Yeah in general this site seems to be losing its excitement for games. There is still a ton of great stuff to enjoy though, just not on the wii u which is easily the worst Nintendo console ever. But yeah things are formulaic in the big game space.

Just look at the lineup this year from Nintendo, it's the worst in years, this is the third year of wii u, it should have a bunch of great games. In terms of everything wii u is the worst.

Dvader said:

Just look at the lineup this year from Nintendo, it's the worst in years, this is the third year of wii u, it should have a bunch of great games. In terms of everything wii u is the worst.

You're just looking at this year, overall their Wii U games are better than anything they did on GC and NES games are shit in general. Sunshine and WW are lesser games. Try buying Splatoon, you'll enjoy it alot. XCX is going to be great this year and Zelda and Starfox got delayed - if they had made it this year, they would have been great? Don't forget Captain Toad, another game you didn't get. And you just got Mario Maker right? Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem for this year?

So this year we've had, Captain Toad, Mario Maker, Splatoon, Yoshi, Kirby, Mario Tennis Ultra Smash, XCX and FF to come, Devils Turd.

I think you are doing the same thing you did with Wii. You don't buy the games that are out, understandably because you are interested in other stuff. But you miss some big or small games and have a more negative outlook on the system as a whole; when you don't play those games. Reminds me of the spring when I was enjoying the hell out of Lego City and NFS Most Wanted and people were complaining about having nothing to play on the system. People still haven't picked up and played Lego City and it got a lot of 9/10 reviews. Unlike most other Lego games, it's not shit either.

These are old pics, delete what you know isn't coming out. Starfux delayed. XCX and Project Zero I guess. I only expect 3 decent Nintendo games per year as that is their M.O. I can't remember when it was ever any other way. I don't see Sony or MS coming out with anything better or being more productive on a yearly basis. Take away all their third party support and they'd be in the same boat.

travo said:

My excitement is waning but not because I can't find plenty of games to play but for lack of time and money.  Time especially.  It's hard to get excited when I average fifteen to thirty minutes a day.  I used to average two -three hours per day.

I'm not less excited about games, as much as it's become a hard rule to accept that certain things are on their way out, or I'm old enough that more shit bugs me now.  

Part of it is what I like about games: I value gameplay, interactivity, mother fucking depth over video game stories, because video game stories are pathetic. For every rare outing like Silent Hill 2, Mother 3, or Planescape there is a Halo, an Uncharted, a jrpg, where the story is fucking garbage under any scrutiny. Even the better than that bar stuff like Last of Us, Red Dead, or the likes of Bioshock come with about as many cons as they come with positives. And I hate how this medium has decided that it needs to tell a story like a film, tv show, or a book, but when they are asked to tell a story through a game, it's like OMG how do you do that? Like bitch this is your medium, that you should be good at by now.

I also can not stand how extravagant these cutscenes have gotten. It was one thing in the PS1 era, but why the fuck am I watching some badass action sequence in cutscene? Like Halo 5 opens with the spartans jumping out of a jet in cutscene. Make that shit gameplay, make drop down all badass, have me shoot shit while I'm falling dealing with covies in mid air. No lets watch black guy look badass in a cutscene? Fuck off.


And I like Platinum Games, and some of their spectacle I can accept as "Okay that would be hard to do as gameplay".,...other things? Nah fuck that, make that shit gameplay.

Japan isn't looking any better. Capcom who for my money is the only Japanese company that belongs in a conversation with Nintendo for GOAT status is a shell of their former glory. The last great game from them was SF4. Devil May Cry is in some weird limbo, Resident Evil 5 and 6 were not worthy of being sequels to RE4, and pfft at the idea they ever make a survival horror game out of this series, Dead Rising peaked at the first game. Square sucks. Konami is whatever, and Sega can't draw a dime when they make fun things like Valkyria and Binary Domain.

Beyond that, and the fact that the 60 dollar game has become more dick, more uninspired, more sequels, more vapid, boring, banal, bitch work instead of fun gameplay. Or entertaining gameplay. Or compelling gameplay. Or cerebral gameplay. Or Satisfying gameplay. Or interesting gameplay. Nope, bitch work. And the new ips look a hell of a lot like the old ips


Destiny? Halo with hoods and shitty loot


The Order? Gears of Yore


Tittyfall? Brink with mechs


Bloodborne? Dickensian Dark Souls

3 machines, 2 years for the PS4 and X1, 3 for the WiiU, 1080pish hardware for 2 of them, a tablet controller, and between 3 big time first parties, they have 2 games between those 3 machines that actually feels like new and distinct from anything else (in terms of the triple A space), and that was The Wonderful 101 and Splatoon. And I'd give Nintendo the rub, but fuck them too, it takes the will power of the gods for those people to actually finally do something new.

But the indie, kickstarter, and middle market PC stuff always makes me happy, feel better about stuff. Ori isn't original, but fuck it doesn't completely shit on Nintendo's recent platforming outings, much less the fact that they were able to do cool stuff with 2d Metroid structure in a way that the company who makes Metroid isn't doing. Shovel Knight was rad, Rocket League is the tits, Hell Divers is one of the cooler coop games I've played in awhile, Divinity Original Sin had a combat system that was legit new for its space, and highlighted the strength of modern tech at the same time. you know the shit the 60 dollar games are supposed to do, except the best playing games are on a glorified 360(WiiU) or a cross gen game (MGSV).

Also the remasters? I'm all for preserving gaming, but how about we remaster games that actually need to be remastered.

SteelAttack said:

I admit it.

Same here.  I want my teenage years back.

Fuck my teenage years. I want my early 20's back. I had money and was getting laid.

gamingeek said:

SteelAttack said:

But there is a fuckton of stuff out there, enough to cater to most people's tastes.

If you can be bothered and want to waste money building up a backlog you wont play. Sure.

The AAA train is getting monotonous though.

On the contrary. Having variety doesn't mean you're going to end up drowning yourself in games. Pick what you want from whatever is available, then proceed to have fun.