interest in gaming. Personally, I think the only way we get out of this rut is going to happen as indie teams continue getting more sophisticated and can find the ambition and the funding to pursue bigger projects and essentially replace what we've lost from AAA's slide in quality. Hardware will solve itself after the AI bubble bursts.
 
Cant say i can relate at all despite starting gaming around 1991. Yes i know how it used to be and how it is now but i still just sit down in my leather armchair every day press the button on the controller and play new games!

I just beat Cronos and Ghost of Yotei and went straight into Stalker 2 (huge fan from the original games and mods) and im 60h deep and having an absolute blast!

This year was great for games so i dont get how you can be so jaded.
 
Edgelord79 said:
The OP raises some valid points. Just because there are lots of games to play, doesn't mean video games are in a good place right now.

Whats funny is the same people telling the OP to "get off my lawn" are also the ones complaining in threads about dev times, "wokeness" (whatever that means anymore), pricing, monopolies, value propositions, "slop", etc…
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The post is strange tbh.

First there are complaints about how all Sony's games that OP wants are on PC now.

Then there are complaints about PC specific issues with Nvidia, AMD, Intel.

I mean… OP obviously have a PC but is still complaining about how everything is on PC…
??? 🤔
 
Fess said:
The post is strange tbh.

First there are complaints about how all Sony's games that OP wants are on PC now.

Then there are complaints about PC specific issues with Nvidia, AMD, Intel.

I mean… OP obviously have a PC but is still complaining about how everything is on PC…
??? 🤔
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The reasoning, at least for me, is:

Exclusives on Playstation used to make those systems worth owning, because hey - there's cool shit to play, and you know it's going to be best on there because that's the only place you can play it.

But if those games leave Playstation, then the Playstation is suddenly kinda useless. The games are on PC and support better visuals and higher quality assets - of course you'd want to play them there, instead of a "compromised" version on the Playstation.

But wait - with the PC releases comes issues with stuttering and generally shoddy ports... and if you want to really take advantage of the game being on PC, you need newer hardware which is quickly exploding in price. But even that is starting to rely more on stupid shit like frame gen instead of actually better hardware to bump up frame rates... and developers know it, so they're doing a progressively worse job with ports than before because "DLSS will fix it".

So you're left with games that don't really excel on any platform, and hardware that's overly expensive and doesn't deliver the upgrade you really want it to.
 
Minari said:
Cant say i can relate at all despite starting gaming around 1991. Yes i know how it used to be and how it is now but i still just sit down in my leather armchair every day press the button on the controller and play new games!

I just beat Cronos and Ghost of Yotei and went straight into Stalker 2 (huge fan from the original games and mods) and im 60h deep and having an absolute blast!

This year was great for games so i dont get how you can be so jaded.
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I started gaming in the early 80s on Game & Watch. Can't relate. And it's been a fantastic year. I've finished 13 games so far, 100 percented Elden Ring, Minishoot Adventures, got 100% completion rate in both Hollow Knight and Silksong. Still have so many games to play which I enjoyed but stopped playing for whatever reason. I have more great games to play than time to play them. Can't complain about that!
 
TrebleShot said:
Get steam deck
The end
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Steam Deck is awesome for sure. But having that as the only device for gaming i 2025 would be pretty bad. Games like Clair Obscur, Alan Wake 2, Black Myth, Returnal, Dragons Dogma 2 and a bunch of other newer games won't be a nice experience there. And probably a lot of the upcoming stuff.
 
Danny Dudekisser said:
I think we're definitely in a rut and have been for the last few years. This gen has not been a great one. The tech has been a disaster, which has really never been the case before - between the hardware, the engines, and the gimmickry (read: frame gen, upscaling algorithms, etc), essentially everyone shat the bed. From a game standpoint, it really depends on what you're looking for. There are some obvious gems and it's hardly like there's nothing to play. But if you like AAA-style spectacle, those games have never been worse. Everything still wants to incorporate RPG elements and way too many gameplay systems, and open worlds are as big and boring as ever. That's been disappointing.

So, I get the rant. I've been playing a lot more old games this gen (a lot like I did during the peak of Calladuty clones ruling the roost) and I'm discovering a lot of really excellent stuff I never played back in the day, so I'm hardly losing my interest in gaming. Personally, I think the only way we get out of this rut is going to happen as indie teams continue getting more sophisticated and can find the ambition and the funding to pursue bigger projects and essentially replace what we've lost from AAA's slide in quality. Hardware will solve itself after the AI bubble bursts.
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To me the most cautious gen from devs and publishers point of view. We haven't seen heavy hitters since the PS360 era.
 
Schnauzer said:
Uh, yes, here I am, OK, now, hello there.

Sony - Game quality and quantity has suffered. Almost everything I want is on PC now where it looks and runs better. The new predatory pricing is just the final straw for me. If anyone needs me, I will be in my angry dome.

Nintendo - Tell them I hate them. The patent shit is ridiculous. I also can not get over how bad the switch 2 screen is. The lack of VRR kills me on the big screen. I have also been disappointed in both the game offering and the price increases.

Microsoft - To shreds, you say.

NVIDIA - Driver issues. I rolled back to a really old drive to prevent issues I was running into. NVIDIA removed a feature from my card post release. Going from a mining focused company to a AI focused company is like telling someone you don't want to take the pill… Good News! It's a suppository.

AMD - Ryzen 6 delayed, all hail science! Now rumored to be end of 26. Should have been a worthy jump for CPU bottle necked games.

Intel - No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it… I was a fanboy once.

Valve - Feels like it's winning by just existing. Who knows, Steam OS might become PC gaming future if Microsoft keeps going down the current destructive path. At least Valve has taught me that anything can happen at any time for no reason. At least the Steam Controller 2 looks like it could be good. Looks like the ideal BDO controller.

I now look forward to indie games, Larian Studios and updates to old MMOs. If the current state of gaming was a planet, I don't want to live on this planet anymore…

This is not a sympathy post… Life is good. I don't even know if I have outgrown the hobby or the hobby turned its back on me. With my last words, I curse Zoidberg!
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Currently playing mario kart 64 amped up rom hack on my analogue 3d console.

Million times better then mario kart world.
So all is good if the community keeps making good shit
 
Similar position. Went from:

- avid console gamer. NES -> PS360
- PC graphics hobbyist. Bought every Nvidia x80 or Titan 480-1080.
- bought a USED 6750xt for 200 cash in a Long John Silver's parking lot. About to do it again to have a backup during RAMpocalypse. Can affoard to spend more on gaming than I ever have, but alas, I'm too salty, jaded and stubborn to.

They don't make AAA games for me anymore, but there's some good indie stuff coming out all the time.
 
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I can't speak to what the OP thinks; those are their specific opinions. I can say that the last decade of gaming has been the worst in gaming history, and there is little relief in sight for the foreseeable future to me. I spend most of my "gaming time" watching streams or reading about games rather than playing them. The modern game design philosophy is not for me.
 
Danny Dudekisser said:
The reasoning, at least for me, is:

Exclusives on Playstation used to make those systems worth owning, because hey - there's cool shit to play, and you know it's going to be best on there because that's the only place you can play it.

But if those games leave Playstation, then the Playstation is suddenly kinda useless. The games are on PC and support better visuals and higher quality assets - of course you'd want to play them there, instead of a "compromised" version on the Playstation.

But wait - with the PC releases comes issues with stuttering and generally shoddy ports... and if you want to really take advantage of the game being on PC, you need newer hardware which is quickly exploding in price. But even that is starting to rely more on stupid shit like frame gen instead of actually better hardware to bump up frame rates... and developers know it, so they're doing a progressively worse job with ports than before because "DLSS will fix it".

So you're left with games that don't really excel on any platform, and hardware that's overly expensive and doesn't deliver the upgrade you really want it to.
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If consoles become useless - then great! More money left for other stuff! 👍
I bought a PS5 Pro last year, $1150 invested to have one with disc drive. But I haven't played a single game on it this year… So forgive me for not wanting a reason to pick up another console next gen. What's going on right now is gooooood imho

Regarding PC ports. I'm sure DF can show that some are bad, but I play everything on PC now and I can't say it bothers me. In the living room everything runs at stable enough 60fps and looks fantastic. And on the desktop PC I can go even higher and fps issues ain't bothering me. Maybe a fps graph would point out problems but it all looks smooth enough to me. If DLSS is needed then so be it, I flick it on and no longer think about it.

The cost is high but it's even higher if I also need to have the best and latest PlayStation and Xbox consoles.
 
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Wel, if this is the thread to rant:

Fuck everyone and everything that contributed to the death of RTS.

The biggest fucking irony is that RTS """"fans"""" were probably the first to stab RTS in the back with the stupid DOTA shit in WarCraft 3 (or AoS in StarCraft 1). And it went down hill from there. And also fuck Blizzard for riding the "RTS = E-Sports! APM! APM! APM!" bullshittery. Fuck Riot and also Valve for helping make MOBAs popular.
Fuck Don Mattrick for shutting down Ensemble. Fuck EA for shutting down Westwood and sitting on Command & Conquer without doing anything with it. Fuck Blackbird Interactive for killing Homeworld with Homeworld 3 (and fuck Gearbox for contributing to that). Fuck the leadership of Relic Entertainment for trying to make Dawn of War 3 a MOBA.
 
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