95% of everything is garbage. I don't think this is any sort of grand revelation. Game dev overall has never been more accessible or saturated, so it's only natural that cheap indie game dev is full of untalented copycats and low effort asset flips.
And yet: most of my favorite games over the last decade have been indie. Most of the copycats are chasing markets that were established by legitimately great breakthrough hits. There are still clever, creative indie games coming out every year, and they definitely outnumber quality AAA releases. I'm not lacking options, and it's only because indie gaming took off.
What does it matter to me if most of it is trash? Curation has always been necessary for enjoyment of media. The existence of a thousand generic deck builders doesn't devalue Slay the Spire. Flavor of the week friendslop doesn't diminish Deep Rock Galactic. Every other new game being a roguelite doesn't erase FTL, Dead Cells, and Darkest Dungeon.
The harshest critics of indie gaming are almost always cut from the same cloth: young console gamers who still give a shit about graphics. These are the people who mock Slay the Spire 2 while playing Marathon.
You nailed it. What's interesting is within a week, two games that I'm loving came out, one a big budget AA game (RE9) and once an indie (Slay the Spire 2). Good games are everywhere if you're not a cynical shithead
You're right that they are everywhere, but as the video points out, trying to find them is the tough part due to the slanted reviews propping up games from people who already like what the game is doing, not reviewing it objectively for people who aren't already fans.
One big problem I found is that the kind of games I love have been buried under slop. Some people here made recommendations for titles I otherwise would have missed because I don't have six hours to sift through the massive amount of shovelware out there.
One thing I also found is that you can't trust consensus because consensus has been tainted.
The one thing I mentioned time and time over again has happened: normies are completely converged.
What does this have to do with the topic at hand?
Well, I've been craving a good FPS, but a lot of them are super mediocre. Trepang2 is okay, but still feels like a floaty Unreal Engine asset flip. If I want some grounded, or detailed, or Doom-like FPS shooting, there are a ton of FPS games out there, but not many of them are good or many of them are DEI-infested.
A good example are Sulaco and Supplice. Almost every in the FPS community recommends these games, but what they fail to mention is that the devs who made Sulaco are full-blown Leftists, and it's the same for the devs who made Supplice. I actually bought Supplice BEFORE I knew about the devs' political leanings, and whilst playing the game discovered the pro-black lesbian anti-capitalist nature of the title (sure, it's my fault for even considering a game with a cover featuring a black dyke, and yes, you should judge every book by its cover with extreme prejudice, so that one is on me).
But everywhere you look, everyone will recommend Sulaco to you if you want a good 90s-inspired FPS title that feels weighty and impactful. Everyone will also suggest Signalis if you want a good isometric, horror-puzzle game, even though it's faggotry propaganda through and through.
So not only do you have an issue with having to wade through countless amounts of slop to find something "good", but what's considered "good" these days is oftentimes Left-wing agitprop.
I took a look at the comments in the pinned comment of that video, and there's a TON of recommendations of Lefty-themed indie games in majority of those users' lists. So yes, there are good games out there, but good luck finding the ones that aren't Liberal propaganda or cash-in slop.
95% of everything is garbage. I don't think this is any sort of grand revelation. Game dev overall has never been more accessible or saturated, so it's only natural that cheap indie game dev is full of untalented copycats and low effort asset flips.
And yet: most of my favorite games over the last decade have been indie. Most of the copycats are chasing markets that were established by legitimately great breakthrough hits. There are still clever, creative indie games coming out every year, and they definitely outnumber quality AAA releases. I'm not lacking options, and it's only because indie gaming took off.
What does it matter to me if most of it is trash? Curation has always been necessary for enjoyment of media. The existence of a thousand generic deck builders doesn't devalue Slay the Spire. Flavor of the week friendslop doesn't diminish Deep Rock Galactic. Every other new game being a roguelite doesn't erase FTL, Dead Cells, and Darkest Dungeon.
The harshest critics of indie gaming are almost always cut from the same cloth: young console gamers who still give a shit about graphics. These are the people who mock Slay the Spire 2 while playing Marathon.
You nailed it. What's interesting is within a week, two games that I'm loving came out, one a big budget AA game (RE9) and once an indie (Slay the Spire 2). Good games are everywhere if you're not a cynical shithead
You're right that they are everywhere, but as the video points out, trying to find them is the tough part due to the slanted reviews propping up games from people who already like what the game is doing, not reviewing it objectively for people who aren't already fans.
One big problem I found is that the kind of games I love have been buried under slop. Some people here made recommendations for titles I otherwise would have missed because I don't have six hours to sift through the massive amount of shovelware out there.
One thing I also found is that you can't trust consensus because consensus has been tainted.
The one thing I mentioned time and time over again has happened: normies are completely converged.
What does this have to do with the topic at hand?
Well, I've been craving a good FPS, but a lot of them are super mediocre. Trepang2 is okay, but still feels like a floaty Unreal Engine asset flip. If I want some grounded, or detailed, or Doom-like FPS shooting, there are a ton of FPS games out there, but not many of them are good or many of them are DEI-infested.
A good example are Sulaco and Supplice. Almost every in the FPS community recommends these games, but what they fail to mention is that the devs who made Sulaco are full-blown Leftists, and it's the same for the devs who made Supplice. I actually bought Supplice BEFORE I knew about the devs' political leanings, and whilst playing the game discovered the pro-black lesbian anti-capitalist nature of the title (sure, it's my fault for even considering a game with a cover featuring a black dyke, and yes, you should judge every book by its cover with extreme prejudice, so that one is on me).
But everywhere you look, everyone will recommend Sulaco to you if you want a good 90s-inspired FPS title that feels weighty and impactful. Everyone will also suggest Signalis if you want a good isometric, horror-puzzle game, even though it's faggotry propaganda through and through.
So not only do you have an issue with having to wade through countless amounts of slop to find something "good", but what's considered "good" these days is oftentimes Left-wing agitprop.
I took a look at the comments in the pinned comment of that video, and there's a TON of recommendations of Lefty-themed indie games in majority of those users' lists. So yes, there are good games out there, but good luck finding the ones that aren't Liberal propaganda or cash-in slop.