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10 years of FIF
Definitely agree that some absolute gems have appeared in the last two console generations.
But most of the games seem like overrated crap to me. They are far less enjoyable and I'm also talking about franchises that I used to like. They all seem to have become worse over time.
Gran Turismo, Metal Gear Solid, GTA has become a movie with some gaming breaks and so on.
The only one that I saw significant improvement with is God of War and Assassin's Creed keeps getting better.
All the sports games have regressed and have become cash grabbing machines for kids to play online over a singles game or a multiplayer console game at home with friends.
Maybe it's my disdain for this online frenzy talking here.
Surely there are great games now, far better than any ever made, either due to their gameplay or more commonly due to advanced tech, but it feels like gaming has been dumbed down. Instead of having longer games now we have the developers using video bs. If you can skip the video you can finish off a game in a day or two. With SNES it's essentially the same. You'd expect a vast improvement but the only better thing we have is the packaging and the wrapping. There's more fun to older games because that's why they were made. The new games are made to attract a different kind of attention.
I mean games like Super Mario, Zelda, Yoshi, the early Pokemon games, Star Fox, Donkey Kong or going to PS Crash Banticoot and a couple of others are just too much fun. With no breaks. You just play. Now there's too much non-playing activity in these games. Ffs I already have Netflix and Amazon Video on the same machine if I wanted to see a movie.
On the other hand, apart from the death of RTS which I loved (and is sort of revived lately), PC gaming seems to have improved.
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Out of curiosity, name the top 20 games you played on PS4.
I m just gonna name the top games i played i barely own 25 games and at least 10 out of them are nba2k s fifas and NHL and i m not gonna hail them as great games.
So PS$ games that i consider great:
RDR2
Detroit the human experience
GTA 5
Uncharted 4
GOW
the Outerworlds
Fallout 4 (not as good as new vegas but still)
Games i consider very good;
Wolfenstein 2
South park (love it but probably useless if your not a fan)
Watchdogs
Mafia 2
Assasins creed black flag
Also 2k17 or 16 needs a special mention cause that was nearly perfect.
Again thats just the once i played and own i know there are other great ones that i never bothered to play.
I get where your coming from your one of those nervous gamers or atleast thats how i call them guys who dont give a shit about story and cut scenes no matter how good they are they just wanna play. I really dont mind cut scenes if they are well done and the dialogue is good.
Imho in the games i mentioned except for the nba the cut scenes and the dialogue are usually pretty damn good atleast in the games i call great.
Also i m pretty sure most gta s and other open world games also have a lot more game play in them!! I mean compare vice city to gta 5 and i think vice city is great but in gta 5 there is so much more to do and imho there is no way that there is more gameplay time in a vice city than there is in a gta 5.
Thats not saying that you dont have a point and many games these days feel rushed and are damn buggy when they first come out which is annoying.