Just watched gameplay of unreleased game plants vs zombies 3 . Its so bad, original from 2009 is milion times better.

And same goes for all other games. Why are old games better than new ones, they dont put any efort today to make good quality game.

It looks like they just want to make it quick and cheap. No wonder games are so lov quality…

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    A lot of the “old games were better” is because we mainly remember the best of the best. There has always been shovelware.

    On the other hand, I do agree that AAA gaming is fairly stale. I believe it’s mainly because the games are huge investments that have to be a “safe” bet, which is one way to make art (of any type) boring.

    But there are indie studios making amazing games these days, because the incentive there is to differentiate their product from the others. Once an idea gets popular enough, AAA studios will pick it up and grind it into the dirt.

    I would disagree with the idea that games are worse now. I think the best stuff is getting made today, it’s just harder to find it in a deluge of shovelware. Look in the indie and AA space for interesting games.

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      I look at youtube with revievers and finding nothing. They should include indian games as well as i see they do. So can you tell me for some examples oglf these great games today?

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        • Hollow Knight & Silksong if you want hard platformers/metroidvania
        • Return of the Obra Dinn if you want a great detective game
        • Disco Elysium if you want the maybe greatest game. Genrewise its closest to an CRPG, but without fights, “just” talking
        • Tyranny if you want a great CRPG
        • Subnautica if you want a great survival open world game
        • Minecraft is still also a great game
        • Hades if you want a great Roguelite

        With those games you would already have something like 400 hours covered.

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        I actually don’t think I’ve ever played a game by an Indian studio, which is a shame because I’m sure there are some great storytellers and coders from there who make spectacular games. I should look around and see what available.

        Regarding great games, what genres do you like?

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          Am more survival crafting type than sory telling, i like tower defens also. Played manuganu, red ball, sword of holan. But not huge fun of pixelart… But i am fun of 2d games like oddmar and dont starve…

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            Abiotic Factor is an interesting crafting game that takes place in a science facility during a mysterious emergency. I’d recommend playing with friends, but I think it’d be fun solo, too.

            I also had fun with Subnautica, though that one is a few years old now. I have not tried the sequel, but I’ll probably pick it up some day. It’s a game where you have crash-landed on an alien ocean world, and you have to explore to make better tools to try and escape.

            I’ve been playing Hardspace Shipbreaker lately, where your character is someone who disassembles spaceships. The fun of the game is moving around in zero-g and safely take stuff apart without setting off the nuclear reactor, or explosively decompressing a ship right next to you. You upgrade your tools as you do more jobs.

            There’s a popular indie game right now called Megabonk; if you like rogue-light games, it’s a fun one. Avoid waves of monsters and upgrade your character by picking the best of three random power-ups as your level goes up.