There are more and more game releases every year. How do you find the hidden gems within the mountains of slop? We obviously can't depend on professional reviews for that as they don't review all games and have conflicts of interest.

>>714568917 (OP)
If it's an indie game (majority of the games released on that chart) then it's slop and not worth playing

I used to follow few people but they went too extreme or died. These days I check ACG sometimes as I feel he presents the games well so it doesn't matter if he likes them or not because It usually is pretty clear what kind of a game it is.

What the h*ck is a "limited game"?

>>714569128
It means it's an indie game. Limited = you will get limited enjoyment from it, likely none at all

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>>714568917 (OP)
I don't look too hard. Friends link interesting things that I mostly ignore, I do a quick glance at the next fest and the big sales, rarely check the pages of studios or publishers that usually make good stuff. A lot of things I find through /v/ threads because there are people here who post outside twitter screencaps and console wars.

How come Valve can't curate games they release on their store? Only time they do it is when it's "anime and problematic".

>>714569774
move to jewtube like algo based. you wont find games like Geneforge recommended ever

>>714569237
as opposed to mainstream AAA trash....?

>>714569774
Gaben intentionally removed any restriction, because $100 from every idiot that will try their luck is good enough, restriction came only when other kikes started to exploit the system and use those game to sell cards

>>714568917 (OP)
I go to Tokyo Game Show and the man there shows me Ratopia.

>>714570492
Another man shows me Little Witch in the Woods

looks like a bubble a bit

I can't imagine most of them sell more than 12 copies

>>714570541
You should have gone to meet Ragnar, he was feeling lonely.

>>714568917 (OP)
I peruse the hidden gems threads on this fine website. Most are rubbish shilled by devs or their friends, but you do find the odd cool hyperniche game.

>>714570801
Yeah I had better things to do.

Over the last 10 years i lost all tolerance for unfinished games. Up until 2012/2013 the industry made games that were like 90% finished. Some small DLC over the first couple months and some patches but in essence the game was done. Maybe an expansion a year later. But the industry has shifted more and more to 'minimum viable product' system where they release a broken and half finished game and spend the next X years fixing it.

I'm the kind of guy that picks up a game, plays it all the way through once(or twice if it significantly branches/expands in a ng+ mode) and move on to the next. I don't replay games, i just don't. I don't rewatch movies or TV shows either. I expect the game to be the best it ever can be when i buy it. The games that i like are so insanely rare that i can either play it as it comes out or play nothing at all. Pic related.

I don't like Souls games or any form of ongoing/live service game. My perfect games are story driven and character focused singleplayer games (RPGs) with a grounded story, edgy tone and third person shooter or sword fighting combat.

But all the companies that used to make games for simply stopped. Ubisoft is in the shitter, Eidos Montreal is gone, Crystal Dynamics are off in lalaland, Bethesda takes a decade to make a game, Capcom is extremely hit and miss, Bioware hasn't made a good game in like 13 years.

And indies aren't any better. They keep their games in early access forever because they plan to never stop working on them. They all got the feature creep bug.

Haven't touched any vidya since late may so i think i might put the whole thing on ice until the games that i bought this year, but unfortunately are extremely unfinished, are in a playable state. Pic very related.

>>714569774
It's the main selling platform. I know I'm going to be faced with accusation of valve shilling but it's not their job. Small independent games would have even more trouble marketing themselves if Gaben started acting as the arbiter of what gets any visibility.

>>714568917 (OP)
There are only two types of games: progression games (aka movie games) and performance games (aka arcade games)

Once you understand this identifying a good game is simple

>>714571013
>I'm the kind of guy that picks up a game, plays it all the way through once(or twice if it significantly branches/expands in a ng+ mode) and move on to the next. I don't replay games, i just don't. I don't rewatch movies or TV shows either. I
You don't know what a game is and you likely never even played one. You have the same mindset as modern journalists. That's why you hate games. Every "game" you posted is a movie game.

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>>714571190
*except ninja gaiden. That's not a movie, that's a game

>>714571234
NG has more story and cut scenes than V Rising, Elden Ring, Wartales, Killing Antidote and Tainted Grail combined.

>>714571303
And it also has gameplay

>>714568917 (OP)
For indies, I go to a storefront with some basic quality control like GOG and check by whole years of releases.
I'll be missing out on some good stuff but most of the worthwile games will likely be there.

>>714571434
Everything you do, every menu you click, every button you press is gameplay. You are talking about combat. All those other games have combat too.

>>714571514
Post nose

>>714571661
You're probably browner than me.

>>714571029
I'd like to see at least a bare minimum of quality control, just to filter all the asset flip shovelware.

>>714571938
>All those other games have combat too.
Do they have a score? If not then they're not games

>>714572075
70%, just to include dialogue heavy (c)RPGs

>>714571013
We get it, you're autistic. How do I unsub from your blog

>>714572225
As soon as /v/ stops cycling through the same topics i will stop recycling my effort posts.

>>714572191
Bg3 was a cool interactive novel but it wasn't a game

>>714572317
Make an original thread then faggot. Be the change you want to see instead of a whiny bitch.

>>714572503
I'm not whining. I have a long list of effort posts and when i see a thread on a topic that one of my posts covers i will post it. I'm not typing up an effort post for every somewhat interesting thread that then dies 5 posts later.

>>714568917 (OP)
>How do you find the hidden gems within the mountains of slop?
that's the funny thing, you don't.

>>714568917 (OP)
>How do you find the hidden gems within the mountains of slop?
Learn your preferences and use filters. huge chunks of those slop games can be filtered out just by deselecting the usual suspect tags.

>>714568917 (OP)
the sad fact is that you'll only really discover games via the algorithm which is unreliable as hell, big marketing most games cant afford and you use adblock anyways. only surefire way to find something is to spend hours searching yourself and be in communities where indie devs hang out and even then thats too much shit to go through.
Ironically making video game making tools so accessible has both made tons of new unique experiences possible but also buried them under a mountain of actual shit.

>>714571029
pre market crash Atari brain generated this

>>714568917 (OP)
What hidden gems? There hasn't been a good release since Hi-Fi Rush.

>>714568917 (OP)
You don't, just pay and shut up. You have a job no?

Most of the games on steam are slop, just look at the upcoming releases queue. The valve algorithm gives them exceptionally little attention.

>>714568917 (OP)
I watch comfy small or mid level streamers on twitch that have similar interests to me with a community that also has these similar interests
you’d be surprised how many hidden gems get uncovered purely cause there’s a lotta ppl with overlapping preferences like that

>>714571661
Bold of you to assume I have a nose, schizo. I'm a being of pure backlog and disappointment.