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Anyone else think a seismic shift is coming for gaming soon? Like "Crash of 1983" level of catastrophic.
Triple-A games just don't have any heart and soul while crammed full of micro transactions. Shovelware makes it harder for good titles to float to the top.
Indie studios are our best hope.
Triple AAA, maybe.
Indie Studios have genuine fans, who don't need the latest GPU, CPU and RAM to keep buying their games.
The gems aren't hard to find. Good games have fans singing them praises from the rooftops.
I could give you an almost endless list if you asked for good games, and they wouldn't all be old.
Depends on the genre. Not every genre gets a boatload of new good games every year.
We only got like 2 action games last year and one of them was not so warmly received (Lost Soul Aside) and a handful of indies in early access.
By action, I mean Bayonetta, Devil May Cry, Ninja Gaiden… etc. not the broad, useless Game Awards definition.
Not many new good shmups or fighting games either.