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Was 2023 the Greatest Gaming Year of All Time? (www.theringer.com)
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[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 33 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

No, not even remotely. The biggest game of the year was an antiquated cRPG, followed by a bunch of sequels and remakes. The industry as a whole has been rocked with scandal after scandal, with the most recent being the large, widespread Christmas layoffs. Innovative gameplay is now something that completely eludes AAA studios, who only seem to know how to regurgitate trends popularized by better games.

2023 was another shite year for gaming, and rewarding it with brain-dead articles like this is why 2024 probably won't be any better.

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What made BG3 "antiquated" to you? Just the nature of it being a cRPG? I thought it had some really good modern game design.

[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To me, it fell into the same trap basically every cRPG falls into; late game combat is a chore. Once the number of enemies and skills you have to juggle gets high enough, you can't realistically use real-time on the harder fights, but you can run into so many enemies that turn-based takes forever.

I don't even really mean that as a criticism of Larian, since nobody else ever managed to fix that issue either. It's a big reason why the genre died off for so long.

[–] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I have read and used the term "The Jackpot" to describe the current era of human life because of the overwhelming choice of every movie ever, every show ever, every song ever, every play ever, every game every everything being available all the time in my domicile plus many of us get get to pooh indoors which is nice/antibiotics.

[–] Lunar@lemmy.wtf 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Unfortunately people don't seem any happier.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 11 months ago

Because somehow despite our society's overabundance of wealth and power, we're all working more hours/days than most humans in history.

[–] blindsight@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can thank a combination of Hedonic Adaptation and the Paradox of Choice for that.

[–] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Because contrary to the opinion of most terminally online people, media consumption is a very tiny part of life and happiness. It's literally non-essential.

[–] Lunar@lemmy.wtf 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I disagree. There are studies that show that people cut on food even to get some entertainment.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes, and lab rats will shock themselves to get cocaine hits. People doing something doesn't mean it's good for them.

[–] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lol, no one except the completely deranged would forego a meal for an episode

[–] Lunar@lemmy.wtf 1 points 11 months ago

When you in a situation of that type you'll see...

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Not even close. As others pointed out, this is definitely recency bias. Maybe 1-2 games this year will become "classics". There are years out there with 7-10+ games like that.

1998 was WILD.

[–] bh11235@infosec.pub 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

the peak of your civilization

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you an alien or something? Because otherwise, it's your civilization too. :P

[–] orivar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago

It's a quote from The Matrix

[–] CountCorvinus@beehaw.org 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Nah. Lots of great games, but I think there's a bit of recency bias. 2001 or 2004 would be my pick for greatest year(s) for gaming.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

1998 is up there too.

I mean you've got Ocarina of Time, Baldur's Gate 1, Half Life, Banjo Kazooie, Final Fantasy VII, Resident Evil 2, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Sonic Adventure, Pokemon Red and Blue (in the US, Yellow dropped that year in Japan), Goldeneye 007, Metal Gear Solid, Spyro The Dragon, Starcraft, the first Thief game, Xenogears, Unreal (as in Unreal Engine), Crash Bandicoot 3, Gran Turismo 1 (in North America and the EU), Tekken 3, Beatmania, Marvel Vs. Capcom, Mario Party 1, Tribes 1, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit (aka the first good one), Fallout 2, Gex: Enter The Gecko, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, Castlevania: Symphony of The Night, Jazz Jackrabbit 2...

Suffice it to say that a lot of wildly important game franchises started that year, and several older ones were reborn in 3D for the first time.

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

2004 would have my vote. For the lazy:

  • Halflife 2
  • Halo 2
  • World of Warcraft
  • GTA San Andreas
  • Counter Strike: Source
  • MGS3
  • Fable
  • Star Wars Battlefront

And a bunch of other bangers

[–] sub_@beehaw.org 11 points 11 months ago

Games wise, very likely. There are way too many 2023 games that I bought (that's on sale) that I haven't even touched yet, and still more heavy hitters that I'm waiting for a bigger discount (e.g. Alan Wake 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Yakuza Gaiden, Spider-Man 2, etc). It's not only newer IPs, there are many games based on older IPs that are well received, e.g. Dead Space, FF16, RE4, Armored Core 6, etc.

Game devs wise, it's probably one of the worse. There'a already more than 9000 layoffs, with many studios shuttered. Half of them probably came from Embracer Group. We are probably gonna be seeing a rapidly shrinking number of mid-size games within the next 5 years.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Was this written by AI? Like no one in their right mind would ever think 2023 was the best year in gaming.

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

there are people in this thread who are putting forward the argument that it is--i'm not sure why we need to pretend someone who says this is a Degenerate AI User peddling clickbait or any other number of goofy charges.

[–] FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Lol wut? Almost all of the comments in this thread are saying that it isn't.

[–] Butterbee@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Remember for the first half of the year every new release competed with the last to be "the worst release of all time". The second half of the year was spectacular though!

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No 1998

[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"There’s never been a better time to be playing video games"

[–] rgb3x3@beehaw.org 12 points 11 months ago

And there's never been a worse time to be making them.

The industry keeps consolidating and there were a ton of layoffs, despite great profits.

This year was great, but sad.