Gaming trends from previous generations that you’re glad faded out of popularity

[SolVanderlyn]

It could be related to gameplay, aesthetics, music, anything. I'll start:

SNES gen:

-Cranked up difficulty to encourage multiple rentals. Several of the games I played as a kid were stuck on hard mode. I believe this was also to help sell strategy guides.

360/PS3 gen:

-QTEs. I think I liked them exactly one time and that was in Shenmue when they were brand new and had a novelty factor to them. After that I found them annoying, especially when failing them resulted in instant death.

What about you?

 

[JazzmanZ]

I'm glad the 00s bloom of death has finally died out

 

[Deleted member 10737]

from the ps360 gen, excessive bloom, and tacked on multiplayer modes for single player games that clearly didn't need it.

 

[Deleted member 10629]

Access pass or whatever the fuck they were called, the code to being able to access multiplayer.

 

[ByWatterson]

Faded green/brown environments.

 

[Jonathan Lanza]

World War II first person shooters

 

[Bishop89]

 

[demondance]

I definitely don't miss the brown and bloom look of the 360/PS3 era. Why the fuck was everything glowing and muddy? What a horrible aesthetic trend. The visual equivalent of a peanut butter and broccoli sandwich.

Most of the trends that got annoying at the time, I wouldn't mind seeing more often today. Who doesn't want some more mascot platformers? Why not do some more WW2 games? Some over the top arcade sports games would be nice, I think!

 

[RestEerie]

Online Pass

 

[s y]

turn based combat

 

[Jawmuncher]

Glad the online pass stuff and fracturing communities over paid map packs have gone away.

Now we just need cross-platform play to be the norm.

 

[Coolduderedux]

Came here to say QTEs and online passes but I see you all have that covered

 

[Horohorohoro]

turn based combat

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Pokemon has sold ~20 million in the past two years and Persona 5 is super popular. It isn't going anywhere.

 

[Ariakon44]

Put me on the anti-bloom train. So many games during the ps360 era just looked washed out and had faded colors. Everything was just so muddy and unappealing. I love that we're getting a decent number of games with vivid color schemes and cartoony graphics these days.

 

[Teejay]

Motion Control from the Wii era

I guess aside from VR, its use has died down from back then. It's integrated a bit to games, at least it is not the primary (and in some cases the only) control.

 

[Deleted member 179]

Bad hit boxes. For the most part, modern games seem to have it relatively down vs PS2 era when I can't actually tell what weapon range is.

looking at you god of war spike tower thing

 

[Paroni]

Motion Control from the Wii era

I guess aside from VR, its use has died down from back then. It's integrated a bit to games, at least it is not the primary (and in some cases the only) control.

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Everybody desperately trying to get a piece of that Wii audience truly was a peculiar time.

 

[Deleted member 37928]

Limited set of continues and then your progress is wiped. As a person who hates replaying a lot of content this is the best change ever.

 

[DrBillRiverman]

Motion Control from the Wii era

I guess aside from VR, its use has died down from back then. It's integrated a bit to games, at least it is not the primary (and in some cases the only) control.

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We've moved away from the gimmicky waggles. Most motion enthusiasts these days just want the gyroscope used for aiming.

 

[Horohorohoro]

Lives and continues are a huge one

 

[Deleted member 32106]

bloom and brown

 

[Cure Save Exit]

Touchscreen controls for handheld consoles.

 

[ItIsOkBro]

i'm glad the "if you pick this difficulty, we won't let you change it!!" seems to be dead

 

[Smokey]

Access pass or whatever the fuck they were called, the code to being able to access multiplayer.

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Came to post this. Dreadful.

 

[Pyro]

Agree with online pass/tacked on multiplayer, was just the worst during the latter PS3/X360 years (almost said last gen lol).

 

[Grapezard]

🦀🦀 The piss filter is dead 🦀🦀

 

[SNRUB]

3D. Seemed like such a tacky fad.

 

[texhnolyze]

Yeah, QTEs has always been my biggest gripe, good riddance.

bloom and brown

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🦀🦀 The piss filter is dead 🦀🦀

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Now we have chromatic aberration and fog filter.

 

[NightShift]

The excessive bloom and grey/brown/piss filters of the PS360 era were the absolute worse. Nothing tops that.

 

[Giga Man]

Password systems for continuing progress instead of a save system. Continue system where if you run out of continues (a limit on how many times you can Game Over) you have to start the game all over from the beginning.

 

[arcadepc]

The re-emergence of 2d games,after they were relegated to portable consoles for years since the mid-90s.

 

[ARobotCalledV]

I'm not entirely sure when the problem disappeared but games have are so much better about checkpoints now. It's very rare now that I come across a game that makes me pointlessly lose significant progress due to losing a boss encounter.

 

[Redcrayon]

The 360/PS3 cover-shooter trend that meant convenient, nonsensical and geometrically arranged waist-high cover strewn across any open area.

The assumption that many 2D series needed to be dragged into a 3D game and twisted out of the arcadey gameplay that defined them. Although you still see it now with whatever that last Contra game by Konami was, which was weird when they got Contra 4 right by outsourcing it.

 

[pbayne]

Tacked on muliplayer to some extent. Lol i see Capcom is still trying to make RE jump on that train though, like when will they ever give up with that?

 

[Chaserjoey]

QTE's, the janky motion controls from PS3 games, and online passes / forced multiplayer modes attached to single player games. Good riddance.

 

[PersianPrince]

Military shooters that were mostly in shades of brown and gray

Games that go overboard with tutorials and hand holding. I think this started in the PS2/GameCube era and started to die out in the PS4/One X era. Alot of big games are still like this, but I feel they are getting better respecting the player and not holding your hand until the end.

A current trend im not a fan of that ill be happy that goes away is the amount of Rogue-lites in the indie scene. Unless it's Dead Cells or Hades, im usually not interested in things like permadeath or randomness in level design.

 

[eKongDiddy]

Online Pass

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This is so gross. Glad it died.

 

[Fadewise]

Military shooters that were mostly in shades of brown and gray

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While I definitely grant you that one, on the other side of that coin, I offer up a counter of the awful Fortnite aesthetic, which is even starting to infect games with otherwise impeccable art design like Destiny (looking at you, Shaw Han).

 

[Karlinel]

Bloom, online passes, dudebro mentality, multiplayer modes just because, QTEs and edgy leatherclad protagonists.

 

[ThisThingIsUseful]

I'm glad the 00s bloom of death has finally died out

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I came here to say this, but first post gets it out of the way. 8-)

 

[ghostcrew]

Sony and EA trying to push £10 Online Passes. Mega gross. Glad that the market rejected that.

I'm still one bronze trophy away from the platinum for Resistance on Vita because of this bullshit!

 

[KillstealWolf]

Toys to life being (Mostly) gone is something I appreciate.

Still props up every once in awhile (Looking at you Nintendo) but at least major features aren't being locked behind them anymore.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

i'm glad the "if you pick this difficulty, we won't let you change it!!" seems to be dead

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Yes, this. I hated choosing a harder difficulty, being fine with it for 80-90% of the game, and then hitting a roadblock at the very end.

 

[Deleted member 59126]

Dudebroness.

 

[Sento]

Turning everything into Call of Duty.

 

[BlueKaty]

I'm glad the stupid dual screen from the DS and 3DS era is gone.

 

[LongDongJunon]

Access pass or whatever the fuck they were called, the code to being able to access multiplayer.

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Yeah the online pass days were a trying time

 

[Diogo Arez]

The PS3 era Color Pallete and Bloom, fuck that shit, makes most games age worse visually than some PS2 stuff

 

[Prompto]

Turret sequences

 

[Stoof]

I'm glad colors were back in vogue for last gen because PS360 games are so goddamn ugly.