Why can't game companies make anything good anymore? Every game runs poorly, looks blurry and is boring as fuck now

I'm enjoying Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 but even that got a nigger and faggotry shoehorned in there because of Blackrock money

>>510520467 (OP)
you don't buy the good ones

>>510520467 (OP)
Technology can only improve so much. Before it levels out. Unless we have a quantum computing breakthrough.

>>510520467 (OP)
Shareholders chasing profits into the chasm. I hope they all die in agony senpai.

>>510520467 (OP)
In the early years, games were restricted by processing power and space, which in turn motivates the artistic spirit, with improving pp and space, those ideas that couldn't be implemented earlier sparked more ideas. Nowadays, there a no more restrictions, pp (buy better hardware, or dumb the game down for consoles), space (just buy more drives, or delete everything to run newCoD, which only requires 750gb). Optimizing games doesn't make money. DEI shit, womanz and browns getting priority over man, not only as workers, but also ingame.

>>510520847
Its not about technoligy available, if the gameplay is boring dumbed down ass, memefag.

>>510520467 (OP)

Some do, like KCD2, Expedition 33, Baldur’s Gate 3, Stellar Blade, Black Myth Wukong. The problem is that AAA Western developers and especially American developers are jeeted, motivated solely by profit, and run by people who don’t actually care about games.

>>510520940
It's definitely because the industry got massive and now has retarded companies and their retarded DEI/agile ways that suck all the soul out of games. In the old days you had startups and their driven godly programmers with almost full autonomy to do something. There was still a lot of garbage made but at least there was soul too. Only small companies can have that kind of agility nowadays but I think few let their devs be that free, and with the mass popularity of games also comes a different kind of dev: not the autistic, gameplay-driven, unapologetic gigachad nerd, but the faggot coastal "artist" who wants to make some sort of artwork. Maybe asians and eastern europeans can save us.

>>510520467 (OP)
The games industry is a poor choice for skilled programmers. Any decent talent would head to FAANG and adjacent companies instead to make 2-3x the income for 35hrs a week's work, 1+ month paid vacation per year and no crunch.

The game industry pays peanuts and gets monkeys. Blizzard for example pays entry level employees so badly, they can't afford to eat at the company cafeteria and regularly live in cars. If you want quality games, pay for quality programmers, but the games industry doesn't care about competency.

>>510520467 (OP)
Jeetcode

>>510520758
yea. I loved the first one, played it over and over again like 4 times including hardcore. Played the second and was enjoying it until things just kept spiraling. Kikes, niggers, and turning Henry into a fucking cuck while turning my boy hans into a faggot........ it was just too much. I'll never give those fuckers a single dime of my money in the future. I don't even think I would even sail the high seas for it. They just no longer exist in my mind.

>>510521050
FAANG is full of jeets now so their software is also suffering like the games industry. No self respecting dev wants to work there myself included. All you’ll be doing is fixing jeetcode.

>>510521035
>motivated solely by profit, and run by people who don’t actually care about games.

Bullshit, it's dumb people with zero creativity like nonwhites allowed into the business. But who cares, let it all die, i'm tired of escapism slop.

>>510521208
I pirate all games as a rule, regardless if I like them or not

>>510521044
>Maybe asians and eastern europeans can save us.
I'm not too sure about them, they start out nice and then show us how much they love money. Also, observed.

>>510520467 (OP)
Total loss of foresight about what makes games appealing to men in the first place. Games now are so largely focused on elements that females enjoy, it's fucking hilarious. Gaming has been completely and utterly feminized.

Think about it, every game is a farming sim, or is and endless stream of some sort of fucking fetch quest bullshit like: "take the gay shit to the retarded faggot" garbage that dominates the entire modern gameplay feedback loop. It's all about "collect 30 piece of gay shit" and then "collect 35 pieces of slightly more rare gay shit". Every single element has been wrapped in something plodding and monotonous in order to give a constant feeling of "progress" to the end user.

To top it all off everything is now designed explicitly to drip-feed you dopamine rather than dump it right into your veins. The goal is to keep you coming back as a repeat consumer. Something that wants you to stay "boosted". Games no longer feel intense because the fun gameplay is all hidden behind layers of modern horseshit. Combine this with the feminization of games and that's basically it I think.

>>510521339
Denuvo destroyed piracy. Wukong hasn't been cracked yet

resume/experience/bullshit over talent
businessmen and engineers have no talent or creativity, they cannot perceive or qualify it

>>510520467 (OP)
>stop hiring White men
>everything sucks
Huh.

>>510521050
I ended up doing a career switch from dev to cyber security simply because I can't handle working with indians anymore. They will single handedly collapse the global economy because they treat code bases like they do their own country. Full of shit and bloat.

>>510520467 (OP)
I play old games in VR, at least shooter are golden, doom, HL2, far cry, halo, portal.

i don't get it
am an absolute shitter and leveraging free ai tools 'i' managed to implement a complete terrain deformation engine for unity from scratch in one day, physics interaction and all
what the fuck are those peeps doing all day?

>>510521487
only bugs and weaboos want to play that

>>510521838
black mesa vr mod seems to be working somewhat reliably. but also crysis 1 (OG 2007) in VR was a blast to play through again

>>510521878
Doesn't matter, more and more studios are adopting denuvo

>>510520467 (OP)
Rick Rubin says it best
>>”The reason why so many (games) that are being released today are just not good is because they’re not being made by a person who cares about it. They’re being made by people who are making something that they think someone else is going to like. And that’s not art…that’s commerce.”

>>510520758
The sad part is that it is a genuinely good experience until then, a proper 8/10 for 75% of the game, then 20% absolute dogshit where you cannot tell Musa and Samuel to go fuck off before the game gets back to its early quality just in time for the ending. The game would be one hell of a lot better if they scrapped Musa and Samuel completely given how they add fuckall to the overall plot.

>>510520467 (OP)
Woman it's that simple.
Look what happend to Harley Davidson same crap

>>510520467 (OP)
>Why can't game companies make anything good anymore?
Because they no longer have to make an effort because gaymers will just swallow whole no questions asked?
>>510520758
>I'm enjoying a dei/bridge game
Then you are part of the problem.
>>510521487
>>510521952
ok reddit

make your own game whitey if you're so smart

>>510522027
I hear it's not easy to mod them out because they tie to the plot
I still got the mod that turns Musa Italian. Made a thread on /v/ and all those retards were defending the niggerfaggotry

>>510522320
Where do you download the mod the remove Hans romance option and change Musa race?

Except for all the niggerfaggotry, there's also something else going on in tech in general; corporations want to have the cake and eat it too. They want highly experienced on junior salaries. which is ridiculous; you can't expect some random 22-year old to manage entire projects, content pipelines, documentation organization and whatever. It's a rarity for a 35-year old with 10+ years of experience to do all these things.

So the corpos just hire unexperienced people for low wages and slop comes out since, well, they're not that great.

>>510522374
https://basedmods.eth.limo/browse/
And I also found them on RPGHQ

>>510521487
They eventually get cracked, I can wait

>>510521859
You are white.

>>510522374
>>510522478
Lets see when this mod gets taken down, I bet the mutt gets paid (or worse, does it for free).

>>510520467 (OP)
Modern GPUs are fundamentally flawed. It all started with the z-buffer, and then all subsequent developments flowed from that initial mistake. Culminating in the broken state of 3d graphics today. Its hard to make good looking games when the GPUs you are forced to use are garbage.

>>510522478
Thanks I'm upgrading my PC soon and I'll be able to play this now

>>510520467 (OP)
I only play star citizen and it's made by incompetent retards but at least they have an interesting vision

>>510522569
Already got taken down everywhere else but mods that make Henry black stay

>>510521208
Kek you sound like a girl. All the woke stuff was obviously Tokenized and just made me kek. It was like the least you can do while checking the boxes. You sound way too invested in videogames.

>>510522714
Not suprising, I still remember how buttmad (((they))) were when Stellaris had an "only Whites" mod. It got deleted while the all asian or all blacks mods stayed.

>>510522735
Why is Vavra such a kike

>>510520467 (OP)
chromatic aberration and upscaling. if you have a big screen you need higher resolution too. i have a 65in oled connected to my 4090 and 4k gives ok sharpness from 3ft away but if you want games to look super sharp you will need at least 6k. people still get by on 1080p but only if you use a small monitor. also ue5 is ass

>>510521477
This nigga gets it.

>>510522957
What do you mean

>>510522695
Star Citizen is like half retard and half genius; Server meshing/replication layer and planet tech is made by geniuses, but retarded shit like clients having full autonomy over servers (bruh) and whatever Roberts is doing makes your eyes bleed

>>510523322
That game kinda does prove the point that soul and care are more important than technical competency though. You can't fake it either way

Expedition 33

>>510521477
Last game I played that I proper enjoyed in that dopamine dump as opposed to drip comparison was farcry blood dragon, shits intense and had dinosaurs with lasers on their fricken heads.

I do enjoy the autism of things like factorio and rimworld but dwarf fortress was god tier in its day

Anyway I don't know own what I was getting at, I just had a big bowl of pumpkin soup and feel warm and happy.

Men who enjoyed video games as kids were gate kept from the industry in favour of retards. Oh well, there is endless content from previous generations to play for free. Bonus is it hurts modern companies.

>>510521477
Think how men and women played at kids. Modern gaming is an organised doll house compared to the toy cars and guns that facilitated our fun. Its water balloons vs make up kits. Playing a game your fun way vs go to A, deliver B, press X formulaic shite.

>>510520467 (OP)
All of the old talent moved on or retired.

>>510520467 (OP)
>Why can't game companies make anything good anymore? Every game runs poorly, looks blurry and is boring as fuck now

A few aspects:

>Rising costs
They've been firing industry veterans (or they just left), and replacing them with noobs who have no idea what they're doing.

>UE5
This shitty engine is not only badly optimized, but also provides tools like Nanite and Lumen, where those noobs mentioned above click 1 button to use it, without actually optimizing the game. Then you add Frame Generation, and you get the blurry mess that runs at 40 fps on the latest hardware.

>Leftist pressure and infiltration
Naughty Dog is the best example of that. (((They))) somehow managed to push their own guy as the game director, which led to The Last of Us 2 - an utter destruction and humiliation of the franchize.
Then it's the outside pressure to make the games "accesable, female-friendly, homo-friendly", and whatever else you can imagine. ESG, and such.

If anyone's interested in the technical aspects, Threat Interactive has some great videos on the matter:

https://www.youtube.com/@ThreatInteractive/videos

>>510520467 (OP)
Soft power no longer works.

Hispanics and arabs don't want to be white because they see the writing on the wall. Rightly so, it would be fucking stupid to go down with white people.

If anything browns actually made a good decision for once. Our government is the one that still thinks we're in the 20th century.

>>510520467 (OP)
They all made hundreds of billions already there is zero drive to make anything other than highest bidder globohomo pozzed shit

>>510520467 (OP)
Video games were the only art form that became decadent before they were even generally recognized as an art form. Now AI makes all artists of all art forms obsolete leaving us with the realization that we are living art inside of a simulation and like all art forms, there must be contention (WW3). I know this because I am the main character. The next chapter is an orgy of tribalism and sadism incomprehensible to most people (Npc's).

Some good games still come out.

>>510520467 (OP)
(some) indie games are the only games with any sort of SOUL in them anymore.
(some) big studio games are the only games with the funds and manpower to do crazy graphics optimization

Except the studios would rather spend $$$ on making more lootbox skins instead of making the game run well. Then they just throw """raytracing""" at it so shit looks shiny and requires a 5090 to run at reasonable performance.

Extremely rarely do you get a game that has both SOUL and also extremely technically competent people allowed to spend their time making tech. Like Factorio, Serious Sam 3, or Doom 2016.

>>510521745
Fair enough, working in programming nowadays would tempt even the most politically correct person to become somewhat racist. Corporate addiction to cheap imported labor has near enough destroyed the profession.

Still, for money and working conditions, games industry is notoriously a shithole and predictably a shitty industry cannot attract competent or talented people.

>>510520467 (OP)
jews and jeets

>>510526370
>difficulty settings deleted out of the game
>core mechanics degrading due to constant powercreep
>co-op part of the co-op experience is no longer enforced or encouraged in any manner
>literally admitted that they don't want players to think in combat anymore

Spectacle-slop tier at best. Fine if you want to come home after work and drool over pretty explosions, otherwise avoid.

>>510528661
I 100% agree with with you. Redditors and /hdg/ ruined the game with their constant tantrums and crying. The game was much more fun when it had some difficulty going for it. Still, l love the game.

>>510528776
Oh man, Creek was the shit. I though this game would be so great that it would dethrone DRG in the near future, because it had everything going for it, turns out I was wrong and every amazing game mechanic has been nothing but neglected and abandoned.
It's an amazing concept, but unfortunately no amount of style can fix the lack of coherent game mechanics.

>>510529129
bro what game is gonna dethrone DRG, i need it. helldivers just ain't it

>>510529129
Normie nigger NPC's ruin everything, anon. Arrowhead made many mistakes themselves, but the soul of the game was ripped out to appease angry shitters and gamer dads. The creek was awesome but for me, Draupnir was the real bot planet.

>>510529276
Nothing it seems, people are too dumb and selfish to communicate in a co-op game that demands that from you and then have an ego trip because numbers not big enough.
HD2 had potential to overthrow DRG, no longer does after the "buffdivers" patch, and with how the development continues - never will.

>>510529314
It's sad, very sad. Welp, more reason to promote eugenics, as it always comes down to braindead morons.

Take the indie pill.
Been playing nothing but good white games.

>Why can't game companies make anything good anymore?
As the species is misceginated and homogenised through de-homogenisation, in preparation for the merger with (read: slavery to) machines, innovation and art are some of the first humans distinctions on the chopping block.

>game over

Who cares, video games are not a good medium for artistic intent regardless. Vidya has always been and will always be low brow entertainment. You'll enjoy the blurriness and pretty colours and continue to pay for it because you have nothing better to do

>>510520884
>shareholders have been chasing profits for 200 years, but it is coincidentally now, when faggotry and feminism are ruining society that it has become a problem
we really need to start killing you retards at birth

>>510520467 (OP)
the ummah should declare jihad against unreal engine 5

>>510521035
kcd2 is woke shit

>>510530253
Pirate everything and mod the shit parts out. That is the way nowadays.

>>510529713
white trannies*
ftfy
always always always
you take a look at the dev team for an indie game made solely by whites and its almost all transgenders in the credits

>>510520467 (OP)
Switch to Gacha where they give you what you actually want because they want $$$

>>510530319
I do pirate everything
but I'm still waiting for someone to mod the nigger musa and all the gay shit

>>510530319
Don't even pirate that shit, people shouldn't even talk about it, just let it burn and fall into obscurity.

Because it's time to realize that you're living in a video game as The makn character.

>>510522957
He likes dem shekels above all else.

>>510520467 (OP)
Literally EU laws dictate that you need a quota system for women and marginalized people, so companies hire women for the sake of hiring women, and will favor them over male applicants if their "diversity" piechart isn't close enough to 50/50 on the gender split.

And women are notoriously bad at making unanimous leadership or individual choices. I've worked in a place that had 3 women and 7 men in the office, and any time we had to plan anything, the women made it into a vote by committee process, and you had to tell them to simply stop doing it, to get anywhere.

>>510529505
>my coop pve shooter

>>510530526
*as the main character

>>510522266
This cheeky shitskin -we invented everything to di with computers and then will built them.

>>510523566
Underrated af

>>510520467 (OP)
>Planes falling from the sky due to shitty indian coders
>startups failing miserably due to shitty indian coders
>social media websites on maintenance due to shitty indian coders

I'll let you guess why videogames are a bloated mess that runs like shit even on $3000 hardware.

>>510530373
alice is built for BBC

>>510533161
Games became ass before the jeetification even started.

>>510520467 (OP)
No more hills to climb.

>>510520467 (OP)
Slay the Spire already exists. What's the point of making more video games?

>>510520467 (OP)
Back in the day when you had to work with single threads and megabytes of memory, only top autist using very clever and efficient programming techniques could squeeze new features out of the graphics, and the same autistic passion spilled over to game design. Now that hardware is cheap and plentiful, they can just hire a giant team of minimally competent plebs using the coding equivalent of Tonka toys to cram a bunch of shit in without polish with the more is better mindset. Perfect example is Portal 1 vs 2, former was a bear perfect two hour experience polished to a mirror shine, latter crammed in all kinds of new features and zany antics that it would literally interrupt gameplay repeatedly to show off because some retards wanted to make sure the part they made got noticed. It was also just generally worse level design that could leave you running around without direction looking where to go next. And those are still both good games, now compare the thoughts put into Doom vs generic ZOG propaganda military shooter #1488 that has a team the size of an aircraft carrier crew and is forgotten the second it releases.

Meanwhile….

>>510533476
>600 triangles
N64 graphics

>6000 triangles
Gamecube graphics

>60000 triangles
Wii Graphics

That's how I saw this image.

>>510520467 (OP)
games are fine, avoid the woke faggot shit but 99% of the average person's problems on PC are the retard sitting at the desk. why you faggots still installing shit in program files like gay retard niggers? stop that. how about your windows defender+2 random antiviruses you just clicked OK on the popup and installed? fix your shit. you also ain't doing shit with 16gb RAM anymore, this isn't 2004. google "why am i a faggot who doesn't know what a pagefile is" and then set your pagefile to 40gb and notice how those crashes go away. maybe you should stop thinking you're white enough to overclock your shit too, most people's overclock is a net negative anyway, you just create more heat.

the problem with games is mostly the 90IQ console faggots who tried to play PC like a white man.

you can't.

>>510533671
surprise surprise it is the french who once again grace us with peak and revitalizes a dying art
this is why the french are the best white peoples
not germoids
not britoids
not scandoids
the greatest europeans have always been te french

>>510520467 (OP)
Sorry I’m busy playing retro video games. Can’t hear you and your whining about globohomo, who you depend entirely upon for all your faggoty AAA games which you keep buying even though you hate them.

>>510528661
The issue was that they gutted the hard stuff but also that they kept nerfing everything into uselessness then walked that back without replacing the hard stuff. Bots are still very hard sometimes, the optimal solution to a huge bot drop is to just leave, but Illuminate feels like it doesn’t exist except to annoy you.

>>510520467 (OP)
There's no real experimentation in AAA games anymore. Most of the games you loved in your youth were innovative in some crucial way, they were trying new things. Now everything is formulaic and based on the success of similar games that made a lot of money. Indie games still experiment and do cool things, but I mean, Indie is indie.. early access hell, abandoned projects, etc.

>>510521745
Im doing the same as you as basically I'dlike to be a freelance consultant/pentester. Between vibe coders and pajeets it will only get worse.

>>510520467 (OP)
I think discovering good games among the sea of slop is part of the fun. In some poetic way you need pile of shit for gems to shine.

>>510533767
The WII gpu isn't really that much more powerful than the GC. Wii-u would be more accurate.

Also, nowadays the triangle counts don't go up that much. Everything is just bump/normal/displacement/whatever maps. Maybe tesselation is used, but that's a "real-time" thing that just generates and offsets triangles based on displacement maps.

>>510535134
post backlog

>>510535755
At work, if thread alive in 2 hours i will.

>>510535872
godspeed, i think it will get kicked to /bant/ soon

>>510520467 (OP)
Eventually you'll realize that marketing isn't trying to sell you shit games, but that shit games sell you marketing, i.e.: pad traffic and engagement -- they are little more than onboarding schemes to consultation rackets, e-grifting parasocialites and digitial daycare-botfarms.
The industry has been captured by PR gremlins. These PR gremlins cultivate an unsustainable economy of lies: they sell problems, rent out solutions (marginally smaller problems) and deceive everyone -- shareholders, developers, customers and players. They don't care about the quality or reception of the product, they don't care about what you believe, love or hate and they don't care to convince you of anything. The more controversy, the better for them.

Their final goal however is to distract and placate you, while high finance (read: their owners, banksters) turns your passions and lifetime into vacuous commodities.

>be PR gremlins
>gaslight publisher into whipping developers into frenzy to create super-slop
>gobble up the majority of the "development" budget, recommend hiring nepotists
>proliferate more slop to e-grifting parasocialites to fan the flames; hype a product you know will fail miserably, gaslight customers and shareholders with predatory marketing
>reinvest a fraction of your hyper-bloated budget and buy copies through subsidaries and at a discount to gaslight everyone some more, after padding stats shortterm refund to ruin them longterm
>simultaneousely shill for and against the product to maximize controversy and thus traffic, engagement and demand of your service and that of your buisness partners, such as consultation rackets
>eventually come out of it being the sole profiteer, blaming everyone else

In other words: if you're a shareholder of a publisher or developer studio instead of an investor to a marketing agency, then you are a barely functional lobotomite.

>>510533665
DOOM 3 is a good Doom game. People were just mad it wasn't big and grandiose as Doom 2, when they forgot how much it made them piss their pants. But 2016 scratched that Doom 2 itch.

>r.MotionBlurQuality 0

>>510536292
Doom 3 has the misfortune of being delayed long enough to necessarily be compared to Half Life 2. Valve are hacks now, but man they must have been channeling God's inner neck beard through direct gnosis at their peak. Hard to believe it's 20 years old now, aged better than most schlock made 10 years ago.

>>510521859
I guaruntee you your "terrain engine" was neither production ready or the least bit shippable. I worked in the industry for 25 years and people who say shit like this 100% have no real idea what they are doing. In fact I've seen projects tanked because dumb-ass producers made the mistake of believing people like you. Congratulations on being part of the problem.

what are some games that demonstrate dev competence?

>>510520467 (OP)
education systems all over the west worsened a lot over the past decades
the system is not able to suplly enough and adequatly skilled workers for keeping infrastructure or economy running

>>510538013
The most impressive coding all occured in the mud 90s through kid 2000s, but more recently post patch Cyberpunk and Witcher 3 were pretty impressive. Baldur's Gate 3 was also pretty impressive game design in that it could interweave so many variables cohesively without just being false choices like Telltale games. Impressiveness these days is more about efficiency than fidelity, running 60fps on a steam deck with modern graphics takes way more skill than some shiny sluggish shit show like MH Wilds or that Indiana Jones game.

>>510520467 (OP)
Have you tried not running games with a 3060ti?

Already been said, but in general this is what happens when you demoralize white men. Shit still gets done and things still get made but they just aren't as good. In the current reality no one can replace us, they can only pretend.

I work at a triple A. One time a jeet made the game save ALL of the currently loaded level’s assets into the save file, including the graphics, sounds, models, fonts, etc.

When I told him about the error he just didn’t say anything but “okay.” It took about a week to unfuck the save system.

>>510520467 (OP)
Hello sirs i am video game now

>>510538913
>One time a jeet made the game save ALL of the currently loaded level’s assets into the save file, including the graphics, sounds, models, fonts, etc
Oh my fuck...

Just remembered this, it's relevant. QRD it's a letter from an industry insider that explains how diversity activists have chased all actual talent out of the industry because they're zealots without families while devs have kids to feed, so game theory works against talent.
https://youtu.be/0LkvnOmj4SI

>>510538424
i wonder if the best coding nowadays is done at the lowest of levels without the bloated infrastructure of 5 decades of poop shoveled on top. places like embedded systems and some cryptography, computing/simulation (NOT ai), that sorta thing

>>510521050
THIS. It's an exploitative industry that gets away with it because for every burnout there's loads of naive young lads coming up who are stoked to be "living the dream".
I wish I'd come to my senses years earlier and made the jump to FAGMAN. I went over to the Bay Area around 12 years ago to work for a startup a former gamedev colleague got into and it was low-paid for there, but still 3x what I was making back here so even after factoring in the ridiculous cost of living there I was still way ahead.
I ended up jumping to a big household name company where I made even more and then in the wake of the pandemic absolutely made it with the stock grants from that.
The funny thing though is that everyone who hasn't worked in games thinks you're fuckin' hot shit and everyone in games who hasn't worked outside of games doesn't understand just how terribly mediocre your average Silicon Valley programmer is. For all the talk about how those companies "only hire the best of the best", there's a lot of mediocre people amongst them.

>>510539659
To give devs *some* leniency for sake of fairness, games have gotten so big and multivariate that anything "modern" needs layers of abstraction while something like Rollercoaster Tycoon could be coded in assembly by one dedicated autist. Most devs are just stitching together existing libraries, with only a Pareto 10% bringing anything new to the table, so bloat stacks geometrically. There's no reason other than incompetence that a GPU with 6gb memory can't run a UE4 game like FF7 rebirth at 1440p due to me or overload.

>>510520467 (OP)
Fuck I hate UE5 like you would not believe. What a fucking piece of shit. Go back to UE4, or better yet just throw them all off a building. If Unity hadn't turned into massive dick sucking homos right at the key moment, they could be capitalising off this horse shit instead of driving people away too. I haven't enjoyed anything that wasn't indie in such a long time. I'd rather play something like Rimworld or Space Haven with fucking PIXEL GRAPHICS IN TWO DIMENSIONS than look at some horse shit blurry fuckfest that makes my eyes hurt and gives me a headache.
Pic related is literally the only game I'm excited for the release of - and fucking look at it. I have 64 gigs of quad channel ram, and I'm looking forward to a game made to look like a fucking PS1 game
AND ITS MADE IN FUCKING UE5 gghhhdhdbdhhdbs
At least I won't need to upgrade my graphics card any time in the near future
might just go outside fuck this shit

>>510520467 (OP)
>Have women in critical HR and management positions
>They hire devs based on diversity and gender equality
>Most of the work is outsourced to some shithole in India to cut cost anyway
>Autists that knew what they were doing got fired because stacy got the 'ick when working with them

That's how most AAA games went to shit, their only hope at making something decent and optimised nowadays is AI

>>510540986
>Autists that knew what they were doing got fired because stacy got the 'ick when working with them
Reminder to ALWAYS turn down any optional team building activities. You'll never know until your review how many incompetent gossip yentas got "bad vibes" from something you said or did when you're selected for this quarters round of layoffs. People used to meet their spouses at work, now if you want to keep your job only chucklefuck dad Jones and keeping yo yourself.

>>510540936
The main appeal of UE has always been the tooling.
Technically, it's always been a steaming pile of shit because it was designed for PCs.
I think it was UE3 that we evaluated vs our in-house engine due to publisher pressure during the PS3/X360 transition.
It needed an absolute shitload of work to make it perform on console hardware, but the tooling was real slick and the loicence price was real tempting to the bizguys vs continuing to go the in-house route.
Anyway, shortly thereafterwards the contract didn't happen and the studio went bust, but I heard on the grapevine a year or so later that the studio that ended up getting the contract we were bidding on did a lot of work with the publisher that went back to Epic to get it going good on consoles.
More than ever you've got to have good tooling for an engine because programmers are an ever-shrinking proportion of game teams.

>>510520467 (OP)
I'm no particular order: niggers, faggots, troons, jeets, jews and corporate edicts like profit above all, dei, esg, etc.
Basically modern gaming is completely pozzed and a hollowed out empty shell of it's former self. If you are a respectable person who enjoys gaming, don't give these assholes a single dollar. Let them go out of business.

>>510542367
>People used to meet their spouses at work
This baffles me. Maybe it was different in the 80s but all the women the places I've worked at have been obese, brown, and disgusting.

>>510542465
I completely understand the appeal of the tooling in UE, and I mean, I don't even have a problem with that. I guess my problem is more ethereal, like a smell of poo without a clear source that won't go away. You look around, there's no indians anywhere, and you certainly haven't shit your pants, but there it is. Little waft of poo. It's not your shirt, you smell your own breath. Nope.
It's gonna be some more of pic related. Some fucking retard is gonna make a pile of shit that's gonna melt my gpu. He's gonna get on UE with his little diddle fingers and click every fucking canned lighting effect until his piece of shit runs at 15fps. But it doesn't matter because it took 6 months to produce and they got a good trailer.
I don't fucking know man I weld mining machines go fix my video games if you're so smart

>>510520467 (OP)
>He's still paying attention to AAA game studios
Lol, AAA gaming is swirling around the toilet bowl while everyone else is going through a renaissance.

>>510543208
thats because you're in HR all of the time Anon, there's no sexy women there

>>510543688
>thats because you're in HR all of the time Anon
HR and Accounting are the only departments that have women.

>>510535950
>>510535755
I dont know if steam can do this in civilized maner, but here it is, 2 piles, first one that i did not played much\yet, another that i finished.

>>510520467 (OP)
>Why
jews

>>510520467 (OP)

Because they are made being suitable not for powerful PC, but shitty XBox, PS100500 piece of shit, of a student's laptop-tier performance.

Plus, high-level modules when you don't actually "write optimized C/C++ code", but build your game out of existing blocks with a bloated game engine.
It's a straight way to perf lags, poor graphics, idiotic "Press X to Win" and etc. But it's fast and gives you more chances to earn money.

Games became mainstream -> cesspool + money vacuum cleaner.

Most of the population are worthless retarded fucking faggots with no taste, no brain, no dignity, and games just tend to catch this mood, and adapt.

As well as music and movies.

Starts with the corporations making the console. The players are made with the cheapest most predatory shit possible. Is not a single person going to sue over the disabling of USB 2.0 in favor of C to sell chargers? Am I the only one not mentally deficient?

>>510543208
Being fat and ugly is "empowering" Anon. You know this.

>>510520467 (OP)
It's so unreal, didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Tryna hold on, d-didn't even know
I wasted it all just to watch you go
I kept everything inside
And even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when
I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
One thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme to remind myself how I tried so hard
In spite of the way you were mockin' me
Actin' like I was part of your property
Rememberin' all the times you fought with me
I'm surprised it got so far
Things aren't the way they were before
You wouldn't even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then, but it all comes back to me in the end
You kept everything inside
And even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when
I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this, there's only one thing you should know
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this, there's only one thing you should know
I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall to lose it all
But in the end, it doesn't even matter

>>510521487
Name one denuvo game worth playing.

You can't.

>>510544264
Balatro is cool as fuck, I play it on my phone at work in the toilet. Just finished Disco Elysium, thoroughly enjoyed that. Got called a fascist and a racist by Kitsuragi and he still joined me at the end. Had no idea there were that many XCOM games. You'd probably like Rogue Trader if you enjoy the combat in XCOM, pirate it though its too expensive with all the DLCs.

>>510520758
Really tho? Did they need the money to sell out? That's like taking the money form people who bought the first game and saying F U.

>>510520467 (OP)
Video games are for children. You dopes need to stop playing video games and do something productive with yourselves.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

>>510520847
Games from 10 years ago are better than many now. Its not levelled out. There's a sense of laziness and shoddy work ethic. Look at that half baked Mindseye game that came out. It was like a mid XBOX 360 game.

>>510520467 (OP)
Grow up and stop playing video games.

>>510545312
more productive than u

>install Oblivion remake to see what one of my favourite games looks like with 2025 graphics
>get hit with "body type 1" and "body type 2" in the character creator
>uninstall game, delete folder
120 gigabytes and an entire day waiting for it to download, down the drain
I hate them so much

>>510545312
>do something productive with yourselves

We already do. Video games are entertainment during free time. Same as reading fiction books or watching TV/movies/streaming.

>>510545541
But passively watching TV/movies/streaming, and especially watching sports, is totally fine, right boomer?

>>510522505
nobody cracked JWE2 because of the denuvo shit, only leak was a dev leak from a dev early on

>>510522577
people that know what they're talking about can tell you don't

movies too. there's a fatigue of sorts when so much has been tried and perfected before, that leads to this mediocrity and unstable cynicism. you could technically spend too much time and money trying to make it look perfect as you try yet another take on what's now a well-established trope ... but how to find the motivation for doing that?

>>510545993
I only just read his comment, about making "good looking games", as if that was the problem. I've started expecting a game to be shittier the better it looks. The only modern, "good looking" game I've played and enjoyed was Space Marine 2, and I finished it in 6 hours. Got to fight some tyrannids and a couple of chaos cunts, not even a cool faction like Khorn or Slaanesh either, just tzentch or whatever his name is, who gives a shit.
Would happily sacrifice some of the graphics for another 10 hours of gameplay and some more content. Be cool if GW wasn't trying to nickle & dime you for fucking cosmetics too. Glad I pirated that one.

>>510545845
I'm 35. I don't condone those activities either, but they're not nearly as dopaminergic as most video games. Most gaymers are like crack heads with it.

>>510547001
Games stop me drinking or seeking out drugs as much. You're not wrong.

I just finished this, it was great.

>>510545077
Anno 1800 was okay but definitely bloated

>>510520467 (OP)
Optimization is absolute dogshit in modern games. Like wow is terrible. No wonder its runs like shit stuff is bloatware nowadays.

>>510549692
Jeetified, just like everything else software related.

>>510533892
Damn, thread still alive.

Bots are the easiest faction man. Their main philosophy was forcing you to come to them because they were slow and armored yet the objectives forced you to maneuver around catching patrols or engaging first.

Now half the faction gameplay is sniping fabricators and the other half is one-shotting their full heavy roster center mass with an RR. And don't even get me started on how shit their accuracy is - you can stand in a field with 5 heavy devastators and 4 gunships and it will take them 15 seconds to land a single shot, when before you got sawed in half the second you were out of cover or a proper position.

>>510546202
Imagine working for Jews