Re:Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC
by tapoxi on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @03:18PM
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Sony manages to pull this off still, if only to sell hardware.
The Last of Us pt. II is an incredible, highly detailed, long single player game with no microtransactions of any kind. Most modern Sony titles are like that.
Re:Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC
by rriepe on Thursday May 27, 2021 @09:10AM
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Yeah the consoles are little islands of genuine content too (Although, a new Zelda could come out a bit faster...). But it's almost like it only works there, as a loss leader.
Re:Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC
by bob1029 on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @01:43PM
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> Making TF3 would be especially weird because Valve basically popularized all of those trends.
> That's just the format now.
It simply doesn't need to be this way. It would take 1 executive decision to change all of this.
But, to your point-- everyone got out of the AAA game development business. We've had one Elder Scrolls and one GTA for ten years now. All of those insane articles dramatizing Bioshock: Infinite as the last AAA title were true. It's like the Waterworld of games, the last big effects movie before everything became cheap CGI.
Games are lootboxes, middling cartoony style, addiction mechanics with some social stuff lightly sprinkled on top now.
Sidenote: Making TF3 would be especially weird because Valve basically popularized all of those trends.
That's just the format now. Even CDPR and other companies clinging to the old formula are just coasting on past momentum, with the cracks starting to show.