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smaller projects mean less meddling

this has never been true
they will be instructed from the outset with top down woke like any corporate job

I dont get these threads. Literally no one that pays any attention to videogames would actually believe any of this.

see Same shit, JRPG is kinda niche + dead in the water my friend. Last relevant game would be XBCX, or FF remakes (which are fucking REMAKES)

You're old. Old people, like me, dont like new things, its a brain thing. Hype and commercials also dont work as good. The games you looked forward to as a kid/teen you looked forward to because of the marketing.
Hell, as a teen I was constantly on gametrailers, looking at the new marketing videos of upcoming game. I havent watched a single trailer in a decade or so.

You're just old, embrace it, but dont become a cunt that constantly hates on new things. Its not for you, move on

still it was more fun to play and cheaper than the majority of AAA releases this year. having said that I don't deny it was a slop but I'd be more easily convinced to try a metroidvania than any other genre
NTA but isn't metaphor considered a turn-based jrpg?

Platformers genre dead in the water

This is extremely sad because the genre was basically at its peak when it fell out of popularity. Devs had figured out who to make actually great 3D platformers, and the genre uses 3D space in more interesting ways than most games, then it got fucked over in favor of games where you mostly walk around in what is essentially 2D.

Point n click dead in the water

They really were obsolete only only used to showcase multimedia PCs. Every kind of puzzle you can do in them can be done in a 'real' adventure game.

Racing genre dead in the water

It's more alive than it ever was, just not in the "single player game where you feel like a badass for racing shitboxes" form that Anon Babble seems to want.

This post holds truth and I hope you are right. My best is that both the movie and videogame industries are slowly realizing that putting all of their money in huge "low-risk" projects (such as remakes, sequels, etc. with the market trends being monitored via social networks) is actually a bad idea.

Sure, big studios like Ubisoft or Bioware are too riddled with cancer to stop doing what they do, and will continue their downward spiral path. My secret hope is that a lot of young creative developers, being disgusted by the current state of the industry, quit their shitty monkey job and start their own company en masse. I'm sure there are still some talented people out there.

It's like these talented 3D animators people who always dreamt of working for Pixar, finally end up working there and realize it's shit because of Disney and modern hiring. The standard movie industry can't be saved though, because too much women + diversity + (((them))). Videogames are inherently a male creative hobby (which acting is not), so I hope we can get back on track.

Please provide at least 10 games from the following categories that have been worth playing in the last 10 years: platformer, point-n-click, RTS, MMO, sports, FPS, survival/sandbox, action-adventure, puzzle

(indie games and trannyshit do not apply)

Not him, but you're wrong. I like new things when they're good. They are rarely good being the problem. Once you get old enough you can tell better what is good and what isn't. Unless your mental faculties deteriorate faster.
Another factor is abuse of trust.

I think Point and Clicks are doing fine. It's one of the most popular indie genres. While Anon Babble memes about heckin Earthbound-likes, in reality most indie games are chill quirky narrative games about clicking on stuff and reading dialogue.

You know what's not dead in the water? Looter shooters games as live services with lots of micro transactions!

Not quite. See below
OP here, there is some partial truth to his point about getting old and the brain. Still, I've enjoyed a couple games released. But statistically, it's hard to

The best way to prove this is by playing retro (SNES, GC, N64, PSX, PS2, XBox) games that I completely missed as a kid (and wasn't even hyped for at the time). Guess what, I've been enjoying these games a fuckton and I have played a couple dozen in the past 2-3 years.

*statistically, it's hard to deny that most games coming out are not enjoyable for me.

this has never been true

you are fucking insane if you believe that smaller projects do not see less meddling. the more money poured into a project, the more the investors attempt to reduce any attempt at the project bombing. smaller projects mean it is not as big of a loss if it does end up failing, which means the investors care less about it. this has always been true. you are just mind broken.

Same for me regarding old games. I've discovered a few games I've missed in the previous decades and enjoyed them a lot.
And of course I still re-play some of the favorites from time to time. And still plan to play others once I forget enough minor details in them.

Partial, sure. But he made it sound like it's an absolute truth. Although there are ways to retain some mental flexibility and just general "sharpness of the mind". But a lot of it is genetics, unfortunately.

Platformers genre dead in the water

There's like a new one every week. Every month is you only count bigger games.

Point n click dead in the water

Good.

RTS genre dead in the water

It's a niche genre, but fairly popular ones still keep being made, once a year at least.

MMO genre dead in the water

Genuinely impossible, they rely on sunken cost syndrome to stay alive, and are completely successful at it.

Sports / Racing genre dead in the water

Literally false.

FPS genre dead in the water

Genuinely retarded.

Survival / sandbox genre dead in the water

Fucking comatose levels of retarded.

Action-adventure / puzzle genre dead in the water

Both are still being made at a frequent enough pace

Battle Royale genre dead in the water

Still massively successful enough that they could delete the game, demand everyone buy it a second time, and get right back up to their previous player counts.

Diagnosis: severe mental retardation, immediate euthanasia recommended.

We are overdue for a crash anytime half a billion dollars too big to fail projects are bombing now

There's like a new one every week. Every month is you only count bigger games.

name the major titles from the last 12 months.

Survival, Action adventure, Puzzle, Battle royale

new ones come out. everything that comes out is absolute shit.

MMO genre dead in the water

Genuinely impossible, they rely on sunken cost syndrome to stay alive, and are completely successful at it.

Only those who have an established playerbase of mazerats like wow and ff14. any new mmorpg is possibly doa or will die asap...

what’s left in 2024 and for the future?

World-wide AAA industry crash 2.0,
leading to indie and small team AA project renaissance and culling of woke fags.

this

best projects and most ground-breaking were almost always small teams, e.g. doom, silent hill 1 (renegade failure team from konami), zelda 1, majora's mask, half-life and in the most recent years minecraft, stardew valley, outer wilds etc. etc.

of course i won't deny the impact of "bigger" games like GTA 5, RDR2, Halo, Bioware games, etc. but you can tell already these games are loosing something because they have been handed over way more many people internally, so they end up feeling less "personal"

one new platformer every week

whoah, a new mario / super meat boy / nine sols clone or spin-off on steam and nintendo switch every week, what a treat

a new rts once a year

which nobody plays since everybody plays starcraft 2 and aoe2de

mmo being alive

at best they are zombie-tier, people only play them for nostalgia and for sunken-cost fallacy instead of genius renewed interest; literally nobody under the age of 30 plays mmos

sports / racing not dead

nigga what the fuck are you on? simulation maybe alive but it's not even gaming at that point, actually fun racing games have been dead since around the nfs most wanted / burnout paradise era

fps not dead

people play them almost exclusively for multiplayer (see latest Call Of Duty), which gameplay has not changed for 15 years+, also no hype for FPS campaigns except a handful titles like Doom 2016 and Eternal (one good game every 5-10 years, so)

survival / sandbox not dead

give me 10 ambitious survival / sandbox game that are not some cheap minecraft (2010) ripoff -- literally not a single minecraft update for the last 10 years has been meaningful btw

action-adventure

you got a point that they are still being made and do well business-wise, but 95% are slop

battle royal

braindead, see MMO

what’s left in 2024 and for the future

Emulating all the great games that already exist. Duh. Who cares about a new games? There are loads of games that already exist to go and discover. Who gives a shit honestly.

what about the genre called "remakes of old popular games but corrupted to appeal the modern audience"?

basically star citizen will cover everything listed here

Platformers

there is a level bigger than a portal 2 chapter to escape from prison

Point n click

engineer gameplay

RTS

fleet management

MMO

server meshing

Sports / Racing

you can race with ship or cars and play sports as mini game during quantum travel maybe

FPS

full fps story and playable content

Survival / sandbox

base building, health and food covered

Action-adventure / puzzle

story mode and puzzle are available at wrecks with lasers to disable to unlock loot chest etc

Battle Royale

if you really want to play this shit there is arena commander

Why play inferior versions when originals exists? Let me guess, the answer is "convenience". Or more accurately "technological illiteracy". Well, can't wait until they start talking about their experience with inferior versions and complain about worsened aspects so I can be smug about it and say "I told you so".

Why play inferior versions when originals exists?

for how long do you think originals will exist?

For as long as someone has a copy of them on their hard drive or DVD.

sadly, the only "new" games worth playing

Yeah it’s just missing a release date in the next millennia

millennia

You think it might take more than one thousand years?

>Platformers genre dead in the water

>Point n click dead in the water

????

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Actionmovie, VNRPGs, Rogue Lite, Metroidvania, Souls Like, Team Shooter, Survival-crafting, quirky horror
that's all the industry boiled down too

All of those genre have failed to find new formulas. Hack and slash is thriving because it found the souls formula and spun in a hundred directions from it. Gacha is thriving because Hoyo found a bunch of formulas and a dozen devs copied them.
That's what this industry is about, finding new gameplay formulas. Don't need to invent a genre but you sure do need to reinvent an old one

you forgot card mechanics, every second indie game is card game

Both of those genres sucked completely dry. There's a shitload of those

Gacha is thriving because Hoyo found a bunch of formulas and a dozen devs copied them.

"gacha" isn't a genre like those others. gacha is a business model.

There is a difference between games not coming out and you not personally liking the ones that come out.
An example of a truly dying genre would be racing games. Polyphony took over an entire console generation to release a mediocre online-only esports slopfest that is in every respect a step down from the PS3 game. Turn 10 took years to make a worse version of Forza 7. Codemasters sold out to EA and now only make annual F1 games.

idc about genre, if games good I play simple as

aren't all of those rougelites

I saw few normal story games with start and finish.

ummm actually every game with a lootbox is a gacha

We both know what I'm talking about but if you insist on being a pedantic faggot, let me rephrase
Mobile hack and slash games are thriving because hoyo invented a formula in HI3 that has since been copied a ton
Mobile open world games are thriving because hoyo made the Genshin formula that has since been copied a lot

i'm going to use a word and get upset when others don't understand what i mean

honkai star rail is not a hack and slash game, but is referenced under the umbrella of "hoyo games that found ways to iterate the genre". you used the wrong words, don't be upset when people understand the words used, not the words you wanted to (but didn't) use.

>Survival / sandbox genre dead in the water

this is just objectively wrong. there are plenty of this type of gaming in development and a few are even in top 10 games played on steam

I'm hoping the psx "inspired" indie scene gets into full swing and picks up the racing genre as an outlet. We've had a few virtua racing style games which is heading in the right direction and old school rally is about on point but I want to get a totally-not-NFS game.

honkai star rail

How the fuck did you see HI3 and think it's HSR you retard? Yes HI3 is a hack and slash game, and yes everyone copied it.

you used the wrong words

These are both gachas so I said nothing wrong. You however just used the wrong title so I expect a seppuku in reply to this post

I await death stranding 2 and brigador killers.

they are all shit and have no lasting impact. people still just go back to rust, ark, and minecraft. forever winter was supposed to be a big one, already forgotten. once human? forgotten. palworld's only remembered because nintendies can't stop screeching about IP theft between suckles of corporate cock. valheim is the closest any has gotten to getting up to the likes of those other 3, but still thrown by the wayside.

How the fuck did you see HI3 and think it's HSR you retard?

i didn't, i was referring to your first post. when you say "gacha" and talk about the success of hoyo, star rail is included in that umbrella. there is no reason to assume you meant hack and slash in the initial post. again, you said gacha and are now flailing like a retard because the words you wrote were understood as the words you wrote. use the proper words if you want people to understand you, retard.

Everything ends eventually

only relevant posts in this thread

what’s left in 2024 and for the future?

so long as freedom of creativity and speech are not allowed then gaming is dead.

I recommend following a better path

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I recommend following a better path

I did.

sure, i'd rather play an OK-tier metroidvania than any Bioware / Insomniac / Santa Monica shit, but that doesn't change my point

on metaphor, haven't played but from what I saw it's definitely JRPG; not saying it's a bad game, but i can guarantee 100% that everybody will have forgotten this game in less than 2 years

Holy based

Same.
I actually started clearing it, including old GB stuff.
It's weird how much fun I'm having. I always understood that graphics are a meme, but it's fucked how old shit managed to be decently fun with 1/1000th of the computing power and half less buttons.