Comic: https://www.deathbulge.com/comics/441
Alt text: Yeah yeah, there's always exceptions, I mean look no further than the game in the 2nd panel, not the most thrilling gameplay, is it?
There's definitely amazing indie games, but there's also hundreds of shitty and terrible indie games for every decent one.
I mean… if you only have a console (or even worse: only a Smartphone) I get why it looks like that to people. Some people apparently don't even have a PC or laptop anymore.
Unfortunately a large percentage of the population (subconsciously) believe that if a product isn't marketed to them, they shouldn't touch it.
Same thing for movies, music, etc. The people that piss and moan about their media being terrible are the ones that can't be bothered to lift a finger to seek out something better. They only bother with media that falls into their lap, and that's petty much all determined by studios that care more about profits than quality.
Ultrakill, Deltarune and Celeste are my favorite video games, all indie I think.
So true! If you ignore big corpo and their slop, we actually live in a golden age of gaming.
Games that I have enjoyed that are indie:
Its a wild ride I recommend!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1296610/Peglin/
If you like peggle its a fun little game.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1218210/Coromon/
Its like pokemon and amazing pixel art.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082710/Bug_Fables_The_Everlasting_Sapling/
If you liked Mario RPG titles this is a fun one.
What are your picks?
For real, there's so much more variety these days than there was ten or fifteen years ago. I feel like these are the golden days of gaming where everyone can find the exact niche game that they are looking for
Capitalism ruins another awesome part of our lives.
Retro gaming:
Cozy Pixel Dating Exposition Building Pastel Farming Dog Quirky Fishing Rogue-lite Crafter
Yeah, indie and AA-gaming are doing fine, its the AAA that is suffering. And I think they deserve it for sure: predatory practices, lack of innovation, everything looking and feeling the same... Indie and AA-games are the ones I look forward to.
Played Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora recently, and it struck me almost immediately:
This is, without a hint of doubt, a Ubisoft game. The setting may change, the characters are swapped, but it is always the same gameplay. Like if they figured something that works with Assassin's Creed and decided to never change it, ever.
Whatever Ubisoft action RPG you start, you always play Assassin's Creed with extra decorations. Again. And again. And again. Zero creative vision, just new textures on top of the same mechanics.
I will happily pay full price for an indie or solo dev/small team game even if I end up not loving it. I will always wait for a sale for the big AAA games.
Me playing Noita (the only game I will ever need) while everyone complains about gta6 which isn't even out yet.
(actually send help, I cannot make myself play other games)
One sad thing for me is that even in story-rich indie games I've been seeing poor dialogues and developments. This area has been the most difficult one to find good stuff for me.
I kinda get it tbh, sometimes you just want the lore and gameplay of the indie title with the fidelity and scope of a AAA studio.
I have all of the big studios blocked on Steam. So any new dog shit they pump out that is inevitably built around nothing but extracting wealth, is never shown to me.
Just finished Momodora: Moonlit Farewell. Couple of years old now but that game had more passion put into it than anything I've played in years. Puts many AAA to shame.
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