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BasilZero said:
LegitHyperbole said:

I just don't understand it. If you want creativity go Indie, that's where the creativity went. It's like people aren't diving into the indie scene. I made a thread on the best Indie games at around 5 euro that are widely reviewed above 90 and the list is growing massively. Then there's the expensive Indie that is basically AA games these days. You can spend 15 euro and have a month of access to hundreds of games on a few different services. You can so easily never be fooled about wheter a game is good or not because of the internet. You can spend all your time on one game if you choose on a MP or a GOOD GaaS game or MMO and many people do and not have to spend a dime. We have MP games that work across time and space with anyone anywhere in the world. We have dev support for games post release so if you buy a shit game (No man's sky and the like) perhaps it's best to check in later and you might regain your value for money even though you shouldn't fall for a shit game with the internet. We have sales that are absolutely insane, ones you'd never find in a brick and mortor store and to that matter we are no longer at gamestops whim for better or worse, I say better. We have VR which is some of the coolest gaming tech ever made and so many great games if you choose or can buy in.... you can spend all your time there for that matter there's so much content. We have Hanheld PC's now, which alone you can pretty much play any game from the past or buy a cheap laptop and emulate anything you want. We have more games than there ever has been in the history of gaming to choose from. I'm only taking part in a small section of this content at the moment on PS4 and sometimes Switch for the most part and sometimes VR on Quest 2 and PSVR1 and I'm so well fed I can't even see the reason for upgrading to ps5 and probably wouldn't if my pro wasn't overheating but soon, in less than a month I'll have the ps5 catalogue to browse and choose what to play on good sales as I make my way through everything that I've missed out on with the odd full release here and there like GTA6.

I can't understand why now is not the best time apart from life circumstances that only give you so much time or energy to play games and take advantage of the tech you own. Like I get working a 10 hour shift, you aren't going to want to put on the VR headset or continue a long RPG or maybe even play a mindless game like Vampire survivors and this could skew your view of gaming bit aside from that you just have to look for the games, they may be floating around in massive amounts of sewage but they are there, they do exist and that's coming from someone who really tries to stay away from steam as much as I can.

People love to live in the past and dont want to let go of their favorites. They are upset because they cant do their console warring because the lines between all platforms is thinner than it has been in the previous generations.

For years I was like that too and held the SNES and its games as the best platform - its one of the best but not the best or only best.

Its the perfect time to get into gaming as a new consumer, a person who wants to get back into gaming but left or a person who has been consuming video games for years.

There's plenty of games coming out, both new and old, and most important of all the availability on the number of platforms.

Playstation, Nintendo, Xbox, iOS, android, PC and on top of that all the extra hardware out there you can get into that fits your needs whether if you want to stream a game, play a game digitally, physically , on a portable device or play on a high premium powered device.

On top of that, yes games have been more expensive at the price of $70 but majority of games go down in price fairly quick, you just need to know where to look  and thankfully there are tools out there you can use to find great deals of which none existed in the 1990s or 2000s.


There's just so many different options out there, I wish we had these options in the 1990s and 2000s. (Kinda like how I wish I had my smartphone while growing up in the late 90s or 2000s lol).

Edit: Its also a great time to be a movie/tv show viewer and a music consumer. There's enough games, music, movies, tv shows, etc to last multiple lifetimes.

That's just stupid. For somebody gaming as long as you say you have I can't believe the problem with this industry is not glaring to you.

Example:

In the past SEGA had about 8 teams. Each of those teams had at least 4 IP's the rotated between. Between those 8 teams SEGA had a lot of games in a lot of different genres. Let looks at DreamCast era. They had:

Sonic

Phantasy Star

Jet Set Radio

Shenmue

Crazy Taxi

Space Channel 7

ChuCHu Rocket

Samba De Amigo

Now SEGA is just Sonic, Yakuza, Persona/ Shin Megami. Sonic Team used to be responsible for Sonic/Phantasy Star/ Samba de Amigo/Puyo pop. This happening across the entire industry. Big companies with treasure troves of IP's being reduced to 2 or 3 games. CAPCOM: Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Monster Hunter. BANDAI NAMCO: Souls, Tekken, anime fighters. Outside of those Remasters!!

My friend. The amount of Remasters coming out should shine a light on the problem it self!

EDIT: I don't care if its reviving old IP's or making new ones; we need more variety. I love Yakuza but who asked for Pirate Yakuza? We just had 8, Gaiden, the Samurai one, in a very short amount of time. How about throw in something new. 

Last edited by Xxain - on 18 October 2024