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Massive thank you to everyone for checking out the video. I went back and forward on making it – whether it was "too negative" or not – but VERY reassuring to know it's not just me noticing these things, and wanting to talk about them. Cheers! – Scott
Being a seasoned gamer, there just isn't anything to excite me anymore. Everything is just a clone of everything else. I still remember the impact that Half Life 2 had at E3, we need another innovation like that…something to raise eyebrows. I have gotten every PS console up through PS4, but the lack of availability and now the fact that they increased the price means that I will not be buying that iteration of the system. I used to be motivated to upgrade my PC because of that "next cool game that I will need a graphics update for", but I can't name one title that would even make me care to do that. As it is, I am basically using Gamepass to play games and save a ton of money. I already have a huge backlog of steam, humble bundle, free games from the Epic gamestore, etc…to play. Not like i'm starving for games. Also, there are just so many things to choose from now, which you would think would be a good thing, but deciding what to play out of all of the things available is in of itself a huge mess that is just a natural progression. Honestly, when we started calling games by genre's (Metroidvania, Souls-like, Rogue-like, bullethell, etc) that kind of killed innovation because developers are just setting out to make games in those fashions. How can you innovate through that?
I am all about offline single player games. It's bad enough when Netflix & the like don't work due to internet issues, I can't imagine the stress of wanting to play a game but being blocked by internet issues. I'm mad about the raised price of the PS5, but considering my backlog of PS4 games & the unlikeliness I will ever get my hands on PS5 any time soon, whatever I guess I get it much later down the line but it'll suck if any game I look forward to is a PS5 exclusive.
Games that really need a reboot is
Double dragons
I'm still enjoying FO4. 😉
"Come on Man" we all know the Real Reason for all these price increases are not form Russia but that 10% to the "Big Guy"
Some developers got lazy because they make money easy even by releasing substandard ports, remakes, and remasters of old games. This is why I play on GamePass first to see which games are worth owning in the long run. A lot of games these days are bite size, play only once anyways.
If only people realised that live action service is studio code for "who cares about the customer just release the buggy unfinished mess of a €70 game and tell the suckers we'll finish the game once we get the sweet sweet pre order christmas money" .
Money and obsessive greed is ruining my love for gaming the same way its ruining my love for football with all these oil rich countries I hate the dickheads.
The spit in the face that was vangaurd destroyed the last bit of hope I had for cod I would buy a fucking ea game before Activision at this stage and I ain't ever buying there shitty games modern warfare Roman numeral 2 can sit and spin as far as I'm concerned
Gaming becoming the mainstream was always going to be creative death of it. When you're creating experiences for the lowest common denominator, bland, middle of the road content is what sells. The market wants vacuous content that bombards them with meaningless rewards like skins and cards. Have a chat with most "gamers" and they have no clue about games like MGS, FF, Dark Souls. But love them some Fortnite, COD and FIFA.
The gaming industry shot themselves in the foot:
01. Every Hard Copy of a game has some stupid Download code or voucher in the box (That Expire eventually)
02. Most games nowadays are "a work in progress", at release
03. Some Day 01 patches are 30Gigs
04. Single games release Three times (Example: MK11…then MK 11 Kollection…then MK 11 Ultimate Edition)
05. Games are unnecessarily bloated with busy-work. Not many people have 300hours to dedicate to One game
06. Why do we still have a "Region Lock" on certain console-games?
07. Inserting Woke culture into the gaming industry will only spell-out failure (ask the Film industry)
08. ReSkinning yearly releases will eventually catch up with you (tx EA Madden)
09. Single player is Not dead, but "Games As A Service" should be
10. Gamers don't have faith in Publishers anymore. Gamers will think Twice before they PreOrder something like Diablo 04, due to the MicroTransactions that Blizzard injected into Diablo Immortal
Owning an Xbox is a labor of love. You really don’t get anything for choosing Xbox over PS
The future of gaming is bright if you look maybe 100years forward. Maybe devs and execs will favor quality, gaining respect and wider audiences, and building the new disney ubisoft or even Xbox, cause all these a.holes had to start the awesome local business
I am constantly reminding myself there is no reason to get the new Xbox. Not just because it has a stupid name. How do you release a system and have zero exclusives? Admittedly a remake of demon souls was my justification for getting the ps5, but it was more then nothing.
Forced diversity, micro transactions, unwillingness to invest after seeing that they can get away with releasing f2p and selling skins and seeing how popular and low investments VS high profit battle Royales can be.
Sony might have better hardware sales if they actually had hardware on the shelves
"Play too much of a game and it loses it's allure"
looks nervously at my 600 hours on Dark Souls 3, 800 hours at Bloodborne, and 400 hours on Sekiro, and 340 hours on No Man's Sky Ummm….yeah
I can't imagine why PS game sales are down. If only they could figure out how to get their consoles out to consumers while going around bot purchasers and scalpers.
I had been out of the gaming loop for a decade until last July when a little device called the steam deck was announced. Steam is the best value for money of any gaming device. Ps5 games can be a whopping £70 each. In the steam summer sale I got about 40 games for £70, and many of those were big name games from the last decade.
I bought a PS4 on day one, at the moment, I'm wondering if I will skip this generation entirely
Hooray for INDIE GAMES