Unpopular Opinions about Video Games

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

Some predications I want to share. We are about to head to a crash. I give it one or two years and you are going to see a significant drop in the amount of AAA games . As it stands now the development process is extremely bloated and long winded. Coupled that with how politics are getting ham-fisted into everything now it is going to sour anything that had any potential.

Nintendo might be the only company that maybe immune to the crash. They have the prestige behind the brand to last and parents generally trust Nintendo. They really are the Disney of video games. The increase in price for the system and the games are largely not going to affect them. Little Tommy and Timmy don't care about they price, they are going to buy the damn thing to shut them up.

Microsoft is going to go third party. What is going to happen is that they are going to push gamepass to as many systems as possible. Sony is going to be tempted to put it on there but not Nintendo. They might put out a streaming system that works with gamepass but they are going to drop out of the race.

Sony will still be in the race and will try to continue operations as they have been. For me they are the hardest to predict. Once GTA comes out they are going to contribue to the crash, indrectly. GTA is going to be 100 bucks. Once it sells like gang busters (we know it will) every other AAA game will put that price on their game, but no one will buy them. Also don't expect GTA to be like any of the other ones. While politics are always apart of the series, it was more in a funny way. Expect more DEI shit and less humor. Anyone white and male will be evi.l

Will this be the end of video games, no. Japan is still going to pump out games but they are going to be AA. That is all but shit I would not expect right about ANYTHING.

If so, that would really future-proof my future gaming PC if games stopped evolving at the PS5 generation.

 

[The Last Stand]

Nintendo might be the only company that maybe immune to the crash. They have the prestige behind the brand to last and parents generally trust Nintendo. They really are the Disney of video games. The increase in price for the system and the games are largely not going to affect them. Little Tommy and Timmy don't care about they price, they are going to buy the damn thing to shut them up.

I think Nintendo's Switch 2 pricing would be the catalyst for a potential AAA crash. Sure, Little Timmy can ask for the latest Switch 2, but I'm sure a parent would think: "Why is THIS new Nintendo more expensive than the last one?" The current inflation and tariffs wouldn't help matters either.

This reminds me of the decline of the rhythm music genre. Remember when Guitar Hero and Rock Band became a craze after World Tour became popular with families and gamers in the 2000s? One external factor contributed to GH/RB's decline: the 2008 recession. It wasn't just buying the game; you had to buy at least one instrument to play. Guitar, drums, microphone, now multiply that by each person that may want to play.

Also, Activision was pumping out Guitar Hero games left and right, one after the other. I think GH had five titles, counting spin-offs in 2009 alone. People got tired of it, people couldn't afford to keep up, the music genre died a slow death. It kinda reminds me of Nintendo with amiibos, even though you didn't "need" those figurines to play games. Actually, a better comparison would've been the "toys to life" genre from Skylanders and Disney Infinity. Look at it now, it's bargain bin crap where you need an expensive peripheral and toys to use a FRACTION of the game.

 

[ChampFantana]

Darkwatch is a woefully under-rated PS2 FPS, and the fact that we never got a sequel or remaster for modern consoles is a crime against humanity.

 

[demicolon]

Less crash and more layoffs and few less fortunate big players selling off to survivors. In general: more and more gaming moving to phone P2W crap like it's been for the past decade. That's where the big money still is.

There's just too damn many games, indies went through that where there was so much shit to play on Steam people would buy games and never play them which is not a healthy environemnt. I can download abandonware from the 90s that gameplay-wise is no different that what I could buy today. It's also the reason why there's so much push for game as a service model, publishers know this very well and they want a model that allows them to create artificial scarcity on the market by blatantly denying you the ability to play after a certain time.

 

[The Ugly One]

Less crash and more layoffs and few less fortunate big players selling off to survivors. In general: more and more gaming moving to phone P2W crap like it's been for the past decade. That's where the big money still is.

There's just too damn many games, indies went through that where there was so much shit to play on Steam people would buy games and never play them which is not a healthy environemnt. I can download abandonware from the 90s that gameplay-wise is no different that what I could buy today. It's also the reason why there's so much push for game as a service model, publishers know this very well and they want a model that allows them to create artificial scarcity on the market by blatantly denying you the ability to play after a certain time.

It's basically already happened. Hardly anybody makes games like we knew them back in the PS2 & PS3 era. They're all battlepass-churners now.

 

[Calandrino]

There are just too darned many great video games coming out nowadays, so I wouldn't mind if they slowed down a little and gave a fella a chance to catch up a little.

 

[The Hardest R]

I’ve said this ad nauseam here but there was a crash during The Great Recession from like 2009-2012. Studios were shuttering and consolidating left and right. The recession and high definition assets wreaked havoc on the industry even as sales increased overall. Games that could cover their costs if they sell 200,000 copies were no longer possible then and sure as hell can’t be done now.

They really are the Disney of video games.

For Nintendo’s sake, hopefully not as Disney is really struggling these last few years.

I think Nintendo's Switch 2 pricing would be the catalyst for a potential AAA crash. Sure, Little Timmy can ask for the latest Switch 2, but I'm sure a parent would think: "Why is THIS new Nintendo more expensive than the last one?"

If Nintendo had it their way, they’d keep going with the original Switch. Each year they still sell several million more copies of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, a Wii U port. The Switch 2 is the most cynical console they’ve ever developed. It’s basically “you want this bad enough, here you go” which is why it’s very expensive for what you get. I believe Nintendo is just fine if Switch 2 doesn’t light the world on fire.

 

[The Last Stand]

I’ve said this ad nauseam here but there was a crash during The Great Recession from like 2009-2012. Studios were shuttering and consolidating left and right. The recession and high definition assets wreaked havoc on the industry even as sales increased overall.

A few studios have shuttered their doors recently, that doesn't necessarily mean there's a crash.

 

[Gondolindrim]

We need to go back to normal video game showcases. Why can't people just make gameplay videos anymore? Everything has to have snappy commentary and awful attempts at humor.

 

[Fig Kommandant]

Everything has to have snappy commentary and awful attempts at humor.

Did you forget what E3 was?

 

[moocow]

I remember my dad telling me stories of during those 2-3 years of the crash, no games on store shelves, no arcades, almost all gaming in his local area just vanished.

But there are no arcades now, nothing but dogshit games on four stores' shelves (what's left, Gamestop, Best Buy, Walmart and Target?), and no local gaming (what little there was was subverted by troons years ago and even the people who smell bad despite not being homeless don't bother anymore).

Fuck it. Let it crash. I've got a backlog long enough to last a lifetime.

 

[biglurker]

Did you forget what E3 was?

Live demos and actual gameplay before Nintendo ruined it for everyone?
The minor games on the show floor were especially awesome, since they stayed live demos before coivd ruined that as well.

 

[Gondolindrim]

Live demos and actual gameplay before Nintendo ruined it for everyone?
The minor games on the show floor were especially awesome, since they stayed live demos before coivd ruined that as well.

I'm old enough to remember when E3 was cool. I choose to remember what it was, not what it became.

 

[X Prime]

I meant in general, I don't believe you haven't seen scantily clad Aya in suggestive poses. PE wasn't too popular, and the second game is a result of Square's readjusted marketing. I remember back in the days the shower scene used to be discussed more often than how to beat GOLEMs.

Now this is not true after the initial period; somehow PE2 got a pretty dedicated if tiny fanbase who talked endlessly about the challenge modes.

 

[4chanJanitorDefenseForce]

I'm old enough to remember when E3 was cool. I choose to remember what it was, not what it became.

It wasn't that E3 was cool, but we were limited in how information was disseminated. Nobody talked about shit until E3/TGS/etc. The actual show was gay, booth babes or not. It was better to just get a summary and trailers after each day (at least, after about 2000. You were lucky to get good magazine coverage of it before that).
It was already dying before the kung flu, because wahmen wanted to fuck up something guys paid attention to.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Retail WoW has wrapped back around to being good

My god tell me you are willing to accept actual slop like Hero Talents without saying it outright.

 

[anonski]

My god tell me you are willing to accept actual slop like Hero Talents without saying it outright.

So far across both phases of TWW I have run into situations on 2 of my characters where both hero talents were viable for different reasons and it makes for some decently entertaining character building.

I think they were supposed to make you feel like various Warcraft 3 hero units from the hero talents, it didn't succeed in that at all, but my DH would not be nearly as fun in this expac without Aldrachi Reaver

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

So far across both phases of TWW I have run into situations on 2 of my characters where both hero talents were viable for different reasons and it makes for some decently entertaining character building.

I think they were supposed to make you feel like various Warcraft 3 hero units from the hero talents, it didn't succeed in that at all, but my DH would not be nearly as fun in this expac without Aldrachi Reaver

You DPS or Tank?

Edit : It actually doesn't matter because Reaver's "Gotta collect Souls" shit is retarded for the DPS side because they don't produce all that many fragments. You are literally sucking off a tree that uses an ability your spec doesn't really use (Throw Glaive is a joke for Tank DH and Souls are a Joke for DPS DH) from a talent tree themed from a group that was dead for thousands of years before Demon Hunters even existed and thus has nothing to do with your class.

 

[anonski]

You DPS or Tank?

Edit : It actually doesn't matter because Reaver's "Gotta collect Souls" shit is retarded for the DPS side because they don't produce all that many fragments. You are literally sucking off a tree that uses an ability your spec doesn't really use (Throw Glaive is a joke for Tank DH and Souls are a Joke for DPS DH) from a talent tree themed from a group that was dead for thousands of years before Demon Hunters even existed and thus has nothing to do with your class.

DPS

You clearly haven't been keeping up, because they massively upped the soul production for AR in Undermine, and throw glaive is not the source of your soul shards, at all.
Getting a set amount of soul shards empowers throw glaive into a different move that's actually worth using, which then empowers your basic moves based in the order you use them in once you've thrown it.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

DPS

You clearly haven't been keeping up, because they massively upped the soul production for AR in Undermine, and throw glaive is not the source of your soul shards, at all.
Getting a set amount of soul shards empowers throw glaive into a different move that's actually worth using, which then empowers your basic moves based in the order you use them in once you've thrown it.

You have to take Sigil of Spite and Felblade to use the Soul aspect of Reaver, Those are the only abilities that make souls now. The Tree is (supposedly) all about souls which is effectively a non mechanic for Havok, you don't even get souls off Chaos Strike anymore.

throw glaive is not the source of your soul shards, at all.

You have to use Throw Glaive to activate the Reaver's Glaive, which is something that the Tank Demon Hunters don't ever really use.