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Exactly. Popular video games today are purposefully engineered products made to maximize addiction and play time with decisions being made based almost entirely
by IceDane 6y ago
Exactly. Popular video games today are purposefully engineered products made to maximize addiction and play time with decisions being made based almost entirely on how to maximizing profit for shareholders. It's sad.
Incidentally I've been finding much more enjoyment in indie games the past few years, because these tend to be made by people who aren't doing so to become rich(though I suppose they wouldn't mind that happening along the way).
- Funes- 6y ago>because these tend to be made by people who aren't doing so to become rich(though I suppose they wouldn't mind that happening along the way). I agree. One I enjoyed recently was Paratopic[0]. [0] https://arbitrarymetric.itch.io/paratopic https://arbitrarymetric.itch.io/paratopic.
- RandoHolmes 6y agoSame, but it's because Indie developers have to make trade-offs and those trade-offs result in more interesting games even if they're not as polished. One of the reasons I was excited for VR is because I was hoping it would turn into the wild west again like it was back in the NES/SNES days where people where experimenting. You'd play a game where some stuff worked and some stuff didn't, but you appreciated the entertainment regardless. Nowadays it's all so engineered and samey that I often find it more difficult to finish AAA games than indie games.