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
Saying stuff like Witcher 3 and Nier are “just a huge ass RPG with tons of sidequests” has to be the least intellectual take I’ve seen in years. They’re both groundbreaking games with (at the time) unique systems never before seen. BoTW was also a breakthrough in that it was the first mainline Nintendo game to embrace modern advancements, and did so without sacrificing much of their traditional fun-oriented design.
Are most AAA games complete unsalvageable garbage? Sure. But to classify the few exceptions as equally bad is disingenuous - ESPECIALLY when most of the games you listed are actually fairly old.
Look, I don’t need you to teach me how good those games are, I chose them for a reason, and I rarely quit games, I take breaks, yes I do, that shouldn’t be rare at all.
I still stand my point about all of them having their unique formula, even when they pretty much mastered it in all of its aspects, for example The Witcher 3 having the best DLCs I have ever seen, and maybe they are better than the main campaign, and I’m not the only one who thinks that.
My initial point was that all those games have the same functioning core (I forgot to mention the three skill, maybe BOTW handles it differently here) and I’d pretty much replay a Mario game than re visiting any of those.
Saying stuff like Witcher 3 and Nier are “just a huge ass RPG with tons of sidequests” has to be the least intellectual take I’ve seen in years. They’re both groundbreaking games with (at the time) unique systems never before seen. BoTW was also a breakthrough in that it was the first mainline Nintendo game to embrace modern advancements, and did so without sacrificing much of their traditional fun-oriented design.
Are most AAA games complete unsalvageable garbage? Sure. But to classify the few exceptions as equally bad is disingenuous - ESPECIALLY when most of the games you listed are actually fairly old.
Look, I don’t need you to teach me how good those games are, I chose them for a reason, and I rarely quit games, I take breaks, yes I do, that shouldn’t be rare at all.
I still stand my point about all of them having their unique formula, even when they pretty much mastered it in all of its aspects, for example The Witcher 3 having the best DLCs I have ever seen, and maybe they are better than the main campaign, and I’m not the only one who thinks that.
My initial point was that all those games have the same functioning core (I forgot to mention the three skill, maybe BOTW handles it differently here) and I’d pretty much replay a Mario game than re visiting any of those.