They don’t make good games anymore so I keep returning to classics. Bf6 is the only AAA game I’ve enjoyed in years and it’s still kind of shit
They don’t make good games anymore
okay you have GOT to play Sea of Stars. You ever want to play Chrono Trigger with a friend or spouse? It’s 3 player Chrono Trigger and the story is good. So i guess you could play it with a polycule, i never thought of that before.
As soon as I can assemble my own polycule, this will be the first game we play.
Followed by Slay the Spire 2 co-op.
I fucking hated Garl. He had the same energy as “who had a better story than Bran” in GoT.
But everyone in the game loved him so much more than I could even imagine.
Anyway, the game is alright. A few too many nods to old RPGs and, imo, it didn’t stand on its own well enough.
Thanks for the rec! Tons of great indies. I was referring specifically to huge budget games
is Witcher 3 a AAA game? because I enjoyed that. also Helldivers2
but uhh yeah I ain’t really played any others that I can recall since playing kino der toten
Dude Witcher 3 came out over 10 years ago! Haha
I loved 2042 after they patched it but haven’t been able to get into 6 really… Did you play both? If so, what stands out as notably better about the most recent iteration?
I refunded 2042 so can’t really compare. But basically… It just plays really well. The guns feel very satisfying to use. Conquest mode feels like a true return to form. Great sound design and visuals.
Bf1 is my favourite in the series for reference having played all except 2042.
I doubt I’ll reach more than a few hundred hours in bf6 before I uninstall forever and go back to playing bf1 and bf4. It doesn’t seem like EA is interested in adding anything to the classic modes and is hyper focused on battle pass and battle royale and other stupid shit nobody wants.
Biggest gripe is maps are too small. It’s really dumb taking off in a jet and immediately being able to see the enemy airstrip. It should be like way, way bigger lol
Micro transactions weren’t addictive enough. Games should sell bump of heroin
If I were to come up with my top 10 favorite games list, I believe more then half would be indie.
I am not sure I have even played ten of the biggest “AAA Titles”.
Especially not while they were the current hot shit game. I don’t buy anything that isn’t in a bundle or 75% off.
I think a big problem is that video games are too afraid to be video games. They’re so embarrassed by the medium that they’re working in that they strive to make interactive movies instead.
This is /v/, which means this post is behind over 9000 layers of sarcasm.
All of which this platform will be oblivious to, because Lemmy just doesn’t do satire.
Lemmy does satire all the time, you’re just not reading it.
The problem that you are trying to identify is that satire needs to actually be satirizing something, ie, the context must be clear, and many people just assume the context in their head is the same as the context in everyone else’s heads.
You can see this illustrated by all the sarcasm that your comment has generated.
Now that the context is clear.
Satire in text form isn’t as simple to pull off as in visual media. Body language and tone matter a lot. As well Poe’s Law is in full effect anymore and someone having this view is actually not rare.
Lemmy hates the shit out of satire lol
Damn autists, taking everything literally
No, you must be thinking of kleptomaniacs
No, no, that’s “literally taking everything,” but now we’re getting into the realm of dyslexics
And 4 years on, I still can’t figure out whether it’s because of neurospiciness or divergent interests. Linux? 471 communities. Writing? 2 and the mods of the second one abandoned their accounts years ago
Maybe it’s because even within the fediverse, there are too many people who agree to satirized positions unironically. i.e. Lemmy is just a little too diverse for most satire.
In certain ways, maybe. I can’t see eye to eye with some people on what constitutes a genocide, for instance. But there comes a point where it’s apparently either satire or a an objectively crazy user. It’s equally apparent who this split Is apparent to, on this open source communist Linux forum.
It’s my personal belief that lemmy at large is simply too experientially limited to recognize online satire outside of incredibly specific examples. Mostly meme templates. And there’s nothing wrong with that, but it is a little frustrating for me, personally.
Neurodivergents being overrepresented likely accounts for some of the tendency of people mistakenly taking things literally on Lemmy. But I think a bigger issue is just a lack of media literacy. People tend to close themselves off from opposing viewpoints, and what does filter through is often exaggerated or otherwise misrepresented to make it easier to ridicule. This pattern leads people into thinking something intentionally absurd is in fact serious. Poe’s law is something easy to observe on other platforms too, but it’s worse on a platform with an especially political and nondiverse userbase.
Pretty sure it’s the tism.
I’ve gotten considerably more replies here than on Reddit from people who don’t understand sarcasm.
Oh thank god its not just me.
Yes, we are all very serious here. Yup. No funny business going on. Just us and our incredible seriousness. Sooo serious.
Lemmy is a big guy.
For you
Lemmy is still a relatively young community. I bet it gets better with time. I like to think that I already noticed small (and healthy) community growths.
And I do not have a metric nor an example. This is super vague, I know.
I’m pretty sure it’s because most of the people here are on the spectrum.
A lot of users came here to boycott reddit. Taking this kind of action is quite hard when it comes to dopamine sources like reddit. The users that migrated have at least in common that they overcame the reddit pull and also took the time and energy to land in a lemmy instance. I’m curious what Lemmy will look like in 5 to 10 years with this kind of “user starter” on the “lemmy agar”.
I don’t know. Lemmy’s majority user is former reddit users and even at the size reddit is now, sarcasm would constantly go over peoples’ heads
I took it as satire too, but what tells it’s /v/ ?
Blue board talking about game industry stuff, it’s the only place that fits.
The blue colorscheme indicates it’s from one of the non-18+ boards, and /v/ is the one of those that it would fit the most.
Technically you can set any board to any of a bunch of color schemes, but most users just leave the defaults or pick on dark theme for all of them.
collapse of the entire western AAA gaming industry
Don’t threaten me with a good time. Seriously, that might be exactly what the industry needs.
It absolutely does need it. It’s needed it for several decades at this point. Layoffs in the past few years have been higher than they were during the 2008 recession, and that’s a year after year stat, not combined. Every year has had worse layoffs than after one of the worst financial collapses in recent history. Wages have been stagnate since I was in college almost 20 years ago and realized that I made more at my summer job than I could expect to make starting out as an artist in the industry, and I’d be walking in with a bunch of college debt.
Let it burn and watch the new studios built by people who make games, not corporate finance bros, rise from the ashes like new growth after a brush fire, full of passion for making good games first and foremost.
All shall turn to ashes
You know, maybe if you could buy physical disks and cards of games that dont require internet access (unless it has specific online features like trade, battles, co-op, etc) And the games were actually good and not corporate slop then maybe we’d want them
I out an origonal halo 2 disc into a brand new xbox a couple of years ago. It refused to read it. My switch wants me to pay a subscription to play SNES games. As it turns out everything after the 3ds and the 360 was a mistake.
That sucks, I can still play original disks on my PS2 (excellent system btw)
from the title i thought this was going to be about AAA batteries
well, the 86% playing games older than 2000 will keep the market and developers going. Stop making woke games.
Looked at your profile, is the woke comment genuine or are you being satirical? I find it hard to believe you understand and have the mental capacity to see the Jeffrey Epstein situation for what it is, but would still believe in the MAGA “woke” hoax.
The numbers speak for themselves
As in the low number of brain cells you have left after making such a stupid comment? If so then I agree with you.
$20 says you can’t even define what “woke” means. Hint: it doesn’t mean “things I don’t like nor understand because I’m a bigot”.
What would you consider a modern example of a “woke” game?
Ghost of Woketei
Horizon Forbidden West
Spiderman 2
Assassin’s creed: Shadows
Wokeverine (yet to be released but I am willing to bet my last penny it will be crap)
The Last of Us Part II
sorry anon but i’m with guybrush
suggested scummvm price is fuck off money, i got three headed monkeys on my back
They should sell products users want at prices they’re willing to pay. Without abuse, deception, or other malicious acts.
But won’t somebody please think of the shareholders? /s
Funnily enough it would probably be better for the majority of shareholders.
It would take longer than a quarter to realize, so they’re not interested. Myopia is emblematic of capitalism.
I do. I think of the big ones going through a wood chipper.
I mean ive thought of this. I mostly do play pre 2002 games. And I’m always thinking wow, they put so much work into this, no vibe coded bullshit, no endless updates, working with difficult hardware , mad respect for those devs. And I feel a little bad I can enjoy their creations 20 years later and they’re not getting anything for it.
However we know what’s coming. Corporations aren’t dumb, they see this, and in a couple years there will be a huge crackdown on retro gaming (they already shut down a huge archive). So enjoy while you can, they’re coming for you.
I gave my wife my LCD steam deck that she’s been eyeing up since the switch went and died. I loaded animal crossing from GameCube on it and she loves it, she played new horizons on the switch and liked it too but she said she enjoys the GameCube one more
