Thread 715354235

the 2010s mogs the 2020s

>>715354235 (OP)
two more weeks bros
we're getting
silksong
half life 3
elder scrolls 6

>>715354235 (OP)
how the fuck are we halfway through 20s already

>>715354839
Why does this decade have no identity of its own?

>>715354235 (OP)
No shit. The only people who would say other wise are just soijaks who fell victim to the starwars cycle: dipped on the franchise / hobby for a while because they were jaded teens young adults so it had to be bad, came back as mid life crisis man children so now it has to be good

>>715354235 (OP)
7 good games out of 200. Not really a very good showing, but you're still not wrong.

>>715354976
Its just the 10s but worse.

>>715354235 (OP)
2000s is even better
it just keeps getting worse and worse

>>715354839
time dilation due to age
>>715354976
don't worry, we've got another 4.5 years for some horrible shit to happen
the previous 20s were pretty fucking awful, I'd be glad to just have a wholly uneventful decade
that said, covid was pretty horrendous (not the disease, but how everyone responded to it and tanked the economy over nothing)

>>715354976
The identity so far is characterized by:
>The rise of cozy games
>The rise of dad games (even AAA has Death Stranding, which is about being a delivery guy)
>The fall of AAA in general (excluding outliers like Kojima and FIFA, AAA has experienced massive issues across the board)
>The rise of Indies (for better or worse, there's more indie games coming out every day than there were in some months of the 2010s)
>A mixture of Souls fatigue and Souls diversification with a slew of Soulslikes releasing constantly, some are genuinely horrible while others are so good that fans of the formula are going absolutely rabid for more
>Last year we had a weird uptick in city builders in the indie sphere, but that has mostly died down
>The rise of Gachatrash (not to be confused with gacha in general, which has been somewhat relevant for a while prior to COVID+Genshin normalizing gacha)
There's probably a few other things I missed, but that's what I've gotten out of the '20s so far.

>>715356936
You're not wrong, anon. The 20s so far feel like someone mashed the "apocalypse lite" button repeatedly without ever fully committing. Everything's a weird echo of the past: media trying desperately to recapture glory days, politics stuck in an eternal loop of outrage bait, and games either trying too hard to be nostalgic or shoving live-service slop down our throats and hoping we don't notice. I’d kill for a decade that was just... chill. But we all know it’s gonna ramp up into some next-level nonsense soon. Buckle the fuck up.

>>715358054
I wouldn't say it's as good, but it's by no means a bad lineup.