New episode of Splash Damage announced over on Reddit. From the post over there:
With so many inexcusable problems in recently released blockbuster games, has the golden age of gaming come and gone? Will major games ever redeem themselves, or are we stuck with pathetic, half-finished cash grabs? We ponder this question and also discuss the heat rising around Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, Kotaku’s sad take on the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, IGN’s blatant paid advertisement for Battlefield 2042, sexualized costumes in Arcane and Cowboy Bebop, and more.
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Yes, the best years of gaming are behind us. Not only is the industry at large more greedy, it has also been hopelessly corrupted by left wing politics. The only games you can really trust to be decent anymore are indy games.
I completely disagree with this.
You're missing how industries change. It's like saying the best day for the automotive industry passed once the 1970's came about. The industry is in a shithole due to politics, Chinese overlordship, malinvestment, and (honestly) bad developers all over Southern California.
We aren't at the good part.
The good part is when the [Perennial Gale of Creative Destruction] cleanses the industry with a purifying fire. We, those of us who have become The Pinecone, will be just fine.
To be honest, there's been a lot of good independent games that are making money on their own. One good market correction, and we're going to see corporate gaming get burned down, and something much better will rise up and replace it.
Maybe this evil nonsense that infects everything is burning itself out? Some commentators are speculating that we are on the verge of a Second Enlightenment or an American Renaissance. Maybe we can get our country back.
Appeal to Heaven
current_horror is a black-pilled alt-righter
Yes, we are actually on the verge of, not a 2nd enlightenment, but the 4th Great Awakening.
The Social Justice Racket is a socio-political-economic power-bubble. It's is exponential by necessity, like a pyramid scheme. You can only keep it going so long as you keep expanding, the moment it stops expanding, the whole thing dies.
The entire system has bloated so far out that it is now totally unsustainable. What we will witness, probably in less than 10 years, maybe even 5, is preference cascade. A total failure of the entire protection racket as the bubble bursts. There will be economic devastation at the highest levels, but the rest of us who are outside of the area of collapse will find an incredible opportunity to rebuild everything.
This is what happened to Communism. If you had asked Americans in 1985 how long the Soviet Union would have lasted, no one would have told you 4 years. Most people would have told you anywhere between 50 and 500.
Unfortunately, demographics are forever. The end of America began in 1965. We can't have a "second enlightenment" when "we" are comprised of a completely different group of people holding wildly different values.
Yeah aside from Elden Ring and Stalker 2 I can’t really think of anything that I’m looking forward to in the coming year.
The majority of games have always been shit, with a couple of diamonds in the rough every year or so, just like any other medium but it seems like the number of diamonds was particularly low the last few years. I can’t even think of any new AAA releases in 2021 that were particularly good. RE 8 and that’s about it.
Honestly they could stop making games tomorrow and I wouldn’t give a fuck, my backlog is so huge I’d still have enough to last me a lifetime, even without mods.
Yes, they are.
All that will exist in a few years is 400 Fortnite clones.
I think we're in a lull period between major tech adoption milestones.
After the coming civil war is resolved, depending on who wins you can enjoy either a Matrix-type VR dystopia or a renaissance of innovative new tech in interdimensional space flight sims.
Thanks. I started listening to this podcast
Gaming peaked with PS2
PS3 > PS2
AAA gaming is in the same place as the film industry. You can find great stuff at the AA and indie level, but blockbusters are inherently shit.