Actually would want to see more rough diamonds than polished turds. If more time was focused on the idea rather than the execution of graphics we would potentially see more unique games
Yeah. A lot of my favorite games have been the ones that don’t overstay their welcome. A few that come to mind are Portal, subnautica, a hat in time, and celeste.
Highly recommend everyone that likes Portal to try speedrunning it. It's pretty short, especially if you have practiced chamber 16/17/18. You can beat the whole game in 1-2 hours, but it will go down to more like 40 minutes without glitches if you have the solutions memorized.
Then you can save like 15-20 more minutes by learning a few really easy glitches. There's tons of tutorials on speedrun.com/portal, too
Games as a Service need to stop. The accessibility is great but "seasonal" is just Neverending Development Hell for the poor fellows. They're just GaaS-ing us.
Nintendo hasn't been flawless, but they're the prime example that just selling a really good product is enough to make it. They have live services and mobile games, but I've spoken to people. Pokemon Legends Arceus and Zelda have sold a metric fuck ton of switches. Even Mario Odyssey is a great example of this. Sony also seems to kind of understand this, with really great single player games. Games as a service seems to be the entire Xbox brand right now with gamepass
For sure, their hatred for fan games pisses me off. Nintendo is far from perfect. I was so sad when AM2R got shut down, it was a nearly perfect project. They've also gone after certain popular Pokemon ROM hacks like Flora Skies. Most of it has been undeniably shitty.
However I will defend some of their copyright bs. I think it's reasonable to ban posting footage of certain things in the game as long as it's made clear. Nintendo games are all about discovery, the shock awe. They were bitches about Super Mario Odyssey ending footage when the game first released and I'm glad they did.
Battlebit is just $15 on Steam and has a great amount of content, quality servers, and old school Battlefield-style gameplay. Super low spec graphics. Can really recommend it to folks looking for the above