Where did it all go wrong?
When we stopped publicly executing politicians and millionaires (there were no billionaires yet at the time).
When you blamed the SJWs and Anita Sarkeesian.
I’m not happy. Are you?
Offline games will stay existing, even if the AAA studios won’t create those.
But fuck em.
There’s already more amazing games than you or I could possibly play in a lifetime. If they only make shitty games, I’ll just play old games. I’ve been gaming on a retro handheld and honestly there’s so many amazing games I missed.
Indy devs are also killing it in the multiplayer space with silly and charming co-op experiences. I played a lot of Peak and Motor Town with friends lately and both are just so fun.
When companies stopped being able to actually make anything new, they then choose to find new ways to extract profit from the customer. Far cheaper than expending money on R&D, retooling, etc. They all decided to become landlords of the worst kind, squatting on their tech and extracting rent while ensuring the rest of us own nothing.
Just wanted to say that I love Reze.
It is the grim dark far future of all gaming. Forget the promise of freedom to upgrade and superior graphical fidelity. There is no peace among the Discord servers, only an eternity of monetization, and micro transactions.
It’s way better than "you will have a big car, a big house, an fat wife and a dog "
Hell, Kristi, did you get so bored after being fired that you found the fediverse?
oh no, not home ownership and pets
and food security
fires up klondike
I think the “patient gamer” model could be the way through don’t buy new shit and encourage your friends to play older games too. Hardware can be not great and the games are cheap.
How long is that going to work though? Today’s slop is not going to unslop in 5 years, and it seems like every big name game publisher is exclusively doing slop now. Especially the optimization issue won’t go away, and it looks like the times where you could just wait for a generation or two of more powerful hardware are over, too - hardware might be getting more powerful, but the performance per dollar isn’t improving because the performance is only improving incrementally and I don’t see hardware prices going down to what was normal pre-Covid.
Theoretically, we could see the PC gaming market come to resemble that of eastern Europe in the past, where everybody has very minimal or outdated hardware and the indie scene builds games with this in mind.
That’s pretty dire, but I prefer it over cloud subscriptions becoming the norm for gaming and other compute heavy tasks.
We’ll just mod the old games.
Still plenty of indie devs making good games. Really, you could just work through all the good games made up to this point and be fine for the rest of your life.
Otoh, if what you really care about is the social connection you get from playing games and talking about them with other people, you can just take up gardening or community service or pole dancing to get that.
it seems like every big name game publisher is exclusively doing slop now.
You have to understand the capitalism, it is doing slop because slop is what sells to people
You will need to shift your monies away from big name game publishers to smaller ones that make content that you prefer thereby encouraging them to make more non-slop
But I’ve been saying it for years even before AI, call of duty 29 and fifa 56 etc are all cash cows
There is no incentive to improve if what you’re doing works
I have enough unplayed games for years. And I haven’t even bought all games that interest me on my wishlist.
So to answer your question: I think it will work long enough till AI either implodes or is big enough that the state forces you to connect your brain implant to it.
Which games are slop nowadays?
That only works if you already own the hardware and/or the majority does NOT do that model. The moment most people jump on board, the cost of old hardware will skyrocket too.
Reject modernity.
August will mark 10 years of playing Rimworld for me.
Obv its not the only thing I play, but I come back to it every 3-4 months after little breaks. Was the same for Mount and Blade till the sequel came out. The sequel was both such an upgrade and such a downgrade it made it hard to keep interest. It’s been probably 2 years since I booted that up. Maybe I should give it another try.
The sequel was both such an upgrade and such a downgrade
How is the sequel a downgrade? (I don’t know basically anything except playing one of the games for half an hour-ish)
Downgrade? I’m curious what you didn’t like about the sequel. Was it the family/diplomacy/story being too in your face? I think that was my only real gripe, but not a big one because it was interesting and easily removed if I wanted with mods.
Cross out “of PC gaming” and you got it.
At least we’ll always have the classics. Download, play, and seed emulated games folks.
not when your computer goes to the cloud.
When’s the last time you tried to emulate something? The Wii and PSP can handle up to N64 decently, and that hardware is going on 20 years old.
Depending on your phone you can emulate PS2 and even Switch games.
Just hold on to whatever you have, even phones, and emulator devs will figure out the rest. Accuracy has been king for a long time while we’ve had strong hardware availability, but there’s no reason we can’t do per game speed hacks again like old SNES emulators when hardware gets scarce.
my main worry is that these things aren’t built to last. especially phones.
yeah if they switched everyone to the cloud right now, i’d have a decade of computer at this point, maybe a bit more if i can fix it, and then what?
consoles tend to last longer but they don’t do general computing, which is an important thing we’d be losing in the process.
Seeing shit get worse and worse every year has thr goblinest mask of all callin’ like:
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