How Corporate Greed is Killing Your Favourite Video Games

The nutter clearly does play games, but he's just a regular Joe rather than an elite gamer

Im sure he does, i just find the thing gamers do where they somehow feel a bond with someone famous just because they too play video games to be very cringe

You never really see it with other things.

I LIKE MUSIC, HE LIKES MUSIC, HE'S ONE OF US GUYS. HE'S A FELLOW MUSIC LOVER. OH MY GAWSH THIS IS SO KEWL.
 
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What I hate the most is how everything is gamified.

For example, Call of Duty was a very serious ww2 shooter when it came out. Now it's just a load of childish rubbish mostly.

I also hate how multiplayer stuff keeps creeping into single player games. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I don't really like online multiplayer games and just like a good single player experience without being reminded of all the multiplayer gubbins like gamertags and skins etc.

It just seems to infect almost everything these days.
 
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the great thing to see is the greed is actually killing greedy franchises. people are finally starting to say enough of this bs. call of duty is a prime eg. black ops six bombing and people are just turning away and going back to franchises they trust and games that just work. on the fps scene for eg cs2 just hit record number 1.7 million playing. pubg still doing amazingly well. cod about 60000 playing right now.
 
the great thing to see is the greed is actually killing greedy franchises. people are finally starting to say enough of this bs. call of duty is a prime eg. black ops six bombing and people are just turning away and going back to franchises they trust and games that just work. on the fps scene for eg cs2 just hit record number 1.7 million playing. pubg still doing amazingly well. cod about 60000 playing right now.
Is it bombing ? Looks to have sold well despite the poor reviews on Steam, as far as I can see. Same for the likes of FIFA ( or whatever it's called these days ). Still a lot of casual gamers buying these games year after year.
 
The industry is just full of mediocrity now. There isn't really anyone like John Carmack or Romero making games anymore. Raising the bar with every big title.

It's just a conveyor belt of box ticker graduates. The bar is far lower than it was 20+ years ago. One good game gets released in a year and it rockets to the top (e.g. BG3).
 
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Is it bombing ? Looks to have sold well despite the poor reviews on Steam, as far as I can see. Same for the likes of FIFA ( or whatever it's called these days ). Still a lot of casual gamers buying these games year after year.
its done terrible. on steam data base you can see the figures for eg. last night peak was 90000 across all the call of dutys on steam. it used to be 300,000 to 400000. at release on steam black ops was 315000 then within a month dropped to 100k. this never happens to cod. so they need to re access their plans for the next game. the thing is with games like cs2 and pubg doing well and new battlefield coming out probably this october if bf is a big hit and pubg is moving to unreal 5 engine cod is screwed !
 
The industry is just full of mediocrity now. There isn't really anyone like John Carmack or Romero making games anymore. Raising the bar with every big title.

It's just a conveyor belt of box ticker graduates. The bar is far lower than it was 20+ years ago. One good game gets released in a year and it rockets to the top (e.g. BG3).
pubgs creator is making a new engine which if someone can make a good mod or game out if it could be the next big thing. the maps terrain changes every time you play it. you can actually test it now. so this could work out well. we need people to push the boundries and big studios are more concerned about making skins than actually good games content.
 
The industry is just full of mediocrity now. There isn't really anyone like John Carmack or Romero making games anymore. Raising the bar with every big title.

It's just a conveyor belt of box ticker graduates. The bar is far lower than it was 20+ years ago. One good game gets released in a year and it rockets to the top (e.g. BG3).

It surprises me more effort isn’t put into making really immersive open world games to the standard that Rockstar can deliver. They are always insanely popular, and i think a lot of gamers really want to see games push the boundaries of immersiveness in terms of detail etc.

Unfortunately, we just seem to be going backwards for the most part. A lot of games still feel very "flat". It is difficult to describe, but almost all of them feel lazily constructed compared to something like RDR2. Why are Rockstar seemingly the only developer who can deliver to such a high level? There must be more talent out there surely.

I want to "feel" the world that is created (figuratively). So few games come anywhere close to that feeling.

Almost every game i fire up now just seems so lazily done and a copy and paste of what has been done before.
 
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Almost every game i fire up now just seems so lazily done and a copy and paste of what has been done before.
Perfectly describes every Ubisoft game for the past 5-10 years.

I know it's more than just Ubisoft guilty of it, but they seem to be the worst for it. Even their original ideas take 1-2 hours of fun gameplay then copy and paste it into oblivion, then take the same concepts, stick them in another game, and copy and paste it in that game too. This thread is a stark reminder of how much i dislike modern ubisoft lol
 
It is difficult to describe, but almost all of them feel lazily constructed compared to something like RDR2. Why are Rockstar seemingly the only developer who can deliver to such a high level? There must be more talent out there surely.
I’m sure there is, but does that talent want be part of a team who’s railroaded down a certain path rather than given the freedom to make a game that gamers actually ask for?
Almost every game i fire up now just seems so lazily done and a copy and paste of what has been done before.
Don’t try Sniper Elite resistance then, it’s pure copy and paste, with a dollop of jank thrown in.
Hell, it’s not even a £5 DLC.
 
excellent quote from that video



And that's what wrong with industry in a nut shell. It's why game companies are always chasing the next big thing in monetisation, chasing industry trends, milking established franchises and just generally chasing shareholder revenue above all else.
Makes for depressing reading/viewing that.
 
Farcry 3 was awesome, i played through it twice, i never do that, i feel like playing it again, its been a few years, played it originally on a HD 7870 XT, then again on the RTX 2070S, i have to do it again now on the RX 7800 XT.

Vaas is one of the best antagonists in all of gaming, anyone reading this if you haven't played Farcry 3, maybe before your time? Play it, this was Ubisoft at its best, this Ubisoft no longer exists. Don't google videos of it just play it.

PS: unlock the special sniper rifle, the big red one, as soon as you can. Fun Fun....

Edit: welp.......

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By far the best Far Cry for me too
 
Don’t try Sniper Elite resistance then, it’s pure copy and paste, with a dollop of jank thrown in.
Hell, it’s not even a £5 DL
I was looking forward to another Sniper Elite game, I've played through 4 & 5 in co-op with my laddie many times. Sadly, one look at this and I was gutted. France. Again. A new main 'cockney geezer' doesn't cover over the rehashed gameplay. As you said, it feels like an expanded DLC pack for 5.i was hoping for Africa or the Far East and Pacific theatre. Running around in the Jungle with Japanese castles and guys intent on running me through with their swords. Instead we got.... This.
 
And they use the same map twice, and some other maps have parts cut straight from SE5.
It’s just plain lazy.
That is disappointing! Was going to DL this on Gamepass when I get back from work but will look elsewhere now I think.
 
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