YuLY
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This subject is difficult. While I still enjoy a good number of new games, with the latest being cyberpunk 2077 which overall could be my fav this gen, I admit that there were games or francises in the past that for sure felt like lightning in a bottle and I think the quality of people in the industry has gone downhill, great writers and designers being slowly but surely replaced by extreme liberals and this shows in the games of course. Let me give you some examples:
- I dont think there will ever be a game that gives me that grand and wonderous feeling that I got when playing Mass Effect 1 (or the trilogy for that matter). Looking at it now it really feels like something thats so hard to replicate.
- I also dont believe someone will ever write story in RPGs like in the past such as Kotor 2, ME1. I cannot take seriously people who say The Outer Worlds has good writing. Larian has pretty good writing, but they seem to want to remain in that izometric/semi-turn based style that just doesnt do it for me these days.
- Dont see what game that can be somewhat considered AAA will ever have quest branching like Fallout New Vegas did
- Starcraft 1 and Warcraft 3 for me still remain best RTS games ever made and can you see someone still investing enough to make a good new IP in the RTS genre? (stuff like new AoE is cool, but lets be real, the genre is on its last legs, and i mean RTS in that style with base building etc, not grand strategies or turn based stuff).
It feels like a good nr. of francises/genres had their peak more than a decade ago and I just dont see who might be able to top them. I am mostly referring to AAA, I realize indies are thriving. For a time I think funny enough FPS singleplayer games were doing good with stuff like Wolfie: The New Order, Doom (2016), Titanfall 2 campaign, CoD Infinite Warfare campaign, but besides that, I think most genres of games were doing much better in the past.
- I dont think there will ever be a game that gives me that grand and wonderous feeling that I got when playing Mass Effect 1 (or the trilogy for that matter). Looking at it now it really feels like something thats so hard to replicate.
- I also dont believe someone will ever write story in RPGs like in the past such as Kotor 2, ME1. I cannot take seriously people who say The Outer Worlds has good writing. Larian has pretty good writing, but they seem to want to remain in that izometric/semi-turn based style that just doesnt do it for me these days.
- Dont see what game that can be somewhat considered AAA will ever have quest branching like Fallout New Vegas did
- Starcraft 1 and Warcraft 3 for me still remain best RTS games ever made and can you see someone still investing enough to make a good new IP in the RTS genre? (stuff like new AoE is cool, but lets be real, the genre is on its last legs, and i mean RTS in that style with base building etc, not grand strategies or turn based stuff).
It feels like a good nr. of francises/genres had their peak more than a decade ago and I just dont see who might be able to top them. I am mostly referring to AAA, I realize indies are thriving. For a time I think funny enough FPS singleplayer games were doing good with stuff like Wolfie: The New Order, Doom (2016), Titanfall 2 campaign, CoD Infinite Warfare campaign, but besides that, I think most genres of games were doing much better in the past.
games as shown by the sales numbers so don’t worry about it too much. And reading this topic it has very PC-centric perspective. For us, exclusively console and AAA gamers, wait between next installment in your favorite AAA franchise is getting unbearable, remasters and remakes are in abundance and GaaS games dominate the landscape. Game pricing has just gone up inexplicably for consoles you can’t even get your hands on. Other than that, sequels, sequels, sequels and copycats with scarce originality and true innovation. Yes, games look and play better obviously, you could say the same in any generation compared to previous one.
in RDR2 and Witcher 3 so can’t complain too much. Nier Automata, on the other hand, is reason why I still believe in this hobby and industry. It’s just that takes too long to make those kind of masterpieces nowadays. I want FF XVI, GTA VI and TES VI now, not in 2025.
