Old games are BEATING modern games badly

[tongue_of_colicab]

Players are increasingly dedicating their time to older, established games rather than new releases. This observation is supported by data from Newzoo, a market research firm specializing in gaming analytics.

And why would that be? Maybe because people don't want to have all sorts of shit forced down their throats when they just want to relax and play a game? All the big failures are games that are trying to do exactly that while the games that are designed to be you know, fun, do just fine.

Apart from the above I think a lot of the bigger games are just rehashing the same formula which probably makes them less interesting. Where at the point where even a 6 or 7 year old game doesn't really look worse or has outdated gameplay compared to a similar game released recently.

There's also a lot of advantages to being a couple of years behind the curve. Especially on PC. The bugs are (hopefully) worked out, games are significantly cheaper and you can make due with much more affordable hardware if you play games years after release. I'm not going to drop 1000+ bucks on a GPU to play the latest game at good settings. Rather wait 4 years and play it with all bells and whistles enabled on a card half the price.

 

[ZebMacahan]

And why would that be? Maybe because people don't want to have all sorts of shit forced down their throats when they just want to relax and play a game? All the big failures are games that are trying to do exactly that while the games that are designed to be you know, fun, do just fine.

Apart from the above I think a lot of the bigger games are just rehashing the same formula which probably makes them less interesting. Where at the point where even a 6 or 7 year old game doesn't really look worse or has outdated gameplay compared to a similar game released recently.

There's also a lot of advantages to being a couple of years behind the curve. Especially on PC. The bugs are (hopefully) worked out, games are significantly cheaper and you can make due with much more affordable hardware if you play games years after release. I'm not going to drop 1000+ bucks on a GPU to play the latest game at good settings. Rather wait 4 years and play it with all bells and whistles enabled on a card half the price.

Yeah, Space Marine 2, Wukong and Astrobot have been selling really good as far as I know. I play games to have fun.