What's missing in gaming right now ?

[Hawx]

yo, I'm working on a video essay rn with @Jusaiki and i wanted to make a section about what is missing in gaming rn and i felt like including the people from here and showing their responses on video, if you wanna be a part of the video please respond with what you think is missing rn ill include the most interesting answers ;3

 

[Jeff]

-Charm
-Color
-Love
-Character development
-Gameplay
-Controls
-Imagination
-Innovation

More importantly, where's the fun? In which a video game is supposed to be about. Not for profit, marketing gimmicks and acquisitions.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Honestly? A sense of both ownership and accomplishment -- it's not fun playing something that can be taken away from you for literally no reason and against people whose deeper pockets allow them to purchase their way to victory. Both have ruined gaming for me in a way that not even the most toxic communities or game-breaking bugs/glitches haven't.

And this new wave of online-only, streaming titles have put the modding community on a chokehold. Why would the industry actively remove its strongest ally and biggest asset is beyond me.

 

[Clippy]

 

[mariojacob14]

the games obviously

 

[Don Patch]

"Creativity"... but not really... plenty of creative people... just no one willing to pay them to make creative things... they get strong armed into making focus-group-safe schlock.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

I'd say a sense of creativity and experimentation from bigger studios. You used to get a lot of interesting or unique games randomly dropped from big studios, but nowadays Triple A development has gotten so inflated in price and dev time that most big studios play it incredibly safe and formulaic now. Indie devs had carried the torch in this regard, but it still sucks seeing how risk-adverse big releases have become.

 

[Nebulon_Galaxy]

Lack of cheat codes. WHERE IS MY BIG HEAD MODE??

 

[moonbits]

nothing, people are just jaded