Games are becoming every game

There have always been so many games that are either simply creatively devoid or also prioritizing commercial success as their primary goal. Similar to the "music was better in my day" sort of effect, we're going to forget about the sea of mediocrity from the past and just remember the highlights, while also seeing the entire current landscape, and unfairly compare the two (then vs. now). I also perhaps unfairly suspect gamers are the MOST likely media-specific subculture to fetishize nostalgia, so you also see lots of games prioritizing that aspect over all else, at the detriment or despite poor gameplay and/or unoriginal ideas. I don't even touch early access stuff, I'm extremely late to check out anything in the gaming universe but given my above points it's good to wait a little to see what rises to the top. And by then you get the "definitive edition + all DLC" version.

i'm definitely skeptical of all these indie games that seem to be starting from 'lets combine popular game mechanic A and popular game mechanic B' and working backwards from there, sometimes it's a natural fit but fps + deckbuilder sounds a lot like peanut butter and mayo to me, you'd be fighting against nature to make it work. i think the best games have a more holistic approach to design than that, but in the indie space game mechanics have become selling points / genre signifiers rather than tools in a toolbox as they should be.

Death Stranding: metroidvania edition

Yeah I hate how everything has to be a Strand-type game now

The idea of including a fishing mechanic in a game is quickly losing it's appeal for me - mainly because nobody knows how to implement it whatsoever. I'm not sure it even can be implemented.

(add your own emphasis on 'can' there guys)

fishing minigame in JRPGs is tradition, it's not supposed to be fleshed out, just supposed to be there

other types of games should lose it

oh fucking lol

Skyrim Anniversary Edition announced, launching November 11

You can upgrade the Special Edition to the Anniversary Edition

Free next-gen upgrade coming soon

Fishing gets added to Skyrim as well pic.twitter.com/DLVQ40yKeF

— Nibel (@Nibellion) August 19, 2021

honestly it least it makes sense in Skyrim! i'm kind of surprised it wasn't already in the game, seems like a thing a tough guy killing things in the wild would do

I hate fishing minigames, I'm always so bad at them. I got passable at it in Stardew Valley but even then mostly avoided it.

(re skyrim) yeah, its an rpg after all, I just thought it was funny timing

xp Actually Stardew fishing was one attempt I did enjoy

oh definitely hilarious for skyrim, especially after all these years! why now lol?

i have to admit, i like fishing minigames, because they're usually based on either timing or reaction speed, and i am one of those weirdos who will spend 15 minutes playing a free online "how quickly can you react" test, determined to beat my high (low) score