Offline games are where it's at now. Hell, I spend most of my time in console emulators now.
And quality starts declining the closer you get to (present day) after 2015. There are exceptions here and there, but generally speaking I feel like AAA studios started losing a lot of quality around 2015/2016, and shortly after started injecting more pozzed garbage.
Nintendo still seems largely unaffected, but that's more of a niche section of gaming.
I've been playing wow on and off for 17 years. I've bought just about every game they've put out since they were called Silicon & Synapse.
That all ended this year. Never again will I support Blizzard, short of every last one of these anti white, anti male subversives being fired and publicly humiliated. I want to see the new leadership naming names and directly insulting them, urging the rest of the industry to treat them like they're radioactive. I want their lives ruined until they kill themselves.
Then, I will consider buying another Blizzard product ever again.
Back in the day there was a demo of Diablo (1). It was 80mb. I had dialup and the connection automatically dropped after 12 hours. I remembered sweating bullets as the clock ticked down waiting for the demo.
Playing Warcraft I at my best friend's birthday party.
Seeing the, at the time, mindblowing Warcraft 2 cinematics.
Starcraft. Just... Starcraft. enough said.
I've also played WoW on and off since close to launch.
Blizzard was a golden company. The company that knew gamers and WAS gamers. The company that would push a game release back until it was ready, and it was worth it--every time. The company that would cancel a game after years in development because it wasn't fun (Lord of the Clans, Ghost, etc).
What was the defining feature that pushed you over the edge? I gave up on WoW during BfA because the writing was beyond shit and itemisation was fucking retarded when random warforge procs on dailies could invalidate raid gear. Admittedly that last one is a problem WoW had before BfA but they seemed to dial it up somehow.
It wasn't any feature of WoW's, although I didn't buy Shadowlands because I just didn't care. I'm against Blizzard from a moral standpoint, not a gamer one. I was going to play Diablo Immortal and would've definitely bought Diablo 4 on day one, but I just can't financially support a company run by people who hate me because I was born the wrong color.
I will say the Titanforged (I think is what it's called?) shit really didn't sit well with me though. Now not only do you have to grind out gear, you have to grind out gear and hope it rolls high, or else that drop was a complete waste. It's skinner box mechanics on top of skinner box mechanics.
If you get an addiction hankering for mmo, and people here will probably hate this, but try ffxiv free trial.
There's almost no woke in the actual story and game, and it's quite wholesome and fun. It's actually very Japanese in it's focus on responsibility and duty, balance, with complex characters that grow, and an insane attention to detail.
There ARE a lot of woke SJW players. It turns out that the exact same people that publicly hate 'objectifying' people love dressing like sluts. But the game has private areas and they mostly don't turn the randomly paired things like dungeons into degeneracy. It may help to force it to use a midwest-timezone server if you live on a coast.
I actually do play FF14 now. Or I did, until unspecified recent events have made that impossible. It's probably my favorite MMO at this time. The player base is a bunch of uwu weebs who act like teenagers even though they're probably 30, but they're easy to make fun of and generally don't even realize you're doing it, so I consider that a bonus.
True. I’m being idealistic. I truly miss the days when I could trust the creators of my favorite IPs actually liked the product and didn’t have the “white people bad” hysteria
Good Lord. I would imagine white males make up a good chunk of players. Just hire people who actually like the product
Why would white males continue to support this company that hates them for immutable characteristics of how they were born?
I agree. That’s why I’ve given up on a lot of things and stick to old books and tv. This is blatantly racist.
Offline games are where it's at now. Hell, I spend most of my time in console emulators now.
And quality starts declining the closer you get to (present day) after 2015. There are exceptions here and there, but generally speaking I feel like AAA studios started losing a lot of quality around 2015/2016, and shortly after started injecting more pozzed garbage.
Nintendo still seems largely unaffected, but that's more of a niche section of gaming.
This, pretty much all modern games are garbage, embrace teh old school gaem bois.
I've been playing wow on and off for 17 years. I've bought just about every game they've put out since they were called Silicon & Synapse.
That all ended this year. Never again will I support Blizzard, short of every last one of these anti white, anti male subversives being fired and publicly humiliated. I want to see the new leadership naming names and directly insulting them, urging the rest of the industry to treat them like they're radioactive. I want their lives ruined until they kill themselves.
Then, I will consider buying another Blizzard product ever again.
Man, I feel that.
Back in the day there was a demo of Diablo (1). It was 80mb. I had dialup and the connection automatically dropped after 12 hours. I remembered sweating bullets as the clock ticked down waiting for the demo.
Playing Warcraft I at my best friend's birthday party.
Seeing the, at the time, mindblowing Warcraft 2 cinematics.
Starcraft. Just... Starcraft. enough said.
I've also played WoW on and off since close to launch.
Blizzard was a golden company. The company that knew gamers and WAS gamers. The company that would push a game release back until it was ready, and it was worth it--every time. The company that would cancel a game after years in development because it wasn't fun (Lord of the Clans, Ghost, etc).
Today?
Blizzard is pozzed and fucked, and it's so sad.
activision destroyed them.
What was the defining feature that pushed you over the edge? I gave up on WoW during BfA because the writing was beyond shit and itemisation was fucking retarded when random warforge procs on dailies could invalidate raid gear. Admittedly that last one is a problem WoW had before BfA but they seemed to dial it up somehow.
It wasn't any feature of WoW's, although I didn't buy Shadowlands because I just didn't care. I'm against Blizzard from a moral standpoint, not a gamer one. I was going to play Diablo Immortal and would've definitely bought Diablo 4 on day one, but I just can't financially support a company run by people who hate me because I was born the wrong color.
I will say the Titanforged (I think is what it's called?) shit really didn't sit well with me though. Now not only do you have to grind out gear, you have to grind out gear and hope it rolls high, or else that drop was a complete waste. It's skinner box mechanics on top of skinner box mechanics.
If you get an addiction hankering for mmo, and people here will probably hate this, but try ffxiv free trial.
There's almost no woke in the actual story and game, and it's quite wholesome and fun. It's actually very Japanese in it's focus on responsibility and duty, balance, with complex characters that grow, and an insane attention to detail.
There ARE a lot of woke SJW players. It turns out that the exact same people that publicly hate 'objectifying' people love dressing like sluts. But the game has private areas and they mostly don't turn the randomly paired things like dungeons into degeneracy. It may help to force it to use a midwest-timezone server if you live on a coast.
I actually do play FF14 now. Or I did, until unspecified recent events have made that impossible. It's probably my favorite MMO at this time. The player base is a bunch of uwu weebs who act like teenagers even though they're probably 30, but they're easy to make fun of and generally don't even realize you're doing it, so I consider that a bonus.
that should have ended after d3 tbh.
You're assuming they don't want to destroy it because said white males enjoy it.
True. I’m being idealistic. I truly miss the days when I could trust the creators of my favorite IPs actually liked the product and didn’t have the “white people bad” hysteria
the nigga writing this is white, he should quit his position, but hes too much of a intern raping faggot to do so.
Of course he won’t. Always cracks me up how they talk about the need for diversity but never step down