Just in reaction to that first quote, I'm not sure we need 7 massive AAA open world games at the same time any more. 50 hrs of game time is a lot of game time, and many people usually don't have the time to sink into more than 2 AAA titles at the same time. I think medium games need to make a comeback, with AAA titles becoming more rare, but more polished, if that makes sense.
Totally agree , we have way too many large open world games. I'm hoping companies like Sony , EA , Ubisoft and others can get back to 3 year dev cycles with say 150m budgets for 15-20 hour games, even a return to more linear games.
I vote with my wallet. I haven't purchased a game new in over 10 years or so. I buy physical games mostly, stick to retro gaming and digital for PC via GOG. Modern gaming is garbage and money hungry.
I've found great joy in being able to wait 3-6 months and doing so affords a near 50% discount on AAA titles or anything really with rare exception. Gamefly has a great used physical selection for new releases usually in this time frame as well. I also recently(In the last year) started focusing on physical over digital.
I literally was talking to my sister about this, gaming isn’t a hobby anymore, and if it is, well then it’s a very expensive one and I can’t keep up with it, it’s not the same anymore and I’m loosing the passion I’d once had towards this media and it’s sad, just like how the cooperations that make them, they are also loosing their passion in favor of greed.
I only bought two games for the PS5: Street Fighter 6 which kinda wore off on me and RE4 Remake. I don't trust developers right now to make meaningful content without some pass that costs 20-50 extra dollars nor do I trust them to make games that are memorable.
Almost no one asked for games with 100h play time, running 4k with HDR and complicated skill trees and crafting. Sure if those games exist people will play them but that doesn't mean that sort of game should be the norm, yet these game publishers and lead devs foolishly think that.
You should all follow Guybrush Threepwood's advice at the end of The Secret of Monkey Island: "Never spend more than 20 bucks on a video game." Though, that was in 1991, I think. So, maybe adjust for inflation (!?)
That’s $46 in today’s money, so about right. I’ve found you can get almost every game around $35-45 if you can stomach waiting 3-5 months after release at least physically .
This only applies to SO-CALLED "AAA" games. They are not worth their money and real gamers know that. Meanwhile a game like Factorio is worth absolutely every penny.
The developer behind the homebrew driver for psvr 2 for pc, IVry, thinks it may be a streaming solution, which would be less than ideal. I’m hopeful it’ll be fully compatible.
Wouldn’t surprise me if they increase the price of that game above $70 for its base edition. I’m expecting some deluxe edition at $100-120 for early access (3-7days) and that most copies will be sold that way for the first week, they’re going to make so much money .
I’m still trying to figure out where all that money they spent on Spider-Man went, same with SQKTJL.
It’s the motion capture. The reason PlayStation was relocated to California was access to motion capture studios.
Graphics have ruined gaming.
Those huge budgets must be going into corporate pockets or something. There's no way a bland AAA game can be that expensive just on development costs.
Just in reaction to that first quote, I'm not sure we need 7 massive AAA open world games at the same time any more. 50 hrs of game time is a lot of game time, and many people usually don't have the time to sink into more than 2 AAA titles at the same time. I think medium games need to make a comeback, with AAA titles becoming more rare, but more polished, if that makes sense.
Totally agree , we have way too many large open world games. I'm hoping companies like Sony , EA , Ubisoft and others can get back to 3 year dev cycles with say 150m budgets for 15-20 hour games, even a return to more linear games.
I vote with my wallet. I haven't purchased a game new in over 10 years or so. I buy physical games mostly, stick to retro gaming and digital for PC via GOG. Modern gaming is garbage and money hungry.
I've found great joy in being able to wait 3-6 months and doing so affords a near 50% discount on AAA titles or anything really with rare exception.
Gamefly has a great used physical selection for new releases usually in this time frame as well. I also recently(In the last year) started focusing on physical over digital.
I literally was talking to my sister about this, gaming isn’t a hobby anymore, and if it is, well then it’s a very expensive one and I can’t keep up with it, it’s not the same anymore and I’m loosing the passion I’d once had towards this media and it’s sad, just like how the cooperations that make them, they are also loosing their passion in favor of greed.
I only bought two games for the PS5: Street Fighter 6 which kinda wore off on me and RE4 Remake. I don't trust developers right now to make meaningful content without some pass that costs 20-50 extra dollars nor do I trust them to make games that are memorable.
Almost no one asked for games with 100h play time, running 4k with HDR and complicated skill trees and crafting. Sure if those games exist people will play them but that doesn't mean that sort of game should be the norm, yet these game publishers and lead devs foolishly think that.
You should all follow Guybrush Threepwood's advice at the end of The Secret of Monkey Island: "Never spend more than 20 bucks on a video game." Though, that was in 1991, I think. So, maybe adjust for inflation (!?)
That’s $46 in today’s money, so about right.
I’ve found you can get almost every game around $35-45 if you can stomach waiting 3-5 months after release at least physically .
This only applies to SO-CALLED "AAA" games. They are not worth their money and real gamers know that.
Meanwhile a game like Factorio is worth absolutely every penny.
Sony is thinking about making the psvr2 open for pc gaming too. I'm not sure what that fully entails though.
The developer behind the homebrew driver for psvr 2 for pc, IVry, thinks it may be a streaming solution, which would be less than ideal. I’m hopeful it’ll be fully compatible.
I just wait. I get the game cheaper, patched and play on better hardware
GTA6 will be 120$ or something.
Wouldn’t surprise me if they increase the price of that game above $70 for its base edition.
I’m expecting some deluxe edition at $100-120 for early access (3-7days) and that most copies will be sold that way for the first week, they’re going to make so much money .
I eat crayons.
Favorite flavor ?
@@orb-o-pondererhas to be orange right, the only color that tastes like the flavor of the color
*with console gaming on the decline, I'm looking forward to switching to mobile 👌 idk how much less it will cost but it should be significantly less.*
And most of them are half-finished baked rubbish