I think this is finally proof AAA video games aren't aimed at me anymore...

I think this is finally proof AAA video games aren't aimed at me anymore. Known for a while but this really drives the idea home. When and what game made you realise you had been forgotten by developers.

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If said image upsets you, gaming was never aimed at you.

I don't want to live in a world where there is an actual legit target audience for this.

I like to believe ubisoft and whoever else is making this game is so out of touch with reality they made a game for nobody.

you serious? this was the game that finally did it? it wasn't 'life is strange'? or one of the many titles before it?

There has always been a target audience for shitty poorly designed AAA games, user. You likely were part of that audience at once point.

>Life is strange
>bad or AAA

They knew they wouldn't get the "gamer" audience after the first game, so they're targeting the tumblr audience

Not from a technical viewpoint, theres an audience for any shitty GTA ripoff.
But not for the theme, protags and all around insanity that they try to interpret as hacking.

I just don't think even as a 12 year old I could've been taken by this.

skyrim i think is what finally did it for me

Protags and theme really seem no different from most other AAA shit since 2006.

Let;s cut to the chase. Is this just you being triggered because of a black guy?

>tumblr audience
You mean normal people?

>"LOL WE HACKING N SHEEET"

"Hacking" would be a difficult thing to learn to do well on the scale of taking over major government installations and shit like that with a smartphone.

Actual hackers are all a bit..."different" to the rest of us and good on em'

Though I suppose "anti social autist" is a harder sell than "hot sassy chic"

Most consumers buy a game and never break past the length of a movie in a game. They are their audience.

It's s commonly known industry fact that you should make the beginning of a game gloriously appeal to the demographic you're after, then rush everything afterwards. Chances are, nobody will see it other than on YouTube. Hence cutscenes and boring final encounters being so common in recent years.

probably, yeah

Really?

Can you bring me up a 2006 example to match this?
Some kind of fashion oriented street-thug hipster hackers using touchphones to...pull cars up on cars on cranes, to fuck the system or something

I don't give a shit about their races, they are a group of extremely retarded ideas.

>makes a political statement by putting in a nigger who literally dindu nuffin
>gets mad when people talk about it
>you're just supposed to accept the over representation of niggers in the media and ignore their actual issues
the ONLY reason he's a nigger is because it's the politically correct thing to do and it automatically gets you some free points on the game's rating. don't get mad when people call out their bullshit

It'll show in their shit sales user don't worry

Watchdogs 2 looks fun. I like the silly campiness of it and the setting seems fun and interesting.

Watchdogs 1 took itself to seriously and didn't have the gameplay or even a compelling protagonist to back it up.

This new one has unique characters, good music, good vibes, all in a weird AU with hipster hacker groups. It's fine if that doesn't interest you because not ever game in the world is made for you, but you have to admit it's at least a bit creative, at least by ubi' standards.

>recent years.
the industry learned all that back in the days of Shareware

AAA games haven't been aimed at me for years, I accept that.
I just play whatever looks neat, usually some small game from a big publisher that I have fun with for a while then immediately forget.

Most of the stuff I play anymore is old games I never had the chance to play when I was younger, or things I'd never even heard of before finding a youtube video on it or something.

Video games are different now. I'm sure there were plenty of people back when the PS2 and Gamecube released who would've said the same thing and felt the same way.

Expensive post.

They put black people in the game because it's realistic to have diversity when your game has an urban setting.

I guess you would know if you ever left your backwater neighborhood, or your basement even.

I'm sick of every new game that comes out being buggy as fuck and damn near unplayable.

So I give games a year or so usually, but I did get DOOM recently.

Was going to get XCOM 2 but apparently it's full of monsters shooting through walls so fuck it.

Nah. I've got some pretty normie friends. Dudebros, dykes, even know a girl that screams about patriarchy when her dad won't change the channel for her.
All of them think the main character for WD2 is a literal dindu that's trying to get revenge on the white man for racial profiling, and that really is his backstory.
Maybe it's just that everyone in the southern hemisphere is at least a little racist.

we're old user

i'm 31, i'm well aware that i'm not a primary target for game developers for years
but that's ok. i can still enjoy games made for other people. not everything needs to be about me, i've had my time.

it's not realistic because for all this supposed diversity in urban areas there sure as shit is a whole lot of segregation. niggers, spics and whites by and large DO NOT associate with each other

Ubisoft is notorious for for taking otherwise creative settings and diluting them into their same tired open world formula
All of the side missions are boring filler or collectahons, the crafting system relies on the collectathons, and the gameplay mechanics have all the depth of a puddle

>31
>I've had my time

Spare the fucking melodrama, you're 31, not 91.
Jesus.

it's over user
everything's over

>Having a black character is making a political statement
I would laugh at you right now if it wasn't so sad that you believe this

>Actual hackers are all a bit..."different" to the rest of us and good on em'
Consider suicide.

Yeah, same. I don't really buy AAA games that often anymore. The only one I bought this year was Doom. I mostly just play older games and the occasional niche Jap game. Only games I'm looking forward to next year are Nier Automata and Yakuza Zero.

I'm not even 30 and feel 90.

Its probably that now you really know that its never going to be as good as it was when you were a kid/20.

Bug-testing isn't nearly as common as it used to be, now you can just get reports from players about issues and then patch them up as things go along. It probably has a lot to do with how digital everything is now, even if you buy a physical release you're bound to have to download some initial patch or update your system or any number of other, annoying things. The thing is that they don't have to spend hundreds of hours making sure the experience is as bug-free and polished as possible, if players encounter some horrible glitch or game-breaking state, the dev team can just go, "whoops!" and slap a bandage over it.

And then there's always any multiplayer game, they aren't even finished anymore, they're in a perpetual beta state where anything can change or be removed at any time, and something you get used to can be patched into the dirt by the next time you play it.

why does it matter what age he is? we're talking about vidya here. if he's 31 then he's seen the golden age come and go. from his perspective time has passed him by

I'm 27 but have been stuck in a timewarp due to constant illness, pretty fucked off at not enjoying my 20s.

Whatever, i'll either suicide or put myself in a cyborg body in 50 years.

Whats sad is that you made a post and also think you made a point.

But you only made a post, a shit one.

Yeah the regrets started coming in at 25 and they just keep on coming.

>you realise you had been forgotten by developers
OP, in the history of videogames, has a game ever been tailor made for (You)? The answer is no.

>they made a game for nobody
Which is exactly the case. They sat down with focus groups to find out why Watch Dogs flopped. A 40 year old, white, male, dressed in a large overcoat, didn't exactly go over so well with a teenage/minority/homosexual audience.

This.

The marketing for Watch Dogs worked like a charm, but the game itself caused the internet to rage. They obviously are keeping the theme but want a different protagonist.

Exactly.

This shit never happened with console games back in the day because of no online.

Even PC games didn't usually have major game fucking bugs on release and if they did it really hurt sales.

Though I still remember my first 200mg patch on 56k.

Ausfag?

I think the game looks like absolute polished shite and not in a good way.

> its never going to be as good as it was when you were a kid/20.

fuck no. it's WAY better than when i was kid/20.

freedom, money, own car, own house, i do what i want, everything in my life is how i want it

But some of us enjoyed our childhood.
Also being young.

WE

It's that weird cargo cult mentality devs get. Watch Dogs shit on for a graphical downgrade, boring gameplay, badly-used mechanics, etc. Then the team looks back at it, tries to work out why it failed, and ends up with "well, the protagonist was a white guy".

i think games really have not been aimed at gamers for at least a decade.

And no its not fine because every other indie game wants to be a AAA game and goes along with the hype only to fizzle out shortly after release.

Kikestarter was a good idea that turned bad
Steam and Greenlight also went the same way

Big publishers losing money and players left and right to freemium mobile games and browsershit (hello early 2000's we meet again)

Basically the industry is in for a massive shift in the way they work now the retail and the 'old' way of mass marketing no longer works.

Hopefully they go back to making less wasteful and stupid games but looking at this new wave of VR trash it appears they have learnt nothing.

i enjoyed my childhood
but i would never want to be kid again. school, parents, all the kid problems. fuck that.

I have the same problems i do now i did back then
>Broke
>depression
>isolated

Should have just committed sepeku

I'd literally give up my freedom if it meant being able to look at the world through eyes other than that of a cynical jaded fuck.

I much preferred existing before I knew that behind every thing that exists in our society theres is only really greed.

it probably won't get better, but you'll be dead soon enough. time goes by pretty fast. may as well just wait it out. there's also nuclear war, an asteroid and the yellowstone eruption to look forward to. you'll be alright

I realized then

>cargo cult mentality
I don't think you're using that right.

I also don't think anything else in your post is correct.

Video games are also the only thing that can work like this, devs can release a blatantly unfinished product with the promise of putting the rest of the pieces together later, but once they've got your money what's the incentive to make good on their promises?
No other media can work like that, you can't release a book with the last five chapters and the back cover missing, you can't release a film that gets fifteen minutes patched back in near the middle so you have to watch it again,
Video games are just in a spot now where they don't need to be complete experiences, they don't need to be consistently satisfying to make money, they can shove all their best stuff up front and who gives a damn what the rest is like.

It's too goddamn easy to be cynical about all this, too.

>tumblr
>normal
It's time to go back and this time stay away from the boats wouldn't want to be caught by the japs.

Nzfag
And yeah, it's bringing nothing new to the table over Hot_Dogs, except maybe the most effeminate melee weapon ever.

Somewhere around Mass Effect 3 and Ass Creed 3.

2 major AAA series that began with huge involved story line, one even going so far as to tell you to make careful choices because THE NEXT FUCKING GAMES WOULD CHANGE BASED ON YOUR DECISIONS!

Then they end with the game unloading party poppers of prejac on your face and run off giggling, moving on to the next game while you sit there covered in the jizz you payed for wondering where it all went so wrong.

>mfw live in literal mad max land
Sooner rather than later i hope mate

more like years of slowly getting older, sadder, lonelier and more depressed
then your health will go away and you'll spend last 10-15 years in pain, with nothing to do but waiting for death and thinking about your wasted life

You're sadly right, my dude.

Fuck this, I'm sticking to DOOM mods.

lol the gay balls in a dicksock thing?

2012 was a bad year for vidya.

Fuck EA and Ubishite

Both novels and TV series have been released one episode at a time, often with the end not even finished at the start, with the progression depending on the critical and financial reception.

This was probably a solid turning point.

BF 3 and 4 were shit by default, horrid shooting and all the auto-aiming gagets, and then they push out that turd halfway between two stops clearly trying to push their audience in a direction that needs even less work to be satisfied.

What was started there has grown to fruition in Battlefront.
We'll see which direction BF1 takes them now.

There was literally an article written about this. Consoles and AAA games are not aimed at you any more. There's more money to be made in casuals and people outside the core.

The core lives on PC and all the new indie devs are core. Consoles are for non gamer chucklefucks (weebs included) only.

now I wanna know what that is

I think a lot of you would honestly benefit from therapy. You all sound horribly depressed and your disappointment with video games as of late is a symptom, not a cause. I hope. If it is the cause then you need to get your priorities straight and get out of the basement.

Why can't we have BF2 or BC2 back :c

Faggots like you talk as if the game companies owe you something.
Game companies are, indeed, COMPANIES. They SELL shit you like, but they don't like you back.
Get that into your head.
If you're stupid enough to think that because you're loyal to a company they'll give you good shit, then kill yourself.
Companies want money and they'll go where money goes.

>people complaining about a game that a) won't play, b) pirate, beat it and call it shit, c) buy it, enjoy it, but jump on the Sup Forums cynical bandwagon and call it shit in an effort to fit in with the user brotherhood of hating everything
I'm gonna pirate and have fun with it. If you think the story sucks, just circle button through the cinematics and enjoy the gameplay.

fucking christ, you whiney faggots act like fuckin' women.

>I don't want to live in a world where there is an actual legit target audience for this.
ok bye
dont let the door hit ya on the way out!

All you had to do, was remake SWAT 4.

But nope, nobody can do it.
Devs (or publishers pressuring them) are terrified of suspense in a game because "holy shit something didn't happen in the last 2 minutes".

two legitimately accurate answers

Yeah this shits looks gay as fuck. Its almost like it's suppose to be some kinda cartoon parody for 12 year olds or something. oh wait it is preorder Watchfags 2 today.

>hear premise
>buy product
>product sucks
>complain

Pretty easy cycle to understand, my dudes.
It's been around for about 3 thousand years plus.

basically a modern flail

youtube.com/watch?v=ke69BDubwHQ

Except 'urban' and therefore shit

all meaningless once you finally go. no one else is going to remember your mistakes so why should you worry about it? greater men than you have been lost to history. just got to come to terms with it all and not give a fuck. once you truly do that it might even set you free or make you kill yourself

But washdogs also only had bad gameplay, bad physics and even bad gimmicks.

I think complaining about dollar millions being invested into something that was bad in all possible ways, and was also a bait&switch on PC is kind of valid.

Meanwhile the people who complaing about complaining, man those are the productive posts.

It's probably not the best comparison, I know.
But even with books and TV, there's usually a bigger plan for either, and from what I know television shows are filmed in big chunks, and only get pulled or have more seasons based on reception.
And it takes being REALLY SHIT for a book or television series to suddenly stop anymore.

This tbqh

dunno why Sup Forums and indeed Sup Forums is suprised when shit is popular because they hate it just to be edgy

Pro Skater 5. Seriously, when did the market for this game die? It was honestly one of my favourite games and I love that genre but I won't buy it because of how rushed and buggy it is. They won't make a 6th I bet either.

>I want to justify complainers who complain for the sake of complaining by pointing a finger at complainers who complain about complainers
*claps*
you're retarded! hurray!

I pretty much gave up when this was announced.

Such fucking cringe. im outta here.

Oh yeah I remember it now.
I guess leave it up to a nigger to not get farther than sock full of coins when thinking up a weapon concept.

Not the devs fault that you have obscure taste in games.

around the time punk rock and goth/baroque died so around 2009-2010?

Its all about memestep, cutting and snapchat angst clips
ekeke

No I'm not, don't project that hard.
Now go enjoy some dogshit game like you usually do, better than complaining eh? just tastes a bit like shit.

>having no standards makes you superior
Buddy you're fucking everything up

I'm almost sure that game has no audience, its basically what 50y old jews think is young and hip.

I've been playing games since the early 90s and I still see plenty to be interested in.

I'm also not a bigoted nu-right neckbeard, though.

Wonder if there's a connection?

So yes, you are just a triggered alt righter.

Gaming has never appealed to fucktards so easily triggered that they cannot enjoy something unless it's white

You are a cancer every bit as bad as the sjws

>modern game 'devs'
>publishers
of course they are out of touch they havent lived in the real world outside their little bubble for way too long

Holy fuck, what world do you live in?

Hay you normal sounding person please leave this board of peace and tolerance towards fellow retards like myself thankyou.

He implied the game was targetered toward tumblr due to having a black guy, but normal people would not be triggered by a black guy or care if one was present

>you normal sounding person
What did he mean by this?

I tried getting into therapy. It literally costs thousands. All I can get is some thrift store government appointed therapist who I only get to see once a month

the target audience is the largest audience, because that makes the most money, and right now, the sort of games AAA developers churn out are what the majority buys into

its not necessarily for people who have played games in the 80s-90s and early 2000s, we've become the minority, a niche, even

>every game ever made must appeal to me and me only
>What? Other kinds of people play video games too? THAT'S BULLSHIT!

Have you ever been to a major city, user?