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Hell Swarm

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I see you're retarded and looking for a beating. As everyone except you knows, Nintendo is very much its own ecosystem. Nintendo exclusives, few and far between as they are, don't compete with anything else. They are free money from Millennial soyjaks and will always sell well unless they're catastrophically awful.

In the broader gaming market, presentation (and in particular graphical quality) is what sells games. It's the only thing AAA developers really care about, and it's where they spend most of their development money. This has been true for well over a decade and it's why those games are consistently uninteresting and samey.
Nintendo is THE Normie market. You can't discuss normie tastes without normiecore of Nintendo being a cradle to grave train.

Graphics whore games don't usually do well though. Suicide Squad is a graphics whore game, Saints row reboot wasn't graphically ugly and many other cases just don't sell well. If you think graphics sell games any more you're about 10 maybe even 20 years out of date. Since the PS4 graphical gains have been so minor it's irrelevant. All the big sellers this year have been mediocre graphics wise, the big fad games normies latch onto through twitch like Helldivers and Pal world aren't the visual razors edge. They're stock unreal engine.
 

Lizard

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Knight had better graphics and aesthetic. Amazing to see even capeshit get so downgraded, not even fast food trash media is safe from incompetence. The decline is getting worse and worse, and even normies are noticing now.
 

Arthandas

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If graphics had stopped improving 25 years ago, we wouldn't have all these normie faggots in the hobby buying garbage products just because they look new and shiny.
The biggest sellers are actually "low-fidelity" games like Minecraft, Terraria, Stardew Valley, Valheim, Balatro, Undertale and so on
 

911 Jumper

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Just came across this
Where is Next Gen Gameplay? (21:44 mins)

Braindead consoomer take. Talks about how great it is that graphics are improving so much, then explains the lack of gameplay innovation with "Games are so expensive to make! People keep buying the old and formulaic!" Doesn't connect the dots that improving graphics are the problem. If graphics had stopped improving 25 years ago, we wouldn't have all these normie faggots in the hobby buying garbage products just because they look new and shiny. Developers would have to innovate their gameplay in order to sell games.

Finally got round to watching it in full and yes I agree. The emphasis on realism and the desire to compete with film and TV have led to inflated costs and less risk-taking in the gameplay department. The vid suggests that GTA6 is going to change things significantly in terms of 3D gameplay. I don't see that happening. GTA6's visuals bring GTA closer to reality than any other GTA before it. This means it will be even harder to implement video game-y experimental gameplay mechanics without it clashing with the realism that the rest of the game is trying to simulate.

This is why I don't see a next gen Xbox and PS6 bringing anything new in terms of gameplay. Both MS and Sony are competing with film and TV (see the upcoming Hellblade 2 for Xbox's take on a Sony movie video game, for example). As long as that remains the case, it'll be more of the same for gameplay: gameplay iterations of popular sixth and seventh gen 3D games – with prettier graphics.
 

Hell Swarm

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How many more "Game that was considered good 20 years ago is actually good guys!" videos do we need.

More. But they should post them on Twitter. Modern vidya designers don't play classic games or watch YT but they sure love Musk's dopamine dispenser.
Many websites have become gamified. You could argue Codex has it's own gamified system where rating and big flashy pop ups in the corner are a form of gamifying a forum.

 

NecroLord

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How many more "Game that was considered good 20 years ago is actually good guys!" videos do we need.

More. But they should post them on Twitter. Modern vidya designers don't play classic games or watch YT but they sure love Musk's dopamine dispenser.
Problem is there is an overabundance of such content that provides absolutely no new insight or thoughtful analysis on older games.
 

Fedora Master

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I'd be interested in an actual zoomer's or GenAlpha's opinions on games like Fallout and Gothic but anyone from that generation with the brains to play them - WITHOUT a guide - is probably just going to come to the same conclusions we all made anyway.
 

Hagashager

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Morrozoomees are a thing. They're a passionate if...misguided lot. A lot of the larger scale mods are being partially developed by Zoomers. The weirder, more political mods are also being developed by Zoomers.
 

Hell Swarm

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I'd be interested in an actual zoomer's or GenAlpha's opinions on games like Fallout and Gothic but anyone from that generation with the brains to play them - WITHOUT a guide - is probably just going to come to the same conclusions we all made anyway.
Those games made almost everyone around at their release skip them too. So probably exactly the same conclusions we all did, which was 'I'd rather play something else'.
 

Baron Dupek

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I'd be interested in an actual zoomer's or GenAlpha's opinions on games like Fallout and Gothic but anyone from that generation with the brains to play them - WITHOUT a guide - is probably just going to come to the same conclusions we all made anyway.
Wish granted

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pongsifu+fallout



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyl7IWTmWX8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCT2SG4ohgI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjbZ0Ua4wYs

tl;dw (din't watch) most of them can handle it, sometimes even restart the playthrough instead of giving up and playing something else (from a backlog) or returning to usual slop

beside 1st result almost no one played Fallout Tactics?
 

Butter

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beside 1st result almost no one played Fallout Tactics?
Normies don't know the difference between Tactics and BoS (Interplay get some of the blame for retard-tier naming). They hear BoS is a bad game and so they skip Tactics. It doesn't help that Tactics on Steam doesn't just work out of the box like 1 and 2 do.
 
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beside 1st result almost no one played Fallout Tactics?
Normies don't know the difference between Tactics and BoS (Interplay get some of the blame for retard-tier naming). They hear BoS is a bad game and so they skip Tactics. It doesn't help that Tactics on Steam doesn't just work out of the box like 1 and 2 do.
Normies don't even know about BoS, the "I heard it's bad" applies to Tactics. Nobody wants to remember BoS, to be fair.
 

KeighnMcDeath

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Ah yes... the avatar gets some.
IMG_7085.jpg

That "thong!"
Though, Keef the thief preferred blondes.
 

Morpheus Kitami

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beside 1st result almost no one played Fallout Tactics?
Normies don't know the difference between Tactics and BoS (Interplay get some of the blame for retard-tier naming). They hear BoS is a bad game and so they skip Tactics. It doesn't help that Tactics on Steam doesn't just work out of the box like 1 and 2 do.
Considering that BoS is so buried you can't even really buy it anymore I'm not surprised people get it confused. Tactics also isn't exactly the best tactical game around, which is a problem for a genre most people don't really care for.
 

Baron Dupek

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another random find on main page
small sub&views count yet to be blessed by almighty algorithm
 

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