• Comp4 [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    While I don’t disagree with the video, I feel it focuses too much on the modern AAA scene, which, of course, is all about chasing the money. If you’re after big shiny AAA games, then yes, there are a lot of disappointments. However, on the other side, I think indie gaming has never been better. It just requires you to care about smaller games that aren’t AAA stuff.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      6 months ago

      This is what I always feel when people complain about the state of video games.

      Yeah, some of us grew up blowing dust out of cartridges and we’d have 5 games per year. There are hundreds of thousands of indie games catering to every taste, many of them are really good. Not every game needs to be AAA slop.

      • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        6 months ago

        So many youtube videos like this, with nerds myopically focused on AAA trash failing to acknowledge that indie games are fucking awesome rn.

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        6 months ago

        It’s the same thing with movies. Everyone complains about how everything out of Hollywood is garbage, but there are so many good indie/artsy films out there.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    Currently rotating between outpost, helldivers, god of weapons, Cepheus Protocol, crosscode, Kenshi, adaca, hunt, signalis.

    Lots of good stuff happening right now.

  • peppersky [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    Videogames never had a chance. It’s too impure of an art to stand the test of time, too intertwined with consumerist technology fetishism and too good at being psychologically manipulative skinner boxes and too bad at being anything else. I’d gladly sacrifice every game I ever liked to get rid of the scourge that is mobile and live-service games slowly lobotomizing anyone who plays them.