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General / Re: Losing interest for modern AAA games

« on: January 04, 2019, 01:57:54 pm »

You pretty much all described perfectly what i think about DLC and modern AAA .  It takes away a lot of the fun of buying game for this generation (and it have for the previous too ps3 ,360 )

I feel the same as the OP and bikingjahuty. Modern AAA titles (I really, really hate that term) are increasingly hollow, multiplayer-centric, DLC-riddled money pits designed solely to squeeze every last dime out of you. Activision didnt even bother to pretend with BLOPS4. Not even a token single player campaign. Just mindlessly running around shooting, respawning, etc ad nauseam. Multiplayer can be a lot of fun. But not forever and certainly not at the expense of the story.

That's why I'm almost exclusively playing & buying Nintendo games. You buy the game and you get the complete experience. Sure, a handful of games get DLCs, but they are a good value and I cant say I've ever felt or thought that content had been cut from the game to sell it to me later.

You can put a game (Nintendo-made) on any Nintendo system, never connect to the internet and you have a smooth, fully playable experience. No "ship it & patch later" nonsense. There are very few other publishers I respect anymore. CD Projekt Red is one of the few. Big publishers scratch their heads wondering how Witcher 3 sold a bajillion copies and made huge money without season passes and other nonsense. It's pretty simple really. Make a huge, fleshed-out single player experience that works out of the box. Don't nickel & dime your customers with microtransactions. When you do release DLC, make it free or if you are going to charge, make it both interesting & worth the money!  The two expansions for Witcher 3 - Blood & Wine and Hearts of Stone were ENORMOUS and fairly priced. I had no problem with them.

For their money-grubbing ways, I've sworn off several publishers & their games. Capcom, EA, Activision, Bethesda (except ID Software titles), etc.

Your right with nintendo being an example of product quality since their begining , snes ,Gamecube , wii etc.. are system i LOVE collecting for , so many gems from nintendo. they always deliver quality polished game still to this day.
I still don't have a switch as im always late to buy new generation console but... I already know i'll have to buy a lot of masterpiece for the system when i do  . But i was turned off a bit by them starting to do DLC for their main game to be honest (zelda, mario kart..) but hey.. at least they don't put out broken glitchy mess 

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General / Re: Losing interest for modern AAA games

« on: January 04, 2019, 11:14:27 am »

My take on modern AAA games is no different than it was back in the early 2000s or the 90s; some AAA games appeal to me, some don't. No one expects you to like every AAA games released just because it had a huge budget and a team of 400+ people worked on it. I'd say 1 in 4 AAA games appeal to me these day, which is about what it has always been. That's not to mention all the non-AAA games released that I think look cool and interesting.

yeah like i said some of them still appeal to me for sure. but a lot of the time they are new title of old franchise (ex. wolfenstein , resident evil etc..)  .  This would be another topic but ,the DLC things is really not for me either , i miss the days when we could buy a game day one and not worry that there would be a ''complete edition'' a year later.. unfortunatly this touch all king of games , not just AAA. like i would really like to get resident evil 2 remake day one , but capcom will surely put a complete edition in one year with all the basic thing that 15 years ago i would have  just unlock by playing the game (ex. costume , extra mode ) anyways im getting off track here 

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General / Losing interest for modern AAA games

« on: January 04, 2019, 10:19:56 am »

Am i the only one who has lost a lot of interest for the modern kind of AAA games ? theres exception of course some are really great . but overall im more looking foward to add  medium budget game , remaster of old game, New game that pay homage to old game,  or indie game (physical version of course) to my modern console collection (ps4 in my case)than new big AAA title , a lot of them dont inspire me, they feel soulless to me i dont know..  (Nintendo is exception to the rule , all of their stuff is AAA and they rarely made bad , Souless game  )

I started this topic because i've bought a lot of ps4 game recently and i realised theres no big modern AAA at all.

Just to name a few..

Okami HD
yookay laylee
Slain back to hell
Owlboy (amazing game...)
duke nukem 3d 20 anniversary world tour
Monster Boy and the cursed kingdom
a lot of resident evil ps4 remaster
shenmue 1 & 2 hd

And a lot more...

Also i think i've lost interest Overall in Big endless AAA openworld game and enormous Rpg that are just too big and impossible to fit in a busy adult life Lol. I prefer my game between 6 to 40 hour Max ( with exception again)

Let me know what you think !

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General / Re: What is the main focus of your collection if you have one?

« on: January 02, 2019, 12:00:47 am »

simply put . Only things that are really meaningful to me or that i really want to play . for the retro stuff ,only for system that are nostalgic for me. For exemple at some point i started a sega genesis(megadrive) collection but i sold it all because it wasnt a system i really love at the end and i've never owned one when i was younger.... also i've never been interested in  full set .When i enter in my game room i want it to be very personal and close to me..  that being said, I completly respect the determination of those wanting to have everything , its just not my thing 

 I love a lot of different series and genre of game . but one of my focus is survival horror. As for system i love collecting for , gamecube ,dreamcast, ps1, n64 , ps2, ps3, ps4 to ...name a few.

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General / Re: What is your biggest collecting regret?

« on: January 01, 2019, 11:13:38 pm »

My biggest regret is to have sold all my game collection  12 years ago when i was like 15 years old ... and there was a lot of rare expensive game...every time i think about that i have an over whelming amount of regret, and at the time the hype for collecting retro game was not as big , so it was for the most part big lots of games i bought for almost nothing to friend , people from school and garage sale. And sometimes videostore where getting rid of those ''ancient time''  games dirt cheap to make space for new generation game. anyways i was in possesion of a lot of big title of super nintendo , nintendo 64 , Nes , etc..with some awesome hardware too. and someday , probably in a state of teenager crisis, I decided i didint need those thing anymore , and i sold EVERYTHING, to a local videogame store that was still at the time buying older game...and i sold it for a fu***** ridiculous amount of money ...like... not ridiculous in a good way. Anyways like 6 years later at like 21, the urge to get a lot of thing back and start collecting game again hit me . and since then i have accumulated a lot of awesome game and game related stuff . I've made some incredible deal on stuff since all these years and im really happy with what i have . Im not finish yet entering all my collection on the site , im working on it Lol. oh..and Of course since rebuilding my collection i've regreted a couple of time not getting something at a good price and then later wanting it at higher price  Lol