Lol, true, those casual and arcade gamers....

Kind of

I remembered this image.

earlier this year i went back and played half life. was amazed at how used to handholding i had become.. i blame consoles. theyve made gaming so accessible, and with that, has come an entire massive generation of lazy gamers who want nothing more than to be told what to do...

Those were the days.

I remember seeing an image a while ago, I can't find it now, but it basically said:

"Then: Make the best game possible and if you make a lot of money, even better!"
"Today: Make as much money as possible and if you make a good game, even better!"

It's sad but nowadays AAA titles for the most part, are all just cookie cutters. Stick with a standard, boring formula, don't bother trying something new and innovative, don't care about your image, don't care what people think about your practices, just make money.

For the most part when it comes to newer games, I stick to indie games for that reason. They want to actually make fun games, they take pride in their work and it shows.

TotalBiscuit discussed about it before.
Yes, games are going backwards...

Also a similar image that someone posted above.

Well, there are still modern shooters that don't have this ridiculous bullshit - for example, CS:GO gets rid of all the nonsensical bullshit that Battlefield and Medal of Honor and Call of Duty have by basically stripping the game down. TF2 is kind of like this if you actually play and stop caring about hats for a moment. And Unreal Tournament 99 is still active online...

No. Opinions, opinions. Each to their own, and liking either way is not worse or better than the other. I'm quite happy with modern shooters.

ive seen the quake one already a long time ago, was pretty funny. good to see it again

Wasn't there some nice videos on YT about this?

Quake

Doom

I agree that especially FPS lost quality. I'm just playing old FPS because the new ones bore me to death. I try once in a while, but I just am getting angry about this shit.

Modern shooters don't innovate, they lazy out on map design because the game naturally restricts you by killing you if you don't follow the course it sets. That's bullshit. I don't want the game to hold my hand, i just want to bhop around and discover secrets on my own and have fun. It's a first person shooter not a railroad ride. It seems that the game could play itself and you'll have as much fun watching it as playing it.

Of course not all modern shooters are like that, but most of the AAA titles are. I never understood what people liked about the often praised CoD:MW stealth/sniper mission for example. I thought it was super boring tough guy macho shit. You do exactly what the guy tells you to do with absolutely no possibility to fail and the soldiers are so cool it's feels like a b-action movie. And that's what it is, a slightly interactive b-movie with tough guy soldiers. Just played MoH recently after I got it from the Humble Bundle and it was the same crap. Super cool tough guy soldiers and no challenge, no tactics, no exploration. You just do exactly what they tell you to do. You can't even open doors unless the scripted sequences allow it...ridiculous.

Old but gold. Sadly, this is like most games are done today, not only shooters. And consoles are the ones to blame, they made gaming a casual thing. I miss the old days when us gamers were considered "freaks". Nowadays, every idiot who owns a console with GTA, FIFA or any CoD title they call themselves gamers, and all the pathetic changes the industry made, are aimed to this kind of idiots, that's why everything is so fucked up.

True gamers will remember this gen, as the launch patch and dlc generation.

TIL 2 years ago is today

No unreal tournament :/

Bump for good videos. Thanks for posting it :)