Are the games ever going to get better?

I put my hopes in free, open source games. Right now the way development is going, especially in industry, the budgets are extremely high, so reasonably to make a return they must sell to as many people possible, even if the game itself suffers in thoughtfulness.

I think we're all familiar with series going in the wrong direction. But with the FOSS, if you don't like something, you could fork it, and you wouldn't have to stick the changes developers' impose.

As far as I can tell, the graphics aren't going to be as amazing as the higher budget games, but the detail and quality is somewhere else like user experience and customization.

I tried playing Hitman Blood Money the other day. The difficulty was like a brick wall. I was so humiliated that I had no clue what I should be doing. Video games have become basically AAA cutscene movies with linear progression. A waypoint marker is no different than just selecting Next Scene on the DVD menu. Or video games end up being the exact same open world co-op customization or cover shooter. Everything has to be like everything else or else it won't sell as well as everything else. Everything needs to sell 5 million copies or it's a finnancial failure and it won't see a sequel. No one's taking risks anymore. I just want a game worth 60 dollars.

videogame making is a business now, the kikes running it realized that its better to make a shitty skin that you can sell for 0,99$ a million times than making a worthwhile product that takes a year of hard work from a team of people and sell 100,000 copies at 60$.

its the same that happened to movies really. and its the same that will happen to whatever comes after.

Morrowind made me feel fucking retarded at first when I had to follow directions in the journal instead of a quest marker, but it increased immersion tenfold.

It's horrible how much everything is dumbed down nowadays.

And the tools to compensate for those that don't have that skill exist, I ain't talking Unity either. Those skills aren't really the true bottleneck or barrier of entry anyways. The key thing in game development is patience, everyone goes in gung ho thinking it'll be a breeze until they start and realize how much work and effort has to be put into it. Even simple shit with the most basic stuff needs careful thought, trial and error, and planning put in to make anything remotely resemlbing a complete game that isn't just a mobile "press button by a timed interval" type games. The more original assets you need to make yourself the more effort you must put in exponentially is pretty big bottleneck the programming itself is the easiest part to learn, get in to, and complete since a lot of that can be taught /or learned in a few months then it's just a matter of applying it.

I think the biggest travesty is how dumbed down thief was. I mean, the first two thief games were so damn great because you only could use your wits to save you. Lockpicking a door when a guard was coming to hide inside was so damn satisfying. Then the third and fourth games came out which ruined that.

lol

Third wasn't as good but it wasn't a horrible game. It was still fun to game. It shouldn't be lumped together with the horrific atrocity that was the fourth.

They're anything but. They deliberately cater to the mass market and they've been very successful in doing so.

I did like the third one too, but it was the one game that made me see how the industry was dumbing down and consolizing so it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. The only game that comes close to me in terms of stealth games in comparison to thief was styx, but even then it suffered from a lack of utility items in place of the occassional power you probably would not use unless forced.

No. We've reached past the point of no return. Gaming is too popular. Every soulless fuck looking to make an easy buck is pumping out games, and because of gaming's popularity there are too many vapid casual fucks to let the practice devour itself.

It's also facing a similar problem as teaching art. Everyone who matters is leaving, or being smothered by corporate. There's no one to teach how to make an actually good game, and the small bastion of enthusiast and flashes of lightning aren't enough.

There's nothing wrong with arena shooters but I wish there were more to floss games than them.

I figured there's a bunch of others too but are in development. Primarily I saw floss games as open source remakes of existing old games like openMW, freeablo, etc where you needed the original game data as a prereq.

The worst part too is that we really never see any new genres being formed or genre combinations being tried. We see the same stale gameplay no matter what game. There is also how most game coming out seem to have artificial depth or freedom. A lot of games will present a player with choices that do not amount to anything. Weapons all feel the same and are there to be there. Quests are the same. etc.

No the IQ of the population will get lower and lower and as western civilization dies the culture will get more and more primitive until playing dwarf fortress might as well mean that you're a genius.

After the day of the rope and the collapse vidya might get better again.

When the market crashes and burns, and companies eventually have to actually apply effort to their games again, yes.

Until then. No. Make your own game or play old games.

Some are still fucking great.
Play those great games and let the others eventually die.

Have you tried not looking exclusively at AAA video games?
Tell me OP what kind of video games you like to play, perhaps I could recommend something and get Comiket guy here to cheer people up

This.
This right here.
We a re the problem.
We have nobody to blame.
It's demand and supply.
Nobody wants good games, nobody paying that is.

Well indie games (some of them) are actually fun. And if you are buying games, they're not normally 60 bucks.

AAA gaming has, it feels like, never been worse. But that's a lot to do with the fact that games are a massive market now.

It'll crash. Maybe not badly, but there will be more emphasis on distribution. As bad as steam is, it's a closer model to a solution than new gen consoles and kickstarting.

Just play what makes you feel good, don't buy into the hype, remember online multiplayer is cancerous and don't drink Kool Aid.

On most games, but there are still good multiplayer games. Like Splatoon.

not if you dont try

Yup, that's a great exception user.

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Take your faggotry and leave this place

Currently, the video game industry is total shit. The best thing to do right now is just make a huge ass list of all the good games that you have missed on. I knew jackshit about RTS until I saw the RTS thread. I thought Starcraft 2 was the top shit Though it is good, its bar is lower compared to the rest simply because it is the only mainstream RTS now, I guess.

It blew my mind to know that games like pic related exist. I got really pissed as to how I missed such a great gem.

Searching for good games in this age is like looking through a pile of shit to find a hidden gem. It is all a test of patience. Meanwhile, we still get good games like Bloodborne, Splatoon, W101. It is just that they are overshadowed by the dozens of shit games.

cover shooters are my trigger

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