Retro video games and aesthetics are having a moment, but it’s not just gen X and older millennials reliving their heyday: younger millennials and gen Z are getting in on the nostalgia too
Idk if this is placebo but it feels like the developers wanted to make those older games. Like you can feel the passion behind it. I get the same kind of feeling with indie games too. But in modern games it just feels like they just follow a script. A script that every other development studio uses. So every game feels bland generic or its just another live service slop glorified casino.
Because of the limitations inherent to the platforms back then (like how most games were single player games or were required to have some single play ability) it was harder to make these skinner box style games you see everywhere today. But exploitative practices have always existed, whether it’s dishonest advertising or expensive DLC (see Oblivion’s Xbox 360 horse armor DLC). Although there was more incentive to make your game bug free and complete right at release, since you couldn’t always count on your player base to have a way to download updates (if such a thing was even possible for your system)
Idk if this is placebo but it feels like the developers wanted to make those older games. Like you can feel the passion behind it. I get the same kind of feeling with indie games too. But in modern games it just feels like they just follow a script. A script that every other development studio uses. So every game feels bland generic or its just another live service slop glorified casino.
Because of the limitations inherent to the platforms back then (like how most games were single player games or were required to have some single play ability) it was harder to make these skinner box style games you see everywhere today. But exploitative practices have always existed, whether it’s dishonest advertising or expensive DLC (see Oblivion’s Xbox 360 horse armor DLC). Although there was more incentive to make your game bug free and complete right at release, since you couldn’t always count on your player base to have a way to download updates (if such a thing was even possible for your system)
Good games that the developers want to make still exist. You just gotta get out of the triple A shitpile.
(and even in the triple A space there are still developers that want to make games. fromsoft, for example)