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Post by astropoug on Jul 18, 2021 15:24:59 GMT 10
I actually posted this on Reddit. I'd love to see more exposure to this analysis as it's very well-detailed in general.
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Post by Captain Nemo on Jul 18, 2021 15:53:11 GMT 10
2010-2013 = Bad. Too many dark gritty AAA games with boring protagonists. Microtransactions get out of control. Call of Duty craze at its peak.
2014-2016 = Improvement. Still oversaturated with AAA games, but Indie games start taking off in popularity. Wii U and 3DS had a lot of excellent games. Call of Duty declining in popularity.
2017-2019 = Excellent. Indie games hit a golden age they're still in today. Switch puts Nintendo back in the forefront. Shame it had to be during the Trump Era though...
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Post by astropoug on Jul 18, 2021 17:13:16 GMT 10
Mid-2010s is probably my least favorite actually.
Early 2010s still had Call of Duty and Halo in its prime plus Minecraft exploding in popularity. Not too many microtransactions yet.
Late 2010s may have microtransaction-filled shitfests, but at least Nintendo is good and platformers have made a comeback.
Mid 2010s is the WORST era for both Nintendo AND Microsoft, yet Sony has yet to hit their stride like they would in the late 2010s. Microtransactions have gotten out of control, COD and Halo have declined severely in quality, Xbox Live is a wasteland, and there were so many games that only got popular because some lets player made a "lol funny" video about it.
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Post by Captain Nemo on Jul 19, 2021 2:30:24 GMT 10
Main reason I think the mid 2010s were an improvement over the early 2010s was the Indie Game scene starting to break out, even though it hadn't quite reached its golden age until 2017. There were plenty of Indie games in the early 2010s, some more notable than others, but the mid 2010s felt like a shift for them, not only in terms of popularity, but in quality as well. Key releases include Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, Ori and the Blind Forest, Skullgirls: Second Encore, Shovelknight, Owlboy, Stardew Valley, and at the tail end Shantae: Half Genie Hero.
Plus, the Wii U and 3DS first party library also contributes as well, a lot of excellent games on those two platforms were coming out in that time. 2010 was a fantastic year for Wii releases, and 2013 was decent for Wii U releases, but 2011 was a very weak year for the Wii and felt like Nintendo was satisfied and no longer trying with it, and 2012 was a weak year for both the Wii and the Wii U.
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Post by jaydawg89 on Jul 19, 2021 14:19:49 GMT 10
The whole decade was awesome for video games.
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Post by 10slover on Jul 19, 2021 15:57:44 GMT 10
Undertale was the best game from the 2010s.
It's just an amazing masterpiece and one of the greatest video games of all time. It is also a modern classic that people will still be playing 50/70/100 years from now.
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Post by nightmarefarm on Oct 17, 2021 5:31:58 GMT 10
This decade was great for gaming besides the early 10s perhaps where it was clogged up with brown and gray first person shooters. 2013 onwards has been great. Lots of variety, great gameplay, beautiful graphics, vast open worlds, complex mechanics etc. The only criticism people can make for it is "microtransactions" and "being political"(which is a poor criticism since any serious entertainment product that emulates real life settings is political in some way shape or form, even if it isn't intended) seem like forced and trivial complaints.
On the other hand previous decades had major issues in gaming due to the weaker hardware which held games back from reaching their full potential. Standards weren't as evolved back then as they are now.
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Post by Telso on Oct 18, 2021 22:59:56 GMT 10
It was a great time for indie games. The online platforms like Steam that were popularized in the early to mid-2010s really made it far easier for distribution of said games. So the quantity was suddenly astronomical.
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Post by astropoug on Apr 30, 2022 18:51:05 GMT 10
I found this to be one of the worst decades for gaming. Maybe even the worst (still thinking between the 1980s and 2010s). And no, this isn't some bias against the 2010s like Wobo or someone would want you to believe. There was so much anti-consumer garbage in this decade that it makes me sad. In fact, I would call 2014 one of the worst years in gaming history. 2010-2012 were pretty good, but around 2013 or 2014 things went to shit. Companies started getting greedy, with microtransactions being forced into the 2014 Dungeon Keeper reboot and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, and games like WATCH_DOGS and Assassain's Creed Unity being a dissapointing mess at launch. WATCH_DOGS had it's graphics downgraded to work on 7th generation consoles (which was a terrible move). It got really bad in 2016, kinda like everything in the year. The Division, Infinite Warfare, Mafia III, WATCH_DOGS 2, Homefront: The Revolution, Quantam Break (which had COUNTLESS Nissan product placements), Umbrella Corps, Mighty No. 9, Ghostbusters (yep, it had a game), and of course, No Man's Sky. It didn't help that there weren't too many legitimately good games, though Battlefield 1, Forza Horizon 3, and DOOM 2016 are notable exceptions. 2017 was arguably better, with more good games like Horizon Zero Dawn, Mario Odyssey, and Persona 5. However, this year is probably when microtransactions reached a new level. Star Wars Battlefront 2 (EA), Forza 7, Call of Duty WW2, NFS Payback, and Destiny 2 are all notable examples. 2018 was also filled to the brim with microtransactions, but there were many good games, like Red Dead Redemption II, Forza Horizon 4, Spiderman PS4, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. 2018 was a noticeable improvement from 2017. As for 2019? One step forward, three steps back. Little happened this year, or at least it seems like it. Besides Jedi Fallen Order and Kingdom Hearts III, and MAYBE Modern Warfare, there was Dangerous Driving, Mario Kart Tour, Crackdown 3, Eternity: The Last Unicorn, WWE 2K20, Anthem, Generation Zero, Left Alive, and Contra: Rogue Corps. Indies, you say? Well, search up "BigFryTV Early Access Playlist" and you'll see that dozens of trash games are being put on Steam, and this isn't even talking about mobile games. This decade overall, was a mess. Publishers and even developers got greedy, Xbox was a laughing stock with no exclusives, and AAA gaming turned from being a big thing for gaming to being just awful. Anthem is a prime example of everything wrong with 2010s gaming. I do agree 2018 was an improvement, but it still had many of the bullshit you complained about. In my opinion, the prime example of how 2018 really wasn’t much of an improvement was Fallout 76. Holy fuck that game is a mess. And to make matters worse, Fallout New Vegas was critically acclaimed and came out at the start of the 2010s, and is even considered by some the best game in the franchise, a prime example of how the 2010s started very strong, and then declined DRAMATICALLY. 2010 is easily the best year for gaming of the decade, with 2011 also being really good. As for the worst, that’s a tough call. 2016-2019 was just an unbelievably awful period all around, but at least 2017 onwards had the Switch to make up for it. 2016, I think, was the absolute peak shit year for the 2010s, and yes, I know Doom 2016 and Uncharted 4 are great games, but they don’t make up for all the No Mans Sky’s and Mighty No 9’s. Wanna know the worst part? We STILL haven’t improved. In 2020, Cyberpunk 2077 was released and was such an unbelievable mess. In 2021, the GTA Definitive Edition came out and was also incredibly buggy. The 2020s have been largely a continuation of the 2010s for gaming, and that is NOT a good thing.
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Post by astropoug on Apr 30, 2022 18:54:15 GMT 10
This decade was great for gaming besides the early 10s perhaps where it was clogged up with brown and gray first person shooters. 2013 onwards has been great. Lots of variety, great gameplay, beautiful graphics, vast open worlds, complex mechanics etc. The only criticism people can make for it is "microtransactions" and "being political"(which is a poor criticism since any serious entertainment product that emulates real life settings is political in some way shape or form, even if it isn't intended) seem like forced and trivial complaints. On the other hand previous decades had major issues in gaming due to the weaker hardware which held games back from reaching their full potential. Standards weren't as evolved back then as they are now. I honestly couldn’t give a shit about a game’s politics. I care more for if the game is playable upon release and isn’t filled with bugs, and if the game is filled with microtransactions and DLC.
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Post by nightmarefarm on Apr 30, 2022 18:57:26 GMT 10
This decade was great for gaming besides the early 10s perhaps where it was clogged up with brown and gray first person shooters. 2013 onwards has been great. Lots of variety, great gameplay, beautiful graphics, vast open worlds, complex mechanics etc. The only criticism people can make for it is "microtransactions" and "being political"(which is a poor criticism since any serious entertainment product that emulates real life settings is political in some way shape or form, even if it isn't intended) seem like forced and trivial complaints. On the other hand previous decades had major issues in gaming due to the weaker hardware which held games back from reaching their full potential. Standards weren't as evolved back then as they are now. I honestly couldn’t give a shit about a game’s politics. I care more for if the game is playable upon release and isn’t filled with bugs, and if the game is filled with microtransactions and DLC. Which 99% of games were in regards to being playable. I don't see how having the option to access more content via DLC is a problem unless it's content that should have been in the base game, and again 99% of the time this is not the case. People just blow the whole microtransactions and lootboxes issue out of proportion to have a reason to criticise games from this era.
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Post by astropoug on Apr 30, 2022 18:59:45 GMT 10
I honestly couldn’t give a shit about a game’s politics. I care more for if the game is playable upon release and isn’t filled with bugs, and if the game is filled with microtransactions and DLC. Which 99% of games were in regards to being playable. I don't see how having the option to access more content via DLC is a problem unless it's content that should have been in the base game, and again 99% of the time this is not the case. People just blow the whole microtransactions and lootboxes issue out of proportion to have a reason to criticise games from this era. This is a rare instance where you’re actually defending the 2010s instead of outright hating it like usual.
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Post by nightmarefarm on Apr 30, 2022 19:04:24 GMT 10
Which 99% of games were in regards to being playable. I don't see how having the option to access more content via DLC is a problem unless it's content that should have been in the base game, and again 99% of the time this is not the case. People just blow the whole microtransactions and lootboxes issue out of proportion to have a reason to criticise games from this era. This is a rare instance where you’re actually defending the 2010s instead of outright hating it like usual. Yes, which goes to show that gaming is one of the few things that were decent in this repulsive decade. And probably the only thing that kept me sane in such a soulless era. I may have been exaggurating about great though but most of the people who shit on it are the same people who are now saying the early 10s were a good time for gaming and in about 10 years from now are going to say that it was the golden age of gaming or some shit and the 20s are the shitty downfall era.
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Post by 10slover on Apr 30, 2022 23:28:05 GMT 10
Mid-late 10s were GOAT for indie games
Cuphead, Undertale, Inside, little nightmares, doki doki literature club... fnaf?
GOAT!!!!! Literally the best era for indie games EVER
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Post by 10slover on Apr 30, 2022 23:30:35 GMT 10
2010-2013 = Bad. Too many dark gritty AAA games with boring protagonists. Microtransactions get out of control. Call of Duty craze at its peak. 2014-2016 = Improvement. Still oversaturated with AAA games, but Indie games start taking off in popularity. Wii U and 3DS had a lot of excellent games. Call of Duty declining in popularity. 2017-2019 = Excellent. Indie games hit a golden age they're still in today. Switch puts Nintendo back in the forefront. Shame it had to be during the Trump Era though... I think it's safe to say the golden age of indie games was a 10s thing only We haven't had a hit indie game in 3 years now, and, no, that garbage amogus game doesn't count
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