Tired of sequels, remakes and reboots..........

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Evil Calvin

Afraid of Boobs
Are there any new games coming out that look very promising, which are not a sequel, remake or reboot? AAA or indies?

(and for that matter.....also which are not just another trend-chasing game like the Vampire Survivor-likes, or Fortnite-likes)

If they don't start infusing the industry with new IP's, new ideas, or new mechanics, the industry will continue to flounder......

AI will just rehash and recycle the same ol' crap and then they will all cry that the sales 'didn't meet expectations'

NEW SHIT PLEASE!!!!
 
Evil Calvin said:
Are there any new games coming out that look very promising, which are not a sequel, remake or reboot? AAA or indies?
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Tons. You gotta narrow it down a bit.

I just finished 1000xRESIST and gave it a 10/10. Playing Routine now. This is just the last week. Been able to find new stuff for the last 4 years so I need some sense of what you're looking for.
 
I will never understand these stupid fucking threads.

Games just from this year alone:

Sword of the Sea
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
The Alters
Cronos: The New Dawn
PEAK
LUTO
BALL x PIT
Absolum
Dispatch
Abiotic Factor
Keeper
1000xRESIST
Bionic Bay
Consume Me
ROUTINE
The Séance of Blake Manor
South of Midnight
Blue Prince
Keep Driving
ARC Raiders
Split Fiction
Hell is Us
Avowed
Despelote
 
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Evil Calvin said:
Are there any new games coming out that look very promising, which are not a sequel, remake or reboot? AAA or indies?

(and for that matter.....also which are not just another trend-chasing game like the Vampire Survivor-likes, or Fortnite-likes)

If they don't start infusing the industry with new IP's, new ideas, or new mechanics, the industry will continue to flounder......

AI will just rehash and recycle the same ol' crap and then they will all cry that the sales 'didn't meet expectations'

NEW SHIT PLEASE!!!!
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What games have you played recently or are personally looking forward to that meet this criteria?
 
see ya goodbye GIF
 
analog_future said:
I will never understand these stupid fucking threads.

Games just from this year alone:

Sword of the Sea
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
The Alters
Cronos: The New Dawn
PEAK
LUTO
BALL x PIT
Absolum
Dispatch
Abiotic Factor
Keeper
1000xRESIST
Bionic Bay
Consume Me
ROUTINE
The Séance of Blake Manor
Blue Prince
Keep Driving
ARC Raiders
Split Fiction
Hell is Us
Avowed
Despelote
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I didn't say there weren't new games but the AAA landscape is almost all sequels, remakes and reboots. I have enjoyed many of these, but the big companies are creatively bankrupt.
 
There have been some really good games this year, but honestly, I get where OP is coming from. I feel like we're in a creative rut of sorts where AAA is almost universally bad, and we're overly reliant on either low-ish budget indies or mid-tier Eurojank. Japanese developers seem to have settled into mediocrity again, which is really weird to see, and I think that's a lot of what's weighing down sentiment, particularly if you like mechanically polished, slickly presented games with a more focused scope than western developers seem willing to offer.

Which is kinda what makes it hard to explain. There are a shitload of games coming out, more good ones than probably ever, and a few great ones... if you're looking at it from a high level. But there's a specific blend of aesthetic, polish, and scope that I personally loved about older games that is harder to find now than it's ever been.
 
Evil Calvin said:
I didn't say there weren't new games but the AAA landscape is almost all . I have enjoyed many of these, but the big companies are creatively bankrupt.
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So you enjoyed many of these (sequels, remakes and reboots) and you are still complaining?

Like I said in my previous post:

It's never enough

Some of you are professionally miserable
 
HRK69 said:
So you enjoyed many of these (sequels, remakes and reboots) and you are still complaining?

Like I said in my previous post:

It's never enough

Some of you are professionally miserable
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And they're still imprisoned in a 2010 mindset. Next complaint's gonna be that there are no exclusives anymore.

Professionally miserable is the correct description of these guys.

I've played over 2500 hours this year on my PS5, but I haven't even finished my PS3 backlog…
 
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There are new IP's and original games available and soon to be available, but I feel it's very hard to deny that there's a ridiculous amount of remakes, remasters, etc this generation. It feels almost like half of the games coming out are remakes, remasters or a sequel to something.

I just heard somewhere that there's probably going to be a Persona 4 remake?? Didn't they remaster that before or am I mistaken? I guess they keep milking remasters, sequels, remakes and reboots because companies feel they are safe and they can be really risk averse when it comes to investing into new games.
 
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Stop complaining. I want RDR2 remaster, BB Remaster and a 60fps patch for Detroit:Become Human. As others have said there's tons of non-remakes coming out.
 
I've got my eyes on Exodus and The Expanse.

Otoh, the game I've enjoyed most this year was a remaster (Oblivion), and I'm looking forward to a remake (Yakuza Kiwami 3), so I'm not as fed up with them as you are. I do have a hard time finding games that I enjoy for the long haul, though.
 
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As long as they are good, I don't give a damn what type of game are, new, remaster, remake, whatever...

REmake 4 was amazing and I spent hundreds of hours playing the original Gamecube version and the PS2 version before the PS3 port, so I don't know why people complain about remake/remasters, just don't buy them if you don't want them 🤷‍♂️

Dispatch, it's not your conventional game, but it's really good regardless

Clair Obscure I didn't play yet, but that's new and looks really cool, so it's not like new good games aren't being made every day
 
I'd rather relive a classic than sit through new content that just copies old content. A new DMC would be better than something that simply looks like DMC.

There's a lot to pick and choose from. Sometimes I wonder what the person who is complaining actually played. At a glance, yes, you see sequel or a remake, but how invested were you when the original came out?

I'm the type who thinks remakes and remasters have a place in this industry. We need to maintain that fan base otherwise it's retracing our steps back to legacy hardware.

There's only so much I can consume and I've become a big fan of a lot of franchises. I don't exactly want everything that's new because it's basically reimagining an idea I was perfectly fine with.

What's wrong with Silent Hill 2, MGS3, and a bunch of classic JRPG remasters? Those were fantastic. I can't wait to play the SH1 remake. Possibly a Chrono Trigger Remake too. Idk man. I like that stuff.
 
I'm in the opposite camp. I have 10-15 franchises that are very important to me and I'd be more than happy to play sequels/remakes from these series for the rest of my life provided that the quality is great all across the board.
 
Evil Calvin said:
I didn't say there weren't new games but the AAA landscape is almost all sequels, remakes and reboots. I have enjoyed many of these, but the big companies are creatively bankrupt.
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There are 10 minutes AAA that turn to AA quickly and there are AAA between 5 to 8 hours that named indie unfortunately. See, your view will change then you'll start thinking about other AAAs that named indie.
 
analog_future said:
I will never understand these stupid fucking threads.

Games just from this year alone:

Sword of the Sea
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
The Alters
Cronos: The New Dawn
PEAK
LUTO
BALL x PIT
Absolum
Dispatch
Abiotic Factor
Keeper
1000xRESIST
Bionic Bay
Consume Me
ROUTINE
The Séance of Blake Manor
Blue Prince
Keep Driving
ARC Raiders
Split Fiction
Hell is Us
Avowed
Despelote
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Weak. Sauce.
 
No issue with sequels, that's a stupid thing to complain. Remasters/remakes of already modern games is indeed a bit meh, .but they're not super common, yet, and remakes of very old games, I guess it would be fine as long as the companies also make new stuff alongside them.
 
If you have any issues with gaming right now you just need to stop gaming. If you are a gamer who isn't more than satisfied with all the games coming out it's a you problem and has nothing to do with the industry. In fact the industry is flooded with to many games right now and if they announced tomorrow that there weas going to be a 3 year hiatus on all games being released I would be fine with that.
 
sequels are fine, it's just we're getting the same sequels for the same IPs with exactly the same purpose, try to streamline everything to make the blandest shit there is

reboots are the same

remake is on its own category in the modern garbage department, it's really the worst of the worst in our industry
 
A lot (the vast majority?) of people weren't even born for most of these games' remakes when the original released, so getting the remake is a nice way to play an old game which they weren't alive to play when it came out.

Sequels though? Sequels are great.

Imagine Zelda or Fire Emblem or Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy without any sequels! Or any sports game which gets yearly releases or Call of Duty, etc. GTA, RDR, Elder Scrolls stopping at the first game! Craziness!
 
There's still plenty of new games coming out or have come out. I agree the % of games being remakes, reboots and sequels is increasing and I'm not particularly fond of that, but there's still plenty of new games. E33, The Alters, Avowed, Arc Raiders, Cronos, etc. from this year.
 
What bothers me, when people go all looney toons over a game and when I finally have a look, it's some stick figure-looking BS.

I'm am tired of remasters of games that are a few years old. That's dumb as hell.
 
Too bad cause when it comes to mainstream gaming you're stuck with it. You either get the same shit over and over again or new shit that's derivative of the same shit you get over and over again. And then maybe an exception every so often. =P
 
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