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Comment on Game genres where "It's just more X content" is more than enough

wccrawford@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I somewhat agree with you, but some innovation is necessary. There are very few games that are still fun after a dozen levels of the same thing, and most of those are either pure puzzle or pure mindless violence.

When people complain about “just more of the same”, they often are overlooking that there was some innovation in the new levels. If it’s really the same thing over and over, it’d pale pretty quickly for most people. New levels need to do something differently than the past to keep people really engaged.

There’s a middle ground between massive innovation and stagnancy, and all games that get huge sales numbers are hitting that sweet spot, regardless of what people are screaming about.

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Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Not necessarily even innovation, but perfection. There’s always something to improve about any specific game.

Examples:

Elden Ring’s dog shit PC port and the lack of so many basic technical stuff like fine-tuning graphics settings, functional key rebinding or so. A successor could easily be strictly superior just by improving the technical aspects here.

Persona 5 getting so sloggy near the end due to the large areas plus constant backtracking. It’s not a problem until the end, so having some quick travel system you only unlock when the game wants to swap to the final areas would be an easy upgrade for a successor.

Against The Storm (a game where inherently “just more” would be the point) could easily become strictly better if a successor had full modding support.

Guardians of the Galaxy is surprisingly fun but there’s no reason it should be so glitchy or stuttery. Just code cleanup and optimization would greatly elevate a GotG 2.
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jedibob5@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Unless it’s Madden, in which case the exclusive license to use the NFL’s trademarks means that they can just release a $60 roster update every year and still make bank from the people with gambling addictions to Ultimate Team.

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