June overall US game sales down 5% over last year
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What games have come out in the last year that were worth purchasing?
Helldivers II, Palworld. Both came from small studios and neither were AAA.
These are also the only two games I've bought this year.
ah yes battlebit, the game i refunded with 20 seconds due to it being spyware.
Path of the Goddess came out last month and its legitimately a game out of a time lost. When rentals made you less stingy about every game needing to be 100+ hours of masterpiece to be worth it, and AAA companies releasing AA experimental games to do weird shit with. And then it still ended up being way longer than expected anyway.
Rusty's Retirement was a dumb little game that had an idea and committed to it harder than you'd ever expect. Which is being in a tiny window across the bottom of your screen to be an idle game you do between work sessions to help relax. It even adds a mode that makes things grow slower if you are playing too much.
Against the Storm came out of EA to show that every game in the roguelike genre doesn't need to be a fucking deckbuilder and can even be a wildly unexpected genre like a city builder and it work out flawlessly.
And for consoles, Unicorn Overlord was there being both maximum horny and fucking art in terms of its presentation/graphics. While still being a solid enough strategy/RTS game.
I'm replaying Bloodborne right now. Also, remakes like Super Mario RPG.
So, I guess we have remakes and Zelda.
Star Ocean: The Second Story R.
Can't sing its praises enough.
But I've tried.
Elden Ring is ahead of all new releases from this year. I wonder why?
It's actually fun and doesn't beat you over the head with leftist politics?
Just a guess.
Instead it just beats you over the head with bosses that are just disguised beyblades with how much those fuckers fly around and blender right into you.
Welcome to Fromsoft games. Aren't they great!
They used to be, went from 'how can we make this fun' to 'how can we make this harder' and that has escalated to bosses turning into literal meatgrinders or spamming big aoe's anymore.
The world design is still top notch but man do I hate seeing a boss door anymore and first thing that comes to mind is 'what bullshit will this one have'.
The bitchfit that people have thrown over a few spicy bosses, in a series renowned for spicy bosses, has revealed how many of you pussies clearly abused summons and broken builds to brute force the base game. Every streamer is summoning the mimic and spamming blasphemous blade, no wonder they struggle with the DLC - they never learned how to actually play the game. It’s embarrassing.
Rookie numbers.
AAA must die.
Nothing really worth purchasing has come out recently.
So far in 2024 I spent less than $100 on games and most of that was $40 on helldivers 2 to follow the fad before I remembered that i never liked hoard shooters
There just isn't anything.
I was curious, so I went and looked at what came out in the last 12 months that I either have bought, or have on my watch list for a sale.
Bought:
Both of these were to play with friends.
Watchlist:
So yeah, two games from a series I'm so far behind on I won't buy until 2027, and a cheap indie ZDoom game.
That's the entire list. I'm pretty loose of what I will price-watch too. I've bought some older stuff mainly associated with my dropping of Game Pass a few months ago, but not much else.
Even though I'm always behind, in years past I'd have at least bought a small handful of AAAs mixed in with a few other releases. At the moment I don't forsee buying a single such new release game at all in the future.