/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1457582
*reading the Mega Man & Mega Man X Official Complete Works* nope, no mention of that whatsoever.

There's some about Bassnium, about Evil Energy, but none about what you say.

The industry flat out failed me. Most people insult games like Wii Sports for "bringing in the casuals", but to me, even Wii Sports is still a videogame in the traditional sense of the word. A compilation of arcade-y games for fun and high schore.

No, where the industry failed me was when it became pseudo-deep movies with some little gameplay:

When Metal Gear Solid debutted, it was innovative but people even called out it was too much plot, but little gameplay by comparison, despite the fact said gameplay was topnotch.

At some point, during this brown-and-gray generation, videogames followed the MGS model the wrong way: They became mediocre CGI movies, with mediocre plot for flat characters you're "supposed" to care for, while the gameplay is non-existant. To bring an example, The Last of Us is all mediocre plot, SUPER mediocre gameplay.

And yet the industry gives cancer games like these scores, and insist it's because "muh vidya is mature art for mature people like myself".

The ESRB rating is broken, the "M for Mature" games aren't "mature", they're amazingly immature. Blood, tits and guns, and swearing, oh yeah that's some life lessons there, such maturity.

But what REALLY killed my faith in current gaming was fucking Heavy Rain.

Fuck.

When Dragon's Lair did it, it was different and innovative, considering the limited technology available at the time.

When Shenmue did it, it was a nice throwback, but nothing special.

Then, here comes the HD 7th generation, so much raw power and potential to make expansive worlds to be explored, no limitation to the imagination of the developer and...

Welp, a fucking glorified Z-movie that's painfully pretentious with non-existent gameplay. NON. EXISTENT. GAMEPLAY.

FUCK.

And then there's the fucking online multiplayer killing local multiplayer, fucking micro-transactions AND the worst of it... The FPS generation.

Uuuuugh....

To me, these AAA GOTY glorified mediocre movies are the real "casual" games.