It’s a really weird, happy and sad state of affairs.
You had Elden Ring, bunch of great indie games in 2022.
Then in 2023. Capcom hits it out of the park with SF6 and Remake4. Tears of the Kingdom came out. Then Baldur’s Gate 3, a sequel 20+ years later. Metroid Prime remastered. Dead Space remake. Diablo 4
This was following Forsaken, Redfall, Gollum. Then you have Atlas Fallen recently with bad reviews
I’m having fun, but it seems indie Devs are having more success with original IPs and smaller scopes
At least Hi-Fi Rush and Pizza Tower were pretty damn good.
I just wonder how they react at the office at EA or Activision when Battlebit got populair.
Its just funny and sad to see that these huge companies just don’t learn.
For example, I play Call of Duty since MW2. What they do to Warzone is a great example of how to destroy a player base and its community. I mean, after Verdansk (I know there is some nostagia with that map) there was no map like it. The unlocking system for weapons is a grindfest for someone with a actual job and the abilities with lasers (!?) are just so stupid.
Comes all down to money I guess…
BUT DONT YOU WANNA PLAY AS KEVIN DURANT FOR ONLY 30 REAL WORLD DOLLARS??? -Activision, probably
Yeah I played Warzone Verdansk/Caldera a lot, spent many hours on it. Verdansk will always hold a place in my heart. Warzone 2 shits on all of that so bad they had to remake the Steam page to have better reviews (it didn’t work).
My friends and I that play CoD have moved to playing CoD Mobile on Gameloop and have a much better time there than in MW2 and Warzone 2.
They shrug since they’ll never make as much money due to no microtransactions.
Add Armored Core VI to the list. Looks pretty good so far. Releases on the 23rd.
I’m generally a patient gamer, but I shit a brick when I heard Deadspace was getting a ps5 remake (still on ps4, but not for long). I have hard copies for my Ps3 but my disk drive is kaput.
I’ve just bought my first full price game in about 20 years with REmake4 and am loving it. Can’t wait to play on PS5 when I get one, but might hold out for the upgraded ps5 expected for Christmas 2024.
Armored core VI looks amazing, considering getting VR specifically because it looks like the perfect game for VR, but VR sure ain’t cheap.
There’s also a new final fantasy and the second entry for FF7 remake comes out this year as well I think
My video game cup runneth over for the first time in a long time.
I’ve generally been happy playing the classics in my library and haven’t spent much time dedicated to gaming lately, but I have also only had PS4 for about 2 years now. Loved horizon zero dawn, thinking about trying RDR2 or God of War after REmake4 and hopefully the price of armored core 6 drops a bit by the time I’m finished!
Releases on the 25th, actually
Your post got me thinking. The huge shift in Hollywood and gaming to almost exclusively be reboots, remasters, and sequels speaks to an over all problem in the gaming industry. If you compare how game companies were run on average in the mid 90’s vs now, I think you’d see a lot more companies in the 90’s were ran like startups, you had a group of talented passionate devs who had a grand vision and wanted to make something they’d love playing too. Those passion type companies yielded us games like Halo 1, nearly everything from Bullfrog Entertainment, looking glass studios and the thief series.
When you think of now, gaming is a much much much larger industry and many more companies are ran and old by mega large companies, who want to squeeze every dollar out of consumers. Battle passes, micro transactions in full price games, buggy and unfinished releases, and may other scummy things. The reason we’re seeing much more in terms of reboots/remasters and sequels is, these large companies look at their bottom line and are extremely risk adverse, they’re much more motivated by the profit then the passion of it, and as such want “Sure Things” instead of risky new IPs.
This is just a side effect of our favorite hobby getting so much more main stream. When huge companies only care about the profits and keeping their stock prices up, it’s less about the passion more about greed. I hate it, but there isn’t a solution.
Well, a solution could be, to dont buy AAA-Games. Or only games that are worth it. No hype train purchases month before release, no blind trust in big names of games or publishers or studios.
At least demos are a thing again.
Ps: don’t buy battlepasses or skins in f2p would also help I guess.
I’ve really been enjoying Remnant 2 as well.
Crossing my fingers that Starfield has an acceptable launch. I don’t need an amazing launch. I just need it to not be Redfall, Jedi Survivor, or TLOU.
It’s been delayed twice at this point, so hopefully it’s gonna come out better than other Bethesda titles have in the past. It’s still a Bethesda title at the end of the day, so don’t expect miracles. But hopefully the launch will be acceptable. Or at the very least, not completely awful.
That’s all I want. Acceptable. Not completely awful. I just want what has been the norm for Bethesda games in the past. Not what has been the norm for all games recently.
Same here. I’m gonna be more than a bit annoyed if it turns out to be a total mess after two delays and with a $70 price tag. But I’m hoping it comes out good.
Except in almost every single instance, a sequel of a beloved game sold better than the original? There is a reason companies just prefer pumping out sequels instead of new IPs.
Remnant 2 and Silksong (maybe?) as well.
I wouldn’t be so harsh on Atlas Fallen, it’s getting mixed reviews but it’s not a bad game like Gollum or Redfall.
Exoprimal is pretty darn fun
Also known as Hollywoodification.
