Like what exactly? Micro transactions? Cash shops in full price games? Base games costing 80 bucks now? Incomplete games sold as early access? Ray tracing that almost looks as good as raster for a quarter of the frames? Fake frames to keep up? Most gamers don’t even play modern AAA titles. They play games like Minecraft and Fortnite which came out over five years ago. Hell. the exception is CS2 and that’s just CSGO to the point the Micro transactions carry over.
Time-loop mechanics, Trico’s AI in The Last Guardian, the whole gameplay of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, the Nemesis System in Shadow of War, Disco Elysium… all of it, the co-op gameplay in the Dark Pictures Anthology games, the Alien’s AI in Isolation… the list goes on. Stop being a doomer.
Triple A inherently stands for risk avoidant, and money grabbend. It takes a special exception to get an AAA game that is more than ok. But the best games have never been the big bidget super polished games.
In the last 5 years, we have seen vampire survivors raise an entire genre from obscurity to the general public.
Lethal company has caused a lot of chaos among friends.
BG3 has surprised even the fans (one of those AAA exceptions).
Technically, Satisfactory was finally released in 2024.
Stray has given us a small but unique experience.
Dave the diver is an experience that I still can’t pinpoint the genre of.
Half Life Alyx was revolutionary for the VR market.
There has been a complete revival of the boomer shooter genre.
Doki Doki literature club spawned a new cult following.
You list a bunch of things you don’t like about the current AAA industry and then acknowledge that a lot of people aren’t exclusively playing AAA games.
You’ve completely negated your own arguement whining.
Like what exactly? Micro transactions? Cash shops in full price games? Base games costing 80 bucks now? Incomplete games sold as early access? Ray tracing that almost looks as good as raster for a quarter of the frames? Fake frames to keep up? Most gamers don’t even play modern AAA titles. They play games like Minecraft and Fortnite which came out over five years ago. Hell. the exception is CS2 and that’s just CSGO to the point the Micro transactions carry over.
What new ideas?
Time-loop mechanics, Trico’s AI in The Last Guardian, the whole gameplay of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, the Nemesis System in Shadow of War, Disco Elysium… all of it, the co-op gameplay in the Dark Pictures Anthology games, the Alien’s AI in Isolation… the list goes on. Stop being a doomer.
The real takeaway for me from posts like this is that 4chan must be aging. Kids are, at the very least, becoming stupid somewhere else.
kids these days i tell yah hwat
I don’t really play video games a lot, but I’m going to save this list based solely on your hype.
Time loop mechanics have been around for decades. Legend of Zelda did it.
I don’t think they did. Which Zelda?
I think it was Majora’s mask? It’s been a while
There was slop in the old days too, just like there are good ideas now.
Name one game produced in the 80s that wasn’t a masterpiece. I’ll wait.
What, like ET for the Atari? The game that was so bad, it very likely caused the video game crash in North America?
Damn that was low hanging fruit. Like so low it was actually already buried underground.
That’s a great reference, for those who don’t get it:
Excavating the Atari E.T. Video Game Burial Site-Game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHXK2mKtu20
False, ET was a masterpiece. Next fabrication?
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was the best game ever made!
Objective and indisputable truth.
Triple A inherently stands for risk avoidant, and money grabbend. It takes a special exception to get an AAA game that is more than ok. But the best games have never been the big bidget super polished games.
In the last 5 years, we have seen vampire survivors raise an entire genre from obscurity to the general public. Lethal company has caused a lot of chaos among friends. BG3 has surprised even the fans (one of those AAA exceptions). Technically, Satisfactory was finally released in 2024. Stray has given us a small but unique experience. Dave the diver is an experience that I still can’t pinpoint the genre of. Half Life Alyx was revolutionary for the VR market. There has been a complete revival of the boomer shooter genre. Doki Doki literature club spawned a new cult following.
These are just some samples that I grabbed from the following search: https://steamdb.info/instantsearch/?range[userScore]=90%3A&refinementList[releaseYear][0]=2025&refinementList[releaseYear][1]=2024&refinementList[releaseYear][2]=2023&refinementList[releaseYear][3]=2022&refinementList[releaseYear][4]=2021&refinementList[releaseYear][5]=2020
You list a bunch of things you don’t like about the current AAA industry and then acknowledge that a lot of people aren’t exclusively playing AAA games.
You’ve completely negated your own
arguementwhining.