Making this mostly because I saw this trailer which is the third game this year I'd actually WANT to play and this video from Arch on how because the games being made are all grey goo (sorry, 'quadruple A') they are losing not just to indies but DECADE old evergreen games like GTA V.
Between the constant woke stories and characters, the piss poor game mechanics and the insistence to be 'live service games' I can't tell if it's deliberate sabotage or they were so reliant on ESG that they forgot how to make a game FOR PROFIT.
And a lot of these games COULD be fixed with mods but thanks to the war on non-narrative modders, a lot of them remain a pile of shit. It's why Fallout 4 still has an active playerbase and Starfield is largely forgotten.
I think 2024, we will see at least ONE major studio fall and a ton of cope articles saying 'gaming isn't as popular' while these guys might make the next hit allowing us to drive a Toyota into medieval knights..
I'm almost glad they're banning these mods because it not only demonstrates how political these studios and mod sites have gotten but it stops people from thinking they can buy these games and just mod stuff out. It's such a self-own to go and buy from some woke dev that hates you and then mod it, come on guys.
I think that not only are indie studios going to be on a massive rise, the big studios are doing so badly you'll be able to create shameless rip offs and no one will care which is great news. Then that way modders could potentially go for the indie titles instead and add interesting stuff in. My only real complaint is that I wish these indie studios using Unreal would learn how to make their own grass and vegetation. Maybe get staff once they make money to do some new rock textures etc.
See: Palworld
I'm about to go back to that once I finish up everything I'm doing in Granblue Relink.
Exactly, that's all the rage right now, but there's also TemTem and Cassette Beasts, I like how people have stopped caring as much about gaming brand now as long as it's good or they find it fun.
It’s also proof positive that the woke bullshit is responsible for these big games flopping. If based devs can copy 90% of the design document and grab huge sales, then the issue isn’t “video game fatigue”.
If modders more work with indies, some of them who COULD do grass and vegetation might work with them to help them.
There's way more talent in the modder scene than big studios, them using that talent for indie than propping up a franchise will only be good news.
100%. Imagine directly funding your sworn enemies because you can’t overcome your impulse to consume astroturfed mainstream garbage. There are more great games already in existence than any one man can responsibly play in his lifetime. You don’t need to give money to the worst people in the world.