Yeah, you can still play games like Quake, from nearly thirty years ago, because you can host your own servers for it. For a more modern example, there's Minecraft. The problem is really just one for games where it's only the game publishers that get to run the servers.
That's not to say that every game should, or even could, be released that way. It's much easier to fiddle things like RNG values and compromise anti-cheating software when you're the server host and things like micro-transactions, even if only for cosmetics, necessitate a secure server.
Games like Destiny or Genshin Impact only really make sense as live services. I don't think there's anything wrong with enjoying them for what they are, but try to remember their ephemeral nature before whaling them.
I think I might have an unpopular opinion that could end all unpopular opinions, so anyway, here goes:
I find the insane popularity that Grand Theft Auto has garnered in recent years to be thoroughly depressing and indicative of the complete collapse and degradation of Western civilization. As a British person I'm deeply embarrassed that it has become one of our biggest cultural exports these days (not that it has anything to do with our culture. It's certainly no culture that I recognise).
Back when our societies were more morally and spiritually healthy, something like Grand Theft Auto would be very niche and largely shunned by the mainstream, rather than being the biggest entertainment property in the West... Its success and glorification by the mainstream is proof of how much the rot really has set in, how lost we are. And the incoming media hype around GTA 6 (and the inevitable wall-to-wall perfect scores they'll give it, as usual) is going to be insufferable.
Now some people might say "Well actually GTA is satirical." Well, it doesn't really matter because a) most GTA players aren't going to understand that. I mean, when I was a teenager, baffled as to why my friends were playing thug-life ghetto trash like GTA: San Andreas, they weren't buying it because they appreciated the satire, they were buying it because they'd been told that it was cool to be into this sort of thing (though I knew that deep-down they weren't), and b) if you're satirising the sickness, you're still acknowledging that the sickness exists, so either way it's not much comfort.
In terms of art and culture, Grand Theft Auto is the sort of ugly, seedy, nihilistic, degenerate filth that you're left with after everything decent, wholesome, honourable, beautiful, sacred and transcendent has been denigrated, deconstructed and destroyed. I guess it's no wonder that it's become so popular in this day and age.
I think I might have an unpopular opinion that could end all unpopular opinions, so anyway, here goes:
I find the insane popularity that Grand Theft Auto has garnered in recent years to be thoroughly depressing and indicative of the complete collapse and degradation of Western civilization. As a British person I'm deeply embarrassed that it has become one of our biggest cultural exports these days (not that it has anything to do with our culture. It's certainly no culture that I recognise).
Back when our societies were more morally and spiritually healthy, something like Grand Theft Auto would be very niche and largely shunned by the mainstream, rather than being the biggest entertainment property in the West... Its success and glorification by the mainstream is proof of how much the rot really has set in, how lost we are. And the incoming media hype around GTA 6 (and the inevitable wall-to-wall perfect scores they'll give it, as usual) is going to be insufferable.
Now some people might say "Well actually GTA is satirical." Well, it doesn't really matter because a) most GTA players aren't going to understand that. I mean, when I was a teenager, baffled as to why my friends were playing thug-life ghetto trash like GTA: San Andreas, they weren't buying it because they appreciated the satire, they were buying it because they'd been told that it was cool to be into this sort of thing (though I knew that deep-down they weren't), and b) if you're satirising the sickness, you're still acknowledging that the sickness exists, so either way it's not much comfort.
In terms of art and culture, Grand Theft Auto is the sort of ugly, seedy, nihilistic, degenerate filth that you're left with after everything decent, wholesome, honourable, beautiful, sacred and transcendent has been denigrated, deconstructed and destroyed. I guess it's no wonder that it's become so popular in this day and age.
Pokemon is the biggest waste of PCB's, plastic, and developer billable hours in history
I have 0 feeling for it, I have never been able to play one of them for more than 10 minutes cuz they bore me to tears. It's just "collect all the imaginary things," and everything else in the games seems to just serve this one monomaniacal function of them.
Fight me, nerds...now THIS is an unpopular gaming opinion.
@FunGuy
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Even I am a casual gamer for Pokemon franchise, the games are not that bad as you said.
I played Pokemon games, Yokai Watch games, World of Final Fantasy MAXIMA and Nexomon games for the same genre (Monster taming games) and all of them are good enough for me.
@Haywired
Great point. 👍
You explained exactly what I was thinking about those games.
I really hate those adult games.
Disgusting things ever and it shown how disgusting the recent of Western cultures which glorified criminal things as entertainment.
It should never been exist and the developer of those games should be get rid.
I dunno GTA is a pretty weak one to pick as an example of the corruption of today's society since no one is looking at wholesome entertainment from it.
Unlike Mario which promotes living in sin as he's in a relationship with Peach BEFORE getting married to her or Kirby who promotes gluttony or Animal Crossing which spits on our Lord's commandment Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's House or Pokemon being a dog fighting simulator or Bayonetta's nudey witchcraft decadence or Zelda having a Swastika dungeon!!!
I dunno GTA is a pretty weak one to pick as an example of the corruption of today's society since no one is looking at wholesome entertainment from it.
Unlike Mario which promotes living in sin as he's in a relationship with Peach BEFORE getting married to her or Kirby who promotes gluttony or Animal Crossing which spits on our Lord's commandment Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's House or Pokemon being a dog fighting simulator or Bayonetta's nudey witchcraft decadence or Zelda having a Swastika dungeon!!!
Omg I can’t believe I just read this! I love it! Lmao!
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@TheBigBlue It's crazy that at this point, I'm dreaming of Nintendo taking the safest and blandest option for their next console: a Switch 2, or Super Switch that's just... the same thing, but better. But I absolutely think they'll try to surprise us by taking a few risks, which is terrifying 😂.
Nintendo's gotta Nintendo, to our collective bafflement
Edit: to your point, yeah, I don't think Nintendo's in some kind of desperate need to move on to a new generation. Almost every game they sell, no matter how niche, sells a good million copies. The Switch being less powerful also means games don't need a triple A budget to stand out, so they can take more risks with their software. Basically, I hope they take their time, there's no rush (imo)
I'd expect that the eventual Switch successor would be a much more powerful platform simply because there's better hardware available. Nvidia GPUs have moved on four generations since the Tegra X1 so, if that partnership continues, we can expect a big improvement there even if they're not going for the bleeding edge. It's possible that they may team up with someone else, maybe AMD or Qualcomm, but their recent mobile offerings would also represent a similar opportunity to improve.
However, their most successful systems have all been highly innovative ones in other ways. You've got to look at the way that the GameBoy, DS, Wii and Switch weren't just more powerful versions of what went before - but brought entirely new ways to play games with them - to see what can happen when they nail it.
There's always a chance that they would miss the mark as they did with the Wii U or, worse still, the Virtual Boy. However, they'd always have the fallback option of a more conventional successor to the Switch if that happens.
I dunno GTA is a pretty weak one to pick as an example of the corruption of today's society since no one is looking at wholesome entertainment from it.
Unlike Mario which promotes living in sin as he's in a relationship with Peach BEFORE getting married to her or Kirby who promotes gluttony or Animal Crossing which spits on our Lord's commandment Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's House or Pokemon being a dog fighting simulator or Bayonetta's nudey witchcraft decadence or Zelda having a Swastika dungeon!!!
And let's not even get started with those messages you see in Splatoon. THE SQUIDS ARE TURNING THE KIDS GAY! And its all disguised as a wholesome shooter, disgusting. > : (
What else is there?
"Fire Emblem" What type of fire, the fires of hell?!
"Rhythm Heaven" Lies, this music will not save you!
"Paper Mario: The Origami King" Not in my American home!
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