Anyone with any really serious interest in video games have noticed that, over the last decade, the video game industry has changed quite a bit. Where once it was standard industry practice to sell games to the public that were finished, and did not use the internet as a major component of game play. Times having changed with the increasing accessibility of the internet, and advances in technology have led to the Video Games Industry focusing more on what they call 'Live Services' games. Such as the atrocities of Star Wars Battlefront, Star Wars Battlefront II, the Diablo Immortal announcement and subsequent backlash, and a multitude of other examples, including the current issues regarding Anthem. Which has actually led to a player boycott.
This isn't even taking into account the explosive storms of autism surrounding Fallout 76, a system so greedy that the price of painting your power-armor blue costs almost $20. The giants of the Video game Industry have switched from creating a creative, complete, cathartic and overall enjoyable product has changed. And their focus is instead on enticing as many players as possible to pay for loot boxes, instead of making a quality product.
With this being stated, and the current outlook of the Industry being more and more anti-consumer in the last several years, are modern titles really needed to enjoy video games? The short answer is, of course not, but it raises an interesting question. What if people stuck with older titles for the foreseeable future? There's no questioning that today's titles are more technologically adept, and advanced than older games, but when you factor in that the older titles are cheaper, already finished, and much more often than not feature no micro-transactions, the trade offs seem a bit more worth it. To me at least.
When looking at titles like Fable 3, Fallout 3, and New Vegas, even these older games have DLCs, and in the case of Fable 3, did feature the Xbox store to purchase clothing, weapons, etc, but this is a moot point given that the service is no longer live, and all content in game can be enjoyed in the current GOTY editions, that cost less than half, or even a third to a sixth the cost of a modern title. I've checked prices, and I could purchase a fully refurbished Xbox 360 E, with a 750 GB of hard-drive space, along with two controllers, a kinect sensor, Fable Anniversary, Fable 2, Fable 3, Fable Journey, Fallout 3, and Fallout: New Vegas for less than $350. A very good deal considering the cost of a modern console is nearly that much, with games two to three years old costing an average $40.
If people stopped paying into the Video Games industry and it's current, half-baked, over-monetized, creatively bankrupt titles, would the loss in revenue force the Industry to pay more attention to it's customers, or would the companies, in the spirit of the Current Year, double down? There are developers who are making some amazing games. Such as CD Projekt Red with Cybepunk2077, Naughty Dog with the Last of Us 2, and Obsidian with their new IP The Outer Worlds. But these companies are few in an ocean of corporate focused games with little spirit, if any, to them.
What are your thoughts? Is it better to play the multitude of older titles, or do you prefer the newest, most advanced games out there? Do you feel gamers have been too harsh against the likes of EA, Bethesda, Bioware, etc? Do you think these companies will ever change, or just continue on their current path? Or is this thread just the autisitc ramblings of some exceptional individual on an internet forum? Probably the latter, tbh.
This isn't even taking into account the explosive storms of autism surrounding Fallout 76, a system so greedy that the price of painting your power-armor blue costs almost $20. The giants of the Video game Industry have switched from creating a creative, complete, cathartic and overall enjoyable product has changed. And their focus is instead on enticing as many players as possible to pay for loot boxes, instead of making a quality product.
With this being stated, and the current outlook of the Industry being more and more anti-consumer in the last several years, are modern titles really needed to enjoy video games? The short answer is, of course not, but it raises an interesting question. What if people stuck with older titles for the foreseeable future? There's no questioning that today's titles are more technologically adept, and advanced than older games, but when you factor in that the older titles are cheaper, already finished, and much more often than not feature no micro-transactions, the trade offs seem a bit more worth it. To me at least.
When looking at titles like Fable 3, Fallout 3, and New Vegas, even these older games have DLCs, and in the case of Fable 3, did feature the Xbox store to purchase clothing, weapons, etc, but this is a moot point given that the service is no longer live, and all content in game can be enjoyed in the current GOTY editions, that cost less than half, or even a third to a sixth the cost of a modern title. I've checked prices, and I could purchase a fully refurbished Xbox 360 E, with a 750 GB of hard-drive space, along with two controllers, a kinect sensor, Fable Anniversary, Fable 2, Fable 3, Fable Journey, Fallout 3, and Fallout: New Vegas for less than $350. A very good deal considering the cost of a modern console is nearly that much, with games two to three years old costing an average $40.
If people stopped paying into the Video Games industry and it's current, half-baked, over-monetized, creatively bankrupt titles, would the loss in revenue force the Industry to pay more attention to it's customers, or would the companies, in the spirit of the Current Year, double down? There are developers who are making some amazing games. Such as CD Projekt Red with Cybepunk2077, Naughty Dog with the Last of Us 2, and Obsidian with their new IP The Outer Worlds. But these companies are few in an ocean of corporate focused games with little spirit, if any, to them.
What are your thoughts? Is it better to play the multitude of older titles, or do you prefer the newest, most advanced games out there? Do you feel gamers have been too harsh against the likes of EA, Bethesda, Bioware, etc? Do you think these companies will ever change, or just continue on their current path? Or is this thread just the autisitc ramblings of some exceptional individual on an internet forum? Probably the latter, tbh.
