This Gaming Generation is Horrible, the Industry is a Mess

[Johnw1104]

When I consider inflation and how much games used to cost in gens 1-4 I feel a little better... It's rather remarkable that most games are still sitting at $60.

As for DLC, I like it more than I dont... It just depends on the game. I'm quite sick of games like battlefield asking me to basically buy the game three times over to have all the maps, especially as they're largely required for the online play in most servers. It also bugs me that there's less campaigns, though I got the impression that it was entirely a deadline issue for Battlefront as they tried to release before the movie regardless of their claims to the contrary.

DLC help keep a game fresh for years (look at CK2, constantly reinventing itself four years later) and also protect game developers from the hiring and firing cycle, giving them minor projects in between the major ones. Overall, then, I enjoy dlc, as I am (one example) currently looking forward to the new vehicles expansion for dying light that would not have happened otherwise.

The broken games, though, are quite frustrating, especially when the "fix" winds up being a ~20gb+ patch that wastes further hard drive space. Ubisoft has been the biggest offender lately and I imagine that had everything to do with their absurd deadlines (they've finally scaled back their release schedule of AC games to one every two years). Fallout 4 still has plenty of bugs that they've yet to fix, but I still love that game. I fear as games become increasingly complex we'll continue to see more buggy games as opposed to less.

The graphics came as no surprise to me as, really, these consoles are all rather weak to maintain an affordable price... Those people who were suggesting they might be comparable to a custom built gaming rig were either ignorant or lying through their teeth.

Overall, this gen is alright. It has plenty of flaws but none that didn't also exist in the last gen, and there's a good many fun games to play. If the DLC or costs seem to ridiculous, just don't get it... Sometimes people take note, such as the negative press of unity being broken and less than expected sales of syndicate prompting ubisoft to change their development schedule, or the fact that I'm now playing elder scrolls online for $30 when once you needed about $100 and a monthly subscription to get the whole experience.