• restingboredface
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    6 months ago

    Ugh.

    They don’t all need to be 10-year development AAA games. Maybe we need more than another 150+ hr, $80 game. These studios were doing good stuff that checked a lot of boxes and now they’re gone or stuck with Microsoft making more starfield updates.

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      6 months ago

      That’s why I like indie games. Some of the simplest games I have over 200 hours played.

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        6 months ago

        That’s why I like old console games.

        You just get a level of quality that isn’t typically seen in the modern PC market.

        Replaying games like Jak 2 made me really question how I ever lowered my standards enough to accept things like Mount and Blade.

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          Let’s not kid ourselves, there were a lot of shit games on console as well.

          It’s just that they’ve been forgotten and only the classics persist.