I gave up on Fifa ever being fun again, and even Efootball or PES every doing whats right. I just play modded PES these days for my footy fix.
Football games are just terrible due to the ai generally I really dislike nba 2k24 as well this year, seems like animations and badges killed the game for me
I game pretty much exclusively on PC and bought myself the PlayStation Dual Sense controller because I like the adaptive triggers. It really adds to the experience when you play Sony exclusives like God of War, Ratchet & Clank as well as Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West. What I didn't know was that third party controller support for anything but the xbox controller would be complete ass if it wasn't for Steam's translation layer. I was previously using a xbox controller from a decade ago so I was clueless these issues existed. This week I tried to use the Dualsense with a game that claims to support it (Jedi: Fallen Order) and the experience is very bad. EA is just lying, they do not properly support the DualSense. There's no rhyme or reason to when the game detects the controller and when it doesn't. Sometimes wireless works and sometimes it doesn't. I am really considering to sell the controller on German version of craigslist, because the experience is just inferior compared to what you are getting with the xbox controller where everything just works.
Hades is on sale for an all-time low price. Can't recommend the game enough if you're into the genre. Very addictive. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1145360/Hades/
Finally played Jedi: Survivor. Despite some technical blemishes on PC, it's a really good and enjoyable game with a story doesn't quite hit the same heights as the previous one but is vastly improved game-play wise and offers up to 80h of fun for completionists without ever getting tedious.
If you haven't already played it and are into 3rd person shooters in a fascinating slightly creepy sci-fi setting with beautiful graphics, I strongly recommend "Returnal". I bought it the other day during the Steam Summer Sale and I already know it was worth the thirty Euros after just playing it for just 5-6 hours.
Alan Wake II with Raytracing on an OLED monitor is *chefskiss*. Absolutely gorgeous game and I can't even run it with all the bells and whistles on my RTX 4070 but enough of them to make it look stunning.
Alan Wake II is like a very delicious but dense piece of chocolate cake. I am having a very good time with it, but have to consume it in moderation.I can't play it more than 2-3hours at a time before I have to take a break..
Jedi Fallen Order and the sequel Jedi Survivor are probably the first new games EA has published that I actually care for and bought since Titanfall II in 2016.
I played RoboCop - Rogue City. A surprisingly enjoyable RoboCop game that is basically telling a cinematic story. It's only from a small Polish studio so don't expect AAA production quality but it's punching far above its weight and every RoboCop fan will definitely enjoy it. Then afterwards I started Far Cry 6 that I picked up on sale last year for 5.99€ and I can see why they dropped the price of the base game so low. I played the opening hour and I am already bored and not interested one bit. Too bad because I liked Far Cry 5 quite a bit.
I have to say this generation of consoles has been really disappointing. Just a huge dud. Im a Playstation guy, and its like a long hiatus each time waiting for a major release. Naughty Dog is nowhere to be seen, and we are in the 5th year in the generation, and they havent so much as announced anything. What is this? Kudos to Insomniac though, they've consistently released banger hits. I sure miss 360/PS3 era, when gaming was at its prime, when games were made with story and gameplay in mind and we saw epic releases every other month. In contrast to the current trend where everything has to be about 4k graphics, making games with huge worlds or live service shit. That and the fact that its become an incredibly and increasingly expensive hobby. Well actually scratch that, PS2 era was the prime, but PS3/360 still rode that wave. Its only been going down hill from there. Although a part of this may also be me losing interest lol. Anyway thank God for Nintendo. Just got around to playing and finishing Mario Wonder, and its been a long time since I actually had joy playing a game. Just pure joy and fun. I may revert back to being an all Nintendo fanboy, and occasionally play some PC/Steam Deck. Edit: Also. Not sure how I feel about the trajectory of console gaming becoming more exclusively digital. Im guessing the PS6 wont even have a disc tray. It may not be all that bad though, but I do like options. Sorry for the rant lol
Games, music , film etc I think all of them have become plagued with the same old stuff every year an generic formulae’s the internet has made everything streamable and everyone just wants new shit all the time there isn’t much time taken with creativity and new ideas. That’s why rockstar kill it for me, every game is a long process, well thought out and has a great story
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It's been trending this way for a while. Take what is one of the biggest brands in games, Grand Theft Auto. From three releases in the PS2/Xbox era, to two in the PS3/360 era, to none in the PS4/XB1 era, and though they say GTA6 will release next year, it'll probably be 2026, which will be near the end of the current generation. Elder Scrolls is the same way. It's probably not a coincidence that while you did have some internet connectivity with the PS2/Xbox era, it wasn't until the PS3/360 era when consoles started to be always online and had hard drives that you saw things slowing down. You had more online capabilities than ever, and a hard drive to download updates and expansions. This allowed companies to extend the lifespan of their games (and release broken ones to be updated/fixed later). Now with everyone and their mother trying to get in on the live service bandwagon, which obviously take longer to design and are planned to last for years) single player games are being left out. Hopefully the publishers are starting to realize that the community just can't sustain every game being a live service one, and will go back to making more single player experiences. Of course, there's also the graphics. Yes, that had certainly had a big effect, and that's not going away soon. But at a certain point, it will be. Not the next generation, but perhaps the one after that, we'll probably have machines and graphic engines that'll make games look virtually photo-realistic. I've seen mods that do this now, but that still requires very experience hardware. Once the developers start making photo-realistic games, they'll have to innovate elsewhere to keep their edge. Perhaps that's when we might see real improvements on the gameplay and story.
Gaming has been pretty much ass since about early 2000s with the more adopted pay to win features and micro transactions. I was PC game based from mid 80s on until now. I used a PS3 for Blu-ray and FIFA, madden and ncaa football. Everything else was pc. PC games pretty much suck now. Zero originality, pay to win and just copies of other games. I miss the day you'd pay $39 or whatever and that was it. You gamed and some won and some lost because of skill not because they purchased items.
Thats why I am starting to appreciate Nintendo more and more. They still have that old school mentality with making focused single player games (their online is still not that great despite being 2024, which is totally FINE with me), and I do feel that their company and studios are still making an effort to innovate and come up with new gameplay ideas. Granted such innovations usually happens in established franchises (Zelda, Mario) and they may not be the best at making new franchises. The other "downside" also being that Nintendo focuses more on gameplay and we dont see that many storydriven games. Sometimes I wonder if we are heading towards a new video game crash, similar to the one that happened in the 80s, where Nintendo comes to save the day