- Joined
- Jul 5, 2019
There's been a lot of AAA games from the past few years that I've enjoyed (Cyberpronoun, Baldur's Gate III, Elden Ring, Control, RE2R, RE4R, etc), and there have been a lot of lower-tier/smaller titles too (Pentiment, Selaco, Skald, Gloomwood, System Shock remake, Wartales, etc). As it is my backlog is pretty expansive, with most of the games being recent releases.What's the newest game you people played and really enjoyed? It's hard for me to remember anything newer than Metal Gear Rising or Deus Ex: Mankind Divided both of which I liked.
I believe that freely available video game engines such as UE, Unity, Godot etc. accelerated the growth of mediocre indie-bullshit video games made by people with profile bios like "Deidre Gwyneth, transfem lesbian, xhe/xhem, wiccan, diaper fetishist, tarot card enjoyer" which on their turn lowered the standards for AAA studios.
Am I just an old fart (slightly over 20 yo) or are things really like that?
The state of the AAA industry and the abundance of lazy shovelware cashgrabs make it easy to become jaded, but I think overall the landscape for games is pretty healthy. There are many projects out there in various stages of production that I'm excited for, most of them from smaller studios that luckily aren't beholden to the whims of out of touch corporate executives or the constraints of palms greased by DEI funding.