You are mostly right. However, to be completely fair, Twilight Princess does get immensely better after the first two or three hours.
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You are mostly right. However, to be completely fair, Twilight Princess does get immensely better after the first two or three hours.
I think some several reasons why today's video game industry is a mess:
1. Microtransactions/cosmetic DLCs that nobody asked for(Shadow of War/Deus EX: Mankind Divided)
2. Sucky "games" made by sucky "developers" for their amusement(Grass Simulator).
3. Games that only cater very few , specified audiences(Hatred, Yandere Simulator).
4. Some platforms(such as Steam) releases too many craps that virtually nobody cares for.
5. Buggy/broken/busted games at launch(Mass Effect Andromeda).
6. Forgetting its roots to cater wider audiences(Final Fantasy XV/Valkyria Revolution).
7. Big corporations eating studios/developers like breakfast cereals(EA/Activision).
I agree 100%. We used to have some awesome games when I was a kid! Trying to find something worth playing is super hard nowadays. That's exactly why I joined this forum.
Here I was this evening, giving Twilight Princess a second chance, telling myself the game might pick up and get better, but modern developers tend to forget they are making a VIDEO GAME and not an interactive movie, and I quit twilight princess for the third time.
Kojima's games started a bad trend of semi-good directors thinking they are Steven Spielberg and injecting windy dialogue and unnecessary cutscenes into their games.
You'd think the youth of today would object to this, being so ADD from the internet and such (I am too), but how are devs getting away with such boring games??? I guess the demographic purchasing the most games are males in their 30s, too tired for more frenetic, action-oriented gameplay because of responsibilities like tending to their offspring and stressful jobs, but I am not of the latter.
Long live retro gaming 43V3R!
Exactly my thoughts. I am into video games since i got my first game boy for christmas. That was back in '90 or '91, when I was about 4 or 5 years old. Then came the SNES about 2 or 3 years later, then the PC since around '97. There were so many awesome games on all three of those systems for decades to come.
But personally, I think the last halfway descent year for games was 2013 (at least on PC: we had Crysis 3, a very good Tomb Raider Reboot, Bioshock Infinite and Splinter Cell Blacklist among other things, all of which I really enjoyed). But in case of PC, from 2014 onwards the quantity of good games radically diminished. If I count my game purchases during the last 5-6 years, this shows how rapidly my interest in modern games is shrinking:
In 2013 I bought 13 pc titles.
In 2014 I bought 9 pc titles.
In 2015 I bought 6 pc titles.
In 2016 I bought 4 pc titles.
In 2017 I bought 1 pc title.
Basically today you can count the amount of only descent to good games per year on one hand. I haven't played one single game yet that came out within the past 5 years and is truly excellent.
But it's not only the decreasing overall quality of games, but also DRM that makes modern gaming kind of suck. I am a collector and for me buying games is not only to play them, but to expand my collection which is still 75% physical, DRM-free DVD-Roms and CD-Roms from back in the good ol' days. Paying just to download things, that I don't even really own afterwards and that don't even have a physical copy for my collection really goes against the purpose of "collecting" something.
The overall quality of the games decreases. I feel like there haven't been any real gameplay innovations since 10 years. It's just your yearly dose of more of the same Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed or a bunch of casual games. And the way games are distributed today is really a very mixed bag.
So yeah. Modern gaming kind of sucks more and more. At least for guys like me who bought games like System Shock 2, Half-Life, Unreal Tournament, Thief and Deus Ex back in 2000.
You kids today don't know what suck means in a video game until you spend $30 to play Riddle of the Sphinx or Fireman. Ever played Double Dragon on Atari 2600?....now what's this dumb crap about Twilight Princess sucking again?
They don't. People only say this when they've only been gaming since 2007, or because they have insane rose colored glasses.
All those awesome games from back in the day? Individual tasty grains in a sea of mediocrity. Yeah, every game on Genesis was mind blowing *eyeroll*. Look, it's easy to have a huge list of great games in hindsight, when we can cull decades of shit down to a decent collection of must-plays. Likewise, if you can't find a bunch of good games this gen then you haven't looked past the generic trash Activision shoves out every few months
But personally, I think the last halfway descent year for games was 2013 (at least on PC: we had Crysis 3, a very good Tomb Raider Reboot, Bioshock Infinite and Splinter Cell Blacklist among other things, all of which I really enjoyed). But in case of PC, from 2014 onwards the quantity of good games radically diminished. If I count my game purchases during the last 5-6 years, this shows how rapidly my interest in modern games is shrinking:
In 2013 I bought 13 pc titles.
In 2014 I bought 9 pc titles.
In 2015 I bought 6 pc titles.
In 2016 I bought 4 pc titles.
In 2017 I bought 1 pc title.
Basically today you can count the amount of only descent to good games per year on one hand. I haven't played one single game yet that came out within the past 5 years and is truly excellent.
i can categorically tell you that there have been loads of games since 2013 that are far better than at least two of those you cite as being enjoyable - crysis 3 and splinter cell blacklist are the worst entries in those series' by a country mile. it's no coincidence there's not been another in either series since.
your interest is shrinking because you don't enjoy gaming any more, or maybe more specifically you don't enjoy pc gaming. all of those games you enjoyed in 2013 are multiplats. and you're a pc gamer that doesn't like digital. that's practically an oxymoron. take a break or try another platform. either way your post says far more about you than it does the current state of gaming
It's a common trend in the entertainment industry right now. Companies are more interested in making the dollar instead of putting some thought and care into their game. It's like everything, the more time and care put into things the better the quality of the product. I think they forget that in the long run thing will pay off and in a bigger better way. This was how it was mostly with retro games, people took time to develop them, there was a lot of time and the people making them wouldn't settle for less than perfect. Not so much now a days.
We need to push back at these "corporate commandos" and show them that if they can't make good games, then we aren't going to buy them. This is why I don't buy anything by EA anymore, they are the poster boys for what i'm talking about. Lets remind these people who pays their bills, US!
For me personally it was when AAA PC exclusives disappeared and also the start of every FPS having regenerating health and shitty PC support and game sequels getting dumbed down like Crysis 2, F.E.A.R. 2, FarCry 2, Battlefield 3, Medal of Honor airborne ect..
@Enragedhydra: I didn't say every game from the past few years has been bad, I own a few of the games you mentioned. I'm mainly taking a jab at companies like EA that like to produce games just for profit because they are a "brand." There are certainly developers that do it right, but there is a trend going around and that's what i'm getting at. Look at the mess Star Wars Battlefront 2 is going through right now as a prime example.
Yes, video games blow since about 2000. Implemented online was the start.
Since about 2000s video games have went from the direction of interactive, and intellegent, to scavenger hunts for content. Zelda BOTW for example. I enjoyed how beautiful it was, I hated how mind numbing it was start to finish.
This trend is found in all new games. Trading content for scavenger hunting and calling it a day. Pure laziness..........
I highly doubt i will continue my gaming hobby if this continues. if i wanted to be treated like an idiot, I would go to the bar and get drunk....
Since suits only want profit, instead of a master peice. I will just walk my depressed butt to the bar and drink away the mistake AAA (d-) game i bought......
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