Angelo De Bellis from BagoGames writes: Sometimes I wonder how gaming has evolved into what it is today. There is so much that is wrong with it. I guess we have much to be thankful for, so it’s hard to complain about some of the glaring flaws that hold back the industry we love. Surely our 1080p, high frame rate experiences count for something. The medium has certainly progressed in a technological sense. But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t much left to ask of the gaming giants, both when it comes to hardware and software progress. While I love the industry, I have more than a few qualms with games and what has been seemingly accepted as modern gaming culture. Because I won’t accept overlooking these issues, here is my ungrateful list of things I hate about the current generation in gaming:
The best shooter campaign since Half-Life 2 still hasn't been topped eight years later.
I agree with this. The time travel mechanics. The sense of scale. The relationship with your mech. The bosses all had personalities. It's a wonderful game.
Yeah it was good, but it only did the time travel bit in one level. Dishonered 2 did the same thing. Now how about a game where it's implemented throughout the gameplay? Singularity says Hello (and deserves so much more recognition).
Games such as Mad Max, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Batman: Arkham Knight desperately deserve a modern-day revisit.
RDR2 still looks astounding on PS4 Pro. i cannot imagine how it could look with a next gen upgrade.
It's obviously never gonna happen since Sony killed the game and studio, but Driveclub. Even in its current state, 10 years after release, it still puts many competitors to shame ...
Mad max ikr! Far cry primal, it amuses me how ubisoft just left ac unity hanging, sadly most of the good staff left from rocksteady while being forced to make that abomination smh
One way or another, these games provoked strong reactions.
I don't think Days Gone divided fans. For the most part, gamers loved it. It was the reviewers who were divided. Self-loathing racist pieces of shit that took exception to the main character being white. This was a fantastic game, one of the best open-world games I ever played, and I've played them all.
For the most part, when it comes to Last of Us 2, incels, homophobes, and closet national socialist types didn't like it. I repeat not all, but most.
Days Gone is a great game and it was attacked by the leftist socialist people that are actually closet fascists. As a great poet once said: "Socialism is the mother of fascism."
The Order got hit from anti-Sony Xbox fans.
Out of these 3, Last of Us 2 stands above as being a work of art. It's still generating a ton conversation to this day.
Amazing gameplay, but TLOU2 had one of the worst, most convoluted and uneccessary plots I ever seen in a sequel. Terrible story and the characters were forgettable. I didn't give an F about anyone in the story.
I don't think any of these divided fans, other than LoU2. The rest were either victims of biased reviews or just generally agreed that they weren't as good as they could've been or just overall disappointing.
You should add, waiting forever for games. . delay after delay.
this gen is best atleast imo.
We have JRPG,RPG,FPS,Action adventure...... also VR and its games are coming.
Good article,Modern gaming is great but i have to agree with the author about those things, especially about the part that we are having too many multiplayer games out there, i will also add that fanboys need to go away, they are starting to really grind my gears lately
Definitely agree on open world saturation. That genre is this gens FPS (we were saturated with those last gen).
People like multiplayer. Some only game for multiplayer experiences so why not have multiplayer only games?? Sp centric games still outnumber mp games. No one had a problem with world of war craft being mp only for years but now that we get some interesting AAA games that are mp centric it's a problem. Said it before and I'll say it again, we need diversity.
Don't have a problem with the wii u pad. It works just as well as an ordinary controller and it's comfortable to use.
I don't particularly mind day 1 patches. It can be annoying at times but that's about it. That whole thing comes from making a release more efficient. The devs can keep working on bugs while the game gets put onto disk.
Dlc and season passes I agree with. At the very least we should know what we're getting. Tye only season pass I've ever bought is battlefront and that's because I got that and the game for less than the price of the standard game. Dlc can be an issue if it breaks the game by letting people buy benefits
My TOP 5
1. Season passes, total rip off when games like No Mans Sky provide much more for nothing.
2. Ubisoft, a company that has provided many lackluster games that end up looking worse than they started and require patch after patch.
3. Xbox One Kinect, total waste of resources and is now only used for voice commands.
4. Call Of Duty, the recycling of this franchise and charging full retail and season passes for a game that a small group of talented PC modders could provide for nothing.
5. EA, The cancer of video games that just keeps growing. Cling and hold on to licences knowing full well many other companies are either interested or could do a better job.