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Name a trend that you dislike in todays gaming
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"More bang for your bucks" mentality that led big budget single player videogames to become empty, overly bloated grindfests.
Nothing but self serious pseudo-realism allowed in sport and racing games.
Nothing but self serious pseudo-realism allowed in sport and racing games.
Weirdly enough, I've found that Counter Strike: Global Offensive's casual mode to be fairly chill. Strangely, Destiny and Overwatch quickplay/casual are stressful. People take it way too seriously. I pretty much just join up with people in overwatch to play against the AI.
- Crafting in every game.
- RPG elements in every game.
- Game maps with so many markers you get discouraged just looking at them.
- This type of sidequest? Do it 100+ times with barely any variation.
- Giant worlds that look like a bunch of copy/paste into eternity.
- Finding tons of useless items that are just a slightly different compromise to the one you already have.
- Roguelike.
- Loot boxes.
- GaaS.
- Procedurally-generated.
- "Free-to-play"
- Full-price games shipping in Early-Access state.
- RPG elements in every game.
- Game maps with so many markers you get discouraged just looking at them.
- This type of sidequest? Do it 100+ times with barely any variation.
- Giant worlds that look like a bunch of copy/paste into eternity.
- Finding tons of useless items that are just a slightly different compromise to the one you already have.
- Roguelike.
- Loot boxes.
- GaaS.
- Procedurally-generated.
- "Free-to-play"
- Full-price games shipping in Early-Access state.
The death of arcade racers and sports games. Everything is now supposed to be "REALISTIC DRIBBLING AND COLLISION ENGINE THAT WILL IMMERSE YOU INTO THE CINEMATIC GAMEPLAY".
Releasing unfinished games that cant be recognized as a finished game until 6 months plus after release.
This bugs the heck out of me in AC: Origins, especially when you get to a loot box where you have to be in a near perfect position to be able to hold A/X. BOTW had that nice quick kicking animation.
I'm hoping I'm just misunderstanding what you mean by this, because if not, this is a terrible answer.
Inclusion and representation are a good thing and absolutely vital. All the time, every time. (Well, unless you're making a documentary or something highlighting the lack of representation and inclusion in media, I suppose.) People other than cis white folks deserve to see themselves represented on-screen, whether it's in video games, movies, TV, or whatever else. The whole "forced" thing doesn't hold any water either, and never does, because opponents of equality always think inclusion is forced as any variation from their norm is unconscionable and brain-breaking and can't possibly really exist or be worthy of acknowledgment.
Unless you're talking about "forced inclusion" in a COMPLETELY different context, in which case, please correct me! I don't want to put words in your mouth if I'm wrong about my interpretation of your answer.
No, you are right, I made a poor comment and I apologize for it. After thinking about it , what bothers me it's not inclusion itself, is the way that publishers and media make a big deal about it, feels more like marketing than honest inclusion, I felt it with Overwatch. I also don't like when they retconn characters to fill an agenda, kinda like Jk Rowling ( or David Jaffe for a videogame example).
I hope that makes my point a little bit more clear, and I apologize again for the way I expressed it.
-crafting/survival crap in almost every game,
-paying for type of content that was once unlocked by playing,
-forced walking sections and long intros in which you can't do anything,
-ultra generic stories nobody gives a damn about....
-paying for type of content that was once unlocked by playing,
-forced walking sections and long intros in which you can't do anything,
-ultra generic stories nobody gives a damn about....
While the first things that come to mind are popular complaints like open world everything and RPG mechanics stuffed everywhere, I'd say the biggest issue is how often design trends seem to be emulated and implemented without much thought regarding whether these popular elements actually serve to make YOUR game better.
I have no bone to pick with open worlds, rpg mechanics or procedural generation on their own, but so many games seem to draw from those wells in a fashion that seems akin to notching off bullet points on a Must Have list rather than really thinking through how they change the entire make-up of a game. RPG elements are probably the most egregious because in many cases they're just a bunch of nothing skills that are there so players can have something to pop for a dopamine surge and the illusion of player agency when you get to click a dichotomous skill tree and get some banal ass upgrade that you'll never practically notice. As a person who loves chargen, loves CRPGs and loves the idea of honest-to-god progression, it's a bummer that some games don't know how to stay in their own lane and don't know that they'd be much better off if they did so.
Sundered is a good recent-ish example in some ways. Gorgeous art style, decent metroidvania structure, solid gameplay, and then a bunch of garbage proc gen that only serves to magnify problems with lack of content because what little is there is stretched as thinly, and thus transparently, as possible. Add in a really lackluster sphere grid system that ensures grinding takes priority over player skill and you've got a murky concoction that manages to do everything fundamentally right at a base level before self-sabotaging and turning what could've been a solid 5 hour game into a slog of a 10+ hour one.
I have no bone to pick with open worlds, rpg mechanics or procedural generation on their own, but so many games seem to draw from those wells in a fashion that seems akin to notching off bullet points on a Must Have list rather than really thinking through how they change the entire make-up of a game. RPG elements are probably the most egregious because in many cases they're just a bunch of nothing skills that are there so players can have something to pop for a dopamine surge and the illusion of player agency when you get to click a dichotomous skill tree and get some banal ass upgrade that you'll never practically notice. As a person who loves chargen, loves CRPGs and loves the idea of honest-to-god progression, it's a bummer that some games don't know how to stay in their own lane and don't know that they'd be much better off if they did so.
Sundered is a good recent-ish example in some ways. Gorgeous art style, decent metroidvania structure, solid gameplay, and then a bunch of garbage proc gen that only serves to magnify problems with lack of content because what little is there is stretched as thinly, and thus transparently, as possible. Add in a really lackluster sphere grid system that ensures grinding takes priority over player skill and you've got a murky concoction that manages to do everything fundamentally right at a base level before self-sabotaging and turning what could've been a solid 5 hour game into a slog of a 10+ hour one.
Waaay too much Hand-Holding in general:
-bloated tutorials
-busy, obnoxious HUD elements
-endless tips & pop-ups
-checklist style design where you're just mindlessly collecting random BS or following flashing markers to one menial task after another.
-quantity over quality when it comes to rewarding players. I like loot. I don't like a sea of meaningless loot for every little dumb thing
-bloated tutorials
-busy, obnoxious HUD elements
-endless tips & pop-ups
-checklist style design where you're just mindlessly collecting random BS or following flashing markers to one menial task after another.
-quantity over quality when it comes to rewarding players. I like loot. I don't like a sea of meaningless loot for every little dumb thing
The Focus on stories to the detriment of choice and creativity.
I really don't go to video games just to sit through some asshole's movie.
I really don't go to video games just to sit through some asshole's movie.