To most of us, this is probably just a summary of events over the past year or so. But, it's good to know that this sort of news is reaching non-gaming channels.

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[–] alilbee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

WELL I'm NOT very PASSIONATE about IT either.

Outer Wilds... was a... space shooter.

no I'm not confusing them

You sure do argue in good faith buddy, for sure. You can even admit when you made a common tiny mistake that I gave you every bit of grace on!

Your paragraphs are just badly-formatted run-on thoughts that don't even accurately address my points, you completely misunderstand what I mean by "dig through", you confront random asides instead of the central point I'm making, and you manage to show your ass harder than anyone else in this thread. Wasn't even here to argue, just wanted to have a discussion on gaming and everyone else here managed to disagree with me politely and just discuss without being a raging asshole. All of that is why I didn't want to continue my argument with you.

[–] FontMasterFlex -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Right, so your rebuttal is trying to attack ME, not my argument. The mask is off now buddy.

[–] alilbee 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You still haven't addressed my argument? I'll wait for that message. To be clear, here it is: While there ARE a multitude of bad games with bad practices out there, particularly in the AAA space, there has NEVER been a more accessible period for indies and AA studios to create games. This has led to an EXPLOSION of solid games without predatory practices. All told, I believe there are MORE of these good AA/indie options than there were good AAA options in the past. I listed some of my favorite above (NON-EXHAUSTIVELY and only as EXAMPLES, not as a basis for my argument, which you ignored TIME and TIME again to set up your STRAWMAN). These games were also highly rated by the industry as a whole, which is why we're talking about them at all. Of course, this entire discussion is SUBJECTIVE, so there will always be people who despair at the given state of any industry. I though, believe there are PLENTY of fantastic, non-predatory, non-loot-boxed, non-season-passed, highly rated games out there. The fact that there are also a large number of bad games out there too DOES NOT HURT ME if I don't play them and I have those good options to play. FOR ME, that's why gaming is in a good state. And to drive another point home, I'M NOT TRYING TO CHANGE YOUR MIND! Hate it if you want. I was just trying to discuss the topic, not have a big fight with a stranger on the internet.