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Message: [QUOTE="Skeetos, post: 182075, member: 7989"] Monolith irks me. Man they made stellar shit. Love every one of their games. [automerge]1745479290[/automerge] I kinda get this. To appeal to that wider audience, a lot of the experimentation of the old days became lost so that simplification of mechanics and over-budget highly cinematic experiences could usher in, and a little towards the end of the PS4/One era it became oversaturated. I think the balance of new and old that the PS3/360 era had is where I think the coolest stuff was getting made. The hardware was advanced enough to do some crazy shit, but at the same time devs were still trying to innovate and experiment. Outside of Indie titles you don't see a lot of experimentation these days, and when it does happen, it's half assed so that they don't lose all of the casual gamers. Gaming becoming a mainstay kinda made those side titles that played completely different and tried to do different things disappear. Look at how studios like Rockstar are now. Rockstar used to always try to innovate, and they took chances on ideas, no matter if they seemed to be bad or not. I think the story of how Manhunt almost caused a mutiny in the studio sticks out to me, that game and it's tone and setting was so taboo at the time that even the devs were unsure if they should go through with it. They always hid behind that veil of "well, you don't have to kill everyone" but with Manhunt you do. Even if everyone in that game are horrible people. I just hope the next generation of consoles can live up to what was promised with the current gen. I notice a few games now require you to use Ray Tracing no matter what. Games like Alan Wake 2, Oblivion Remastered, Doom the Dark Ages, and most likely more on the horizon are built around the tech now. And I think at some point, we will see cool stuff done with it, but I think the technology got ushered in a bit too quickly. Not to mention dogass COVID laying down the long dick of reality on everyone and everything getting held back for a few years. [/QUOTE]

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