Comment on Anon blames millennials

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• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah, as far as I’m concerned most AAA games might as well be part of a totally separate hobby that I don’t pay much attention to. The way I see it (and this is an oversimplification) games used to be made by nerds for nerds. Then normies started making games for normies, but there are also more nerds than ever making games for nerds.

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  • altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s far worse than pretty much any modern ARPG, not because the technology has improved but because people have learned from Diablo II’s mistakes.

    I was ready to argue you at the start of the sentence and then went completely agreeing with you. New games aren’t better because they are new, but they have a potential to become better by learning about what worked good or bad in previous games. And it doesn’t make classics look bad now, like, we don’t need to fix Chess for how wild the horsey is in it, but coming to any old game requires setting oneself into the context of when it was launched, and therefore we need to see any new game through the lense of past experinces and how they learnt on mistakes of the past instead of repeating them.

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    • theangryseal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Some people got it right back in the day.

      Super Metroid is a perfect game from start to finish. I still play it a few times a year I’d say.

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  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve had a similar experience.

    For me it was more accessibility issues like timely checkpoints and not forcing the player to button mash.

    I realized that a lot of my childhood gaming was possible because I just put up with gaming mechanics that need a lot of time and patience.

    The past: don’t know what to do? Spending an hour just trying things and if that doesn’t work, try again tomorrow.

    Today: don’t know what to do? This game has half an hour to give me a hint or I’m moving on to the next game cause I’m here to have fun damn it!

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• Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I seriously have nothing to say to anyone who doesn’t see it that way. If all you play is big budget corpo horseshit and your first instinct is to blame a generational cohort, that says more about you.

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  • Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    AAAlways has been .jpg. Just look at literally every sports game since the Street series.

    Btw kudos on the memetic payload that is your username, you monster.

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Hell yeah

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Explicit content? What could be so explicit about a back massage?

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• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  AAA games are made by companies that have boomers and early gen x in charge

  Indie games are more likely to be made by people actually doing the development, i.e. millennials & early gen Z currently

  Indie games have been having a great decade, AAA keeps getting worse

  Thanks for attending my TED talk

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• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  AAA gaming shows the effects of late term capitalism on gaming.

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• OrganicMustard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Indie gaming now is great for players, but for gamedevs it is a saturated market and most of them don’t make a profit

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• Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And also, the rate of good AAA games coming out is still the same, it’s just they’re drowning by the see of identical boring cashgrabs.
  It’s the same with all the other media, cool shit is still there, you just have to learn to filter the bullshit out.

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