How are you feeling about the games industry?

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Started by Legend, Jan 31, 2018, 05:47 AM

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Legend

I've been noticing my own views slowly changing and we definitely don't all agree so maybe this could be an interesting discussion.


I'm all but over AAA gaming. Awesome ones can still happen like Horizon Zero Dawn but they seem to be rarer and rarer. Also predatory practices just keep getting worse and worse so I've lost faith in them doing anything but going farther down the drain, at least in the short term. I'm still very hyped for a lot of big games but I've kinda got a lot more pessimistic with it. IE I hope GOW is great since it looks great, but I'm not a nearly guaranteed purchase like I would have been in the past. Instead I'm going to wait for reviews and impressions, and maybe even a price drop. Death Stranding is probably the only game I'm already sold on, but they could still screw it up with microtransactions. Speaking of microtransactions, I'm still boycotting games with rng microtransactions. That's mostly from me feeling disinterested in how they damage the rest of the game, but I also don't mind thinking of it as an actual boycott.

Smaller and indie games are where it's at. They're cheap and tend to feel so less scummy. I'm really looking forward to a lot of games and how this side of the industry evolves.

Also I've really embraced playing games way after they release. I'm really not a multiplayer gamer so it's a good way to save money. Also if you have a mediocre game with tons of microtransactions but you bought it super cheap and have low expectations, it's a lot more fun. Even though I'm really disliking some ways the industry is going, I'm pretty ok just as a player. Gaming is still incredibly fun overall.