Modern games often don't involve much gameplay do they

[Hoppipolla]

Maybe it's because you can do a lot with games now. In a late '70s arcade there wasn't much room for an immersive storyline, for example!

But also maybe a lot of the AAA games... long cutscenes allow them to pad out the game and also put in more political messaging.

It's hard to do that in a simple and more arcadey game like... I dunno. Sonic Mania or Roblox Jailbreak or Geometry Dash or whatever.

It's weird for me when I see most AAA and AA games these days and so much of them is cutscenes or something close to "Press A to continue".

 

[DriveLikeNigger]

It's getting worse every year with these "interactive" (press button to move 2 steps) movie "games". I would rather go back to the 80s and 90s and get ripped off by impossible games at this point

 

[parbate2025]

Maybe it's because you can do a lot with games now. In a late '70s arcade there wasn't much room for an immersive storyline, for example!

But also maybe a lot of the AAA games... long cutscenes allow them to pad out the game and also put in more political messaging.

It's hard to do that in a simple and more arcadey game like... I dunno. Sonic Mania or Roblox Jailbreak or Geometry Dash or whatever.

It's weird for me when I see most AAA and AA games these days and so much of them is cutscenes or something close to "Press A to continue".

I was excited about GTA 5 and god....their missions were so easy and boring

 

[chihiro]

the dispatch game was entertaining but it was just an overpriced movie disguised as a game with minimal gameplay

 

[Hoppipolla]

the dispatch game was entertaining but it was just an overpriced movie disguised as a game with minimal gameplay

Modern games make me think of like an alternative Mario Brothers where instead of saving the princess via a platforming game, you just do mundane tasks for her and watch huge cutscenes. And also the game is 80gb. lol

 

[chihiro]

Modern games make me think of like an alternative Mario Brothers where instead of saving the princess via a platforming game, you just do mundane tasks for her and watch huge cutscenes. And also the game is 80gb. lol

and it costs 100usd because muh quality and muh realism

 

[NoLogic4Foids]

What are modern games