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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I think as money came in more corporate people are involved and there's no longer "passion projects" at the top. It's all re releases and out of no where blow ups that big companies jump on and monetize. We many be seeing the last of actual g*mers involved in the executive decisions right now with people like Todd Howard (yes I know he barely qualifies but still) and the guys at microsoft/blizzard (though they seem to have given up or changed into suites themselves). It's only going to get worse as the woke crowd infests the industry and the upper management continues to push the p2w envelope. Diablo immortal will look like a reasonable game in 5 years
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that makes sense sadly.
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They're already there neighbor. Didn't you notice Rockstar of all developers removing heckin transphobia from GTA V? Now consider that it's worse in 90% of all other major studios.
It should come as no surprise, as game devs are neurodivergents so you get a lot of soys and
s. Add the fact that they're trying to ensure everything appeals to everyone, which inevitably means stupid hires (not just DEI consultants and shit, but also more HR nonsense as companies are trying to get rid of "bro culture" or whatever"). And 
MY HECKIN INDIES 
aren't any better in this aspect.
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Oh I know, WoW just got rid of gender and changed to body type lmao. Unfortunately people are so afraid to say anything about social stuff nowadays so I think it's only gonna get worse as the rallying cry of the woke crowd seems to be "why do you care el oh el, you must be a bigot/secretly gay" and the neckbeard vanguard have no good response without sounding like incels tryhards
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