Worse. YouTube peaked around 2010s 100%. There’s a lot of great content to find now, but you have to go digging.
Gaming is at an all time low, peoples standards have fallen off a cliff, games are made like shit. I think this is also because of how big and mainstream it is now too. There’s so much money and manipulation in it.
Yea, they only get scanned at certain points, so youll have no idea where it is when its between them. Long distance like this and usually customs is when your packages disappear.
Ignoring all the problems, sure. You could get through it, but there were lots of bugs and inconsistencies. I played again recently after all the patches and while it was much better, it still had it’s fair share of issues. The overall game, lore and story is very good, though I think DOS combat is far superior for a video game than DnD.
Nah, Larian will jump the gun, release too early and have another bug infested game. They need to reduce their scope, actually take their time and make a great RPG. BG3 was too much for them, a smaller more refined experience would have been amazing, they shouldn’t chase “bigger is better”.
Not exactly no, they are directly involved in the process. They pick which outlets can vote, so you immediately have conflict of interest.
As a fair awards show, its fucking awful, but as we know, thats just the facade to selling people new products. It’s just advertising, hyped up.
Also media publications are often biased anyway as their entire business relies on exposure, which is infinitely harder to get if you are critical of games. Nobody is gonna slap a 5/10 on their product.
Not to mention its always games with money behind them, there’s lots of actual quality games released that never get a mention, let alone a nomination, because they simply werent published by a big company. They have fucking DLC nominated instead of games if the big guys didnt release anything that year.
The awards are done by the big studios anyway, Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft etc, thats the jury, it always has a bias. Anything else only wins something if its so popular that it has to. It’s just a AAA circle jerk mostly.
But its not about the awards anyway, its about advertising.
It’s just a big advertising show yeah. Like E3 but with all the soul and community sucked out of it. I dont know why anyone cares.
Depends what generation you ask, because a lot of the CoD audience now, never even played Black Ops 2. Which I agree, was the last good game, I’ll give credit to BO3 for it’s amazing zombies experience, with mod tools on PC, which was a surprise.
Problem is, Treyarch were the only competent studio after all of IW left. So they have been constantly called in to help to clean up the mess the other studios keep making.
Now development on the games is split across Activision studios all over the world, so the chance of there ever being a coherent self contained experience again is basically zero. Their scope got too big and they couldnt find the right people to take it on.
Back to back releases isnt the problem.
Remember the “Call of Duty games are DLC” jokes? Well that is literally what they have become. There’s no soul in them anymore. They are just a vessel to sell skins.
Hardware doesnt need to get more powerful either. If we actually harnessed it, we have what we need already.
Why spend time making better software when the end user can just buy better hardware!
That’s the point, it doesn’t matter. Enjoy any you want.
Todd just wants “his” Fallout games to be the most liked, to stroke his ego.
Also side note, sales never works as a metric because the gaming industry is constantly growing, any game released now sells much more than it ever would have 5, 10, 15, 20… years ago. Regardless of quality.
I mean the set has missed the mark, from that image in the article. So I’d be pretty disappointed if I was a dev.
The fact of the matter is it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t mean it was a good game or something was done better (which is what Todd is looking for, validation), because some people liked it.
Impressive from an engineering standpoint and it’s only going to get more refined. Give it 5-10 years and maybe they will be durable enough for regular use.
Phones have been tablets, well phablets, for nearly a decade now.
I like to think I hold myself to a higher standard or at least just a standard. General consumption, I’m not sure, but for video games, people standards have dropped significantly, the masses accept a lot of bullshit and even defend it.
It’s very much consumer these days, people buy literally anything marketed to them.
Yeah, but there being more crap, means its less at its peak imo. You used to go on and just have good content mostly, now theres so much clickbait and garbage to sift through, which while the good content is still there, not being able to find it means YouTube is lesser because of it.
And absolutely, indies are the way to go, there’s a lot of low effort shit still posted to Steam every year, but the gems are in there. Big AA, AAA games are just money farmers now and they are also often buggy and unpolished even if the base game is good. All the additional purchases and shit ughhh, gaming fell off. There’s no game I am looking forward to anymore, I’m just waiting to be pleasantly surprised by some random new indie game that will drop.