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.
As a Nintendo fan who has been grimly watching the slow decline (And cheering the occasional success) I can confirm this statement is factual. It blows my mind how these people can cheer games being stripped of gameplay and content and then act like you're the bad guy for daring to want Nintendo to make a product worth paying money for.
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.
Titanforged procs were certainly one of the stupidest things they did regarding the "progression" of changes to warforged. The +3 or 5 item levels [or whatever it was] from WF was generally ok although having socket bonuses and tertiary stat procs could mean the BiS for an item sat behind 3 separate RNG rolls.
Side point but the gutting of jewelcrafting and other professions was another thing many disliked as many of them ended up useless compared to earlier incarnations because apparently the devs couldn't be bothered designing them as intricately any more. Those socket bonuses mentioned could be literally useless for some as whatever stats you have to pick from post MoP JC were all tertiary stats which were sometimes so bad it didn't matter how high you could stack them.
BfA ended up rolling TF into WF so the upgrade range was still there it was just simply under a single term. Still meant you could get procs on a daily reward that beat entire raid tiers sometimes for multiple patches if the proc was high enough, which just fed into the design of modern WoW to keep players on every day as you say about the skinner box/tesseract. More so if the daily in question was limited and so players would need to stay subbed and wait on the off chance the correct quest would spawn that day.
I did have some good times in WoW but were talking TBC mostly when there were still both challenges for characters, groups, and raids along with the actual server community that Wrath killed with LFG in the later patches. Teaming with people you may never, ever meet again just led to trolling and shit teamwork of various kinds and eventually with the addition of LFR in Cata loot hoarding and begging.
I don't miss the game anymore and all the shit going on I can read about regarding how the story writing is even worse, and the mechanics added are even more temporary [legendary cape chain only live during MoP expansion, legendary ring chain only active during WoD expansion, artifact weapons and powers only for Legion expansion, azerite necklace and powers only for an expansion, covenants and powers only for an expansion] along with removing previously added things like Frostfire Bolt from mages that was added in Wrath, just helps kill that itch to come back.
Blizzard really are doing a great job stopping me from wanting to resub and give them more money.
RIP FFB (2008-10-14) to (2016-07-19)
Also RIP better spec design. Elementalist was a lot of fun in its day. New spec trees are boring af.
they also rape their interns inta suicide. but the titanforge stuff was stolen from d3's gay itemization levels. another shit idea from the talented rapists at blizzard.
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.
I think the playerbase's proclivity to be faggots is overstated. I've said some shit doing daily 24 mans in Alliance chat that I thought for sure would get me reported.
Mostly shit like calling out the other alliances for failing mechanics in friggin Crystal Tower raids. Then responding to criticism of my criticism by saying, "yep that's right, we're Alliance A, A for Adolf"
As a SCH main I also give healers shit all the time for not using their DPS buttons, which is illegal in 2 separate ways lol. You aren't supposed to "compel playstyle" and you shouldn't even be able to know that they're doing 0 DPS because parsers are ill eagle
My search info is as much of Ted K's manifesto as I could fit and my brothers is the 14 words for Elezens
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.
As a Nintendo fan who has been grimly watching the slow decline (And cheering the occasional success) I can confirm this statement is factual. It blows my mind how these people can cheer games being stripped of gameplay and content and then act like you're the bad guy for daring to want Nintendo to make a product worth paying money for.
#Sony Fans Eternally Rekt
ur mad that vita is for faggoots after a gangbang, and switch is for chads playing animal crossing after fuckin your wife
Gimme indie suggestions plz
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.
Titanforged procs were certainly one of the stupidest things they did regarding the "progression" of changes to warforged. The +3 or 5 item levels [or whatever it was] from WF was generally ok although having socket bonuses and tertiary stat procs could mean the BiS for an item sat behind 3 separate RNG rolls.
Side point but the gutting of jewelcrafting and other professions was another thing many disliked as many of them ended up useless compared to earlier incarnations because apparently the devs couldn't be bothered designing them as intricately any more. Those socket bonuses mentioned could be literally useless for some as whatever stats you have to pick from post MoP JC were all tertiary stats which were sometimes so bad it didn't matter how high you could stack them.
BfA ended up rolling TF into WF so the upgrade range was still there it was just simply under a single term. Still meant you could get procs on a daily reward that beat entire raid tiers sometimes for multiple patches if the proc was high enough, which just fed into the design of modern WoW to keep players on every day as you say about the skinner box/tesseract. More so if the daily in question was limited and so players would need to stay subbed and wait on the off chance the correct quest would spawn that day.
I did have some good times in WoW but were talking TBC mostly when there were still both challenges for characters, groups, and raids along with the actual server community that Wrath killed with LFG in the later patches. Teaming with people you may never, ever meet again just led to trolling and shit teamwork of various kinds and eventually with the addition of LFR in Cata loot hoarding and begging.
I don't miss the game anymore and all the shit going on I can read about regarding how the story writing is even worse, and the mechanics added are even more temporary [legendary cape chain only live during MoP expansion, legendary ring chain only active during WoD expansion, artifact weapons and powers only for Legion expansion, azerite necklace and powers only for an expansion, covenants and powers only for an expansion] along with removing previously added things like Frostfire Bolt from mages that was added in Wrath, just helps kill that itch to come back.
Blizzard really are doing a great job stopping me from wanting to resub and give them more money.
RIP FFB (2008-10-14) to (2016-07-19)
Also RIP better spec design. Elementalist was a lot of fun in its day. New spec trees are boring af.
they also rape their interns inta suicide. but the titanforge stuff was stolen from d3's gay itemization levels. another shit idea from the talented rapists at blizzard.
worst xp to start, tbh. dk not bad tho, mage was boring in cata.
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.
I think the playerbase's proclivity to be faggots is overstated. I've said some shit doing daily 24 mans in Alliance chat that I thought for sure would get me reported.
Mostly shit like calling out the other alliances for failing mechanics in friggin Crystal Tower raids. Then responding to criticism of my criticism by saying, "yep that's right, we're Alliance A, A for Adolf"
As a SCH main I also give healers shit all the time for not using their DPS buttons, which is illegal in 2 separate ways lol. You aren't supposed to "compel playstyle" and you shouldn't even be able to know that they're doing 0 DPS because parsers are ill eagle
My search info is as much of Ted K's manifesto as I could fit and my brothers is the 14 words for Elezens
that should have ended after d3 tbh.