Let me preface that I’ve been gaming since I was 10, own a PS5 and had an Xbox Series X both at one point (and played Game Pass)

But man… after spending the summer going to garage sales, finding older / retro games for PS2, GameCube, SNES I’ve realized that games are not any better than they are these days, or not even near the amount of originality that came with said games.

I’ve played some great games like Ghost of Tsushima, the Tomb Raider Reboot on PS4 and loved those, looking into the future of games I’d want to get on PS5 and the list seems rather small, maybe I’ve consider GTA 6 and the Metal Gear Solid 3 remake, but really that’s about it – and I usually try new things but haven’t found a modern day game on the PS5 that really hooks me in.

I find myself going back playing Donkey Kong Country on SNES, Tetris on GameBoy, or even having a blast playing Mortal Kombat Trilogy on PS1 – games like those while tied in nostalgia just seem to have been made better – I just don’t know what changed. I’ve also been collecting older video game magazines like GamePro and EGM – and it shows so much excitement around video games.

My question is too, is it because rental stores disappeared and now we’re stuck with a 50-70 dollar game (refund if we can, sometimes not always the case) – did developers get lazy? Small studios bought out by big companies? What about exclusives being faded out, or everything being ported over to every system?

  • @Interesting_Many_983BEnglish
    1•7 months ago

    While 60$ was always the price for quality games, 70$ is definitely overpriced for anything AAA, Baldurs Gate 3 proves that.

    I think nostalgia is definitely deceiving until you play those games again, I always replay the Souls trilogy to once again convince myself how I feel about them. I did the same with older CODs this year becayse I felt scammed by MW2, since Activision is falsely advertising that their CODs have a working MP and are knowingly distributing games with huge security problems, it was a bit hard.

    But after pirating, I managed to play those old CODs again, and let me tell you, they are indeed better than new ones, in almost all ways.

    They were made in times where to make money from games, you HAD to make them good, now you just don’t, people who buy games aren’t only gamers anymore and bar for quality and effort is minimal. This is something you have to remember.