Maybe I'm losing my mind but all these newer video games are starting to look exactly the same.I haven't been excited for anything because I feel like I've seen it all before.
>>738790518Yep unreal shits do tend to look exactly fucking same despite being different game, it has to be same the stock/default lighting optionsOlder games didn't have this issue because of in house engine solutions.
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>>738790735Older games look the same because 3d games had negative polygons to work with thus looked like androgynous blobs and 2d games literally all copied eachother. You have no idea what you're talking about.
>>738790943I do not feel the same feeling when looking at older games versus modern ones, you're full of shit.
>>738790518Sadly, this is the state of the industry today. Studios just use Unreal Engine 5 and buy whatever they need from the marketplace. Then, they all follow the same tutorials/methodology so it all looks the same. Now add AI on top, and things start looking even more like the same shit.Then they just spend money on marketing to sell it via cool trailers or streamers/youtubers. Even if it's shit, people are gonna buy it because of the hype/marketing created by their favorite streamer who said "it's the best game ever" because they were paid to do so.The entire game budget is 90% marketing and 10% actual development cost. And it sadly works.
>>738790518Agreed. If a game doesn't have a halfway unique artstyle then I just don't give a shit about it.
>>738790518As a 41 year old after my Starfield purchase a few weeks ago for $70.00 plus tax all I'm excited for is TESVI and GTA VI.
>>738790518>>738790735Yes because 00s renderware semi realistic capcom squaresoft konami slop all look radically different from one another and nre games with far more detail and diversity, somehow look more similarAre you retarded? Just be honest and say you have nostalgia like a normal person, youre just old and you dont like games anymore which is why you yap on 4chan all day instead of playing. Youre old, low t, mentally in a constant foggy fatigued state and you dont care about gaming, youre just fondly remembering days when you used to be off to lara croft but noe age and porn addiction have caught up to you and broken your dick and ability to do anything other than come home from work to an empty incel house where you spend the rest of the day watching asmon gold complain about wokies or you yap on 4chan, dickless incel scum
>>738791078Luckily I don't give a fuck what you feel. Games would literally copy eachothers art styles to a T because it was easier than creating an original product. You had the same 5 games for years a lot of times with the same color palettes. Maybe you should get your eyes checked because you're just some retard who parrots what others say about engines you don't understand.
>>738792603Not denying everything you said there, but video games are 100% shittier (and copypasted) nowadays. I play modern games like RDR2, Elden Ring, Cyberpunk, etc., and think they're fantastic. Only a handful of modern games are worth playing, the rest is shit. Nothing to do with me being old and nostalgic.
>>738790518not sure if you're talking gameplay or graphics, but everything looks realistic by default and it's usually not a good idea to do distinctive visuals cause style isn't really profitable when everyone wants realism and higher visual fidelity, it's been like that since the 7th gen.the pipeline itself is all about realism, assets are directly scanned from real world ones, light is simulated and bounces accurately as it does in real life, it's all usually dynamic also, textures reflect lighting accurately, sunlight is simulated, it all looks like the real thing.in older games they chased realism also and couldn't do it because of hardware and technology limitations, resulting in unique visuals even if it's not exactly what they wanted, so you got something unique by accident.now it's just not possible for that to happen, so you get the same visuals everytime because it looks good enough for most people.
>>738790518It's because of slop factories like Unity or UE4/5
it's kinda like the first couple years of the 360 when everything was UE3 vaseline slop
>>738792603you sound like a projecting faggot. are you balding by chance?>muh insellscringe
>>738791078The trick is to pick the right same. Am I in the mood for "SNES same" or "PS2 same"? PS1 same? Mayhaps some PC same, more precisely, Europejank same? Plenty of variety there.
you can't do much with realistic 3D gamesthat's why 2D or 2Dized 3D games are the best
>>738792603This. And not only did all the old games fucking look the same back then, they all played the same. Like you either had hack n slashes / beat em ups, driving sims, kart racers, 2d fighting games, 3d fighting games, platformers or puzzle platforms or action platforms notice thats all mostly subgenres? Sub genres were falsely inflating a false sense of genre diversity But people look at modern, ambitious titles that dont neatly fit into one box and go oh this is all the same because of some overlap in game design or story telling style or themesLike retards will blatantly lie to you and say star field and cyberpunk 2077 and baldurs gate 3 and elden ring and totk and rdr2 and gta6 are all the same game somehow, but oh yeah i loooove ps2 games bro i love playing action game platformer and driverLike these old shallow ass linear ass games where you do the same thing over and over like some ancient ass arcade game fucking play pacman at that point dumb autist
>>738793828BUT THE OLD GAMES WERE BETTER BECAUSE I CAN MASTURBATE TO THEM AND NEW GAMES ARE WOKE, ASMONGOYIM TOLD ME SO
>>738793828As someone born in the early 90s I agree with you heavily. The tired discourse of old good new bad is well past expiration date. I love certain games from snes saturn 64 ps1/2 and gc but people pretend like every single game was some unique 10/10 masterpiece when that just was not the case. In the same way we have extremely popular trends and genres now it was like that back then, but due to technical limitations they were often much worse clones. Ironically these same people constantly shit on zoomers while not realizing that as a zoomer they get all of our games plus regular new releasing games of quality as well.
>>738790518You'd be correct.Diminish returns is real, but aside from that the tech has been evolving backwards. I'm talking about fake frames and resolutions, lost optimization/lighting techniques, outsourcing to pajeets, the list goes on.
>>738794334>the tech has been evolving backwardsSybau, unc
Enjoyed Resident Evil Requiem, Pragmata, Romeo is a Dead Man and Screamer so far as far as 2026 releases go. Got Forza Horizon 6 soon. Plenty of games that appeal to me anyway.
it's the tendency to great game design as a solved science, rather than trying to do different things.Hence: yellow paint
Good game design is solved:>make game open world>add online multiplayer and pvp>melee combat works like a souls game>add vehicles>add as many sidequests as possible
>>738795284you forgot to add survival and craft
>>738793828Strategy games, life sims, flight games, point and click adventures, mini game compilations, rhythm games, on rails shooters, FMV games, text adventure games, CRPGs, JRPGs, dungeon crawlers, falling block puzzles, pet games, god games, arcade racers, racing RPGs, skating games, deck builders, pinball games, breakout clones, stealth, immersive sim, fishing games, fishing RPGs, collectathon, Crash Bandicoot clone, painting and art games, survival horror, car combat, Crazy Taxi clone, disaster survival games, firefighting games, Worms clones
Industry plants ITT are embarrassing. Your new game is dogshit, sorry. Being mad that ps2 games are better and shitting on people won't make them buy it.
>>738795284it's either that or it's a third person shooter, with incredibly shallow stealth mechanics and cinematic takedowns, yellow paint and walk and talk segments.
>>738794807>screamer>literally just worse burnout 3
>>738790518Play Crisol: Theater of Idols.In the original Spanish dub.
