A 500 billion dollar industry is about to collapse.
>studies
>>522136437The AAA end of it is collapsing cause they made everything as lame and gay as possible.
>>522136437>no good games coming out recently, it's all woke slop, unironically the flagship game of 2025 is an indie game that runs on a toaster, AAA studios btfo by silksong>huge backlog of good games spanning back decades, meaning that gamers have a lifetime supply of old content which mogs anything coming out today>no real evolution in video game technology in over a decade - no incentive to upgrade or buy new consoles>nobody has any fucking money to pay $80 per game like big studios are asking for these days
>>522136437good (riddance)
Play Look Outside!
>>522136437Millennial hereI only like games that are around 2005 and older, with some exceptionsNew games just don’t hit that hard for me like awesome graphics and sheeeit
>>522136437Got to choose betwixt tendies and games, tendies win
The private equity owned companies screw game developers by forcing more games to come out faster, and pushing loot boxes and shit to drive more revenueThere's no love anymore
>>522136437>buy my remake where the protagonist is brown now or directly insults fans of the original gameNo.
The rich have pulled up the stairs into their spaceships soon the most meager appeasement will be seen as a luxury look at Gaza as their future model for humanity
>>522136437I dunno, but for me, all my gaming needs are taken care of by this. I have thousands of good games from my past ready to play at an instant. Why would I buy modern slop?
>>522136437Good, fuck em. Indie studios are the way to go anyways. The top 10 games of this year were made by smaller studios with <50 people, some of them being solo developers.I'm a big retro game collector, everything from NES to Dreamcast/PS2 era. Anything past Xbox 360/PS3 is getting into the era of bloodsucking greedy bastards and woke faggots.The problem is that everything got too consolidated and corporate. Before you would have lots of smaller studios that worked on games, and kept their creative touch. It wasn't run by bean-counting retards that look at focus groups and DEI agendas to drive "gameplay". It was just about simple fun.I bought the new Madden game on Switch 2 because I wanted to play with my dad. We haven't played a Madden game together since the Genesis (picrel) or maybe Sega CD. What a fucking mistake it was to buy this new sports slop. I knew it was bad, but not this bad.Know what was great about the original games? After the title screen you'd just get right in, pick a couple teams, and fucking play. I didn't have to watch 15 minutes of cutscenes, tutorial bullshit, a thousand menu options, and then be pushed in front of a store showing me the additional shit I could buy after spending $70-80 on a brand new game. What in the fuck are we doing?We tried to play and couldn't even get through one fucking quarter without just giving up.
>>522136437I was thinking about playing the Fable remasters from 10 years ago, haven't played the first one since 2006.
>>522136437It's just related to physical sales dropping, correct?
>>522136437Not unsurprising, I've certainly stopped. It's not just me getting old either, shit sucks and everyone knows it.The whole industry got invaded as a new avenue to push current day politics and anyone with any skill moved out.The current major layoffs that flood my LinkedIn do seem to be largely the dyed hair new crowd, so we might be on some form of course correction, but it's probably too little too late. The industry will need to be rebuilt by the men who built it in the first place and securing funding to do that will be harder due to this burn.
>>522136437they went wokenow they go broke
>>522136437Maybe they'll finally start releasing good games againWhy pay $70+tax for a game where you lose your purchase for doing/saying anything the company doesn't like online (even outside the game)Especially when F2P games have 0 moderation and can enjoy multiplayer as it was meant to be played
>>522136437who has time for vidya now that we have unlimited porno and sex dolls?
I haven't gamed in close to 10 years. Battlefield 1 was the last game I played regularly. That game was pretty cool. Especially where you can ride horses as the ottomans and sword motherfuckers. Very majestic level design, history etc. and FUN..
AAA games are just ass. Indie vidya is where it's at. If this means an industry collapsing, its just the market fixing itself and as a lolbert, I am fine with this.
>>522136600>>huge backlog of good games spanning back decades, meaning that gamers have a lifetime supply of old content which mogs anything coming out todayyou would have to live 10,000 years to play every single vidya game. that's 100 okinawan lifetimes, or 300 african lifetimes.
>>522136437I'm playing the Witcher 3 right now. New games are shit and there's enough old games to play that there's no need to buy their overpriced slop.
>>522136437video games have sucked for at least 10 years. why should i spend my neetbux on new "games" (propaganda) filled with endless retardation that require the latest $5,000 Jew Processing Unit? im playing titanfall on thinkpad right now and im having a great time
Battlefield 6 and ARC Raiders is selling fine, it's female and black samurai games failing a small number of studios making very bad decisions is not a "video game collapse"
video game industry peaked at the end of the PS2 and into the early PS3 eraby the time PS4 came out it was just endless remakes re-imaginings re-hash re-tardedany new game that seems mildly interesting is going to eventually show up for free on epic store anyways
>>522136905i like building shit. if i want anything with vidya, i'll build it myself.
I don't care about videogames anymore. I'm into other things now.
>>522136437They aren't buying games because most games are free to play now and 90% of sales are in microtransactions.
>>522136437Good, there's no saving it when it's full of niggers, women, troons and jeets pushing corporate woke ZOG slop.
>>522136905Play look outside. It has tons of hot women
>>522136889I thought it may have been just with age, but it's not that. It's something else, something real but you can't quite put it into words.I picked up the Analogue 3D (I have most of their stuff) and put it through the paces. Got a few friends, played the Mario Party series, Golden Eye, etc. Was a fucking blast. Yeah, there are some rough edges here and there but you can look past it once you warm up. Either way, it's fun.The graphics don't always hold up, but the gameplay usually does. And that's the thing, these companies are SITTING on fucking gold mines but refuse to print it because "reasons". Any time they say "there just isn't demand" they are full of shit.Great recent example are the Oblivion Remaster and Final Fantasy Tactics Remaster. If there was no demand, then why are these games selling like hotcakes to both old fans and newcomers? Oh, because they are legit good games.The problem is these companies are corpo retards and employe woke cringe theatre kids that need to insert their political messaging and microaggressions into each game instead of making an engaging story.The Halo remaster will be the same story, it will be good because it's fucking Halo unadulterated.
>>522136437Microsoft doubled the price of their subscription service and tried to use garbage like BO7 to justify it lol. I'm not spending $100 for a new game. I'm not spending $30 a month to play something designed by tumblr/reddit. I'll pay like $50 at most for something made by some dudebros or geeks.
>>522136437new AAA games cost like 70-80€there is so much better stuff i can do and buy with that amount of moneyits not that i cant afford it but i refuse to pay that much for a single videogame
>>522137044I'm living the Witcher rn. My hair is turning silver and I'm only 28. I think its lunar energy
>>522137146Such as?
>>522137241there's a smoking hot broad that runs across town every morning. i might start running with her. she's got legs and ass that won't quit.
Thank god Japanese studios are breaking away from the united states
>>522137093>Peaked at end of PS2 era>>522136847>pushed in front of a store showing me the additional shit I could buy after spending $70-80 on a brand new gameBoth correct. There is literally no reason to buy any of this shit. You grab an emulator, download some stuff, and go at it. They don't deserve any of your paycheck. They all laugh at gamers and don't give a fuck about you or their industry, it's all brainwashing.
I saw an article recently where Xbox claimed their biggest competitor is short-form content like DikDok. It brings up an interesting point that modern video games are so boring and unengaging that modern audiences would rather watch cat-videos on their phone then attempt to play.
>>522137093It was the consolidation of studios that became the problem. If you look at companies like Sierra, they were smart when they absorbed a studio they would just act as a publisher and not interfere much with the actual creative process and development. They bought the studio because they trusted them, not so they could remove competition and turn it woke and gay.>>522137091ARC Raiders is successful because they put their heart and soul into making a good game, not just a cash grab. Nexon is the parent company of Embark, and like I mentioned above... they have a hands-off approach because they aren't idiots.>>522137184And the players have no one but themselves to blame at this point. They wouldn't do that shit if it wasn't profitable. STOP BUYING THIS SHIT.
>>522136589This. Even if they were getting massive paychecks every step of the way, SURELY they realized that ruining all of their games on purpose was going to end the companies in the long term.
>>522137306Might be Leukemia.
>>522137306Did you take the vax? I'm 27 and I don't have any problems like that. I've only seen the rapid aging phenomenon among people my age on the internet and usually from the kind of people that generally go with the crowd in life.
Good. Tired of browns and fat women.
>>522136437>1pbtid>posts it 6 times this month>people respond every time
>>522136800>MelondsFucking BASED
>>522137419Microsoft has basically bowed out of the console market, strictly treating Xboxes like streaming devices for GamePass. They will move on to a more publisher role similar to Sega.You can see this with games that would historically have been Xbox-exclusives (like Halo) going to all the platforms. They want game and service sales, couldn't care less about consoles.Steam will end up replacing Xbox in terms of the "big three" players.
>>522136437I havent bought a game since tales of arise on launch, which heavily disappointed me, fuck critics who said it was is a masterpiece. Now i just pirate eveything
>>522137093this is what a holiday season release schedule looked like 20 years ago
>>522137348Good luck anon
>>522136437As it should. All these companies stopped making games in favor of pushing propaganda and disguising it as a game. Indie developers have picked up the slack. Games are fine. The big players in the industry deserve to fail and they will and thats a good thing.
>>522137419Masuda said something similar while doing damage control about why pokemon sucks so much these days.
>>522136437They just watching tiktok and youtube. It's over.
>>522136437I'm waiting on the GabeCube.
>>522137250I've been thinking about the analogue actually. I had a ps1 as a kid, so I missed a lot of n64 stuff, but I bet it's fun. Mario party specifically. Thanks for the mention.Games is a tough job, it's almost impossible to plan development and you have to be ready to pivot and lean into unexpected fun mechanics as they develop. This means you need the sort of developers who will stay up late crunching in order to bring their vision to life. You need passion for games themselves, and not just them as a vehicle for your shit politics.It's an industry the very specifically does not lend itself well to outsiders, which all these big investors are learning right now.Message to anons: support financially the games you like, buy their tshirts and turn up at their events.
>>522137677Yup, I remember circulars like this.
>>522137656I quit about halfway through. Story is usually shit in Tales but I get them for the combat. Arise was nothing more than an anime with QTEs. The combat was so spastic and full of "cinematic" garbage that I couldn't stand it.
>>522136437We're overdue for a 1980's crash with how bad the quality of games has been.
>>522136509This. You can slap "study" on any headline to bait people into thinking it's real.
>>522136437Time to spend money on something more productive in the dopamine rush game.
>>522136437Buy our generic 80$ woke slop, chuds!
>>522136437That's because 4% are the actual gamers while the 96% are kids playing f2p trash and boomers/women playing shitty mobile games
>>522137959>if you don't buy our soulless cashgrab remakes and and safe investor approved sequels you aren't a real gamer
>>522137782I fucking hate masuda so much it is actually fucking UNREAL
>>522136437>US Gamers aren't buying video games i am not, ps4 for me.. offline solo play only.any game requiring an internet connection to play like BO6 or BO7 can suck a dick. call of duty BO7 can blow me, ps5 can blow me, and PlayStation Network can blow me.modern gaming sucks, it is nothing but the same old corporate money grab shit.>>522137419>I saw an article recently where Xbox claimed their biggest competitor is short-form content like DikDok.i saw that too.call of duty 7 is another call of duty 6, same old shit, i like this guy's channel because all he does is bitch about modern zombies.. i can relate because that is all i ever play in my free time..solo, and offline. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUvjGixybGI
>>522138063There are plenty of games you can buy that are not AAA trash made for trannies
>>522137817I had a similar childhood, started out in the Sega Genesis (MegaDrive) + CD attachment. My cousin had the SNES so we got to play the best of each when we'd visit each other. I also had Sega Channel which was fucking awesome and ahead of its time, 50+ games streamed to your console via coax cable in 1993, absolutely wild.You'd have thought I would have asked for the Saturn but it was more expensive and after my cousin got the PS1 and rented Resident Evil 1 and Twisted Metal.. I was sold. I didn't get a N64 until much later, but I did play it a lot at friends' houses.I think PS1 had the better all-around catalog of games, especially for singleplayer. But when it came to multi-player games, N64 was king. Having four controller ports out of the box and tons of games with couch co-op (or versus) was definitely better for groups of people. If I think about memories with people, N64. If I think about late nights playing by myself, PS1. Both are legendary in their own right.The Analogue 3D is great, and they should have a new batch for order today, so snatch one up. The problem with Analogue is they are absolutely awful about re-stocking and people love to scalp their shit online. Get it while you can.The killer feature of the 3D is you get FPGA emulation AND the option for overclocking. This lets a lot of games with performance issues on native hardware run muchhh more stable and smooth (some were almost unplayable even back in the day).If you want a good PS1, look at the Super Station coming out soon (there is pre-order). And you can also get an optional matching disc-drive to play CD games if you want. It's essentially a MiSTeR FPGA in a PS1 form factor with built-in memory card/controller ports.
>>522138203And this is why gaming IS political. What used to be an entertainment is now used as a vehicle for political messaging instead.
>>522136437If anyone here did emulation 20 years ago when it sucked and haven't rediscovered it. Do it now, it's as good as playing on console. Just download Retroarch and start making a curated list, mine is around 1000 games so it will last for decades. It also runs on toasters so no need it giving nvidia any money.
>>522137241turns out all you really need to do is make a fun game people enjoy playingbut the woke literally can't do that, they hate gamers and need to prove it by making all their games as intentionally shitty as possible
>>522136437There's only a handful of games ever made which have deserved their price tag
>>522137307Chasing women at night mostly
I'll tell you a secret... everything is about to collapse.
>>522138317ngl, former pick up artist here. for me, the dog was a game changer. women love dogs, until you train it to help you chase them.
>>522136437I seriously think these industries just hire their loser friends to work on story and shit... Same thing happened in Hollywood. It's just a close knit group of weirdo faggot creeps who get these jobs.
>>522137250HALO WILL FLOP B/C INDIA.
>>522136589>be me>spend $75 for new battlefield game kid is asking for>less than 5 hours played >kid gets megabonk gifted same day>300+ hours playedThey fucked up games and pricing. NOBODY wants to pay $100 for a fucking fighting game where they release it at $60, then 2 weeks later there's DLC characters... just put the fucking entire game for sale and stop penny pinching.
>THE YOUTH AREN'T BUYING HOUSES ANYMORE>THE YOUTH AREN'T BUYING DIAMOND RINGS ANYMORE>THE YOUTH AREN'T BUYING RVS ANYMORE>THE YOUTH AREN'T BUYING TRUCKS ANYMORE>THE YOUTH AREN'T BUYING CARS ANYMORE>THE YOUTH AREN'T BUYING BOATS ANYMORE>THE YOUTH AREN'T EATING AT RESTAURANTS ANYMORE>THE YOUTH AREN'T GETTING MARRIED ANYMORE>THE YOUTH AREN'T TRAVELING ANYMORE>THE YOUTH AREN'T BUYING VIDEO GAMES ANYMORE>WHAT'S THE COMMON CAUSE?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Have you checked their wages?
>>5221383762 more weeks
>>522138538why would I give a shit what India thinks? are they making the game or something?
>>522138284No games worth emulating except Bloodborne and that still looks and runs too shit for my taste sorry. Emulators are good for Pokemon games max, other than that it's still dogshit. Some time ago (before the PC port released) I tried to play emulated RDR1 and it was so dogshit I quit after an hour. The whole concept of using your spiffy powerful hardware to emulate some 60fps unstable mess which looks even shittier than playing it on console is just ridiculous. Fuck consoles and fuck console users
>>522138559GTA VI will be $99 game, base price. And people will buy it because GTA. I'm not suggesting it won't be a good game, and maybe it is worth the price tag... but the industry will use that to justify their own price increases despite releasing slop.You are right though, people should vote with their wallet and just not buy that shit.
>>522138210I remember I asked for an N64, but my parents got the PS1 instead. In hindsight they were correct but I did love playing the N64 round friends houses. Super station looks great, just subscribed and I'll purchase, if only to play through ff8 for the hundredth time.
>>522136589Between that and the target audience in the "developed world" being broke and unable to afford $90 AAA slop, we will likely join the rest of the world in playing old games, Sega Genesis romhacks, PS2 and PC games that run on toasters.
>>522137348I hope she carries mace
>>522138768There hasn't been a good game released after 2015 so that's the way to go, and you won't be a rube buying these overpriced consoles and gpus.
>>522136589like america in afgahnistan >only want to do it, if it came be beyond as queer as humanly possible
>>522138817Yeah she and anon are gonna need to keep the weirdos awayHe could probably just bring his own, though.
>>522136437Good. Jungle Strike chads can't stop winnht24aing.
Megabonk only cost 10 dollars and is infinitely more fun than any game made by Ubisoft in recent memory. Schedule 1 was produced amd published by one guy who had a fun idea and an idea about how to actually implement it well with actual fun gameplay features and right now hundreds of thousands of people are playing it because its actually a fun game. No microtransactions. No propaganda. Just a fun game. That's all it takes and people will buy and play. Look at something like BallPit, another super cheap title that offers almost endless replay ability and compare it to Dragons Age: Pronouns. Big developers sold out. They stopped trying to make fun games and agreed to take globalist dosh in exchange for putting out propaganda and calling it a game. Companies like Ubisoft stopped trying to design games that are fun and put all their effort into designing games that are annoying with purchases available to skip the annoying stuff. Actual good games still exist and people are buying them and playing them. Shit microtransactiom farms amd propaganda pieces thinly disguised as games are failing and that's good for games and gamers. The sooner Ubisoft goes under, the better. That'll be the big wake up call to all the rest of them.
>>522138724>if only to play through ff8 for the hundredth time.Based. I like playing through FF8 on a small CRT in winter when it's frigid out and everything is capped with snow.I've come fairly close to 100% completing it but it's impossible without a PocketStation.
>>522136437Imagine paying for your own brainwashing.I mean, it does happen everyday but there are limits to this. People don't _voluntarily_ pay to get turned into cattle.
I thought i was feeling indiferent towards new games because I was getting old and had rose-tinted glasses for the good ol' day. Turns out the market also thinks they're shit.Or perhaps it's videogame streamers? If I'm curious about a game I just look up some streamer, and I end up not buying most of the time.
>>522136437If you count as a gamer someone who play only fortnite then yes, but those people never been count for potential consumer
The industry isn't all bad but many things don't sit right with me about it:>left-wing propaganda being forced into games>insane prices for one game (this applies to thousands of different titles)>games can't find a proper middle ground between stopping abusive spergs in voice/chat and censoring everybody>games try to stuff so much content into a game that you will have things like long unskippable cutscenes>many games now require you to be connected to the internet either a) to play multiplayer, as the game is multiplayer-only with a campaign or b) it's singleplayer but for some unknown reason they still want you connected to the internet>battlepasses prove that the 'pay to win' factor in games never went away and amplified>things like sliding, power jumping, wall jumping etc are a feature in many games by default>>522138376This image really irritates me, can you not post it again? Thanks.
>>522138867There's been some great indie games that are affordable and well-optimized but outside of that, it's definitely slim pickings
>>522138075The truth that most of the industry doesn't want to admit is that large companies have become beholden to hr departments and woke garbage employees.This they will admit, but they aren't telling people why. The mechanisms for hiring workers and the rights of workers mixed with the massive collegiate pyramid schemes. When a company grows and becomes bith publicly traded and in danger of lawsuits from its own workforce basically the social/collegiate field takes complete control. Because of this and the AAA game studios are not legally responsible for creating games for an actual audience of video game customers but the select few individual employees that (though not part of the video game consumer market) are representative of bith the entire population as a whole and members of a select group of "protected persons".What this means is that AAA video game publishers and developers are legally obligated to create video games that serve the "interests" of the public at large and not the actual (relatively small) demographic of video game consumers. In the end what this ends up boiling down to is a bunch of bpd colour's hair hr roasties and art majors having complete control over multimillion dollar game studios and the entire pyramid is supported by legal authority, trillion dollar colleges, and insurance companies. Completely in control and shaking eachothers hands the entire time every step of the way.
>>522138724Awesome. The Super Station is an easy purchase for any PS1 fan, the UI looks nice and minimal and supports backgrounds and box art views. It is also not STRICTLY a PS1 hardware emulation device, it can also run others since it's FPGA with multiple cores (essentially a MiSTeR with a more friendly UI).There's also the M64 coming out by Palmer Lucky, the same guy who came up with the Chromatic GBC (which is also very good). Some people get in a tiff about his military industrial/drone ties but I don't give a fuck if Hitler himself developed a good console. If it's good, it's good, simple as.There's so many undiscovered gems from the 90s and early 2000s too.
>>522138693Nice psyop, you're probably at the kingdom come studio right now seething
good. Fuck both the graphics designers and the "game developers". I live in a college town and they are the biggest bunch of faggots there is. I want them to starve. I want gaming to be back to how it was i.e. something you hire actual software developers for. Games are getting so shit because the current crop of devs can't program for shit and only understand how to use the shitty Unreal Engine.
gamers have a very long list of demands before they'll even think of purchasing another overbloated slop shooter, or dark souls clone.greed will collapse the industry, not gamers
>>522138288At least we still have indie stuff
devs of old could write a whole game engine from scratch. Devs of now can't even tard wrangle an engine already written for them.
>>522138967I see you are a man of taste, much like myself.It's usually over Christmas that I break it out, and this year will probably be the same.I haven't done it on a CRT since originally I don't know if I'd go that far to recreate it, but I imagine the graphics would lend themselves more to my imagination that way.
Play Symphony of the Night.Use an emulator, like Duckstation.
>>522136437No people aren't buying shit AAA games. Indie devs and small companies are going to boom.
>>522137817stfu you bog nigger you're making excuses and you're the problem.you deviated from teh ps2 limitations formula and now you've fucked it for everyone not onely yourself
>>522137091It's a restructuring of the industry. The headline is clickbait but the implied topic is that disseminating propaganda to braindead consumer gamers will be more difficult in the future.
he spoke absolute truth and they hated him for it. Notch will remain and he will restart the entire swedish gaming industry singlehandedly after the rest of them faggots die out.
>>522139287meanwhile...
>>522138693emulators are great for retro games (PS2 and below)the moment you move to PS3 it's a mess
>>522139141Kek are you mentally retarded? Are you one of those 40 year old incels playing mario and zelda? Or are you brown? Looking at your flag probably both
>>522139287Those devs got scouted by mega-corps like Google, Amazon, SpaceX, and military companies like Raytheon, Lockheed-Martin, and General dynamics.
>>522136437Pay to win, subscriptions, purchasable ingame currencies, all sorts of shit that have destroyed video games. A lot of mmo games still let you play their game but it's completely dogshit if you don't pay for their subscriptions or some sort of pass. Video games suck ass nowadays. Incredibly high prices if you want to buy anything ingame and the developers are all retarded trannies, foids or brown/black people.
>>522137677>what happens when you don't let business people make all the decisions
>>522136437correction, gamers won't buy jew slops anymoreI just gave genshin $30
>>522139454RPCS3 is making progress.I've beaten multiple games on it, but others can't get past the title screen.Switch emulation is significantly better, with Torzu.
GOOD.
>>522136437i unironically played sid meiers civilization 5 times or so lately. still a good game. i play spain and totally annihilate the inka and maya population.
>>522139480the problem is their "production" costs include a bunch of useless karens and purple haired freaks who are only given jobs because they are otherwise unemployable. it's an adult day care while most of the actual work is done by 30% of the people there.look at Ubisoft, 17k employees. what the fuck are they doing with that many people?
>>522138559The worst is when the DLC is already made but they're basically just putting it behind a paywall. What was that game where the DLC was found to already on the disc?
>>522139609its colonization my badhere i play it on this link https://freebie.games/games/sid-meiers-colonization/play/
>>522136437The average AAA-title today is UE slop coded & animated by Indians and written by woke millennials and gen-X'ers. Surprised the trend lasted as long as it did, the AAA industry has been shit for at least the past decade
>>522139454The ps3/xbx360 generations had really irregular hardware. Its why even on newer box consoles when you try to play a 360 game it restarts the console and boots into an emulator itself.
>>522136437jews destroyed games because jews are evil and can only destroy
>>522139674mass effect 3 from dust dlc
>>522136589This, who wants to blow nearly $100 on absolute trash like black ops 7? Modern assassin's creed? It's all fucking lame and fucking gay. The ones that might not have been lame and gay by default end up being released unfinished and technically fucked, STALKER 2 for instance. It's all fucked and I'm just not buying it.
>>522136437Call of Duty isn't the only video game
>>522136437Shouldn't have fucked with vidya!
>>522139609Civ VI sucked. Civ IV may be better than Civ V
>>522139454This. PS2 and below emulated wonderfully. Plus as with, say, GTA, you can get hacks with better textures, widescreen, and better framerates. The funny thing is you can play GTA:SA on the PS2 emulator and it looks, runs, and plays better than the recent Remaster they put out on PS5/PC.
>>522136437AAA games are propped up by Blackrock. They've been churning out 500 million dollar flops for years now.
>>522139627Exactly, see my post Here>>522139134I tried explaining exactly why this is happening.
>>522139627>the problem is their "production" costs include a bunch of useless karens and purple haired freaks who are only given jobs because they are otherwise unemployable. it's an adult day care while most of the actual work is done by 30% of the people there.And worst of all they apparently make these people do the writing. Probably because it's all they can do.
Name 1 good game coming out next year. You literally cant.
>>522139896the inevitable next rimworld DLC. Tynan Sylvester is the rare based man in a sea of fags
>>522139896Metroid 4.
>>522139896Squadron 42.
>>522139896Super Mario Brothers 2
>>522139728It was just non-PC (x86) hardware, which is not necessarily a bad thing. IBM's PowerPC was pretty popular for a bit. Xbox360, GameCube and Wii/WiiU used it, as did the PS3 in some parts.If anything, I'd say the generations prior had more eccentric hardware. It's why N64 and Dreamcast emulation is a lot harder than other consoles despite us having pretty fast hardware today. They use different buses and architecture pipelines.Whereas with x86, it's basically all homogenized now with PC development.
>>522139480They must have retired and America can'tcreate more like them. Else those corporations wouldn't have lost to China, Russia, Yemen, etc.
Every male industry that has been infected with women has declined. Maybe there's a lesson in there somewhere?
>>522139896There are several, but most aren't going to be made by mainstream AAA studios. Nintendo and their studios are one of the few you can count on though because they don't go woke/gay or super microtransactions in their games.
>>522137146Based>>522137307Shit that matters in the real world not toys for children
>>522140172you named none
>>522139896I think the fallout 3 remaster is next year
>>522139464Using womanly insults doesn't work retard, they're indian level. Go back and implement some more gay romances in kingdom cum.
>>522138922i carry a gun. i'm a former MP, so i don't even need a loicence.
>>522140317We had mods for this 10 years ago.
>>522136589yes thisyou can thank1 niggers2 trannies3 kikes
>>522136437All that money is flowing into McDonalds?
>>522136437Not. My. Problem.
>>522136437What did OP mean by this?
>>522139287todays devs don't even know simple matrix math. it's the enshittification by negrification.
>>522139136Why would you buy something to run emulators when you could just run emulators on your PC?
>>522139896It's roblox, minecraft and free to play games now. Barely anyone is 'buying' new games. You download something and then pay for shit if you are retarded.
>>522139896>the eternal chud has challenged me
>>522138288RtCW is one of the greatest titles in the 2000s and there was nothing problematic about "shooting nazis". The problems began when they start injecting commie feminazi stuff into the reboots, you could still release a WW2 game or a nazi shooter with no problems.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEPNzRbXW2ohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IdF2PVde8Ahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dgUy9TNCeAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eoo8EyNH3GM
>>522136437All game studios are filled with street shitters who know nothing about games, women and niggers who grew up hating gaming.
>>522136589yup, are we supposed to forget that entire faggy era the last 10-15 years? I bet the gta 6 was pushed back because it was made during that time and was loaded with lefty progressive bullshit, not to mention the fact that dan houser wasn't involved in the development
>>522136437Who's buying woke slop? Black Ops 7 has a fat black bitch on your squad.
>>522139896Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival
>>522137241You faggots and your dogma for this visual novel trash have solidified my decision to never play it.
>>522140443Fuck this must be a figment of my imagination
>>522136437>stop playing vidya goy>time to check in irl >globohomo needs a draftworthy population of young men No. Play the vidya. Tap tap tap
>>522136589Will they ever learn they're lame and gay?
>>522136437Link?Video games and streaming service I think will be the canary in the coal mine for severe economic downturn. They are extremely expendable discretionaries, after all.I would be kind of glad that such a pozzed industry is getting what it is due. Unfortunate what it might mean for the rest of the economy.
>>522136437>be me>system installed 2 years ago>still haven't installed steam or any other launcher bs>not even interested in modern games anymore>bought a modern gpu, maybe that will reinvigorate the interest>nope, games still look like crap>download wan 2.2>use the gpu to keep rolling the dice attempting to generate a 6 second video of Loona from Helluvaboss stepping on meSomehow, this is better than modern videogames
pirated versions of games are generally betterI own copies of GTA IV, V, and multiple Far crys and the amount of slop launchers needed to access these games is absurd. plus the games run better on pirated copies, use less resources as DRM is removed. plus games shouldn't cost more then $5, they're digital toys.
>>522140581It's worse than that. Noone is buying games at all now except nieche studios and pay to win extras. There is an aversion to the very concept of a pay to play game.
>>522140666This is basically an article to manufacture consent against gaming as a hobby. The idea is that fellow goy, nobody is buying video games so why should you. Is very transparent but it's there.
>>522140682They’re gearing up to see young men off to die. Getting a “video games are over they aren’t cool!” meme movement going is a part of the psychological strategy for prepping the population
>>522136437Videogames arent fun anymore, people keep playing things from 10 years ago.These retards get what they deserve.
>>522140663lmao circumcised nintoddler
>>522139321Record of lodoss and bloodstained(fantastic music) are excellent sotn clones.
>>522136437Westoids have that weird social credit score system where you only get corporate funding when you make your content as repulsive as humanly possible. They have to put literal homosexuals in their games. As main characters. I mean, there's nothing wrong with a tranny sidekick as comic relief, but they should tastefully stick to their proper roles instead of grossing out everyone.
>>522138768Also there's an endless supply of really good old titles where graphics or computational complexity isn't a limitation. Anybody alive can pickup Mario and play for hours, San Andreas is still listed on charts. it turns out most people don't give a flying fuck about your anime hair physics, trillion polygon femboy titty flaps or procedurally generated grass dew splashes when your blasian talking gay dogkin companion rolls in it. Oh yeah economy? pension plan? no you need a new console, only 700$ 100$ per game with no substance just south park Michael Bay shit that will never climb out of the uncanny valley.>>522139454yeah ps3 was and is a bitch to port, the stuttery mess is because you're dealing with alien ISA. like trying to get a record player to play CDs just because you added a laser to it. >>522139751Fantasy. rather than something to kill time it becomes an escape not from this reality but into another reality like some demonic reading rainbow type shit with demon tits and murda murda yo life is on the line or some sweet hooker subversion games where the blumpkin folk of tinytopia are all homosexers of some kind and talk like squeaky mice because it gets fat aspies off, and whoever pays the piper picks the tune.
>>522140296Are all poles as dumb as you? If you knew anything about games, you'd already be following the release calendar."Just name one", so you're telling me out of all the already announced releases for 2026 there's not a single "must play" game? You think it would be impossible to name one?What's the point, just so you can tell me "nah not that one" no matter what I list? It also depends on what kind of games you like, you may love strategy but hate open world, or vice versa. So what the fucking kind of retarded "I will be the arbiter" is this?Metroid Prime 4 is one that will be good for those fans. Pikmin 4 will also be good if you're a fan of the franchise. DK Bananza was a surprise game that really took off this year. The only franchise that's flopping is Pokemon (and it's been a downward spiral for a while now).Duskbloods looks good if you're into Dark Souls games. Octopath Zero looks good for the JRPG fans. There's going to be a Zelda game likely for the 40th anniversary, probably a remake of OoT or Twilight Princess (both are great classics).I think the new Resident Evil will also be a good play. Then we have the Dragon Quest VII reimagined, which looks interesting. There's a few that are Dec 2025 releases so technically not 2026 but you can be sure there will be a few more announced early next year that will come out and be good games.And I'm only following the Nintendo catalog. I wouldn't be surprised if you see an Astrobot sequel (which is basically Mario Galaxy for PS5, not a bad thing). Speaking of, there's also rumors Mario Galaxy will get a remake for 2026.Either way, it would be easy to name at least 5 games from 2025 that are 9/10s. So you think somehow 2026 won't have a single one? Retarded.
>>522136798whats the deal with zoom zooms never using punctuation? I see this non stop. see how annoying this is to read with no commas or periods each sentence is just smashed together and it makes you come off as a lazy nigger that hates whoever he is sending a message to
>>522140782> Videogames arent fun anymoreExactly. Globohomo started injecting all the tranny DEI shit into games to get us to stop playing them as much. Or, at least get a cultural movement going where the “hot” guys who can get women are definitely not playing vidya and probably have signed up to be a zogbot. It’s the same white feather strategy as yesteryear, with different cultural devices employed, that’s all.
games are like movies.No one is doing anything new. They are only doing what is safe.This is why indie films and games are becoming super popular.
>>522139896slay the spire 2.
>>522140859I was on a testing board once for an eu funded game. In the game was a character who wanted to just sell you things and make you sign outrageous loans etc. I just mentioned that I found the stereotype of Jews offensive. It was the most painfullly inclusive game I've ever seen and it was hilarious to review it for no reason being inclusive enough.
>>522136437Not my problem.
>>522139747That's the one.
>>522136437- nerds make games like MOO2 and street fighter- nerds enjoy games- nobody cares except nerds- GTA 3 comes out- corporate notices there's money here- everything becomes corporate slop- wokeshit and niggers in EVERY gameYOU ARE HERE- "Why did the industry collapse (again)?"
>>522140782But there are many old games like TF2 and Minecraft that are still fun to this day.
>>522136437I sold my PS5, Gran Turismo 7 being online only for no reason was basically the last straw.
>>522141007wouldn't have been a problem if dev cost hadn't ballooned like crazy. Back when games were cheap to make, devs could experiment because one successful game could make up the cost of 10 failed ones. I blame the jewish system making up fake jobs to employ women. A team of 10 white/yellow dudes in a garage could make more than 20 ubisoft women-filled studios.
>>522136437I bought battlefield 6 after not buying a game for 10+ years and it's shit.
>>522139983Said that last decade. And a few years before that.Star citizen is a joke of a tech beta and not a real game.Hoes gunna be mad but it’s true, SC was a day late and a dollar short and now it’s fucking dead dead except for the desperate findom paypigs that circle jerkeach other off in 24/7 cope about the state of the game “being playable” therefor good somehow,It’s poorly performing pay to win shit,
>>522141168I truly miss when games were low-poly and low-res. They felt more immersive than they do now.
>>522139134that mechanism is also why then go bankrupt and i can take out about 100 million a decade.
>>522136437Race car> vidya
Meanwhile, a brand new developer forming a rag-tag group of people make their first ever game; Clair Obscur, based on old RPGs that modern devs call "not popular anymore", and it's a massive hit. It's also $50 and not $90.And the music was by some guy they found on soundcloud.
>>522141235Its more about having actual nerds make the game than low poly.DMC5 is better than DMC3. Graphics has nothing to do with it
>>522140482I'm not trying to gatekeep anyone who wants to emulate on PC or some cheap Ambernic device. If you're fine with that, then sure.But to say that software emulation is the same as hardware emulation is entirely false. There are graphic glitches, sound issues, performance, and game crashes for some emulation cores. Hardware emulation is down to the cpu cycle accurate for the original experience.N64 emulation is a good example of this. Despite it's gate, it's been difficult to accurately and performantly emulate. I will admit that the current MiSTeR core is pretty damn good as of late, but again that's FPGA hardware.The reason is that x86 hardware is still limited due to architecture. Yeah, you got more cores and more clock frequency, but you don't have the same memory bandwidth and GPU architecture so you have to emulate it in software which is tricky.The pros of software emulation is you can have additional "effects" and upscaling + texturing improvements since you're essentially rendering it in a modern engine or framework. I am more a fan of the accuracy and authentic feel. I've also noticed more input lag and other things with software emulation that makes it feel "off" to me compared to hardware.I do think there's also something special about being able to use the original controllers to play the game. I have modified my original consoles to have digital out (HDMI+Audio) and the EverDrive carts or optical disc drive emulator (ODE). Hearing that PS1 loading intro while playing on a 4K TV with zero input lag and BVM-style scanlines is peak.
>>522136437That's what happens when you give people handhelds and consoles that can't even go above 60fps or 144 at 4k. Absolutely fucking pathetic.People who play games at 30 and 60 fps these days are 100% vaccinated.The industry doesn't even matter. It's all controlled by secret societies. The only winners are people who enjoy games and are unbothered.Even the next generation consoles can't guarantee 60-144fps at 2-4k. You can literally see a decade of people being dumbed down to believe this is normal.
>>522141235They leave space to the imagination instead of filling it with shit
>>522140782Yep there's a reason that retro gaming has now become a huge industry in itself. I think all of the mandatory online shit to monitor everyone and move to digital is a large part of the reason.
>>522136437Gee, i cant believe people dont want to eat shit.
>>522141287Was it any good?
>>522140934jfk no one is going to remember any of those games 5 years from now>Either way, it would be easy to name at least 5 games from 2025 that are 9/10swhich ones?
>>522141307That is also true. Back in the day video games were made for nerds by nerds.
>>522141332All I see is a bunch of buzzwords to justify you spending way too much money on emulating games. Make sure you use some pure gold HDMI cables for the best image quality
>>522136437>>522136589same shitty stories since Nintendo Power first started circulating. Big companies are dying yeah right.All OP's pic says is that just over half of gamers aren't buying just as many games as last year.Maybe its because all the games sucked this year, eh? Nah, gotta be the industry dying.Sensationalism is cringe, bunch of children getting took by a narrative or a bunch of shills.
>>522136437This is bullshit. I just bought Rainbow Six Vegas 2 on steam
>>522138768fanfic, one hand was on his cock while he wrote that
>>522141341Who cares about fps when the games are trash? You're priorities are all fucked up.>Wow, you play tranny simulator 25 at 30 fps? What are you poor or sumptin?!
>games are derivative shit that don't even run as well as their predecessors>always some dysgenic morality play shoved in>always increasing in price>fewer and fewer sales>harsher after-sale monetizationyeah I wonder why people stopped giving their money to incompetent retards who hate them
>>522141573I beat that game co-op with my buddy only using pistols.>fun
>>522137482I saw someone play arc raiders the other day multiplayer, looked so boring… all they did was run around the map and the. A 20 second fight then running for another 15 minutes. Looked nic but imo seemed flavor of the month slop.
>>522140110>Else those corporations wouldn't have lost to China, Russia, Yemen
>>522136589It turns out when your main objective is mass appeal you must simplify everything to the point of blandness. Only indie games focus on niche markets and even then 80% of them are mediocre indie-slop and that's okay, as that 20% is gold.
I only play Kenshi, Project Zomboid, and Noita regularly. Anything else I'll pirate to try it out and end up deleting it 1-10 hours later. Just not worth paying for it anymore. Also got a 5080 that will probably never be used to its full potential, which is a shame because that was pretty expensive. Oh well
>>522141474It's great. If you want a turn based game, definitely play it.
>>522136437I haven't purchased a video game in over 15 years. All my games are either pirated or just free games.
>>522136437nigga I'm still playing OpenTTD why tf would I buy anything new when all new games are pozzed AF
>>522141710The game feels too wholesome to get the atmospheric tension of tarkov. Tarkov did it right, real atmospheric tension from extreme lethality in a unstructured combat environment. It's funny to watch the iterations of copy-cats.
>>522141341The ironic part is that consoles USED to have a more consistent experience. Games on 16-bit hardware usually played pretty smooth (as in stable frames) and would hit 30-60fps no problem. Sure, some games might have temporary slowdown if there was particle hell on the screen but it was rare.It was PC that had the more "shaky" experience because it was based on your hardware which at the time was limited. Most people weren't playing Quake at butter smooth 60fps. Whatever family PC you had was basically it, and you were lucky if you could run a game that had any form of "3D". I remember Descent, ran laggy as fuck but I still go pretty far.Even when dedicated graphics cards started becoming mainstream with the Voodoo and early GeForce series, it wasn't a walk in the park. There were issues with Glide/Direct3D or other rendering engine. OpenGL was (and still is) a mess.I would argue, for the time period, most people's PS1 games ran more smooth than any comparable 3D game on their home PC at the time. Nowadays people accept fucking garbage watered down graphics running at 30fps on a PS5 compared to PC that can run it at 120 FPS on a 3070.
>>522141548Because you're a retard that would probably tell someone Bud Light tastes the same as a properly brewed lager.
>>522136437Games are shit now.
>>522141978>try and play openttd for 20+ hours>all my businesses fail>try and begin setting up trains>need to follow a 20 hour youtube tutorial on how to do it>fail to grasp it because i'm a brainlet>uninstallevery damn time :(
>>522136437I've only bought one game this entire year and it's Rise of the Ronin because it plays a lot like the old Way of the Samurai games
>>522142033>tfw no pentuim for years, just some shit 486/66 mhrz. Now I have a real shit.
>>522136437Yes we are, we're just not being overpriced AAA globohomo AI slop. Indie games are of higher quality than most AAA games now and cost a fraction of the price. Also Xbox destroyed game sales in general with gamepass, the majority of games I've played for the past few years have been available on gamepass to me and even though I've had gamepass for years now I still have probably only actually spend the money for about 1 year's worth of game pass on it because of all the deals the put out that only stopped last year. Luckily I locked myself into a discounted 2 years of gamepass right before they cut all the deals, but yeah, gamepass has colossally fucked game sales,
>>522142156i mostly do passenger/mail cars and with some airplanes until I'm making decent profit then start my rail network. rail is so expensive to get going.
>>522141708I still remember playing this game with my friends on split screenGood times
>>522136991Horse niggers are the biggest pain the ass as a sniper on those maps.Fuck you.
>>522136437Overmonetization, streaming, and esports killed vidya. Zoomers watch millennials play games now instead of actually buying and playing the games themselves. All the compfag pay-to-win shit drives away casual players who just wanna relax after work with a beer and play some COD on the Xbox for an hour instead of buying a $3k gaming PC and an adderall prescription to win. Even kiddie games like Pokémon have been ruined with this tryhard BS that requires you to have the equivalent of a master's degree in autism to compete. Then there's the whole "battle pass" thing that requires you to basically be married to the game to feel like you're getting your money's worth out of it. Who actually wants to deal with this BS anymore? I can spend a fraction of the amount I would on gayming that will be outdated in five years and go buy a gun+ammo to shoot in real life.
>>522140324Seems like I hit the nail on the head. Sad shitskin loser
>>522142033Graphics are how people sell games, but they aren't what makes a game good. PC games are books, generally. Console games are comics. Not a hard set rule, but generally the ecosystems and consumers are different. I haven't given a shit about a console exclusive publisher for at least a decade.
>>522136437youve been threatening me with a good time for over a decade nowwhen will this happen
I've bought a few games this year, mostly indie games on Steam. I think Devil Spire Falls is great and it's only $15.
>>522141710>>522142009It's two different games for two different audiences. Tarkov is like the Eve Online of survival/extraction shooters. I don't want that level of depth, it's too much for me. Maybe some people do, I don't.There are plenty of people who want a more casual but rewarding experience. You can get the highs and the lows without spending months on end. I also think Tarkov has a big rat problem (and cheaters), which makes it really unplayable for me (and I say that as someone who really does enjoy PvP).Arc is more about the vibe and interactions. I do like the PvE aspect because it adds an element of danger and "third party" risk. It balances it out pretty well. I don't know if you ever played MMOs like Dark Age of Camelot (DAoC) but one of the cornerstones of that game was the three factions and how PvP worked. Even if you were fighting one of the other factions, there was always a chance the third would come and who knows how it would end up. The arc enemies sort of serve as this balance.Not everyone wants to be super sweaty gamers to enjoy something, it's good to have choice. The loss also doesn't feel as bad in Arc Raiders. Even if I have a few back-to-back bad rounds where I lose all my shit, I can go out with a free loadout and start to earn it back. I also think it's not too gear-dependent, I've dropped some kitted people on "grey" level gear just because I got the drop or out-played them.So the people who want to play Tarkov, will play Tarkov. And the more casual players who want to enjoy Arc, will enjoy Arc. The good part is that most of the people on Arc are less sweaty so you end up with an experience that's better because these gamers are more similar to you. I've also found disabling crossplay on PC is better, console gamers are more annoying.
>>522142381>can spend a fraction of the amount I would on gayming that will be outdated in five years and go buy a gun+ammo to shoot in real life.Seriously, a good handgun will set you back $500-$700
>>522136437And sweet baby inc will get it's bonus.
Real gamers pirate games anyway.
>>522136437Good.It's not even that the industry has become political, that's been sprinkled in here and there for decades.It's that it's done with fuck all grace and finesse and they ruin established titles to do it.If you want to add fags or whatever into the game, start your own series and make a game that's good enough to stand on it's own feet.No one was complaining that Signalis has a lesbian MC, because the story doesn't harp on about the subject constantly, it doesn't fucking ruin anything just by existing and the game and story are actually good.
>>522138943love that game (dessert strike and the city one too)peak pre-windows95 pre-9/11 entertainment
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>>522136437>fire all the libs>hire all the humans>industry instantly saved overnight
>>522136437I go home and tool around on cars or work on fences or landscaping. It's like when you turn the video game off it never existed. The truck, fences, plants etc. are real. You are actually doing something.
>>522142379Snipers are gay, the last Battlefield that had a balanced sniper class was BF3
>>522142648Urban Strike was the city one. IIRC it was the one where you could get out your chopper and run around as a little dude. I think it had some side-scrolling levels too?
Oh no who will buy the slop now
>>522136509
>>522142069Software emulation is so good that you couldn't tell the difference in a blind test
>>522142429It's also because those developers are all "gone" now. Absorbed into some large corpo company.Go boot up the classic games from the PS1/N64 era. You'll see companies like Iguana, Eidos, Traveller's Tales, Rareware, Midway, Acclaim, Interplay, etc. Where did they all go?Merged into the megaslop companies. Square Enix is one of the few that has gotten big but still can pump out some good games. Even if they miss the mark, it's usually not because of something cringe or gay like modern western studios.Rare is a good example. Microsoft could be printing money by making proper remasters of Conker's Bad Fur Day, Banjo-Kazooie, Perfect Dark (lol), Jet Force Gemini, Goldeneye 007 (maybe harder with movie licensing).But instead they rather do gay shit and celebrate international women's day while adding more needless AI shit into Windows and breaking Task Manager.
>>522142348I almost just bought it for 2.00, but then I remembered I have to focus up before my finals this term and can't launch myself fully into another autism hole. I kept trying to make Armenia work, but I don't know what the fuck I'm doing, So I gave up and played Georgia. I only have like 40 years left to break into 'Great Country', which means I have to probably double my income or territory in the last age of this game. Pretty fun. Paradox does the map simulator games pretty well. I don't think I'd ever consider buying a console again. What the fuck would I even play on them?Resident Evil 35? EA slop?
>>522142892What good games has Squeenix made in the past decade?
>>522142538>$500 handgun>$200 case of ammovs>$700 console>$70 games>subscription fees, microtransactions, etc.Ten years from now I can sell the gun for 70-80% of its MSRP if I ever want to upgrade vs the console that will be basically worthless; maybe retain 10-20% of its original value if I'm lucky.
>>522142705>tfw Jared Kishner and the Saudi's bought a chunk of EAIt's like those german poop porns, to me it looks like everyone loses.
>>522136600>huge backlog of good games spanning back decades, meaning that gamers have a lifetime supply of old content which mogs anything coming out todaythis is the current excuse hollywood is shopping too - "oh we just can't compete with the past" no the reality is that liberalism is dying as an ideology and all their content was centered on how amazing awesome liberalism oh yay whoopie!!!! but they can't reflect truth in art anymore because liberalism is dying and everyone realizes it's dying and it didn't lead us anywhere.They will use this as constant cope mode indefinitely though - the stuff from the past was just cheaper/easier/etc but none of it was, almost everything in photography and video games is easier today. Genz and Millennials just FUCKING SUCK at art and DEI made it even worse
>>522142892Squenix pumps out shit, they have been infested by the western retardation too
>>522142705>That image/Thread
>>522137483> SURELYyou're underestimating how feminine and hyper dysfunctional corporate-america-anything is
>>522137641> microsoft 5 years from now microsoft will be a business office apps company and nothing else
>>522143093bro you should see the cost of some of those 90s consoles and games. you buy last gen and hold for 20 years you may actually outperform the stock market
>>522137677grand theft auto, final fantasy, silent hill, and metal gear solid truly the peak of gaming releases.
>>522140556> gta6 with no houserDon't forget every other side quests in RDR2 was save the blacks or down with the misogyny - i don't think it will change that much
>>522138559>300 hours in a month old game Solid parenting, Jose.
>>522139136Idk about you but I would definitely buy the hitler console
>>522143128>lets remake Final Fantasy 7>Lets split it up into three games for maximum shekels!>Lets tone down Tifas boobs, they're too sexistI honestly don't know what else they've done recently.
You should play look outside. I will shill this game every time this thread is made
>>522141812>your main objective is mass appealfuck you kike - that wasn't the MO at all - fucking KIKEEEEEEEEEEEE - back to r3ddit you massive fucking faggot coping nihilistic coward fuck
>>522136437>>522137677How far we've fallen. When I play a AAA game now I play for literally 3 minutes like Assassin's Creed Odyssey and then get bored. Unfortunate because the premise for that game should be interesting.The only modern games I've played for many hours is Ghost of Tsushima, and Star Wars Jedi Order. I have Play Station Premium. Do any anons have any recommendations? This is severely depressing>>checked
>>522136437the truth is that gaming and short-form video are both competing for the free time of children and young adults, and short-form video is winning
>>522142009>Tarkov did it rightthose of you that play a game with blatant cheating in your face 24/7 either need to be getting paid for it (streamer) or you are the biggest fucking loser who has ever existed
>>522143093Also don't forget a lot of the older guys at the range are pretty chill and might have unmarried daughters. I might be speaking from experience...
>>522136589/threadgreedy corpo suits and their Karen lackeys and woke faggot simps enshittified everything.they're like locusts that swarm and devour anything good.but in time spring will return and the fields will bloom again.in the meantime get yourselves into positions of power.get on the school boards, the courts, the city counsels. Get into management and climb the ladder. get that hiring position. Get the shift supervisor role.and then fire and refuse to hire any karens or faggots.press maximum charges.deny building permits.get the right laws passed.like draining swamps wipes out mosquitos and other vile parasitesdrive the scum out of our civilization.
>>522142892>Perfect DarkI never played the og and I'm still pissed.It's weird how they buy these developers and then don't care about getting the games they make out the door. Bruh if you just want a share of the profits, publish/invest, you don't have to absorb them, knowing that you're just gonna smother them in the long-run.
>>522143299Those 90's consoles and games are only valuable because they predate stuff like Steam and all the games are locked to physical copies. Nobody is going to want some old clapped out Xbox 360 ten years from now.
>>522139426still with unreal engine and the other slop game creation tools, it has never been as easy to make the "frozen pizzas." I thought about creating my own game called nigger whipper 9000, where your a southern plantation owner who has to whip and chase down runaway slaves. It's an online game where you can take bounties to chase down escaped niggers, and people can play as slaves who try to escape or secretly be underground nigger trains.
>>522136847>Know what was great about the original games? After the title screen you'd just get right in, pick a couple teams, and fucking play. I didn't have to watch 15 minutes of cutscenes, tutorial bullshit, a thousand menu options, and then be pushed in front of a store showing me the additional shit I could buy after spending $70-80 on a brand new game. What in the fuck are we doing?Exactly this. Even normal single player games, you have to sit through an hour or three introduction/tutorial before you actually get to play the fucking game.
Doesnt bother me, the only games I play are WoW Classic, Counter-Strike 1.6 and EverQuest (Project 1999)
>>522143299This is true. Kept all the box stuff with my copy of Aria of Sorrow, even with it opened it can go for upwards of $500. (I'll never sell it because it was a gift.)
>>522137677>shit>shit>decent>rpgshit>racean garbage>clunky>low res hallway simulator>decent>raiden>spooky slop
>>522136437ROT IN HELL VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY :)
26 years and I am still playing it.
>>522136437*tap*tap*tap*tap*tap*tap*tap*
>>522143533> I have Play Station Premium. Do any anons have any recommendations?Cancel PS PremiumThrow your Playstation in the rubbishNeck yerself.
>>522143573dumbass marketing kike - your job is useless
>>522136437vaxx status
>>522136437I think the pricing of games proves that gamers are "narrowing" lets say. You have way less gamers but still a lot. That said, the way you can keep corporate profits expanding and deal with a gaming shortage? Make tons of DLC and gambling packs. That is what we have here.Indie games are getting more actual gamers BUT the rub is, they cost 20-40 bucks rather than 70 and still on Steam they max out at 400000 concurrent for the TURBO HITS. Most games never get close like your average even "Game of the Year" level indie is 800concurrent to 24000. 30K sold at 30 bucks its 900K. You spend 200K to make the game, split the 700K amongst 10 people wow you just made a below average tech salary. Anywho. Its also going to make a brain drain since its such a crapshoot if games make you rich.Honestly its way better to do Twitch influencing to make money, off of other peoples hard work and selling AI Slop to boomers.
>>522136437I just play AoE 2 with friends while getting drunk
>>522143108I think you're missing the other poster's point. It's not that their cope is bullshit (though it absolutely is), it's that gamers aren't slaves on a AAA plantation forced to consume the latest slop or acquire a new hobby. We've got all kinds of classic games that don't even require the latest hardware to run. I still play through KOTOR on my phone. Nobody is going to buy a turd just because it's new, and so these companies shall die.
>>522136437jews fucked games upnot buying games from jewsold classic games are far superior, infinite amount of time to spend on good, old kick ass games.fuck the jew.
>>522136589Eletronic Arts hit all time stock records.Keep dreaming.
>>522142156Everybody knows you have to start with shipping coal to termal powerplants by tracks or am I that old? It was true in 90s and it is true in openttd
>>522144291It's because they have proven that they can reliably recycle sports games and other extremely formulaic genres over and over.
>>522136437There are multiple reasons for this, but it boils down to the following:1.) Game sales were always going to drop. Their meteoric rise in recent years was due to COVID, when everyone was stuck inside. Demand for games naturally rose. That demand no longer exists, and these companies that made wild profits in those years are now finding themselves perishing due to a famine of their own creation.2.) Most games today are uniform. If you have played one FotM slop you have played them all. As a result most gamers gravitate towards one specific new game in a given genre, because realistically there won't be that much difference between competitors due to standardization of the industry.3.) Following on from 2, the commodification of gaming and general mainstream acceptance has funneled billions and billions of dollars into the industry. As a result, the industry has slowly but surely entered a state of equilibrium in which games are made by committee to guarantee return on investment. Few larger publishers take risks anymore, and as such much of the gaming medium has become stale and boring. Though there's much variety in practice there is little variance.There are still fun games. There will always be fun games. I quite liked E33, Silksong, and Blue Prince, and just finished Dispatch and while I would not call it much of a game it was fun as well. But the days of having killer apps release month after month like the later 90's and early 00's is a thing of the past. It's just not going to return with the current business model.
>>522144291FIFA cards can't keep them afloat forever, jeetoid.
>>522136437>women take over video game office jobs for the prestige>they hate gamers and hate video gameshuh wonder why
>>522144291>Theyre reporting the meme line as UP again this year, ChudKek that's the thing about "infinite growth" economic models. We are almost always doing "the best ever" until one day we are not and numbers actually get tallied kek
>>522142429The muh graphix crowd only appeared after a bunch of beta males and women who never liked videogames started liking "cinematic experiences". Which was around the 360/PS3 era.Before that, most discussions about graphics was autistic comparisons between PS1 dithering vs N64 blurry textures.
>>522136589They have multiple issues working against them>Being woke and gay>Dumber people with less life experience incapable of writing a story>Bloated companies where nobody is actually doing anything for 5 years then toss together slop in the last 6 months>Remake fatigue, can't make anything new can only copy success of better past generations. Becoming less and less viable as they ride all of their IPs into the dirt and burn all the nostalgia.>Have basically been stuck in a technology rut for a decade with only marginal if any improvements, New generations have no wow factor like going from a ps1 to ps2 or ps2 to ps3, next gen looks the same as last gen maybe you get a couple more frames which only benchmark niggers care about.>Only potential new tech they have to work with is AI and if it is successful it's just as likely to totally replace them and make them pointless.Makes sense they're baling out I see no scenario where they win
>>522136437You know, I used to be a die hard Diablo fan. I palyed Diablo 1 (even knew the guy from IRC who built the trainer that destroyed it). I won't even get started on the ungodly hours I spent on Diablo 2. When Diablo 3 was coming out, I bought the full collector's edition pre-order. When I played Diablo 3, it was the biggest piece of shit on Earth. I played the game once to finish it, maybe a few weeks, never played again. I haven't spent a penny on anything from Blizzard ever since. Enshittification ruined it for me. The only recent games I enjoy was EDF 5 + 6 and that's it for me.
>>522142927We wuz simulator 2025 edition
>>522136437GPUs are now the price of a full pc 10yo, go fuck yourself with your scam
>>522144651This is just nonsense. Graphics whores have always been a thing. You don't remember the graphics war between snes and megadrive? BLAST PROCESSING!
>>522137379Emulation has gotten fucking perfect too. I was out of work due to injury a few months ago and spent a few days going through the archives of old ROMs and downloaded literally every single NES, SNES, Genesis, PSX, N64, GB, GBC, GBA, and NDS game I would ever want to play. Saved a fuckload of space not downloading everything. I've now found the name of the game is curation, rather than collection. Similarly, I've found that I really don't need much of my old collection anymore. With Retroarch on an HDR setup I can perfectly recreate a CRT display, down to each individual dot of the display. One of the few great things about the march on in tech is being able to compress what used to be multiple rooms of equipment and material into a single entertainment center in a living room
>>522136589This.The indie market and AA-games are thriving at all time highs.
>>52214484310 years ago*
>>522136589Never forget the story of Concord.>$400mil budget>Sony execs, surrounded by yes-men, genuinely believe this will be their company's Star Wars>devs themselves are likewise high on their own toxic positivity>game releases, sees a peak of 697 players of Steam>not 697 thousand, 697 individuals>game shut down 14 days after launch, never to be seen againTruly the Costa Concordia of the game industry.
>>522140659I was convinced to play it solely because you do not want to anon, I tried to resist it but your reticence took me over the edge
>>522144845Data storage is dirt cheap though?
>>522139587TROON
>>522136589Yep, gay an niggerized. No one wants to play an assassins creed where you run around slitting peoples throats with a razer blade, we get enough of that on the buss ride home from the shit jobs we take because the same tech companies have imported 1,000s of H1B slaves.
>>522139896>next year.Touhou dream duel from the looks of it. It should have been out already but it is what it is sadge
>>522136437rip in rip
>>522145219I feel bad for you if you live in that energy.
>>522136778>There's no love anymoreThis. I'll bring up Witchspring R.Chance find while delving the steam catalog. Cutsey looking half price indie jrgp (Korean) that's basically the reimagining of the first game in a series of mobile life sim games few people in the English sphere really knew about. But it had over 3000 reviews at the time with 98% positive. So I had to see what it was about. And it was a very imperfect game. Campy dialogue Balancing all over the placeSystems were rather unpolished. Sound design wanting (especially issues with volume levels) But. Every moment in that game I could feel that the dialogue meant something to the person writing it. That everything I was experiencing, even where it was left wanting, was a labor of love. Like the lead dev was telling me a story that meant something to them. And because of that it meant something to me. And I still think about the game to this day even though it's been a couple of years. In the same way I still think about parts of Final Fantasy 6 or Chrono Trigger .Those weren't perfect games either. If you made a list of everything that made a game experience perfect they would all fail.But they had soul. They were labors of love, even if they were far from being Indie. But you only get that in the indie space now. AAA publishers fucked themselves by being greedy soulless kikes. And I hope they fucking crash. That's more money to fund an indie game sphere that deserves people's money and attention more than they do.
>>522142156It's pretty easy to make a profitable company in the game. You just suck at creating businesses.
>>522137557Goobergate destroyed not only /v/, Moot, and 4chan in general, it also ruined the world by drowning it in dumbshit NEETs who made shitposting about politics while doing no research their primary “hobby”. Now we live in permanent clown world because faggot incels wanted revenge for their hobby getting monetized, like literally every fucking thing does.
>>522143081That are actually great games? Nier Automata and DQXI come to mind. There are other games that I'd call good, like Octopath 2, but definitely nothing even approaching the kind of quality they churned out when they were Squaresoft.
>>522145546Imagine hearing someone talk about movie watchers or book readers like that, then realize how retarded you are.
everyone plays forever games now. that's why everyone is trying to pivot to games as a service where you can just keep pumping out content for the same game. there's such an obscene amount of money in cosmetics and to have a platform that prints cosmetics without having to release new games is the dream
>>522136437These fools though that covid gaming was the "new normal." The normies are back to work now but the "data analysts" are too autistic to add it up.
>>522144966It's not about the space, it's about the use for it. With previous computers years ago I used to download everything I could get my hands on. But my libraries sat empty and totally unused. Now I have a backlog of every game I ever actually want to play. I don't have to look at a list of shitty games I will never actually want to experience. It's just a generally better experience imo, I know when I scroll through my games I'm actually going to have to think about which ones I feel like playing atm.
>>522144844Do you seriously think that parents who bought the Super NES gave an ever living fuck about what a "two video processor PPU units" was?Again, that kind of narrative was directed exclusively to autists. One reason why during the SuperNintendo and Genesis era specs were so prominent in adverts is because the jump from one generation to another gave massive changes to graphics, audio and control. The point is that console wars shifted from exclusives to graphics around the 360/PS3 era.Which coincidentally was the same generation where the "humans can only perceive up to 30fps" meme started, because in order to give better graphics, they had to sacrifice framerate.Nowadays, graphics is the only selling point for AAA studios.All games play the same. Stories are generic because they are all written by the same clique of Californian or Austin fags who didn't make it in Hollywood. Fixation in realism because you can create a character with motion capture and metahuman in a single day. And particle vomit/environmental interaction because the cinematic experience crowd is so fucking retarded, soulless and unimaginative that you can actually wow them with a texture map of fingerprints, which take 5 minutes to make and they will say how realistic and attentive to detail your game is.The cinematic experience crowd are a bunch of retards and they are killing vidya.
>>522145889It's a transient moment in the industry. It will pass.
>>522145889gayropeon indie survival craft slop is just as bad
>>522136437Their just going to make games that appeal to China and India like how the movie industry works they won’t care if no one in North America plays it they want that sweet sweet chink/jeet money
>>522136589>>522136589>>522136589SPBP
>>522142381Watching Aris buy AAA slop, shit on it, then return it for a full refund is one of my favorite passtimes.
WHY DON'T THE GOYIM LOVE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IN THEIR GOYSLOP HOW DARE YOU GOYMEN!!1
>>522139983kek imagine still believing
>>522146174Only because AAA studios are losing billions unless it's Call of Duty lmao>>522146385Well yeah, because again, those games are just free asset blueprints mashed together from the Unreal Engine store.The objective of those games is to get viral from streamers playing it to an audience. The audience, who has developed a parasocial relationship with the streamer, buy it in hopes to encounter them in a run and play it until the next Unreal Engine asset store slop appears.Same shit with the "friendslop" genre. I have to admit that I've seen funny clips about those games, but that's the thing, people buy them to recreate that experience. They are not playing the game to enjoy the gameplay, they do so to simulate experiences found in viral videos.
>>522145466Yeah, you can easily tell when someone really wanted to make this game, rather than just treating gamedev like a 9 to 5.Like Northern Journey in pic related, overall a clumsy exploration shooter, but the sheer feeling of wonder in it is something else.
>>522136734As a zillennial 95% of my gaming is from games from 2011 or older.I actually bought BF6 because I wanted to see what these modern titles were like but I ended up getting a refund on Steam after after 2 hours because it just wasn't that fun.
>>522146809You don't buy their crap and let them destroy a few vanguard companies.It'll fix itself in 5 years, I bet.
