So I would like to start a discussion where I can share my opinion with others and here yours as well without a discussion war about a very serious topic. That being what has happened to video games?
I've noticed every year now that the trend of bad/disappointing video games is constantly increasing and shows no sign of stopping, games like Star wars battlefront and Destiny are just IMO the biggest let downs I have ever seen. When did the quality of video games become so abysmal lately and the copious amount of DLC scams suddenly become common place such as locked away content on the game disc itself. When did developers suddenly think micro-transactions become a good idea to put in AAA titles? When did day 1 patches that are absolutely huge in size (I've seen some at 10GB!!) become okay to do? When did QC and bug testing go down the drain? I think you all get my point
But this is what really gets me, what happened to the universal gaming community?
Console wars, brand/game wars, swatting, abusive language, discrimination, threats, bullying. What the hell happened? when did this become okay.
Now granted I understand things like the console war has been around forever, I mean I remember the Nintendo vs SEGA war but it never stopped anyone in the gaming community getting along. SEGA and Nintendo fans still coexisted with one another without getting abusive all the time. But these days if I say "Oh I love Nintendo games" I am now suddenly a "loser who is not a true gamer and should stick to playing baby games". That was an actual comment I got a while ago from an anonymous user on my now defunct tumblr.
Perhaps I'm wanting to live in the past but I yearn for the days where everyone in gaming were friends, when games were of higher quality than they're today and I could enjoy games with everyone regardless of personal choice. I'm gonna be honest but once StarFox Zero is released (because childhood franchise) I will not be buying video games anymore without good reason. The notion of being " a gamer" is now one that is toxic.
Wipeout Zone is now what I regard as "one of the last safe havens of a real gaming community", where mostly everyone is friends, we can share our ideas and thoughts without being bullied for it, where we all share our love for a great franchise and respect each other. I hope it remains that way for the foreseeable future
Perhaps I am old fashioned because I still love retro games more than modern games (SNES FTW) or maybe I'm taking this whole thing to heart too much but to be honest, modern gaming sucks.
I want to hear everyone else's opinion, do you agree or disagree with me? What do you think?