Nope. People are pulling back their spending because green new deal policy is driving record inflation in the prices of food and other essential goods.
Every weekend now, I am taking a 30-mile bike ride on the trail that goes around my town. But I have also cut down my games list to significantly less (only about 3-5 I am super excited over).
Cope and seethe. People should be hooked on games, now more than ever if there were even an atom of good as the games were 15 years ago (Halo 3, God of War 2, The Orange Box just to name a few.) The looming deep recession makes people buckle their belts and look at games about their value more than ever. Does someone want another soulless, open world, “Diverse and Inclusive” game that costs $60 and full of microtransactions or an indie title that costs $10-$20 that that can be replayed and enjoyed after a few times?
This was bound to happen given the current state of the industry. Between forced DRM, microtransactions, lack of features from decades ago, and broken, glitchy launches for AAA games, people have grown tired of the modern gaming landscape, in my opinion.
Of course, this is without even getting into the woke agendas, pronouns, and open contempt for the audience that permeates gaming today and often gets documented here.
Outside of some Switch titles, I personally have seen very few games worth anticipating.
I blame the products of the video game giants myself. My gaming buddies range from near-30s I've played with for many years to a young teenager. We were all console-first for a long time and played new release AAA games like what's mentioned here, the Call of Dutys, Assassins Creed, etc. What is pretty much everyone playing now? PC instead of console. Indie games, smaller budget games, or old stuff we already had. Not necessarily because of money but because of the fun factor. I don't think I know a single person who has the newest Call of Duty entry and five years ago that would have been almost 100% among my gaming group.
The only thing I think I have that's new is Forza Horizon 5 that I got through Xbox Game Pass, played it a decent amount, but we got bored with it. My gaming lately has consisted of modded old racing games (bought for <$10 and make devs $0), modded GTAV (mods don't give Rockstar $ either and it's been years since originally bought), and random shit like the last couple days we've been playing a fucking hunting game.
They assumed they had everyone by the balls because of the quarantines and all that jazz. So they doubled up on the abusive practices and prices. And then got shocked when people simply didn't buy instead.
This is the reason why they are always so adamant against emulation and replayability. Because it offers you an option to escape their machinations.
What big game releases did they have? I'm sure the new god of war will sell, but I honestly do not even know what new games are people looking forward to.
I've come to the conclusion that those of us that got in to games in to late 90s and early 2000 have been lucky, we had a great decade and a half of awesome games. We got flooded with good games. Even in the same genre, games felt unique. Now is soulless open world that feel the same in various settings with stories that are meh.
Irony being one of the biggest games of the year is an asset flip called Vampire Survivors that is being sold for 3$ and has inspired dozens of clones for the last two seasons.
it's actually pretty fun. Gets a bit samey and loses its interaction in the later levels which needs fixing. But for $3 from an indy I was well impressed and got more than my money's worth.
Yeah I enjoyed it a lot when I got it. Becomes too repetitive to play in long sitdowns, but his release schedule is perfect for "play 1-2 rounds every other week" during the EA period to unlock the new shit.
The guy is showing what someone with good intentions can do by applying casino psychology to gaming. Because he is using his prior expertise well.
This actually feeds into the claim that Jack Posobiec was putting forward that Pelosi's investments in Nvidia were a driving force for her trip to Taiwan (which Nvidia's factories are contained).
Nope. People are pulling back their spending because green new deal policy is driving record inflation in the prices of food and other essential goods.
Or a rehash of the last title (CoD, Madden, NBA, etc.)
Could be both. I went for a walk in the park yesterday. Didn't cost me shit.
Every weekend now, I am taking a 30-mile bike ride on the trail that goes around my town. But I have also cut down my games list to significantly less (only about 3-5 I am super excited over).
Cope and seethe. People should be hooked on games, now more than ever if there were even an atom of good as the games were 15 years ago (Halo 3, God of War 2, The Orange Box just to name a few.) The looming deep recession makes people buckle their belts and look at games about their value more than ever. Does someone want another soulless, open world, “Diverse and Inclusive” game that costs $60 and full of microtransactions or an indie title that costs $10-$20 that that can be replayed and enjoyed after a few times?
This was bound to happen given the current state of the industry. Between forced DRM, microtransactions, lack of features from decades ago, and broken, glitchy launches for AAA games, people have grown tired of the modern gaming landscape, in my opinion.
Of course, this is without even getting into the woke agendas, pronouns, and open contempt for the audience that permeates gaming today and often gets documented here.
Outside of some Switch titles, I personally have seen very few games worth anticipating.
Good game giants should all burn and die.
I blame the products of the video game giants myself. My gaming buddies range from near-30s I've played with for many years to a young teenager. We were all console-first for a long time and played new release AAA games like what's mentioned here, the Call of Dutys, Assassins Creed, etc. What is pretty much everyone playing now? PC instead of console. Indie games, smaller budget games, or old stuff we already had. Not necessarily because of money but because of the fun factor. I don't think I know a single person who has the newest Call of Duty entry and five years ago that would have been almost 100% among my gaming group.
The only thing I think I have that's new is Forza Horizon 5 that I got through Xbox Game Pass, played it a decent amount, but we got bored with it. My gaming lately has consisted of modded old racing games (bought for <$10 and make devs $0), modded GTAV (mods don't give Rockstar $ either and it's been years since originally bought), and random shit like the last couple days we've been playing a fucking hunting game.
They assumed they had everyone by the balls because of the quarantines and all that jazz. So they doubled up on the abusive practices and prices. And then got shocked when people simply didn't buy instead.
This is the reason why they are always so adamant against emulation and replayability. Because it offers you an option to escape their machinations.
What big game releases did they have? I'm sure the new god of war will sell, but I honestly do not even know what new games are people looking forward to.
I've come to the conclusion that those of us that got in to games in to late 90s and early 2000 have been lucky, we had a great decade and a half of awesome games. We got flooded with good games. Even in the same genre, games felt unique. Now is soulless open world that feel the same in various settings with stories that are meh.
Irony being one of the biggest games of the year is an asset flip called Vampire Survivors that is being sold for 3$ and has inspired dozens of clones for the last two seasons.
it's actually pretty fun. Gets a bit samey and loses its interaction in the later levels which needs fixing. But for $3 from an indy I was well impressed and got more than my money's worth.
Yeah I enjoyed it a lot when I got it. Becomes too repetitive to play in long sitdowns, but his release schedule is perfect for "play 1-2 rounds every other week" during the EA period to unlock the new shit.
The guy is showing what someone with good intentions can do by applying casino psychology to gaming. Because he is using his prior expertise well.
I bought an AMD processor last month and it came with Forspoken and Saints Row once they get released.
Those are the only two games I even know coming out besides starfield.
Not looking forward to anything at the moment.
This actually feeds into the claim that Jack Posobiec was putting forward that Pelosi's investments in Nvidia were a driving force for her trip to Taiwan (which Nvidia's factories are contained).
I'm just not seeing any AAA games on the horizon that excite me. Still collecting steam sale bargains for legacy games.