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Am I the only one jaded by most new title releases over the last 7 or 8 years?
| Were you living under the rock during 2017, The Year of Too Many Good Games?
| I mean, there's nothing stopping you from playing old games, I finished suikoden 1 and 2 several months ago
| >>123237 I haven't played any of them as a poorfag but a lot of them seem like rehashing game design from the last five years to play catchup. A majority were reboots of previously good IPS or open world games that don't try anything new so I don't know where you're coming from my dude.
| >>123240 sounds like you are burned by big games/ AAA games.
You should probably try indie games, yes there is more garbage tier, barely game, indie game in steam, but some of the goods one are more experimental and passion project, they offers different experiences from AAA games.
Plus, old indie games are really cheap at steam sales
| >>123240
Ah friend, lemme introduce you to some 2017 indie darlings:
- Night in the Woods
- Hollow Knight
- Pyre
- What Remains of Edith Finch
- Tacoma
- DDLC
- Gorogoa
- Opus Magnum
- Rain World
- Battle Chef Brigade
- idk there's like a kazillion
- this doesn't even touch the weirder games like You Must be 18 or Older
My dude, even going into AA territory gives us
- Divinity: Original Sin 2
- Hellblade
- Yakuza 0
- NieR: Automata
- Prey
| Don't judge me, I wrote a GotY article for a publication and picking the games for that was HARD.
At the end of the day though, there's nothing new under the sun. We do keep deriving from the past, but personally I find the recent years brought a lot of innovations to the formulas.
Unless you keep looking at Ubisoft. They never change.
| >>123378 funny because AC origins is more rpg than the game has ever been, with actual combat instead of the counterfests of the past
| >>123381
Is it? I got the impression that it was just A Good AC But More or Less the Same. There you go, then
| It's very much still an ac game but the change in Combat and addition of boss fights changes a lot. Plus there's lots of equipment voices with varying levels of rarity and abilities, it's much more rpg than stealth game more imo
| Don't forget Persona 5
| Triple A games have gone to shit imo.
There's still a hand full of gems though! Like Persona 5 and Dragon's Dogma.
| NieR: Automata is the best game of a decade while Persona 5 comes near second
| AAA is dead.
Long live the niche-tier and indie tier!
| >>123917 yay niche tier is my favorite, indie tier to me is a mixed bag but more inspired than AAA
| Play dead cells
| >Tfw you realize mtx ruined AAA
>Tfw you realize loot systems are in every F2P
>Tfw you realize the single player game genre is dying
>Tfw you realize video games are on a decline and won't be fixed because of 5% of the playerbase that blows money out of their asses to play dress up with their waifus
| You're not the only one. I've had many more memorable and fun experiences in underground indies and free to play games than I did with massive titles. There's a reason for this. One side of the coin madkes video games out of passion (Stunlock).
The other side makes them for popularity, marketing, and money, all the while beat their developers to a pulp with 100hr+ work weeks.
| The only newer games I've played recently were as follows -
-DDLC (too bad it's a one and done title, subsequent playthrough is mostly skipping dialogue but otherwise interesting subversion)
-Nier:A (Same problem, except game is way too long and requires grinding that doesn't actually give a complete story, otherwise 8/10 combat Platinum standard fare)
-Persona 5 (Fuck Morgana and I felt the cast wasn't as strong)
-Bloodborne (DS1 was better/ I found it more frustrating than hard)
| >>124305
>Nier: A
>Requires Grinding
Fuck, gurls are so lazy nowadays, they consider nier as grindy. I skipped half of the side stuff and mostly use starting weapons; I had little to no trouble beating the game. Some chips combinations are so OP, if you have a working brain and do a frequent hp recovery retreat, you should have no problem beating the game without grinding.
| >>124393
>girls are so lazy
Dude the end game bosses having boatloads of health and having an auto dodge chipset doesn't make you good at the game, fuck off. I never said it was hard, you're required to grind to get all of the weapon lore and in universe lore.
| >>124405
This, only have the first ending because my laptop is a potato, fighting that last boss of run 1 was a pain at 5-15 frames
| >>124405
>don't want to grind
>don't want to use items that make game easier
Whine more about your self imposed rule
>require grind to get all the weapon and lore
So you want them to do a massive exposition dump to dump the lore on your ass? But then you'll complain that game is too boring
You also want to get all the weapon, ALL. Of course you have to do extra shit to get ALL the weapon, because the are not required. If they hand it to you; you'll complain again
| >>124305
Is, uhh, is being a "one and done" game a problem? DDLC tells all that it wants to tell in a timely fashion and then exit gracefully. That's good.
>>124440
5-15 fps? Good lord, friend. Do yourself a favor and just don't play the game. I know it sucks but, good lord, don't torture yourself.
| Thats the part of truth. I mean 3A has been becoming more and more shitty last few years (except couple of publishers) , but actually indie gamedev exists too. And theyre pretty good nowadays.
| Is square enix not considered AAA?
| Also you guys left off the most important game of the century, Factorio. Game of the year 2012-20XX
| >>124443 It's just not my preference unless I'm playing an MMO to replay a game 25 times to see everything it has to ofree if the experience is more or less the same each time, sorry you're so butthurt that the only criticism I have of the game is that it's repetative.
| >>124693 I'd like to apologize too, I am used to all kind of grindy dungeon crawler JRPG, so from my perspective Nier was nowhere near grindy. Yes, I can see how repetitive it is if you are pursuing all collectibles/100%/all endings. I honestly don't bother with 100%-ing JRPG most of the times, as they always have that one bullshit hidden items, or one required events that make you fight boss at the hardest difficulties.
When the plot ends, so does my interest (most of the time)
| >>124735 I agree with the 100% thing but I am very motivated to 100% nier, because the plot never ends. It will be the only game I have 100% since Kirby:NiD
| >>124693 well, your only criticism is bullshit and you got called out, I don't see anything wrong here
If you aren't invested at the game enough, then there's no reason to 100% the game. All the stuff after ending E is extra stuff for players that want more after finishing the main game. And you don't seem to fall in this category of players.
Complaining that grinding is required to get 100% is as bullshit as complaining about how the game doesn't cater to your self imposed rules
| >>124683
NieR A is Platinum, Squeenix only publish it/owns the right. Nier A is kiiinda high budget? But not nearly AAA high. It's hard to discern the range at some point
| >>124693 it's not THAT grindy if you take mental or actual notes of where to get all the materials for the weapons. git gud mah boy
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