It was fun to see Diablo IV fall off completely. And although I don't hate Starfield like some people, it's fun to see it fall off too. Hopefully patches, DLC, mods, or some combination thereof help it become a better game too, at some point.
It was also nice to see Cyberpunk at least partially redeemed.
To each their own, but I find it pretty annoying that the top games, search-wise, are Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite, often. You know that's mostly kids watching clickbait videos and stuff.
Also, based on the sticking popularity of GTA5, and the insane spikes of GTA6 interest, even if the game is bad, you know it's going to crush the charts for some time on release. Whether it's got staying power, and whether it succeeds, are separate matters, but it will dominate on release, unless it's an absolutely unplayable bug-ridden mess.
I hate just how much of this is free to play and/or live service games. I'm not even sure I like Cyberpunk, but if it were consistently over all the garbage Roblox, League of Narcissistic Legends, Valorant, Fortnite, and Apex Legends I'd consider that a win.
I wonder how GTA5 rolls into 6. There's also a huge modding and private server community for GTA, as in hundreds of thousands of players. You know they will be working to stop that in GTA6.
I don't understand the popularity of GTA online. That's probably because I haven't experienced it myself, but I did watch videos and it didn't look particularly compelling.
I had a distant friend that was part of a hardcore GTA RP group.
And not hardcore in terms of overtly sexual ERP, but like all day RP with an in-game cashier job and long term relationships (that didn't go outside the RP).
They even had a big irl meetup and it was in fact half/half guys to girls and wide range of ages, instead of the actual children you'd expect.
I feel like even the people who aren't legitimately RPing are still living a bit of a vicarious life through it (which is why teenage boys love the carnage and bling of it) and that's its true key.
It was fun to see Diablo IV fall off completely. And although I don't hate Starfield like some people, it's fun to see it fall off too. Hopefully patches, DLC, mods, or some combination thereof help it become a better game too, at some point.
It was also nice to see Cyberpunk at least partially redeemed.
To each their own, but I find it pretty annoying that the top games, search-wise, are Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite, often. You know that's mostly kids watching clickbait videos and stuff.
Also, based on the sticking popularity of GTA5, and the insane spikes of GTA6 interest, even if the game is bad, you know it's going to crush the charts for some time on release. Whether it's got staying power, and whether it succeeds, are separate matters, but it will dominate on release, unless it's an absolutely unplayable bug-ridden mess.
I hate just how much of this is free to play and/or live service games. I'm not even sure I like Cyberpunk, but if it were consistently over all the garbage Roblox, League of Narcissistic Legends, Valorant, Fortnite, and Apex Legends I'd consider that a win.
I wonder how GTA5 rolls into 6. There's also a huge modding and private server community for GTA, as in hundreds of thousands of players. You know they will be working to stop that in GTA6.
I don't understand the popularity of GTA online. That's probably because I haven't experienced it myself, but I did watch videos and it didn't look particularly compelling.
I had a distant friend that was part of a hardcore GTA RP group.
And not hardcore in terms of overtly sexual ERP, but like all day RP with an in-game cashier job and long term relationships (that didn't go outside the RP).
They even had a big irl meetup and it was in fact half/half guys to girls and wide range of ages, instead of the actual children you'd expect.
I feel like even the people who aren't legitimately RPing are still living a bit of a vicarious life through it (which is why teenage boys love the carnage and bling of it) and that's its true key.
Mature themed LARP for normies with a wide variety of game modes through mods?