A Shift away from Modern games and Online Multiplayer

[Head of Desserts]

Games aren't what they used to be. I remember when games were about adventure and taking a journey. We didn't care about graphics, or what IGN said, or Gamers gate, or videogame corporations drama, nickle and dime DLC tactics etc. We played with our friends sitting next to us. We played coop together or watched them play single player and have good times laughing. But we all grew up and moved away from each other. And now most of us have to deal with assholes and strangers in online games. I'm done with this generation(s), going back to retro.

[jrjigga57]

i turn on my snes maybe 5 times per 1 time i turn on my ps4...  also have been back on my ps2 recently running through my suikoden games...  the newest generations are also not really for me...

[Head of Desserts]

Suikoden are great games, I started playing the first one. Probably the only modern games I enjoyed the most  playing were Demon/Dark Souls series.

[tiktektak]

It's not all black in black. You just have to pick the right games.

Some prime examples.

Demon's Souls / Dark Souls Series - Gameplay at it's finest

Mario Kart 8 - Woohooo!

Catherine - a unique and frustrating experience

[Head of Desserts]

It's not all black in black. You just have to pick the right games.

Some prime examples.

Demon's Souls / Dark Souls Series - Gameplay at it's finest

Mario Kart 8 - Woohooo!

Catherine - a unique and frustrating experience

No doubt

[Arseen]

Out of last 2 generations of games I've enjoy most, probably in this order:

- Lego City Undercover. I so want sequel!!! Yes I have the 3DS version which too is quite good.
- Hyrule Warriors. Have been playing it daily (or nightly actually) for week now alone or with my nephew. Wish it had LAN 4 player mode, I so would buy 2 more WiiUs and 3 more copies of the game.
- Rest of the Lego games on Xbox 360,

And some driving games.

[TDIRunner]

I don't own any current gen stuff unless the OUYA counts.  However, what drives me crazy with this generation is the ads.  Every ad is the same thing.  Just a group of "gamers" walking around shooting stuff.  There is no originality.  But I guess that's to be expected as there isn't much originality in the games either.

[palmer6strings]

It's not all black in black. You just have to pick the right games.

Some prime examples.

Demon's Souls / Dark Souls Series - Gameplay at it's finest

Mario Kart 8 - Woohooo!

Catherine - a unique and frustrating experience

I highly disagree. Demon/dark souls and anything mario are just extremely overhyped.
The best game that I really enjoyed the most out of the whole xbox 360 library was Dragons Dogma.

Catherine on the other hand was a very different experience that I did get some enjoyment out of.

I know it's all a matter of opinion though.

[Einhander]

Games aren't what they used to be. I remember when games were about adventure and taking a journey. We didn't care about graphics, or what IGN said, or Gamers gate, or videogame corporations drama, nickle and dime DLC tactics etc. We played with our friends sitting next to us. We played coop together or watched them play single player and have good times laughing. But we all grew up and moved away from each other. And now most of us have to deal with assholes and strangers in online games. I'm done with this generation(s), going back to retro.

I love retro too. Do you have a PS4? I have a PS4, just haven't been too sure what to get for it. Sometimes I feel this generation isn't for me either, but then again, sometimes it has to be refreshing to play a good game in good graphics. I don't think all games are bad, just have to pick the ones we like.

[sheep2001]

Watchdogs, infamous second son and  infamous first light, for starters! 

[Blumpkin]

I don't think that it's fare to say that there aren't any good games recently, they're just different.

I think that you're seeing the large number of games pushing social interaction right now because three/four years ago Sony and Microsoft were telling all the third party developers that the next generation of consoles would be "always online".

Obviously the push back from consumers made them scale back on that front, but the games were already well into production. I think that's why so many games right now are online focused.

I look at a game like Destiny, an always online shooter. Could the game be played offline in single player? Absolutely. But why design a game for a single player experience if you have to be online to play it anyways?

That's why I think we have this tsunami of social featured games right now. But I don't think it'll be this way forever, in the next few years I'll bet more games go back to being focused on the player, not the millions of players.

[Leatherrebel5150]

Why does everything have to end up with social media integration I hate that crap.

[Blumpkin]

Why does everything have to end up with social media integration I hate that crap.

So that another department within a studio can try to justify it's existence.