Beamer wrote on Oct 31, 2024, 12:28:
If you can't find a dozen games that sound fun on Steam within 5 minutes, that's a you problem, not an industry problem.

*sigh*

What part of looking at the bigger picture was unclear, dude? Let's try this again, more clearly:

I ALREADEH HAZ BEEEEEELLLLLIIIOOOOOONNNNSSSS OF AWSUM GAMEZ IN MUH LIBRARRIES BRUH BUT TEH FOOKIN INDUSTREH HEADING DDOWN TEH SHITT3R IS STILL A C0NCURRRRRNNNN FOR ANY1 WHO ISN'T A SELF-CENT0RED IDJIT CUZ I ALSO WANTZ TEH 0CCASI0NAL FRESH NU AAAAA GAMEZ TAHT R NOT SH1T!!!!11

Capisce? Comprendes? Undahstood?

RogueSix wrote on Oct 31, 2024, 10:38:

Beamer wrote on Oct 31, 2024, 07:41:

RogueSix wrote on Oct 31, 2024, 00:54:

Beamer wrote on Oct 30, 2024, 22:48:

RogueSix wrote on Oct 30, 2024, 20:55:
This shit is why we can't have nice things.

I feel like my Steam account is an embarrassment of riches. So many nice things. I don't imagine Activision was ever going to make anything I found nice, nor does it appear they're taking resources from other nice things.

Oh. So the complaints about GaaS shovelware, soulless AAA dreck, creatively bankrupt garbage and trend-chasing mega failures like Concord by both, gamers and industry insiders alike (e.g. see recent Disco Elysium threads), must all be imaginary. Gotcha!

Have you purchased any of that lately? I know I haven't. It's pretty easy to avoid.

Of course not. But it's called looking at the greater picture instead of only one's own individual needs and wants. The industry has really been in a state of decline as of late, and CoD continuing to be as successful as it is, is not helping because people in power at the publishers are going to be drawing all the "wrong" conclusions from it instead of changing direction and trying something different.

Personally, yeah, I have a backlog that will last me until the day I croak so I could theoretically not give a shit but the world would be a weird place if everyone would only utter any criticism or opinions over things that directly affect them personally. I guess it's the totalitarian dream to get people to shut up but we're not there YET so I will continue to spout my dissatisfaction over the (sad) current state of affairs.

IOW: Just enjoying my Statler and Waldorf old grumpy man shtick, dude. You wanna take that from me, eh? You wanna take that from me? You'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands!

But I completely disagree. There are so many more good games today than 20 years ago. It's easier to find them, it's easier to avoid the bad ones. Yes, the bad ones are frequently doing egregious things, but the overall trend isn't that games are bad. They may not be to your taste, but my parents hate how scifi and fantasy has overtaken film and TV, doesn't make those things bad, just means that they're no longer the target audience.

If you can't find a dozen games that sound fun on Steam within 5 minutes, that's a you problem, not an industry problem.

So refreshing to see a Microsoft CEO of any description talking about (in public, no less!) the exceptionally positive impact that game development has on the company's bottom line! When Gates was company CEO, he had problems talking publicly about xBoxen and Games for Windows at the same time... It was challenging for him. Gates is gone from Microsoft, but unfortunately he has taken his penchant for silly ideas guaranteed to garner attention, and shifted to endeavors in which he can do some real harm if his often irrational impulses aren't checked.

Coming on strong in Bill Gate's array of IMPOSSIBLYGOOD™ products, is none other than...the nutritious, and truly delicious line of Gates' own livestock feeds for humans, his latest line of plastic turkey meats (not to be confused with "plastic wood," I hear!) Gates was profoundly dejected recently when a Florida appeals court upheld a statewide ban on his artificial meats! Gates was quick to offer some heartfelt advice to the roving bands of consumers in mourning over this recent "progressive" setback:

"You must remember my fallback line for when the going gets tough, as when lesser minds reject my obviously superior problem-solving abilities" Gates said, sniffling dramatically for the camera. "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger!", Gates intoned, as he casually flipped a fried, chocolate-covered locust into his mouth from a heaping plate of them before him, crunched down loudly on the crispy critter, and audibly sighed with pleasure.

Beamer wrote on Oct 31, 2024, 07:41:

RogueSix wrote on Oct 31, 2024, 00:54:

Beamer wrote on Oct 30, 2024, 22:48:

RogueSix wrote on Oct 30, 2024, 20:55:
This shit is why we can't have nice things.

I feel like my Steam account is an embarrassment of riches. So many nice things. I don't imagine Activision was ever going to make anything I found nice, nor does it appear they're taking resources from other nice things.

Oh. So the complaints about GaaS shovelware, soulless AAA dreck, creatively bankrupt garbage and trend-chasing mega failures like Concord by both, gamers and industry insiders alike (e.g. see recent Disco Elysium threads), must all be imaginary. Gotcha!

Have you purchased any of that lately? I know I haven't. It's pretty easy to avoid.

Of course not. But it's called looking at the greater picture instead of only one's own individual needs and wants. The industry has really been in a state of decline as of late, and CoD continuing to be as successful as it is, is not helping because people in power at the publishers are going to be drawing all the "wrong" conclusions from it instead of changing direction and trying something different.

Personally, yeah, I have a backlog that will last me until the day I croak so I could theoretically not give a shit but the world would be a weird place if everyone would only utter any criticism or opinions over things that directly affect them personally. I guess it's the totalitarian dream to get people to shut up but we're not there YET so I will continue to spout my dissatisfaction over the (sad) current state of affairs.

IOW: Just enjoying my Statler and Waldorf old grumpy man shtick, dude. You wanna take that from me, eh? You wanna take that from me? You'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands!

If you bought this game YOU are the problem.

RogueSix wrote on Oct 31, 2024, 00:54:

Beamer wrote on Oct 30, 2024, 22:48:

RogueSix wrote on Oct 30, 2024, 20:55:
This shit is why we can't have nice things.

I feel like my Steam account is an embarrassment of riches. So many nice things. I don't imagine Activision was ever going to make anything I found nice, nor does it appear they're taking resources from other nice things.

Oh. So the complaints about GaaS shovelware, soulless AAA dreck, creatively bankrupt garbage and trend-chasing mega failures like Concord by both, gamers and industry insiders alike (e.g. see recent Disco Elysium threads), must all be imaginary. Gotcha!

Have you purchased any of that lately? I know I haven't. It's pretty easy to avoid.

Could be quite a few people like me, that haven't played a CoD in *years if not over a decade*, but chose to look at the story missions just because it's on Game Pass.

I'd never buy this game in a million years, but I absolutely destroyed the single player campaign in like 10-15 hours on Hardened. I've already uninstalled it and will probably never touch it again unless I decide to go back for Veteran difficulty. That said, I did feel like the single player campaign was very well done, and has some of the best looking characters in a FPS. *really good* animation quality

I can't believe that people aren't sick of shooters like this. But hey that's just me, a jaded old man, who is sick of shooters like this one.

This comment was edited on Oct 31, 2024, 05:18.

I recently forgot to cancel my Xbox PC Game Pass sub after buying it for a month to play a game I didn't want to buy.

I saw that I could play Black Ops 6 with the sub I have left. So, I said to myself; what the heck, why not? It's free. I unticked everything I did not need to install, which came down to about 80GB-100GB install size in the end.

And then it started downloading the full package anyways, over 200GB. Screw that.

How's the fish AI nowadays? I NEED to know!

The SP campaign is actually quite good, with very varied missions and good quality voice acting. The MP, so far, is very smooth and rather fun considering I've played almost every CoD since the first (though certainly not enjoyed them all). The only issue I have on Series X is disconnects once daily, clearly less stable than MW3 for me. Also, while the new twisty turny jumping diving thing is good for some, I don't care for it, especially as I have labelled (since CS 0.8) bunny hoppers as absolute f**cktards. I do none of that and still manage to be in the top three on a fairly regular basis.

RogueSix wrote on Oct 31, 2024, 00:54:

Beamer wrote on Oct 30, 2024, 22:48:

RogueSix wrote on Oct 30, 2024, 20:55:
This shit is why we can't have nice things.

I feel like my Steam account is an embarrassment of riches. So many nice things. I don't imagine Activision was ever going to make anything I found nice, nor does it appear they're taking resources from other nice things.

Oh. So the complaints about GaaS shovelware, soulless AAA dreck, creatively bankrupt garbage and trend-chasing mega failures like Concord by both, gamers and industry insiders alike (e.g. see recent Disco Elysium threads), must all be imaginary. Gotcha!

where you expecting something else from the omniscient Ai?

Beamer wrote on Oct 30, 2024, 22:48:

RogueSix wrote on Oct 30, 2024, 20:55:
This shit is why we can't have nice things.

I feel like my Steam account is an embarrassment of riches. So many nice things. I don't imagine Activision was ever going to make anything I found nice, nor does it appear they're taking resources from other nice things.

Oh. So the complaints about GaaS shovelware, soulless AAA dreck, creatively bankrupt garbage and trend-chasing mega failures like Concord by both, gamers and industry insiders alike (e.g. see recent Disco Elysium threads), must all be imaginary. Gotcha!

RogueSix wrote on Oct 30, 2024, 20:55:
This shit is why we can't have nice things.

I feel like my Steam account is an embarrassment of riches. So many nice things. I don't imagine Activision was ever going to make anything I found nice, nor does it appear they're taking resources from other nice things.

it hasnt beaten the previous peak player amount on steam least
https://steamcharts.com/app/1938090#All

RogueSix wrote on Oct 30, 2024, 20:55:
This shit is why we can't have nice things.

you're not wrong. I am enjoying COD:B06 but that's likely because I enjoyed COD: Cold War! This is like that, but newer. Graphics and sound are great, Story... Adequate, it's not authentic like MOH: Warfighter, but it works.... If you want to fuck with COD, then I recommend you go the ColdWar route. If you fucking on a HPC with 64 gigs and a 4090, then COD:BO6 is for you.

This shit is why we can't have nice things.