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curl-6 1 day ago
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Leynos said:
curl-6 said:

Console wars between gamers are indeed stupid. I was referring more do whether you think consoles having to compete against each other makes gaming better.

Leynos said:

I prefer when a game selling 100K off a store shelf was profitable. When development times were shorter and publishers could put up to a dozen or so games out a year. When publishers were less risk averse. I prefer when everyone was allowed to make a sports game. I prefer when we were not nickle and dime'd like crazy.

So basically every gen until the 8th?

6th is the last gen that qualifies. 7th while I do enjoy it, that is when Jeffery Eptsien started getting his hands in there and horse armor began (and other bad DLC practices from his suggestions) . Only EA and 2K could make sports games. Studios started closes left and right because of rising dev costs and now games needed to sell in the millions. Racism towards Japanese games was at an all time high. Risk aversion started rising it's ugly head. Capcom went nuts and butchered their IPs. 7th gen is when the bullshit really started but the problems we have with todays gaming wasn't full steam yet but it began there.

It's true some bad trends got their start there.

We were though still getting a ton of games per year with often relatively short 1-3 year dev cycles, and there were a bounty of bold new games that probably wouldn't get made today, at least not in the AAA space.