They're uncreative. Everything is a copy of something else. There's no new exciting ideas. I don't look forward to a game that combines whatever trending mechanics together
I don't look forward to open world slip
None of this arouses any interest in me. I miss when I could pick up a game and get a completely new experience.
Good post. Too often people just lazily say the "problem is how woke they are!"
Of course we could connect these factors, and I'm not saying that the increased prevalence/influence of foids and liberals in the industry is a good thing, but at the end of the day, games are less original than ever, despite the technology being better than ever. (I really look at wokes as justifying things that would be shitty anyway a certain way; of course they are nothing but part of the problem.) Which is precisely why a lot of the most interesting games to come out in recent times are, of course, indie games. (because indie developers especially benefit from unprecedented technology.)
One of the big issues is how much graphics are prioritized over everything else in AAA titles. Granted graphics were always important in games, but because the technology simply wasn't what it is now, there was a limit to how much it would consume all else in the 6th and even 7th generation of games. Now making models/textures for furniture has never taken more resources and time to push hardware to its limits/make it up to par for standards.
Hear me out: what if AAA games now (PC, Xbox Series, PS5) has Xbox 360/PS3 era graphics, or even XboxOne/PS4 and prioritized making the game good and running at a very smooth and fast framerate? The games would not only be better and more interesting, but would come out at a much faster rate. Just think about all of that time, money, human resources devoted to making the graphics "up to par." Actually the overwhelming majority of this is devoted to the graphics and it's the main reason games take so long to make. It is the main reason Grand Theft Auto 6 has taken 12 years to make. It's stupid. Obviously your average consumer cares about graphics more than I do. (this is to a significant extent "to justify the new hardware I bought!" by the way.)
Come to think of it, I guess the Switch is the closest thing to that. It would be an interesting theory to propose that its surprising success making it the third best selling console of all time behind only the Nintendo DS and the PS2 (the 3DS didn't do that well, the Wii U was an obvious failure, and you'd think given this track record people would prefer phones/tablets for portable gaming, and their PC or Xbox/PS5 for new games/consoles) was due to people wanting to get out of the typical AAA/pushing graphics above all else approach to games. (there is some truth to this, but at the end of the day I don't stand by this notion...I think it's mostly just normies who want to play Mario Kart, and "tablet gaming" in general is becoming the new normal anyway, which the Switch is just a wedge and blip in the development of because it is proprietary hardware and obviously not an Android tablet, though it might as well be and in fact many Android tablets have incomporably better specs.)
Modern technology with the creativity on display for the best and most interesting games in the 5th/6th generation (PSX, Saturn, N64, Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, Xbox, Arcade, PC) would be peak. But of course that won't happen. Someone could make the argument the technological limitations unleashed the creativity of developers in a way that wouldn't be the case now, but I maintain there's no reason things can't be better than ever. They aren't because everything sucks.
Technology and the means to make games is the only thing that has unequivocally improved. It's better than ever and only still improving. (yet, unfortunately in the future the internet/accessibility will be more restricted than ever before, imposing cloud services are an omen and we won't even be able to own data, even owning digital games and hardware will be a thing of the past, and streaming games like Onlive or Stadia will be the new normal, as the industry will refuse to mass produce hardware for consumption and most consumers will not be able to even afford it anymore)
This is part of why I don't play games anymore. There are some old and new games I would play if I had more time. We all know on the level of the culture, scene and social level, foids/wokes have done a lot of damage to things, but I prefer to take a step back and see how this is connected to everything else I touched on in my points here. The industry warping to its current state is but a reflection of the world changing in unprecedented ways and technology becoming what it is now. (of course this is connected due to everyone being plugged into technology and its usefulness for the system as a means of control) It's all to be looked at negatively, and it's no wonder people have so much nostalgia for the early 2000's, 90's and 80's.
In the past people actually had more leisure time for video games in the first place than is the case now. The cost of living, economy, property and employment situation has never been worse. And even when you
do have the chance to play something, they charge you with microtransactions or even restrict/gatekeep your ability to access games you legally bought/digitally own and
flaunt playing games you bought as a privilege, not a right. Gaming is as dystopian as everything else, and the
soulful yesteryear days in the earlier part of the 21st century and 90's are like a distant dream.
