Decline is gaming officially over

[the mole]

everything is just dogshit now

a game looks interesting to me and then I read a bit about it and find out it's awful

 

[RNGsus]

Yes. Now what?

Wrong forum, douchebag.

 

[Sunri]

Play Shadow Tactics - Blades of the Shogun

 

[Bigg Boss]

Yes. Go away now.

 

[the mole]

Yes. Now what?

Wrong forum, douchebag.

ah the toughguy routine

 

[the mole]

Yes. Go away now.

I was just getting settled in

 

[RNGsus]

Yes. Now what?

Wrong forum, douchebag.

ah the toughguy routine

ah the gay retard Liberal routine

 

[the mole]

Yes. Now what?

Wrong forum, douchebag.

ah the toughguy routine

ah the gay retard Liberal routine

thinking gaming is shit now makes me a liberal

interesting hypothesis but I'm sensing now that you're a faggot

 

[rusty_shackleford]

not even close
not sure if we'll ever seen anything quite as bad as the post-xbox 360/PS3 drought again

 

[tritosine2k]

Gaming on pimped out office lcd and wOkeLED never had a chance

 

[RNGsus]

Yes. Now what?

Wrong forum, douchebag.

ah the toughguy routine

ah the gay retard Liberal routine

thinking gaming is shit now makes me a liberal

interesting hypothesis but I'm sensing now that you're a faggot

Stop playing retard, Liberal.

 

[the mole]

Yes. Now what?

Wrong forum, douchebag.

ah the toughguy routine

ah the gay retard Liberal routine

thinking gaming is shit now makes me a liberal

interesting hypothesis but I'm sensing now that you're a faggot

Stop playing retard, Liberal.

why are you capitalizing liberal

 

[RNGsus]

You're someone's alt, might as well be his.

 

[the mole]

You're someone's alt, might as well be his.

I've gotten that baseless accusation before

 

[Fluent]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6TKKnJENaE

:D

 

[Viata]

No, it's not. Start looking for good games or making your own games, nigga.

 

[Baxander]

Yes. Now what?

Wrong forum, douchebag.

ah the toughguy routine

Ignore him. He was probably one of those liberal punks trying to kick Rittenhouse in the face or hit him in the head with his skateboard. We saw how that worked out.

 

[KörangarTheMighty]

For me it is, sort of anyway. Most of the franchises I like have been in decline since "insert whatever sequel here." Some haven't had a sequel in years and are dead. Some have even changed genres completely, meaning I've lost all interest in them. Others have been so good or so comprehensive that they have rendered all else in the genre too boring or too simple to enjoy. Nothing has come out to replace them. Some genres are too simple to enjoy anymore entirely. Lastly, I find it difficult to find anything interesting either because I've seen it all before or just out of bad luck. I should probably look further afield and get out of my comfort zone, but who gives a shit really. I'm getting older and I have enough to keep me occupied as is. As an aside, there are certainly ideas of games I'd like to see come into existence, but any time something comes out that claims to fit the bill it's usually underwhelming or still too shallow.

 

[grim1234]

Are we talking about RPGs only or games in general. Because I can point you towards games that are not complete dogshit. No Far Cries or other soulless shit like that, don't worry.

 

[perfectslumbers]

No, games are pretty good right now. Releases have slowed down from COVID and dev times are longer but I think things are decent, just games come out less often.

 

[J1M]

everything is just dogshit now

a game looks interesting to me and then I read a bit about it and find out it's awful

Yes. The soul of the industry did not survive the generational replacement. It has been thoroughly colonized by special interest groups.

 

[0wca]

A lot of them are shit nowadays, regardless of genre, with RPGs having the biggest drought by far.

Just look at how many huge releases happened just in 1999 alone: Diablo 2, Age of Empires 2, Planescape Torment, Rollecoaster Tycoon, etc.

All classics and a lot of them still played to this day. Hell, AoE 2 still has tournaments and dedicated Youtube channels, even before the DE came out.

Time is the best judge of quality and a lot of great games have withstood it. How many games from the past 10 years (F:NV notwithstanding), will be remembered a decade from now? Very few, I imagine. If nothing else, the soul of gaming is gone because it's become a huge business and back in the day a lot of great companies went to shit because they took risks in order to do what they love. The only people doing that now are a handful of indie developers.

Couple that with the tsunami of identity politics and other horseshit they cram into games and they've now also become digital propaganda or, at the very least, a backtapping, virtue signaling circle jerk.

So it's not really dead, but it's basically on life-support and in a coma, so we don't know if its permanent or not.

 

[Higher Game]

everything is just dogshit now

a game looks interesting to me and then I read a bit about it and find out it's awful

All the games have been made. All is mods now. The mods that are open and honest about this are the good ones. Mods can even fix mods.

Equip the ring.

 

[Shaki]

everything is just dogshit now

Always was, we were just younger and didn't know better.

That's why RPG Codex exists, so once you grow up, you can have a place to get together with other gamers, and discuss why every single game in existence is dogshit and we hate it.

 

[ADL]

It's better than it ever has been if you know what to look for. Every niche I can think of is saturated if not oversaturated due to inexpensive tools with low barriers of entry and digital distribution. The games I tend to enjoy aren't taking the spotlight like they used to but they don't need to with low development costs associated with the modern game development landscape.