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Game industry continues to be just incredibly bleak behind the scenes. Ecosystem is in free fall. Doubt thereโll be an easy solution, or a quick one. This darkest hour has dragged out to a darkest couple of years.
— Mike Bithell (@mikebithell.bsky.social) 2024-12-01T19:04:43.910Z
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if AAA gaming fails literally nothing of value will be lost
burn it all to the ground
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I'll just keep replaying red dead, kotor and mass effect until I see something I like and no amount of marketing can stop me.
Frick the noise.
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Hoi4 is crack and it's ever green and I haven't even played EaW yet
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I have wasted so much of my life on hoi4 and regret nothing. Wait uuntil you try the black ice mod
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Wanna join !hoi4 ? Check
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rdrama.net/!hoi4
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Fallout 4 and Civ 5 for me
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I agree with it even though it's also bait
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I'll forgive 2000+ hours of civ 5 over even 100 hours of Fallout 4
Fallout 4 fricking sucks dude
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Only the niggest of !BIPOCs vantablack gorilla R-SLUR would play civ5 when civ4 BTS + rhye's and fall exists. Literal one unit per hex zero strategy babyslop
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Speak like a normal person you fricking sperg
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Leave Rhye alone
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Lmao. Needing to plan out the positioning of your army makes it less strategic.
Maybe you'd like Civ 6. The corp/army system lets you basically combine units into a single hex. If you still can't figure it out maybe you're just r-slurred.
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I like FO4's stability for mods
Not like Bethsheda released anything moderately okay since FO4 anyways.
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I hope you're playing something that replaces Bethesda's dogshit writing.
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You know it
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IKR I've lost a lot of respect for him as a person today.
My therapist said I need to "mourn" over losing
@KoreanGrinchKing and then get over it.
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So Koreans aren't actually smarter...
Civ 2. Everything after that added needless complexity. Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley knew to keep their game trim, perfect, nothing to take away.
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Both games require minimal thinking, so I can channel my inner Gen Alpha and do 4 things at once. Like work, play a gacha on my phone, watch a youtube video and play the game at the same time.
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Insane and awful take next to a mid one
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Agreed except I play the non-slop in those franchises
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!g*mers !chudsJump in the discussion.
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AAA games are fricked.
DotA, Apex and AoE2:DE are failing because they're AAA games.
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He thinks that indies are fricked as well.
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Can you name a successful indie since 2020?
Not balatro.
Not nms.
Not Vampire Survivor.
Not stardew valley.
Not celeste.
Name one I fricking dare you!
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palworld
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Please stay put.
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It's insanely hard for any indie game to take off nowadays.
Firstly what 1 person can do in 1-5 years is always going to look kinda shit compared to a studio, next they can't break through marketing budgets or social media.
I think trying to be an influencer first then make your game is a more realistic way to do it
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Cruelty Squad vs Dustborn
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lethal company.
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Lethal Company is 7.0 on IGN, nowhere near DragonAge Veilguard which is a 9.0
Steam player numbers are no metric for success!
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your gay
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DRG
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Ableist towards people of stature, genocide apologist!
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Palworld?
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Palworld is pokemon theft.
Nice try, chud
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There will always be some successful games, the industry as a whole could still be suffering. Also the downturn was after 2020 (mb 2022?), at least 2 of the games you listed were before 2020.
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Bithell is an indie dev, though?
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What would we do? Level a skill to 99 in old school runescape? Play diablo 2? We cant be expected to do any of this
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I havent tried Factorio yet...
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I like Capcom. I'm a Capcom fan!
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Crapcum sucks massive BIPOCdick
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Who even cares enough to say "burn it to the ground"?
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Nearly all fighting games are AAA
All the other stuff is AA like skullgirls.
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