Recent Gaming Trends You Hate

[Grand Conde]

My OG gamers get in here, what are some new (relatively, lets say the past 5-10 years) gaming trends you fukking hate.

My main ones are:

• People complaining about games that aren't over 20 hours long being too short and not worth the money.
• Sports games being straight awful and EA having a monopoly.
• Nobody giving a fukk about entire genres like flying games, platformers, racers and fighting games any more - everything having being either an RPG or an action game.
• Not enough arcadey stuff, too much focus on realism.

Add on. I've been gaming since the mid-90s for reference.

 

[old pig]

—micro transactions

—every game now having mini-RPG elements

I agree w/ your point about realism as well...I think that’s why I enjoyed the switch as much as I did this gen...a lot of the games were flat out fun...I truly appreciate games like RDR2 and TLOU2 but I wouldn’t classify them as “fun”...they can be extremely intense albeit valuable gaming experiences

 

[Ya Sinning Mane]

—micro transactions

—every game now having mini-RPG elements

right on.this my only gripes wit games now

 

[The Guru]

twitter commentators and their stupid hot takes/opinions on everything.

 

[Killer Instinct]

I love good open world games, but so many games have gone open world amd suffered for it. Every game doesn't need to be open world. A good Linear game is still a good game! Everything in moderation. It's gotten saturated and every developer can't craft engaging worlds. Stop trying to be R* & Bethesda.



Knuckledgragging, neanderthal "anti-SJW" snowflakes who mask their disdain for "others" under the guise of disliking "forced diversity" have always been around, but they seriously need to be put out of their misery at this point, as social media has given a voice to those who should be voiceless. 99% of games released (especially AAA) feature generic, white male protagonist and are the standard across the board, and these belligerent, insecure fakkits cry about the 1% that don't. "Anti-SJWs" have become worse than "SJWs." The cure is much worse than the disease ever was. In an ideal world, they'd make good on their threats to walk away from gaming because the inclusion of black men and homosexuals as main characters in their video games facilitates "white genocide," but they won't because unfortunately, gaming is all they have. Their inability to procreate does much more to fuel the genocide of their gene pool, but it's much more comforting to blame Ellie.

 

[Koba St]

Obsession with metacritic scores

 

[Why-Fi]

covert episodic content. if you have an incomplete game just finish it before you release it. or just say it's an episodic game

 

[LauderdaleBoss]

Not enough local co-op games. Not everybody wants to play against randoms online.

Not enough fully destructive open world games. I need that Mercenaries series back with 2020 technology. I wanna be able to blow up whole buildings and shyt.

 

[old pig]

Knuckledgragging, neanderthal "anti-SJW" snowflakes who mask their disdain for "others" under the guise of disliking "forced diversity" have always been around, but they seriously need to be put out of their misery at this point, as social media has given a voice to those who should be voiceless. 99% of games released (especially AAA) feature generic, white male protagonist and are the standard across the board, and these belligerent, insecure fakkits cry about the 1% that don't. "Anti-SJWs" have become worse than "SJWs." The cure is much worse than the disease ever was. In an ideal world, they'd make good on their threats to walk away from gaming because the inclusion of black men and homosexuals as main characters in their video games facilitates "white genocide," but they won't because unfortunately, gaming is all they have. Their inability to procreate does much more to fuel the genocide of their gene pool, but it's much more comforting to blame Ellie.

GODDAMN!

 

[Mr Rager]

Storytelling through cutscenes

Games that care more about the graphics design of a characters eyebrows than how fun the game actually is

 

[The G.O.D II]

My OG gamers get in here, what are some new (relatively, lets say the past 5-10 years) gaming trends you fukking hate.

My main ones are:

• People complaining about games that aren't over 20 hours long being too short and not worth the money.
• Sports games being straight awful and EA having a monopoly.
• Nobody giving a fukk about entire genres like flying games, platformers, racers and fighting games any more - everything having being either an RPG or an action game.
• Not enough arcadey stuff, too much focus on realism.

Add on. I've been gaming since the mid-90s for reference.

Replace this with stealth

 

[Marci-Senpai]

Battle royale

 

[KingJay]

Cosign the hyper focus on realism
micro-transactions are pretty gross

 

[Grand Conde]

Replace this with stealth

Yeah real stealth games like Tenchu are gone, we mainly just heave pseudo ones now.

 

[x2y]

I agree with everything posted so far. Micro transaction and incomplete games are the big ones for me.

Also the free to play genre and the Fortnite's of the world are a little disturbing. I have family and friends and their kids that bought an xbox and PS4's just to play Fortnight or Apex and that is all they play and sink hours and a tons of cash to play that single game. They do not have any variety on their games at all.