What the hell happened to gaming? These days its all about how much resolution you have or how smooth it can run...

What the hell happened to gaming? These days its all about how much resolution you have or how smooth it can run, but its never about how good the actual game is anymore! I continuously see PCucks trying to shill steam to me and I simply don't care, I just wanna sit down and play some fucking vidya, who cares how much 'p' it has? At least console wars of yore had games worth competing against eachother, these days, its all about the specs. Developers are releasing games before they are finished which leads to piracy (because nobody trusts them) and poor reviews. Gaming went from a hobby to a shitbucket.

to all of you that keep shit like this happening, hang yourselves.

oldfag out.

ring-a-ding-ding!

>Back in my day if a game was released with bugs or glitches that affected gameplay there were no means to patch or fix them.

Graphicsfags and casuals are the same thing now
They merged at some point and now video games are doomed

The irony on this post, consoles are what brought about the normies that destroyed this industry.

Enjoy your CoD/Fifa machine, kek

>consoles are what brought about the normies that destroyed this industry

Surely it wasn't the platform whose most popular games are League of Legends, Team Fortress 2, Hearthstone, and Overwatch.

>implying most older games weren't buggy shit too and piracy wasn't at an all time high when games were even easier to copy than now

Bearing in mind that these glitches were much harder to find and generally meant that Quality Assurance was done to a better standard.

Some glitches weren't even that bad, i.e SF2's combos started as a glitch iirc, Megaman X's dash shoot for double damage... so on

Niggers shut up for a second and listen
>finish game
>release game
>patch it to fix bugs and glitches
Best of both worlds
It's what it should be

>League of Legends
>Hearthstone
These two are literally two complicated for normies

>TF2
Actually a good game

>Overwatch
Very popular on consoles too lol

You don't have to be an oldfag to see this change, literally everyone here is aware, even the 14 year old reading my post right now. And op, PC has good shit if you give it a chance. You're excluding and entire platform just because "pcucks"

>These two are literally two complicated for normies
*too

Fuck

Not to mention Minecraft and Portal.

Both work

IT got popular everything that normies lay eyes on gets destroyed and turned to grey uninstresting mass

I play quite slot of my games on pc but they are mostly emulators, old rts games or on disc, my only steam purchases are tf classic, tf2 and gmod.

Well go find and buy some good games then, you'd be surprised

>gaming
Hola reddit. It's "videogames" or "video games".

The thing about the gaming past is that everyone only remembers the gems. As a kid in the early 90's with a Genesis I can assure you there was very little quality control.

I didn't have any gaming mags or anything so I usually just bought random games with cool boxart. In that time, especially on the NES for every great game there were dozens that were literally unplayable.

Today's shit games are still very very playable when compared to a lot of the forgotten garbage of yesterday.

And when I saw unplayable I mean unplayable. We're talking paying 59.99 for a game that mugh have controls so shit you'd be luck if you could clear the first stage.

That kinda thing rarely happens these days and when it does there are usually mass refunds and such.

99% of games were grey uninteresting mass produced solely to make money 20 years ago already though. Of course a big chunk of Sup Forums pretends every other game was Ocarina of Time or whatever other golden classic crafted with care and love by developers who "really cared" or similar delusional nonsense.

If the "masterpieces" of the past came out today, Sup Forums would shit on them the exact same way as everything else for the simple reason that they came out today instead of back when they were kids and everything was better and beautiful.

>caring this much about nomenclature

I won't call you reddit, because this form of retardation is homegrown Sup Forums

Semantics

>nomenclature
>not gnomenclature

get your green ass back to you shitkicker.

bring it you gnome I can take like 5 of you suckers

consider it brought, bitch.

that looks nuts Im backing down

>now game problems can be temporarily fixed until the patch server goes offline

Ebin

Listen. I get it. DLC and patches being lost forever when servers eventually shut down is an issue. But there are many ps3 games that have been running for a decade now without that happening. Digital content becoming unavailable is just as likely as physical media degrading and becoming unplayable. Do you know how many ps1 and 2 games I've lost forever due to scratches?

It's FREE QA
We're giving you it FREE
Free QA
It's free QA for you Jim

And that meant that games were more polished back then.

>99% of games were grey uninteresting mass produced solely to make money
>implying they aren't anymore

It doesn't though.

SeeIt means a lot of games came out straight broken and if you paid full price for them, well fuck you.

>self-proclaimed oldfag thinks games "back then" were polished

Sure they were, buddy.

My Turok:Rage Wars cartridge with the unplayable coop mode

They wanted me to mail it to them for a patched game when I asked about the bug

Why do nostalgiafags pretend that "evuhl graphics" is the root of the supposed shit of today? Because graphics has probably never been such a non-selling point as it is now compared to the past.

fuck i love shadow magic.

IF YOU DON'T WANT TO PLAY SHITTY UNFINISHED GAMES YOU DONT HAVE TO, YOU ALSO AREN'T FORCED TO TALK TO CONSOLE SHILLS EITHER YOU AUTISTIC MANBABY

>What the hell happened to gaming?
The same thing that happened to the music industry. Corporations got too big and too greedy. Investors want to get a fast return on investment so development times are being cut short. Marketing, promotion and politics is being put at the forefront in favour of creativity. The development of new business models have led to DLC and microtransactions.

You could've figured this out for yourself, retard.

So, this is autism these days. I see...

I think what alot of core gamers are missing is the variety that existed back in the day.

The selection of present games are near identical. Barely anything stands out. Sequels of long running series have been tempered and barely have any memorable substance. Sans the plethora of repetitive replicas.

Experimentation is near non-existant. The saving grace are probably the smaller studios how try to attempt new things, but struggle due to low financial backing.

I got some SNK card fight game on DS that was completely unbeatable.
They eventually did a recall but I never bothered.

This you idiots.

Fucking no they weren't.

Back in our day games were released when the deadline was up and bugs couldn't be fixed at all.

But these days the deadlines are even shorter and bugs are even more frequent.

Deadlines don't say much these days anyways. FFXV was in development for a decade but was still very mediocre and broken.

I have the game too...never bothered either...

Scratches, fire, flooding, theft, lost in moves...