>indie games are meant to be the creative outlet for game visionaries that don't want to be stifled by how shit the industry has become
>15+ years later
>a million indie games and a million more on the way

>zero good character designs
>zero good monsters designs
>zero memorable fictional worlds
>zero well written characters or narratives
>zero notable new genres or mechanics
>one good OST a year if it's a good year

What the fuck went so terribly wrong? Why are indie games failing to deliver what games used to regularly deliver in the golden era?

Ask for recommendations like an adult. Don't play around with this fairy method. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law

>>714106964
I genuinely believe there is not a single indie game that comes even close to reaching the height of a random classic in its genre, let alone surpassing it, and I don't think it's a controversial opinion

Compared to other mediums, independent game makers just don't have it in them and have all accepted they'll be making subpar imitations of the classics forever

>>714107240
Play more games.

>>714107447
I can't, I played too many classics and now my standards are too high

>>714107240
name a classic that surpasses rain world at what it does

>>714108250
Oddworld

>>714108485
incomparable
the only thing they have in common is that they're both platformers and that the protagonist is weak

>>714107240
Spoken like a dumb cocksucker that doesn’t play nearly enough indie games.

shovel knight is literally standing at the front and center of the image you posted. are you retarded?

>>714106264 (OP)
>Why are indie games failing to deliver what games used to regularly deliver in the golden era?
they're not, you just spend too much time crying about them online to ever try any of them

>>714109376
Spoken like a dumb zoomer that hasn't played a good game in his life

>>714106264 (OP)
Play Pseudoregalia

Minecraft

How old is that image it doesn't have Pizza Tower or Pseudoregalia

>>714106264 (OP)
>>zero good character designs
cuphead
>>zero good monsters designs
little nightmares
>>zero memorable fictional worlds
axiom verge
>>zero well written characters or narratives
black souls
>>zero notable new genres or mechanics
crypt of the necrodancer

>>714111743
Cuphead is not indie

>>714113975
what?

>>714110248
why

>>714111642
Gonna say at least 7 years old.

>another AAA worship but all indie games are bad thread

>>714111743
>black souls
>well-written characters
>well-written narrative
lol. LMAO.

>>714116145
AAA is shit too, but there's a reason why they make soulless insipid shit, indies are supposed to be their counterbalance in theory but they just can't do it

>>714111743
all shit

>>714116196
>>714116365
>>714116529
lol
why is OP always a newfag

>>714114283
It's not indie, it got funding from Microsoft

>>714118624
Indie has nothing to do with where or how the money is acquired. It's all about the spirit and soul of the game and the devs. A triple A studio could make an indie game and as long as it feels like an indie game, it's indie.

>>714106264 (OP)
Bait.

>>714108485
These two games aren't remotely the same.

>>714121343
I agree, Oddworld is actually good and not low effort trendy trash

Return of the Obra Dinn does all of these.

>>714106264 (OP)
OP is a faggot

>>714121407
Why waste your time like this, dude?

>>714121468
No it doesn't

>>714121696
Sorry man, I'm not gonna engage in bad faith like this. You could have had a thread with people talking about titles they like, but instead you're not going to get any reactions and your thread is going to die.

>>714120385
They wouldn't be able to execute the spirit and the soul of the game without AAA funding, defeating the purpose, probably a lot more indie devs would try to make more ambitious games if they knew they could get that sort of funding

>>714121816
It's a thread about being disappointed in the total sum of indie game output for failing to meet even a fraction of the creative greatness games used to have, I can talk about old games that had great art and creativity if you'd like