Is it just me or have vidya become sucky?

[rightsideworldwide]

Witcher is boring, Mortal Kombat X is a dispoinment, Dead by Daylight and Friday the 13th is only online. What ever happened to games like Skyrim, Donkey Kong,Mortal Kombat 9, Doom,Super Mario, Last of Us, Left 4 Dead, and Bioshock Infinite?

Phil

[AndyGreatstory]

I've been playing mario maker a couple times a week since the day it came out. Never tried any of those though

[Hussar]

I just got back into it & bought 'Cold Waters' last week.
It's a submarine simulation & a challenge.

[Eptsi]

It's not just you. I haven't found anything I enjoy lately.

[Plato_Hates_You]

It's such shit now. I have a backlog of absurd size which I am confident I will never play.

All I play now in any volume, and rarely, are Panzer Corps tournaments via PBEM+, online chat games of 'Diplomacy', and the odd hour in Crusader Kings 2 (or other wargame, but all very old-school in terms of mechanics and UI).

Witcher 3 bored me to death, gave it an honest go and it was just another timesink rpg.

Banner saga 1 and 2 are the best new games I've played lately. Kind of like Oregon Trail mixed with HoMM/FF Tactics. In a viking apocalypse.

Then again I also found Bioshock infinite boring and quit before the ending, so I may not be the best judge.

[KevinSommers]

Most games seem to just be a skin over a similar addictive loop of 'explore, kill, loot' generally with a high degree of following directions and fetching something. Most Vidya pisses me off when I play it as I just picture this Freudian Jew figure standing over the design team helping them craft their work into a Pavalonian nightmare. These games destroy the long-term planning ability of your brain by training your reward center to expect instant gratification.

I mostly just stick to simulators, driving mostly as it's relevant to real life. We have the processing power now for realistic physics. Other than that the odd story based game(walking sim) or strat game. The later are for people smarter than me

[teh_painkiller]

I agree to a point. There are new standards in games that kinda suck balls.

Tutorials, on screen directions at all times, too much dialogue, trying to hard to be movie like etc.

All this "every time you hit a button, something awesome should happen" bollocks has to go.

Back to simple game mechanics with good design.

Gta V, although degenerate as fuck, nails it with good cutscenes, workable controls and a perfectly designed sandbox.

Last of us and all these movie style games can go straight in the oven, do not pass the gas chamber and do not collect 200 shekels.

[Sable]

Honestly bro, im starting to think im just starting to get immune to the skinner box. I was always telling myself games arent made like they use to be. That these AAA titles are shells of what they could be. These devs are just either greedy or incompetant. but now im starting to wonder maybe im just building an immunity to their blue pills.

Im getting black pilled about the industry. Im certain its a combination of the two. The only game that im interested in is mount and blade bannerlord. Other then that the industry is trash.

[G-Man]

For survival/adventure I recommend Subnautica. The premise is your spaceship crash-lands on an alien planet and you have to survive, collect resources, build habitats and vehicles, and eventually escape on a rocket. Great game, I've sunk over 100 hours into it.

[Samsqwantch]

I've been enjoying crossout. Feels alot like war thunder, but I think that's to be expected.

[Mr_Bond]

I pretty much only played shooters and coming from that POV you can really count the good games on one hand after say...2005. Max Payne 3 stood out to me. And SOMA. And maybe Far Cry 3 because of those missions where you have to extinguish nigger camps.

[itsshoahtime]

I want that game. Waiting for a price drop though.

[Hillbilly]

The gaming industry is like tv and movies is just a rehash of the same shit,over and over again. Greed and decadence has strangled everything.

[KevinSommers]

I really disliked GTAV, IV is much better. Hard to nail down specifics but 5 has a certain sterility to it. Physics seem a bit neutered, cars half drive themselves, AI more psychic, overall game seems a lot less playful. Like in IV there was litter on the streets and you could pick it up and toss it around, pretty meaningless but stuff like that gives a game character.

[Goyim_Revolution]

I don't know what you're talking about. I love being a negro gentleman officer fighting the Naaaaahtzeeeeeees in WWII.

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[kolarov]

Your taste in games is garbage.

[shitlording]

There were so many good console games released. Get an emulator and find the ROMs.

[WhiteBaron]

What was wrong with Last of Us? Was it anti-white and Jewed?

[itsshoahtime]

The car handling in GTA 4 was crap IMO. I have it and yes I play it. The handling is pretty garbage tier. The only thing GTA 4 has going for it is the game is longer than GTA 5. GTA 5 was too short. The game started getting good and then it ended. I was left wanting more. Rockstar has failed to release anymore single player content for the game, no story mode DLC's. The single player story mode was just a tutorial for the online play. At least that's how I look at it and I really don't care for the online part of GTA 5.

Also GTA 4 is just ugly looking as well. It might have looked good back in 2008-2009. It has aged poorly.

[WhiteBaron]

The other thing that was seriously shit about GTA 5 was the complete lack of any decent armed-robbery missions AFTER the game was complete. The fact that there were only 4 robbery missions or so was another con. I paid good money for that game and apart from the so-so multiplayer the post-completion game was like a hollow turd.

Also you can only do the story robbery missions by playing through the shitty minor missions.

Saving grace for it is the customization for multiplayer and fashy possibilities.