Modern Gaming Sucks!!! Or Does It?

[BrawlMan]

​

 

[BrawlMan]

Interesting reasons, but I would cross out #1 and #7. You can have the most realistic graphics, and still be a shitty game. Game streaming is only good, if you live in an area with great Internet. Even then, it's not always consistent.

https://www.makeuseof.com/reasons-why-you-should-love-modern-video-games/

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

Sturgeon's Law: If 90% of modern games are bad, that's because 90% of all games are bad. It's just that, from the really old generations, nobody except the people who record every single game that's ever existed even remember the bad games exist, so it seems like there are only good games from those generations. And if you think I'm lying, watch a few episodes of The Angry Video Game Nerd (aim for around 2007), and see how many of the games on that list you've heard of outside of that context.

Bad games have always existed, and good games continue to exist. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something, whether they know it or not.

True, there’s just more of everything now. Eventually it will come to a head and the cycle will continue with few lessons learned, because technology and the way games are delivered in the marketplace will change enough for execs to think, “Hey, clean slate for more bs!”

 

[Chimpzy]

PRESENTATION: The State of Video Gaming in 2025 — MatthewBall.co

A 220-page presentation on the past, present and potential future of the video game industry.

www.matthewball.co

It's a very lengthy read, often a bit dry, often a bit buzzword-y, but otherwise an interesting analysis of the state of the industry

TLDR

Especially for dinosaurs like us

 

[Satinavian]

PRESENTATION: The State of Video Gaming in 2025 — MatthewBall.co

A 220-page presentation on the past, present and potential future of the video game industry.

www.matthewball.co

It's a very lengthy read, often a bit dry, often a bit buzzword-y, but otherwise an interesting analysis of the state of the industry

Interesting.

However a substantial part of the doom and gloom seems to be about how non western developers get a larger part of the pie, something i as a player have no problem with whatsoever as long as i get good games.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

I'm gonna need some documentation on this Sturgeon's Law, because I keep hearing that '90% of all movies/shows/games are bad' but it never goes beyond assumptions. Like, what are the parameters exactly?

90% is just an off-the-cuff placeholder number for something that, basically, can't actually be qualified due to it being entirely subjective. It's basically a refutation of survivorship bias, the "this were better before, when there weren't bad <x>, only good <x>".

You know, like how nobody remembers the reels and reels of terrible/mediocre/basically fine movies that came out however many years ago, because the only ones people talk about survived the test of time, were legendarily bad, or given a sort of posthumous undeath by outfits like MST3K

List of Nintendo 64 games - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Basically everything on this list has been forgotten and ranges from actively bad to mediocre to niche