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"Triple-A is in crisis" and games "don't have staying power because they're bad," says ex Gears of War director and Painkiller creator (www.pcgamesn.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 55 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

Almost all AAA games are online live service games. I have absolutely no interest in those games. I have been surviving off of indy or lower budget games pretty well while the big guys are off trying to make all the money doing boring shit.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I've been on a spree of buying or buying abandoned games or old console games lately and have been really happy with not being online at all, not updating anything I don't want updated, and paying a reasonable price for the content I got. I don't care that the graphics are outdated, if the gameplay works and is fun, its fine looking like almost anything.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah. I guess I'm too old to understand the drive for better and better graphics.

    To me, you don't repaint a new version of the Mona Lisa just because we have better paints available today.

    Graphics (for me) peaked in the 360/PS3 era when games started to nail smooth "movement". After that it was just about making things more and more photorealistic, which is so completely uninteresting to me because I'm playing a game.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    That era also has good control schemes. I went to replay Perfect Dark on my analogue 3d and hoooooooo boy, those layouts are like wearing beer goggles or trying to ride a reverse handle bar bike. I'll need to try the dual controller layout but I am considering butchering a cheap controller to make something that matches modern layouts.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The only ones I play these days are Warframe and occasionally PoE2, both relatively smaller dev teams with large publisher backing but mostly left to their own devices to do whatever the fuck they want. Coming from the predatory FOMO hell that was Destiny 2, getting into similar games but ones that actually respect the players is refreshing.

    I have zero interest in throwaway AAA slop in general, let alone with all the usual live service shit tacked on.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    The only ones I play these days are Warframe and occasionally PoE2…

    I didn’t know they made Power over Ethernet into a game, let alone a sequel.

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