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Top 3 lifetime?

Majesty the Kingdom Sim My first real game that I got any good at. From the era of top down builders like simcity and such. It’s probably not as robust as many other games buy it was by far the most influential game that taught resource management t

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time The n64 was the first home console I got, and this was, as probably many people, first foray into an “open world” other than Mario 64. It was also harder than any other game I’d played before and in retrospective I greatly enjoyed platformers later.

Ratchet: Deadlocked I love the series, I have almost all of them. But this was the culmination of the combat and Upgrade systems and mods that 2 introduced. The black sheep failure of the series, remains probably my most played and most devoted to getting Platinum for.

True games that game complete, without fucking bullshit transactions of cut content designed to suck my wallet dry.

Honorable mentions: Monster Hunter World and Elden Ring Feature rich and challenging. I had never played a Souls game and these 2 were perfect first games for it. I would not have liked these games when I was younger, but now that I’m older and able to plan builds and map progressions, these are great games.

Horizon The Forbidden West I really like the robot dinos. The story’s fine but man the time that went into coming up with “what animals would make great machones” is a creative meeting I’d loved to have been part of. FW builds on its source material in a way most sequels fail. The changing of machines to the “I’m tired of being everyone’s savior but noone else can do it” should resonate with most adults I think.

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Slowly just buying games on pc so I can cut my dependence on the Playstation. Paying twice for internet is so dumb. The ps5 and switch will likely be my last consoles.

I refuse to accept $70 as the new norm as companies boast about record profits, while indulging in layoffs. All while the average consumer has less money than ever before to even buy them.

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And the profitability has skyrocketed. The videogame industry is now one of the largest insudtries on the planet. A big driver has been normalisation of after-purchase items. Console players now pay to unlock their collar to the internet (ps+ and XBlive). Microtransactions add to this, and now battlepasses want $10+ every 50-90 days. Lootboxes normalizing near-gambling with overwatches success was a huge bar-lift in profitability expectations for shareholders.

Special editions are also hitting $90 and higher, plus those other expenditures. Ask “the gamers tm” and they’ll tell you you have to buy a special edition for $120 or you’re not a real fan anyway. Starfield has a $300 version. The Digital Premium doesn’t even come with the GAME! It’s another $35 after you already gave Microsoft $70.

Additionally, the work to make a new game has decreased. Assets are able to be salvaged from one engine to the next reducing the amount of work to make a game in UE6 after it was on UE5. the workforce has matured and can be taught as a class so there’s not nearly as many “self taught” making half a game. Roller Coaster Tycoon was made almost entirely by one dude. Obviously re-using assets is smart. But then to say you “built the game from the ground up” is false. Elden Ring was even praised for it

Marketing budgets have fuckin EXPLODED. A “Rule of Thumb” for indie devs is to spend HALF your budget on just marketing. Destiny allegedly spent 2.5× what they spent on development, for marketing. Publishing studios didn’t used to spend this much. “For every dollar on the game, spend another .25 to .50 on marketing”

Buying power has gone DOWN since ps1. You think I’m joking but federal minimum wage in the US is still 7.25. In 1994 (launch of ps1). It was 4.25 - adjusted for inflation thats $8.43. Meaning if you made minimum wage then, you’d be making more than minimum wage now, effectively. People are fucking broke and game companies want MORE money for games.

In 1994 when you bought a PS1 game you got THE WHOLE GAME. That was it. There was no merch drop pip-boy for the special edition. There was no Day-One patch. There was no “pay to get multiplayer”. There was no in-game shop to buy skins for the characters. All these features were intentionally cut to resell to consumers post-launch.

Games cost less to make now, but budgets went up. Buying power is down. Please stop defending corporate bullshit excuses about wanting more money, forever.

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It was a specific example to show how AAA games reuse assets, not mtx. A low hanging fruit of that could be like…any sports game.

A similar example of good reuse could be EA and a specific Female Character Mesh they’ve had for awhile and they just keep reusing her. The photo example I found searching was Falck from BF 2042. Her hitbox and mesh is in Battlefront 2, as a First Order officer; and in Battlefield 5.

I dont outright hate reuse of things here and there - it saves money and time.

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Side order and mariokart be looking good. league expanding outside of their MOBA and lore expansion is cute. Probably looking to capitalism off the show. Contra looks good even if it’s not “new”. Gf texted me demanding SpyXAnya.

But Jesus there was like 3 or 4 Turn Based RPGs with medieval settings and sprite artwork. In competition with Fire Emblem how is there this many? Good for competition I guess.

These remakes (Luigi mansion 2) are great and all but it really shows that if the cartridge slot had been 3ds sized from the beginning they wouldn’t be able to sell you these games again. LM2 isn’t that old to need a remake but they EoL’d the 3ds so here we are. Pretty diverse announcement set.