Lol it is true. Heck that's how it is for most things these days. In the past we could just enjoy things with ease, now everything needs to be connected and the internet is always getting in the way, taking up time and dictating things.

This is why i switched to retro gaming. Not buying any new games. All the old ones just work and are bug free.

I'm playing The Witcher III for the first time near the end of the campaign and it's one of the best games i've ever played. Basically a 10 year old game so retro enough. New games suck hard.

Today:
*new game comes out
-chit it takes up 100gb, need to figure out which games to delete
-need to wait around for it to download
-need to download a day one patch
-game is glitchy and feels incomplete, need to wait for another patch to release
-wait a week+
-next patch is out, it's 50+GB, need to wait for that to download and install
-finally playing game, need to create an online profile
-need to grab my phone and verify a new online account
-game server is down for maintenance, need to wait for them to put it back up
-wait a day
-finally playing the game

Back then:
*new game came out
-buy a copy at the local store that sells video games
-pop it in my console
-having fun

In on roll bread.

BG3 is something like 130GB, and one of the best games I have played. Get your game tastes up, folks.

Dude i just downloaded COD MW 2 the other day and it had to patch for an hour. Then i launched it and it didn't work. I'm done giving these folks money until they can start putting out games that work. Only playing pre 2020 games from now on tbh.

Modern COD games are definitely among the worst. I still remember how awful MW(19) was with it's many DLC packs I had to keep downloading that would eventually not work. Pretty much swore off any new releases ever since, they just take up too much space and seem to have constant updates if it's a new/active one.

I don't have any issues with MW 19 on my PC but MW 2 and 3 are horrendous. You have to install them together too which is like 230 gb. It's amazing how they have all been downhill after MW 19 which was arguably the best COD multiplayer ever.

The forced combined installs are so awful, but I think MW19 was probably a lot better on PC by the sound of things, it was a complete mess on console.

The massive installs are a big part of why I have given up on games like new COD and NBA2K

Yeah they force the install because they want you to purchase it lol. It's ridiculous. Dude i'm trying to play Cold War right now and it's going through an hour of shaders. I've told you about this before. It's actually like 5x longer than when the game came out. It's incredible how many hoops you have to jump through to play post 2019 games. They are not optimizing them at all anymore yet people keep pre ordering for day 1.

Yeah, today's gaming audience is basically a bunch of suckers from what I can tell. They seem to be the same type of people who keep flocking to Marvel flicks.

- ESG / DEI sucks dick
- Neil Cuckmann sucks dick
- mgfgt sucks dick (literally)
- Halo is a dead franchise
- Gears if a dead franchise
- Video game industry is overrun with communists and mentally ill

Sadly, 100% accurate. Games are made by corporate rule now. All that "Fratboy culture" Tumblrs devs and gaming media constantly denounce was more than likely just a loose, fun work environment before Cultural Maoist workplace (DEI / ESG) took over. An environment that didn't have an "equitable" layer of eggshells to maneuver in which people had to earn positions through merit and accountability.

Now a bunch of mentally ill narcissists infiltrate companies, target people in positions of power to undermine, and try to get them "canceled" so they can latch to someone else's creativity and established intellectual property to "subvert," to dehumanize the existing fanbase, and to self-insert themselves into the story as the new hero. It's disgraceful behavior.

I just don't get what happened to the gaming culture of the 90s and 2000s. It's nothing like that anymore. I don't think i'm ever going to buy another game at this point. They are just all too chitty. Halo and Forza are the only decent games left.

Yeah I know what you mean, it's become a completely different scene and the people surrounding it have become completely different as well. Like it used to be sort of a fun counterculture scene, everyone involved in it seemed to love pushing boundaries and creativity. Now a days it's taken some weird politically motivated direction, like they're always trying to impress the mass media. In the past they pretty much flaunted spitting in the media's face.

Such an annoying, ugly looking face. Bet she is terrible to work with.

"How about we make Mary Jane look like ME? Me me me me me me me me mememememememememe"

Fukking narcissits.

Halo is dead. You can't hide from the truth forever. Let it go.

"What is 'audio compression,' and why don't you want to download every other language known to man that you'll never use? Are you a culturally insensitive bigot?"

Spoiler: they're just bloody lazy.On point because modern AAA games are the equivalent to Marvel flicks.

I think what really did us all in was the morons who bought into the narrative of buying microtransactions to "support the developers," when that doesn't even make sense, never mind that it doesn't work that way whatsoever. All they wound up supporting was always online games that get drip fed meaningfulgame contentbecause the only things the idiots supported was the publisher's bottom line, who then told the developers to shift focus from said game content to churning out skins that are piss-easy to make but make insane amounts of money.

Those skins used to be extrarewardsfor playing the game on top of them being played for fun. Now modern gamers keep buying increasingly stupid looking skins so they canplayplaypeacock around in the game to boost their own egos.

As an extra bonus, what people don't typically consider is that the reason online games like COD have such bloated installs is because they have to install every single fücking skin and nicki minaj oPeRaToR even if you didn't buy them so the companies can shove them into your eyeballs in the hopes more people buy them. That ignorance is also what makes the entire skin economy so grating: everyone alreadyhasthis shít primed and ready, but it's held hostage behind a paywall.

All of this because the average gamer is too retarded to understand basic value; they would bitch if they had to pay money for maps they would pour hundreds to thousands of hours in, or theentire game itselffor $60, but herp derp, a retexture an intern made costing a twelfth of the entire game is somehow a good deal. And that "support" they think they're going to get in return for "supporting the developers?" Even more skins to buy and maybe a map or two.

And that isn't even getting into "battle passes," i.e. paying the company money just to unlock theabilityto have those aforementioned extra rewards for playing the game.

This is why I'm glad that I moved on from online games a long time ago because they're a total shít show today.
I liked better when you'd get called fäg and the n word by prepubescents over games now asking pronouns.

The best thing that could ever happen to the gaming industry is for it to divorce itself from the West as much as humanly possible, but especially california. Incidentally, that would have the additional boon of drastically reducing costs that have been one of the leading causes to all of the insatiable greed being pushed into games since they have to make up for the overpaid diversity hires and sensitivity readers being put up in overpriced real estate.

Also, Halo and Gears used to define Xbox, only for Microsoft to scrap together the first group of unqualified asshats they could find to immediately pick them up when the original developers were done instead of carefully weighing how to approach the both of them next. It's clearly a wider issue than just the Xbox side of things because of how the complete disregard they had for the Halo show, so enough people in Microsoft with more pull are not invested in games, but shoving out whatever passable product to be consumed. Microsoft had a golden goose and not just cooked it, but burnt it into ash. Then they did the same thing with just about every notable IP they have owned.

Halo is still the best game in the world. Nothing comes close. Just go look at all of the Halo reviews over the years not even they can deny its domination.

All the games are just the same now thankfully halo actually changes things up with each release. You know when you buy a halo game they will take a chance and not release the same ol chit.

Keep in mind they do that while trying to shame you for wanting to play as a white male.

wrong. it's more like this:

buy the game for $70, and then spend $100's more on microtransactions to get anywhere in the game.

Then servers shut down or support is cut after a year or 2.

One of the biggest and most critical elements missing from video games now is the pre-game lobby, where every bit of sh!t talking would take place. Of course, you also had the post-game lobby to really stick it to your opponents after crushing them. It's just not the same experience anymore, they have taken something that was once thriving, flourishing, life-giving to the games and their populations and have turned a field of abundance into a parking lot out in the middle of nowhere.

Diversity hires and microtransactions should also be deprecated, to say the least - diversity hires should all be fired and blacklisted, at every single rung of the ladder. You're 100% correct, MS destroyed their best franchises, seemingly overnight...it's crazy how time flies. If you told me that Halo would be a dead franchise and a laughing stock back in the golden age, I'd have laughed, but here we are. Gears...same thing. You still have casuals, noobs and D-league Halo players that used to get sh!t on in real Halo games playing the new, garbage, false Halo games, but the numbers don't lie. These games have no population, whereas the originals up to Reach had players with a decent population almost until the very bitter end when the servers were shut down.

The Halo show is a farce. It's shocking people actually got paid to write this garbage, but such is the way of ESG/DEI, these are Blackrock / Soros hires.

The people who worked on Halo post-Reach are all woke leftist loons who either have no idea what Halo is, or who actually hated Halo...and still do.Everything changed after 2012, ironically your catch phrase is also reflective of this when it comes to Halo..............343 released Halo in 2012.

It's over.

Wake up.

I don't play online anymore, but I'm glad I at least got to experience the heyday before online lobbies became ghost towns due to people being scared of being banned even over bantering with their own friends.

The BR genre was probably the nail in the coffin because it hinges on people constantly popping in and out of games to never see each other ever again with no chance to make friends or be social like in older MP games.

It's no wonder that despite everything being more online than ever, younger people are socially stunted.
Games used to be made and played by people who loved games. It didn't matter what skin color you were, if you were a boy or a girl, where you were from; none of that mattered.

Now all of these industries are being invaded by talentless parasites who have no passion or fleeting interest besides virtue signaling on twitter. If the upper management in all of these companies had any sense, they would have cleaned house at the first opportunity instead of buying into the asinine premise that hiring people based on regressive ideology with zero regard for talent could in any way improve their brands and products. They effectively hired saboteurs in order to cater to a >1% demographic who doesn't even buy their product and only knows how to bitch on social media.

Microsoft went from the new underdog to being on top with the 360, only to burn it all to the ground out of hubris, chasing trends starting with the kinect, and pushing aside thevideo gamefocus with the xbone while thinking they could just coast on franchises that the original creators already put behind them. Reach especially makes me think that's the sort of badass ending they originally wanted for the series, but MS only saw dollar signs and put together the most slipshod, mediocre studio to follow Bungie Look how long it took for them to grow enough balls toslowlystart pruning 343's leadership, but the damage was already done. Now it's a dying free to play game with cat ears, and MS did the same thing with Gears.

There's a better shot with Gears if they do a trilogy remaster rather than let the new team continue their reboot full of flamboyant, microtransaction trash.

I am not saying Halo is as good as it once was when Bungie was making the games. It clearly isn't. Infinite is still the best game nowadays though. Please name something that even comes to close to it's Campaign and multiplayer experience.

That's like saying one pile of sh!t tastes slightly better than the other piles of sh!t - it's still a pile of sh!t. There's a reason its population is abysmal. It's just another iteration of H4 and H5, both of which have sh!t multiplayer and is literally designed for n00bs and for people who suck at the true Halo games.

MCC, The newer Doom games, remakes of other games are better by far, RE remakes, remasters such as Sleeping Dogs, Tomb Raider, Gears Ultimate and I don't even pay much attention to games as much as I used to because the games industry is creatively bankrupt and run by commie pukes. ...and by the way, these don't come close to Infinite, rather, they blow it out of the water. I'm not even a Bethesda fan, nor play the newer Doom games, but any one can see they're games far superior to Infinite, although that's not saying much considering Infinite is a broken piece of ****, made by and for people who hate Halo and who suck at Halo.

If you like it, great for you, have fun paying for blue armor, cat ears and running out of ammo only to find a piece of crap weapon in a weapon locker lol.



IT'S OVER.

Funny you bring that up, I actually did catch a communications ban and suspension over banter with my friends in a party chat because someone reported one of the guys in the party chat, so XBL PET listened in to everyone and others caught suspensions. There is truly nothing like the lobbies of yesteryear, I remember H2, H3 and Reach fondly, truly the last of the great video game eras. Never liked the battle royale genre, the games always looked like sh!t and the more popular ones are clearly made for kids, while also pushing agendas and maximizing their marketing / influencing to raid the pockets and credit cards of the parents. Just mindless twitch shooters and as you made clear, you don't really form up with anyone.

Totally agree with the rest of your post as well, I couldn't have said it any better. Gears is such a joke now, I swear that series was over post-Gears 3. They could have approached Gears from an entirely different angle if they wanted to keep the franchise going, but the Locust war was over...and they decided to basically retcon and just tell the same story over, except now it's more "quirky" - stemming from the retards who made the post EPIC games.