Remember the days when gaming was gr8?

Now it's like, wtf these are the same games we've played over and over again. Remember when each gen actually felt like it was different from the last? What happened? rektmuhface remembers.

Halo, Forza, Gears will do that to you.

Greed. That's what happen.

You have an excellent memory for a six year old.

Companies listen to consumers. If people are buying and continue to buy games from a franchise/genre, publishers are going to keep creating them.

ikr m8 #lewronggeneration

Gaming standards keep raising as the budgets do, developers that can't compete but want that spot on the market end up going under. Eventually publishers, IPs, the talented studios that make those classic games wither away. I think in many ways it was awesome the amount of competition that existed last gen. However, the industry burnt itself out in many ways. Think of it like a drug high, like someone frying on ecstasy or mushrooms or LSD or whatever, great rush of endorphins, serotonin, dopamine, whatever, that good stuff, have a great short time with it, then there's a hangover due to the over-production of neurotransmitters, receptors think they want more but the body is depleted, and the body goes into a lethargy... the gaming industry is in a lull. It's got to rest up before it can feel normal again, and it could take a while.

Some people will say "indies will save us"... not that I think that, not in some pretentious sense like they remember what's important about games and such. No, they'll save us because they make budget games, there'll be tons, but hopefully the gems rise above the shit, they'll slowly gain money, prominence, they'll reach a state where people come forward to fund production and publishing, then we're back to where we started, then it's another arms race between publishers and IPs. History will repeat itself.

Yeah, we're definitely headed for a crash it feels like.

Development feels slower than ever in some ways, frequent delays and buggy as **** releases.

Nathan Drake Collection (no multiplayer or co-op)

The Last of Us Remastered

God of War Collection

God of War Origins Collection

God of War Saga

God of War III Remastered

Ratchet & Clank Collection

Ratchet: Deadlocked HD

The Sly Collection

Final Fantasy X/X-2 Remastered

Final Fantasy X/X-2 Remastered (PS4)

Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix

Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue

The ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection

Killzone HD

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky HD

Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD

Okami HD

Tekken Tag Tournament HD

Yakuza 1 & 2 HD Edition

Zone of the Enders HD Collection

Samurai Warriors 2 HD Collection

Sengoku Basara HD Collection

Prince of Persia Trilogy

Medal of Honor: Frontline HD

K-On! Houkago Live!! HD Ver.

Devil May Cry HD Collection

Dragon Ball Z Budokai HD Collection

The OP was referring to stuff like that. Nice try though.

The modern gamer defends microtransactions.

@ReadingRainbow4:

Another notch in my bedpost.

Do those count how many times your mom has walked in on you masturbating?

Gaming is great, probably too great. I rather be playing than at work right now.

I dunno, this gen has ways to seperate it from previous gens. Here are some notable trends,

• Crowdfunded games
• Open World Freeroam games (Last gen, the trending genre was the whac-a-mole style shooter)
• Console MMORPGs
• Digitalization of content
• Connecting gaming to social media

Gaming is great if you know where to look. If you are still waiting for something that is worth every penny, from big publishers (except very few of them) then you are doing it wrong. Look for mid-tier devs. "AAA" mostly is a buzz word these days.

Flashy trailers/cheap marketing tactics but nothing more, just a shallow experience (and add a lot of DLC and microtransaction whoring on top of it, in SP games). What's the point when you are getting better stuff for cheaper price and from companies that don't treat you like criminals?

The only thing that they lack is front page advertisement. If you want gaming to improve then support devs who deserve your money. I love how everyone complains about same stuff, yet COD is best selling game every year.

That isn't saying much...some days I'd rather be at the Dentist than at work...

Lol, definitely!

It counts if she walks in at his time of arrival.

Barring the nostalgia goggles, i'd say it still is.

Yearly sports rehashes and movie games will do that. Sony really has destroyed gaming.

Tired of 720p and Forza rehashes TC?

Just like how people complain that movies are CGI-fests only interested in making money, the problem lies in where you decide to look for your entertainment. There have been plenty of fine games that arrived this gen. Just because you can't see them, doesn't mean they're not there.

I'm not seeing how gaming is not great now

PS 4 is slowly destroy gaming. Can't even count all the rehashes that came out this gen instead of saints row 5 we got a port of iv and its expansion

Instead of gtavi we got a port of last gens gtav even after rockstar said it wasn't happening

Then there's other ports instead of new games in the borderlands series we got ports of its prequels and, 2 as.well as a metro port

Gaming is still great. And if you don't like the heavily advertised stuff, do any amount of research and you're sure to find something you enjoy.

@mariokart64fan: Mad because WiiU doesn't get third party games?

Gaming today is more diverse and higher quality than ever before. Our standards are much higher today as well. It takes far more to impress me than when I was 10 years old and playing on my Playstation.

If you are finding it difficult to enjoy games then you're not looking in the right places. On the PC I can find anything I want and at minimum one quality title to fit every niche. Paired with my Xbox One and PS4 there are very few high quality games I miss out on.

The big games are playing it safe because their budgets do not allow for innovation or flexbility. They have to invest into what will make them back money or risk going under if a single game underperforms. It was a lot easier for developers when their studios were less than 50 people large. A setback in sales wouldn't necessarily mean the death of a company (if the company was midly successful prior to the flop). Today a big setback in sales could mean losing 1/3rd of your staff which destroys your chances of making the deadlines.

This is why PC gaming is still the king. The small dev who can take the risks is still on the PC. The PC does get a lot of garbage, but this volume allows for more high quality titles to be made. Pure volume. Even if 90% of games are forgettable, if there are 1000 games made on the PC for every 100 console games, that would be 100 good PC games to only 10 on the console. Volume has its advantages. Fanboys only see the 900 bad games though. The numbers work both ways.

lol he replied to me with that in another thread too. Sounds like he'll have a ruined bed frame in no time.

@misterpmedia said:

@Jankarcop said:

Yearly sports rehashes and movie games will do that. Sony really has destroyed gaming.

1. Best action movie of the decade.

2. It's true what I said about Sony.

It still is great fun for me. If something isn't great to you anymore and you're unhappy about it why not become a proactive member of changing it instead of crying about it? Or just move on. Human beings do change throughout life and maybe this isn't for you anymore.

"If we continue down the same path as we have in the past, people may become tired of gaming"

-Saturo iwata

Yes, I remember it like it was yesterday......because it was.

@davillain-: Blunt, but true.

It's better than ever, people are just whiny and jaded.

*approves 4th Smash, 8th Mario Kart and 20th Mario Platformer*

Timeless classics, looking forward to playing them in new ways on the NX!

@cainetao11: But crying is proactive.

I remember when OP made a good thread......wait...

He does have a point though, AAA gaming is still stuck in 2005.

Buuuuurn

Seems the same as ever to me. I remember the old gaming days when consoles had either side-scrollers and more side-scrollers or top-down games and more top-down games. On the PC side? Flight sims and more flight sims or adventure games and more adventure games (both text-based and graphical ones). He He. I actually liked the old flight sim days though.

/thread

Still is pretty good to me. Its the gamers that suck now. If you listen to the whiny entitled gamers of this gen every game sucks and you suck for liking any game.

Gaming is great for me. Maybe you should branch out and try new genres and Indies.

If the games you play suck, then play better games.

I don't know, I'm having a blast with the video games available today. We've run into some problems in the industry, but I'm still seeing games I enjoy at a rate higher than what I can even try to keep up with.

This gen is simply starting off VERY slowly. There are a number of great titles available if you're willing to take your fanboy goggles off for a second.

+1000

Modern Gaming Culture sucks.

Hey let's bitch and whine about every thing "Wha wha wha wha wha this game stole my breakfast 0/10"