I never thought I'd give credit to CD Projekt Red because they're the company that finally black pilled me permanently on modern releases. They do deserve credit though because even if their launch was a total shitshow by anyone's standard they have 'technically' been fixing the crashes and FPS issues plaguing the game and they don't have any major game breaking stuff in it that prevents you from even progressing the fucking story.
It really is atrocious and I am thinking of two titles in particular Baldur's Gate 3 and Rogue Trader. It's extremely annoying because even the negative reviews don't really talk about any of this which is why letting normies into gaming was a mistake. There are some game breaking bugs in these games that are either incredibly annoying to the point it made me not want to go near it anymore or they break the game and mean you can't even progress anymore.
Instead all it is retarded meme posting and people going "lulz gay sex and waifus take my updoots" and the only mention you can find on some of these bugs that are pretty significant is some obscure thread on steam or reddit that talks about it where it quietly gets stealth patched. The fuck are the programmers thinking? The only way they could possibly have allowed something that bad to get through is if they simply didn't give a shit, wrote the code and then declared it finished until the bug was found by gamers sometimes months later in release. It of course takes people awhile to pick up on these bugs depending on the size of the game and how far into the game it happened.
Play your own fucking games devs wtf, I have no respect for this.
I don't know if I could convince a younger me back in '98 when I was playing Resident Evil 2 that gaming would be at a point now where you can have near photorealistic quality everywhere, and not have to have pre rendered characters and muddy textured human analogue looking characters in your games.
And yet, with all this supposedly helpful technology, people are mocapped and rendered horribly wrong. Game QA is non existent to the point of being laughable. Release dates are just the -3 anniverary of when you can play a game from start to finish without bugs or issues, if the devs actually get to work on it after release. You might be stuck with a horrible barely playable game.
And not just badly done mocap, but intentionally wrong, for some reason. And it's diverse for the sake of skin color check mark go brrrrr instead of fun and interesting character that also happen to be non white.
That there are more ways to spend real money in the game than there are fun ways to play through the game. The real money in game shop never seems to have bugs or glitches for some reason, but the rest of the game always does.
The most played game of all time is an old english name for two weeks, and is a GaaS style of game that looks like a cartoon, and yet has the licensed looks from so many other games and popular media that kids don't really know where the originals are from, or where the dances come from, or that the game itself was something else entirely before it shifted gears and abandoned the very thing it was supposed to be.
Not to mention the myriad of other problems with gaming like physical media is slowly becoming extinct. DRM is controlling the downloaded games you sometimes can't play well, or at all if the server your game talks to goes down for some reason, or your connection is just terrible that day.
I'd probably laugh at my future self thinking something so dumb would never happen, and would never let it get that bad, much less somehow continue to happen more and more often.
And yet here we are.
Hopefully the Games as a service style of game will come to a head and hopefully forever be destroyed the day that Fortnite goes offline when the next big thing of the next few years crushes it. And the millions and millions of people that have played and love that game will never get to play it officially anymore, as it's never something they truly actually owned.