"AAA" publishers can suck off me. making your devs do crunch? more like crunch your heads into the Minecraft guillotine you fucks
"AAA" publishers can suck off me. making your devs do crunch? more like crunch your heads into the Minecraft guillotine you fucks
You know this kind of sentiment confuses me because we've been living in a golden era of small/indie games for over a decade.
I've always pinpointed the start in my head with Braid in 2008 and it never slowed down. Before then there was almost nothing like this outside of I don't know...flash games or weird Japanese doujin titles. There are new indie games on steam, gog, humble bundle, etc like every single week. There aren't enough hours in the day to play all this stuff.
Like just looking at the stuff I played that came last year we got Spelunky 2, Spiritfarer, Ori 2, One Step from Eden (finally), Ghostrunner, Bloodstained, Hades, and it just keeps going. Disco Elysium got an updated edition a few months back and it's one of the best games I've ever played.
Do I have too rosy of an outlook on this?
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Even if there are ten thousand shit games for every gem, it still feels like there's a whole mountain of gems coming out all the time. I can't keep up with how many good games there are. Like I said, this feels like a golden era.
I mean not to sound boomer, but compare today to having nothing but a Sega Genesis in 1990. You have like 7 games and maybe 20 available to rent. The quality is inconsistent and who knows when something good is coming out. At best you might see a decent new game fitting your tastes once every three months.
That's always in my head whenever I see thousands of titles on a store page, so I think I'll permanently feel spoiled.
The quality is wildly inconsistent, but itch.io and similar sites tend to have a lot of games with really interesting content that you don’t see on more professional platforms like Steam.
Those are all perfectly cromulent mechanics on their faces. I still enjoy playing Magic online through Arena, for instance.
But yes, some are a lot more derivative than others.
We have speciated. There are g*mers and gamers.
Your average g*amer just interacts with games as a standard comsumer. So they like the big new release, have a genere or series they like and that is about it. They are also super reactionary.
Kinda like how your average person will watch marvel movies, and horror movies if they like them. But they aren't going to check out any indie work.
We are tbe enlightened ones that like the small quirky games. Most the industey likes only big shitpile games and phone based gambling.