| ▲ | Gigachad 2 hours ago |
| I'm looking at gaming these days and there's such an endless selection of excellent games I'd love to play. But there are far more great games than I have time to play. So when I see stuff like using AI to make games faster, I can only think what is the point, The market won't buy or play more games so something else has to give. |
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| ▲ | xpct 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I feel completely the opposite. Mind, I play games a fair bit, but I generally don't feel that excited about most, and I'd say a lot of them have very repetitive tropes. I'm generally in the market for 30h+ spent on a game, so that filters out a lot of the more trendy stuff. |
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| ▲ | Gigachad 44 minutes ago | parent [-] | | That sounds more like you are burned out on gaming in general. I don’t think infinite AI slop games would help here. |
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| ▲ | skydhash 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Same thing here. I gave up on gaming all together because my library grew too much. As a kid, I didn’t even own a console, I had to borrow gameboy or go to my friend house and even then it was just an handful of cartridges. Even now, I plan to just focus on small sample of programming languages and ecosystems, and learn them inside out. There’s just too much stuff out there. |
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| ▲ | honeycrispy 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I started building a game on a custom engine a few years ago and I used to think about selling it, but nowadays the market is so oversaturated I tend to think of it as nothing more than a coding exercise. |
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| ▲ | stopsayingsorry 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| "there's such an endless selection of excellent games" If you have 0 standards. |
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| ▲ | satvikpendem 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | There are more games at any standard than one's lifetime to play them in. | | |
| ▲ | stopsayingsorry an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Nonsense. Even if you take an old established media, like literature, you can trivially read all the classics by the time you are 30. Saying that about gaming industry, which is barely 50 year old, is a joke. One can only say that when they no idea what "high standards" actually means. | | |
| ▲ | Marsymars 28 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Hey, I actually have "played all the classics" for some definition of the term. Some time ago I started playing all the games that to me felt worthwhile to play in roughly chronological order. I think the project is overall quite different than "reading all the classics" though - a lot of old games have aged pretty poorly so I can either skip them or abandon after giving them a fair shot. I'm currently roughly in the 2000-2010 era of games. (It's not pure chronological, because I tend to sort play order by console, then by series, then by year.) | |
| ▲ | otterley an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I bet you’re popular at parties. |
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| ▲ | echelon 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Nothing meets my standards. Nothing. No film, no music, no game. There's good, but there is no truly magnificent to the level I burst into tears and see the face of God. Come on people. Your standards are too low. | | |
| ▲ | stopsayingsorry 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | The solution to that is not to continue to seek consumption, but starting creation. Your consumption phase is done. Producing things of value takes a lot of time and effort, you would be too busy to waste time lamenting about things outside of your control. | |
| ▲ | azan_ 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Listen to Bach, if that doesn’t work then your standards are not high but completely wrong. | |
| ▲ | card_zero an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Everybody is maliciously taking you seriously :D Hang in there! It gets better! | | | |
| ▲ | ofjcihen 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Honestly sounds like you’re just depressed. I don’t even mean that in a mean way. |
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| ▲ | wvenable 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | There are roughly 50-70 new games released on Steam every day. I think there's pretty good review metrics available that you can assume 2-5% of those could be categorized as "Excellent". So that's around 1–3 excellent new games per day on just one platform. Even if we're over-estimating "excellent" by a lot, that's still more games that anyone can reasonably play. | | |
| ▲ | stopsayingsorry 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | >There are roughly 50-70 new games released on Steam every day. Ever bothered to actually go through the "all new releases" list on steam and actually check each new release? You should try it. 99% of "stuff" there is worthless trash, think 0 effort assetflip, which is never going to make $100 steam tax back. 1% is barely passable, as in "not a blatant insult to consumer".
Unique stuff worth playing is extremely rare, if you're not 7 years old and you played more than a couple of games in your life of course. | |
| ▲ | skeptic_ai 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | What’s excellent released today? Nothing interesting the whole week: https://steamdb.info/upcoming/?lastweek=&sort=rating_desc |
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