Clair Obscur came out the same time and it’s probably the best RPG I’ve ever played, and I’ve played every noteworthy one in the last 40 years at least. GOTY at the LEAST.
unused_user_name@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
It might be nostalgia speaking, but I think the real issue is that a 20 year old game can actually be this good and popular. How can it be that it is more enjoyable than anything else I’ve bought over the last year (at least)? Doesn’t that say that game companies in general have dropped the ball on game design, focusing on graphics and money over content and gameplay? As I said, it might just be me stuck in my wonderfully comforting blanket of nostalgia…
Flickerby@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
You’re just buying the wrong games.
Go play Split Fiction, Balatro, and Hades 2.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
How can it be that it is more enjoyable than anything else I’ve bought over the last year (at least)?
Possibly because you’re buying the wrong games? Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got a massive nostalgia-on for Oblivion, and I picked up the Remaster, and it’s cool…
But there have been a lot of great games so far this year. Just this month alone, Blue Prince and Expedition 33 have both been fantastic. Both better than the Oblivion remaster imo.
The Indiana Jones game is cool. I haven’t played Split Fiction yet, but it looks really good as well. Just to name a few.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
I mean I am all for criticising creatively bankrupt mush like Ubisoft et al pushes out and Call of Duty 420: Black Ops 69 or FIFA or whatever but we can’t pretend there are literally no good games being released nowadays either. Just now we had a month with both Blue Prince and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 being released within weeks of each other. BG3 and Alan Wake 2 releasing in the same year was just two years ago.
There are plenty of not just good but great recent games.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Just now we had a month with both Blue Prince and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 being released within weeks of each other.
Didn’t see your comment before saying almost the exact same thing lol
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I hear this rhetoric a lot, which shows me that a ton of people have a much harder time than me finding the good stuff, even though there’s so much of it out there.
pulido@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
Great art is timeless.
There are modern games that can compete, they’re just few and far between.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I can’t belive people play football. That game is old as hell!
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It hasn’t been updated since forever, can’t believe even pay to watch others play.