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Also just sheer choice of "good" games. I look at my wishlist on Steam and think "If didn't had a job and could play games for next 20 years I would still not

by ilyt 3y ago

Also just sheer choice of "good" games. I look at my wishlist on Steam and think "If didn't had a job and could play games for next 20 years I would still not have to settle for average one ever again". Like, compared to 20 years ago I don't ever play anything that by 20 years ago standards would be considered "just okay" or below. We're definitely spoiled And between indies and sales they are cheap too. Frankly picking good ones becomes harder, you no longer can count on next <AAA developer> being great as usual and game journalists are incompetent more often than they are useful.

arvinsim 3y ago
Funny that gameplay-wise, AAA games are the least interesting IMO. I play AAA games for the narrative now.
- anthk 3y ago
  As the current AAA games are as playable as mediocre movies, and the movies themselves are nothing but soulless remakes, I'd prefer to get some public domain comic books from https://comicbookplus.com https://comicbookplus.com and get some stories from Ditko, the non-superhero based ones, but the ones from mistery/scifi themes, kinda like a comic version of The Twilight Zone. On proper gaming, most AAA games are lacking against Slashem, IF, csokoban and casual and libre games like Trigger Rally where the playability it's just there, even if the graphics are two decades behind.
  - arvinsim 3y ago
    Yes, I do agree that books are superior. But sometimes at the end of the day when I am tired, I just want to play something mindless and not that challenging.
generic92034 3y ago
> Also just sheer choice of "good" games. It is obviously a matter of personal taste and a matter of being lucky or unlucky choosing games, but my experience is very much the opposite. There are (nearly) no good games anymore.
- vshade 3y ago
  You can easily play a very big chunk of the good/great games from the past 40 years and plenty of new good and great games get released every year so you are probably being unlucky or do not know how to find the games that will appeal to your taste.
- II2II 3y ago
  There are no good games that reflect your taste, or good games that reflect your taste are hard to find? On my end, there are so many options that I tend to look at qualities that I would not even consider twenty years ago, like tone and setting. (Why would I want to play a grim game? Do I really want to play another game set in space?) Quite often, nothing will get past my personal taste filters, even when they are good games.
- somenameforme 3y ago
  There's a pretty huge dichotomy between consoles and PC right now. I find those who bemoan that lack of games tend to refer to the former. It's become much better due to arcade/PSN titles, but consoles still tend to suffer from the 'we have all types of games - first person shooty/stabbers and third person shooty/stabbers' syndrome. Go to Steam, search for any genre whatsoever that you're interested in, look at player reviews, and find out why some people think there are no games and why others think we're currently in an unprecedented golden age of gaming. Alternatively, which genres do you like?
- sndwnm 3y ago
  I find modern games are often superior to the old ones, so I would disagree with the "anymore" part of "no good games anymore". But I disagree with the sibling comments in that I'm quite sure it's a fact for a lot of players that there are hardly any good games left in the sense that they have grown and their tastes have reached levels where pretty rehashes of old mechanics and ideas will no longer cut it. AAA games don't innovate much these days, and the indie game with one cool new idea is rarely fun to play because the execution as a whole is so lacking. To be honest, I think the average HN user does not play games that much. Or watch films, listen to music, read fiction, etc. Which is probably a good thing, but means they have less taste, both in the subjective and objective sense. But go to different internet forums, say 4chan, and you'll find people definitely have huge problems with quality creative content being so rare.

by ilyt 3y ago

arvinsim 3y ago

Funny that gameplay-wise, AAA games are the least interesting IMO. I play AAA games for the narrative now.

anthk 3y ago
As the current AAA games are as playable as mediocre movies, and the movies themselves are nothing but soulless remakes, I'd prefer to get some public domain comic books from https://comicbookplus.com https://comicbookplus.com and get some stories from Ditko, the non-superhero based ones, but the ones from mistery/scifi themes, kinda like a comic version of The Twilight Zone. On proper gaming, most AAA games are lacking against Slashem, IF, csokoban and casual and libre games like Trigger Rally where the playability it's just there, even if the graphics are two decades behind.
- arvinsim 3y ago
  Yes, I do agree that books are superior. But sometimes at the end of the day when I am tired, I just want to play something mindless and not that challenging.

generic92034 3y ago

> Also just sheer choice of "good" games. It is obviously a matter of personal taste and a matter of being lucky or unlucky choosing games, but my experience is very much the opposite. There are (nearly) no good games anymore.

vshade 3y ago
You can easily play a very big chunk of the good/great games from the past 40 years and plenty of new good and great games get released every year so you are probably being unlucky or do not know how to find the games that will appeal to your taste.
II2II 3y ago
There are no good games that reflect your taste, or good games that reflect your taste are hard to find? On my end, there are so many options that I tend to look at qualities that I would not even consider twenty years ago, like tone and setting. (Why would I want to play a grim game? Do I really want to play another game set in space?) Quite often, nothing will get past my personal taste filters, even when they are good games.
somenameforme 3y ago
There's a pretty huge dichotomy between consoles and PC right now. I find those who bemoan that lack of games tend to refer to the former. It's become much better due to arcade/PSN titles, but consoles still tend to suffer from the 'we have all types of games - first person shooty/stabbers and third person shooty/stabbers' syndrome. Go to Steam, search for any genre whatsoever that you're interested in, look at player reviews, and find out why some people think there are no games and why others think we're currently in an unprecedented golden age of gaming. Alternatively, which genres do you like?
sndwnm 3y ago
I find modern games are often superior to the old ones, so I would disagree with the "anymore" part of "no good games anymore". But I disagree with the sibling comments in that I'm quite sure it's a fact for a lot of players that there are hardly any good games left in the sense that they have grown and their tastes have reached levels where pretty rehashes of old mechanics and ideas will no longer cut it. AAA games don't innovate much these days, and the indie game with one cool new idea is rarely fun to play because the execution as a whole is so lacking. To be honest, I think the average HN user does not play games that much. Or watch films, listen to music, read fiction, etc. Which is probably a good thing, but means they have less taste, both in the subjective and objective sense. But go to different internet forums, say 4chan, and you'll find people definitely have huge problems with quality creative content being so rare.