E3 (but not really) 2022

Vyse Inglebard said:
David Cronenberg is a treasure to humanity, and I will not stand for anyone slandering his name. Faggot.

Edit: on a somewhat more on-topic note, this ought put a smile on those who suffered through Devolver's conference this year:

Devolver Digital Shares Plummet After Company Downgrades Sales Expectations​

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Agreed, that's a real head scratcher why someone would react so negatively to a mention of Videodrome given how prescient the movie is as well as a lot of Cronenberg's stuff.

Remember in Crash the creepy middle aged guy going on about his troon fantasy of dying dressed as Jayne Mansfield? Remember how the movie is clearly presenting it as "this guy is a freak" and not stunning and brave?
 
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albert the programmer said:
I’ll have you know that Dom is trapped in the 2000’s like most of us gamers that are trying to figure why they continue to post more globohomo in video games that are being directed towards to children that are younger than 14.
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When the fuck is the Nintendo Direct?

Nintendo must be waiting for the corpses of their enemies to float by.
 
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Dom Cruise said:
Truly 2008 was the end of the salad days
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I remember reading Top 50 Games of the Year issues of Game Informer and remembering 2004 and 2007 being particularly incredible. Honestly just looking through this has depressed the hell out of me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_in_video_games

From like 1994 - 2007 we got nothing but nonstop classics, and then it just gets progressively more mediocre over time until we come to the shitpile that is current year.
 
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MisoSupper said:
A lot of these problems stems from the death of AA development not the consumer. I remember in the PS2 era any asshole could make a weird ass game and make a living without needing Activision-tier budgets. Now its either Indie or AAA with no real in-between. Kickstarters have helped, but its annoying consumers have to always shoulder the risk just to get some basic originality akin to the 90's and 00's. I don't really blame the consumer, its the market that's gone to shit.
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Kind of a mix. I think the seventh gen, while my favorite, was overall the death of gaming.

It was the period in which normies really got invested into the medium then funneled into only a few spaces. The Wii and DS were large hits that made people of all ages, genders, what have you interested in games. A bunch of those normies never gained any respect for the medium though and just placed money on what they know or what culture said. Studios like EA went to shit because they can crap out sports titles once a year and the new normie audience will eat it up as they know sports. Gaming was no longer for nerds, and now what sells is basic bitch shit like sports-ball titles. Most of the women who got brought in by the 7th gen got funneled into the phone ecosystem, or shit micro-transaction gaming.

As for gamers themselves, fuck, they really only made shit worse. The 7th gen graphics whoring killed AA studios, and the stupid hardcore shit at the end of the 7th gen was an ecosystem that killed anything that wasn’t a shit FPS or Assasins Creed knockoffs. The gay as fuck 360 online culture really killed the industry as now big studios just make COD,while the Japanese studios fell off for not adapting to multishit titles.

Then at the very end you had the “Games are Art” jackasses that created the current movie game and journo culture we have today.

What I hate about the seventh gen is that it opened up the possibilities of gaming, only for people to fight it until everything became streamlined into repetitive genres. Had audiences made better choices, we likely would have a better gaming space.
 
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Billy_Sama said:
Nintendo adapted the Luigi does nothing meme and will win by doing nothing.
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My image details say this is from 2013 but I think that is when I moved everything over from an older hard drive. So I'm not really sure when this was made.

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MisoSupper said:
I remember reading Top 50 Games of the Year issues of Game Informer and remembering 2004 and 2007 being particularly incredible. Honestly just looking through this has depressed the hell out of me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_in_video_games

From like 1994 - 2007 we got nothing but nonstop classics, and then it just gets progressively more mediocre over time after until we come to the shitpile that is current year.
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Bro we haven't had a "golden year" for gaming releases since 2007...and that was 15 years ago... *sigh*
 
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Judge Dredd said:
I won't repeat the joke, but there is truth to people complaining about the focus on graphics then handwave indie games as "pixelshit" or "ugly", complain that games are all remakes and sequels and then only buy known AAA franchises, complain about games being pozzed and then expect woke AAA to fix it.
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Nearly all of the indie games shown over the past few days were knock-offs or straight up rip-offs of other stuff that has sold well.

The graphics aren't the problem, the complete and utter lack of originality is. The indie sphere is where the new ideas are allegedly supposed to come from and they are all just copying each others homework.
 
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Broseph said:
Bro we haven't had a "golden year" for gaming releases since 2007...and that was 15 years ago... *sigh*
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I wanted to argue, but then I sorted my Steam library by release date and scrolled through, and, uh... yeah. *sigh* 2010 and 2013 are decent, but if 2022 turned out to be on par with them, we'd hear "BEST YEAR EVARRRRRRRRRRR" from all over. Shit is dire, man.
 
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Broseph said:
Bro we haven't had a "golden year" for gaming releases since 2007...and that was 15 years ago... *sigh*
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Some people would argue for 2011 or 2017.

2011: Deus Ex, Skyrim, Batman Arkham City, Portal 2

2017: BOTW, Cuphead, Mario Odyssey, RE7, Prey

I think this generation will be the first one without a great year.
 
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Dr. Geronimo said:
I think this generation will be the first one without a great year.
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I guess it depends on where you claim the generation starts. If we are considering Switch 9th gen, then 2017 was one hell of a year, if not, then shit.

I think the pandemic shifting has fucked at least the beginning half of these consoles. You are right, we really are heading into a generation where you may get one solid game per year. This sucks.
 
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I wanted to argue, but then I sorted my Steam library by release date and scrolled through, and, uh... yeah. *sigh* 2010 and 2013 are decent, but if 2022 turned out to be on par with them, we'd hear "BEST YEAR EVARRRRRRRRRRR" from all over. Shit is dire, man.
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2007 is correct. Beyond that the industry as a whole has been junk, with Nintendo and the occasional good release carrying everyone else on their shoulders.
 
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But my doods, Hotline Miami was released in 2012 and I've been informed that it is not in fact a janky shitty game, but one of the indie greats. Not to mention the random bullshit simulator indie classic FTL: Faster Than Light which was released the same year. How can you not mention 2012 as one of the greatest years of gaming?
 
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There won't be a direct this month, I think.

Nintendo probably doesn't want to show BOTW2 because it's not coming out this year now, and other than that there isn't really anything to show off.

They just have enough sense not to rush out a shitty direct like everyone else did with their presentations the past two weeks.
 
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