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?
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.
I'm having more fun with Supplice than any AAA shooter since... idk, 2016 at least.
The games I always remember/return to the most are the ones that had an amazing storyline.
That doesn't require a huge budget. But it does require the developer to love the game too.
So many companies are run from an excel spreadsheet. No true leadership or vision.
Me, watching at the pages upon pages of games I haven't even touched yet in my collection... Even if half of them are complete duds, and half of what's left is kind of meh, I've got enough to be entertained forever even if all gaming studios vanish overnight.
The indie games often don't look as nice
There's definitely amazing indie games, but there's also hundreds of shitty and terrible indie games for every decent one.
And thats the natural way of the world. Without shitty artists there would be no good artists, because every good artist was once a shitty artist.
I can respect a shitty indie game that has passion. You can tell a lot of people are ALMOST there on itch.io sometimes. And its just so close. Or just something that doesnt click with you. But thats ok.
"Or just something that doesn't click with you. But that's ok." You're going to rile up the rage addicts with this calm logic.
I don't think the intended message is that all indie games are great. The message is that if you're frustrated with AAA-games and haven't considered indie games, you should.
there’s also hundreds of shitty and terrible indie games for every decent one.
I would skip those and play the good ones
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.
I'm genuinely upset at how miserable the mobile scene is compared to the rest.
I've got a phone that's orders of magnitude above a TurboGrafx or a Game Gear, but 95% of the games are GACHA crap or so ad bloated as to be unplayable.
Unfortunately a large percentage of the population (subconsciously) believe that if a product isn't marketed to them, they shouldn't touch it.
To put it more accurately, they don't look. They don't seek. They wait for it to get served to them via an algorithmic feed.
I think this is a core issue with all of civilization, right now.
Sounds like a them problem
Technically it's more of a Deez Paradox.
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.
Exactly. It's like when people complained that rock and roll died again at the end of the 90's. Sure, if you don't seek out better music and just take what's handed to you by MTV and the radio (or what Spotify shows on its Home screen these days), then music is terrible now. If you go digging, you can find all kinds of amazing stuff. Same goes for gaming. Good studios get too big or bought out and ruined by people who only care about money, but if you dig around you can find all kinds of good stuff.
The stuff that "lands in your lap" was actually shoved there by a multi-million dollar marketing budget. That almost certainly means the product itself is meant for mass consumption and may not be that compelling or interesting. If you're willing to spend the time and effort to look around and play some bad games along the way, you'll find the good ones.
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.
Capitalism ruins another awesome part of our lives.
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?
Right now I am hitting endgame in SolarPunk. I fucking love it.
Im the type, if a game hands you a gun, and says go kill the bad guys, Ill pass. It's very clear in this game, it will not be for everyone, I however, have sunk 60 hours into it in the last few weeks. It's for me, and I love it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1569580/Blue_Prince/
A fun puzzle game with lots of layers to it. There's the original, stated goal. But as you work towards it, you discover lore that points you towards other puzzles.
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
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