At this point they almost all look the same and are now progressing into more woke nonsense. Before the woke shit was a bit a subtle.
Feel like they all have the same generic gameplay and ideas
Just tried Sable demo, cool soundtrack and artwork but it's basically a walking simulator where you play a fat muslim
And don't get me started on pixel art games. They were a fun throwback at first but not anymore
Anyways maybe I just think this way because of all the trash indie games getting released that I find it hard to find a good one
Enjoyed Katana Zero, River City girls and some others lately but I feel like they are few and far between
8/10 AAA games are also a disappointment lately, and the ones that look like they would be awesome end up being a live service game or co-op.
Hard to find good single player story driven games lately outside of some of the Sony exclusives like Ghost of Tsushima, God of War, Days gone etc.
Maybe i'm just getting old
Rant over
I'm tired of over-simplified streamlining of gameplay.
Yeah same here. There are so many games that don't have even one kind of new or interesting mechanic. It all turns into one big bland mush.
Hades is great if you want a good action rpg roguelike game with fun gameplay, great presentation and a good story.
I mean it depends on what you are playing, lately I've been binging rogue like games, there are quite a few good ones (like Slay the Spire, Monster Train and Tainted Grail), and they are all fairly different from each other. (Or at least the good ones are).
I guess these type of games would fall on the "really small indie" type, but still! There are decent games out there.
You can also just stick to japanese games, they do all right.
I don't think I have played an actual AAA game in years, absolutely no interest in them.
The games industry is doing this on purpose, they couldn't quite win over the public support needed for their new model to be accepted...so they are using the same excuse as everyone else right now and are starving the market, when they finally start making games again it will ALL be the new model...and people will be pathetically grateful that their hobby is back they won't notice the shambling gait or the mild necrosis nor the awful smell, they will fling their arms around this ghoul and will be ravaged.
I've been playing games since 1982, it's NEVER been this corporate...I'm ready to leave my lifelong hobby as a going concern, I'm getting less and less able to even do it anymore, so you kids...sorry about not stopping them, we did in all honestly, try.
Me and my vast library of old games will do just fine.
Plus there's other shit to do. I don't think this gambit is going to pay off in the long run, but we'll see.
I think I understand what you're getting at. I'd at least say most indies fall into either 2D throwback games or walking simulator with an extra dose of woke. I think where I'd disagree from a personal wants perspective at least is I really don't want more open world story games. At least not in the traditional Sony/Ubisoft model.
My #1 complaint though, games take a themselves way too seriously. They forgot to let me have fun. I don't want everything hyper-realistic. It's not all games by any means, but certainly a lot of the popular highly rated western games. I've been playing Man Eater and I love being a totally unrealistic electrified shark that can go around munching leftists off the beach. I love smashing enemies in the head with anything I can grab while I take on 100 of them as one person. The latter even has a serious story, but the game itself lets me have fun.