The last exciting western video game was cyberpunk 2077 and technically it's Polish not American. Even that was a shitshow.
Elden Ring meanwhile is game of the year. The year before that Death stranding was the big game everyone talked about.
The Last of US 2 went down the shitter too. Horizon zero dawn was crap too.
Last time a western game didn't disappoint and was really good was either God Of War or Spiderman 2018.
Since then there has been no worthwhile game that I can think of that's coming out of the western world except for GoW2.
Why have western games become so shit?
Are Americans not worries that they have lost the culture war? That all of video game culture that is successful seems to be coming from Japan and South Korea? Or does the current day US consider them equivalent to Italy and Spain?? That is the only way this state of affairs makes sense to me.
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No Man’s Sky
Thread debunked.
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Alright you got me there, but still one game released like a decade ago or something.
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Brought up to current gen graphical and performance standards in 2021 and still getting several massive content updates every year that would warrant a sequel in any other IP 😎
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That's true. And the update cycle is 1 update per 3 months?
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Roughly; they put out new stuff as it’s done but it equates to that, about.
HG is a team of around 20 people and they’re openly just adding stuff to the game that the community wants and that they want to see themselves because NMS is literally the game they’ve always wanted to have themselves. It’s been working out really well. One of the devs really likes making music so he went off and made the ByteBeat system - some absurdly in-depth music creation tool in NMS where you can build stereos and make music and it can play on your stereos or be added to playlists to take with you - just for fun and they dropped an update with it in it because why not? Other times they’ll do stuff like create a giant mech exocraft because it seems fun so now there’s a giant mech and add a completely arbitrary cooking and animal husbandry system it so you can make hundreds of weird food dishes and milk fauna and grow crops and shit and this gets included with a regular large update just as a side thing.
It’s a really weird development cycle, is what I’m saying. They just do whatever seems fun to them and whatever the community asks for.
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That's nice sweaty. Why don't you have a seat in the time out corner with Pizzashill until you calm down, then you can have your Capri Sun.
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That sounds cool. What more features do you figure they could add to the game now? I honestly can't think of anything. Maybe allow you to buy entire planets off the galactic market or join multiple frigates to collect enough resources to build an artificial planet?
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Yes Woman's Land is truly a story of hopium.
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