LogFAQs > #877202783

I always forget to do these. But since everyone is...


"What annoys you the most about modern gaming?"

It seems hard for truly new and fresh IPs to come out. Making games is expensive, and gamers fickle. So companies either spend big bucks on big, but safe, AAA games of established properties, or there is an endless mill of cheap indie games, although the vast bulk of them are garbage or clones. Game properties somewhere in the middle rarely last. I miss the SNES-N64 days, where experimentation was rampant, because there wasn't a concern for a huge loss. Also hate how many studios make nothing but gritty, "realistic" big AAA games these days. Yeah, I do like stuff like The Witcher, Dark Souls, and Uncharted, but I miss games that felt like, you know, classic video games, where the concept is wacky but sheer fun is the entire point. It's almost a cruel irony that Capcom put a representation of this mentality, Viewtiful Joe, in their MvC games, while also not allowing a VJ3 to be made.

MS and Sony obsession over power, rather than innovation, I think also promotes this bland push for safe big games.


"What do you like the most about modern gaming?"

The sheer variety is overwhelming, which is nice. Also, I'll admit that I was a huge opponent of DLC, for the fears of game developers making half-finished games. And while on-disc DLC was tried, and some developers DO use Internet connections as an excuse to fix broken games later (hi there, Bethesda!), I think DLC has proven to be more rewarding over all.

Steam is also a god-send for PC gaming.

"Finally, what do you miss and not miss about classic gaming?"

As said before, the sheer will to try any concept, and making games that were there just for "fun", as opposed to tell some serious story. I miss how some genres have died off, like Platformers and RTS for the PC, in favor of shooters.





So, The Last Jedi is out, and as I speculated months ago, seems like Luke is the one who wants the Jedi to end (likely for the "2 sides of the same coin" reasoning). This begs the question of why Rey is being trained as a Jedi then, but oh well.
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