I think there have been good games since 2014(Mad Max, Last of Us 2, Saints Row reboot, Far Cry 5 and 6, etc)but yeah the obsessive focus on multiplayer has definitely crippled a lot of potentially good games and right now we're seeing WAY too goddamn many asymmetrical MP games for horror franchises that deserves better like Killer Klowns, Evil Dead, Predator, Puppet Master etc
I'm still excited for some upcoming games(I.E. Max Payne 1 and 2 remakes, Black Ops 6)but not as much as I used to be.
It feels like Call of Duty zombies mode became a plague (pun intended) on the gaming industry. I liked the original Zombies and the one in Black Ops but Call of Duty wasn't even a horror game to begin with (or at least not a conventional horror game). Suddenly everyone needed their own version of "Zombies".
Zombies helped for sure but I lay the blame largely with Dead by Daylight with how popular it is, companies saw the big numbers it did with all of it's horror crossovers and they decided to make every damn horror game based on existing film franchises like that, like it was kinda neat when F13 did it(and that game actually might be coming back and we might finally be getting that promised Uber Jason if recent social media activity is any indication)but since then every damn horror franchise wants to pull that crap.
As alluded to in other posts here, I just don't like modern gaming any more than I liked the mid-late 2000s (and early 2010s) "grimdark/dark/gritty" era.
And with online gaming, live service gaming, bloated cinematics, microtransactions/DLCs, "expanded content," emphasized open world games, mobile gaming, etc. I'm just burned out on gaming PERIOD. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I miss when a game was...just a game. You played through it, enjoyed it, and then waited for the next game. Anything extra like strategy guides or spin off novels or fan content...was extra. Even the newest games I've played have just been rereleases of older stuff!
As alluded to in other posts here, I just don't like modern gaming any more than I liked the mid-late 2000s (and early 2010s) "grimdark/dark/gritty" era.
And with online gaming, live service gaming, bloated cinematics, microtransactions/DLCs, "expanded content," emphasized open world games, mobile gaming, etc. I'm just burned out on gaming PERIOD. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I miss when a game was...just a game. You played through it, enjoyed it, and then waited for the next game. Anything extra like strategy guides or spin off novels or fan content...was extra. Even the newest games I've played have just been rereleases of older stuff!
I still do enjoy some modern games and I do love my open world stuff and I don't mind buying the occasional bit of story DLC but I am tired of so many games trying to do the live-service model when they would've worked better if they just focused on the single-player campaign(I.E. Avengers, Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League).
I do kind of miss the era where you could have lesser known and obscure titles get boxed releases like Drake of the 99 Dragons.
The Trash Pack looked like the usual cheap grossout crap to me so I never bothered with it.
I never really understood why some marketing teams think boy toys need to contain vomit, diarrhea, and other gross stuff.
This seemed to be more common in the 1990s into the early 2000s. I love Turn of the Millenium aesthetic as much as the next person (especially compared to today's soulless minimalist garbage), but that's one trope of that era I don't miss.
I never really understood why some marketing teams think boy toys need to contain vomit, diarrhea, and other gross stuff.
This seemed to be more common in the 1990s into the early 2000s. I love Turn of the Millenium aesthetic as much as the next person (especially compared to today's soulless minimalist garbage), but that's one trope of that era I don't miss.
I wish I could say that but there were things like Buttheads and Hangrees from 2019. But thankfully both of these were a flop.
This seemed to be more common in the 1990s into the early 2000s. I love Turn of the Millenium aesthetic as much as the next person (especially compared to today's soulless minimalist garbage), but that's one trope of that era I don't miss.
I wish I could say that but there were things like Buttheads and Hangrees from 2019. But thankfully both of these were a flop.
Unfortunately one of the scariest horror board games ever made known as Doggy Doo is still around.
Dreams are boundless, imaginations are infinite, space is a multi-directional spiral & Akazukin ChaCha is my favorite anime
Post by Etienne_LeLoupChien on Jun 30, 2024 15:30:17 GMT
I just remember two more:
I don't really care about "Scooby Do" (and its many incarnations) or "Beavis and Butthead." I've given them many chances, but I find Scooby overrated and I don't get "Beavis and Butthead."
No offense to those who do like those series, but they don't appeal to me.
A furry with eclectic tastes who loves the 80s and 90s. Mostly 1984-1992.
I do not like Mr. Beast like videos. I just can't watch them. It's just too crazy and seems fake.
God, you're not the only one. I feel like there has to be something ulterior about those videos. I mean there is all of that reputation laundering and stuff...
"oooh, you're a- a freaked out child in the woods..."
