Quote Originally Posted by Baloo View Post
You guys are such whiners, honestly all things considered I don't mind HD Remasters and ports. There are so many games out there now that I have not played, I didn't buy my switch until the end of 2023, and just got around to playing things like Mario Kart 8 and Super Mario Odyssey effectively 8-10 years after release. If a game is good, it deserves a port and a potential new audience.

But most of all, what is stopping new games from being developed is that there are old games that are excellent and standing the test of time. Movies and music industry are running into this problem as well. There are so many great old games out there that it has become a competition of a consumer dusting off forgotten classics and competing with, like someone said earlier in this thread, new games that are total trash. Dustborn and Concord cost tens of millions of dollars. Nintendo rerelases Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy and makes hundreds of millions of dollars.

https://kotaku.com/old-games-2023-pl...aft-1851382474

Statistics like these are why Nintendo will rerelease even a commercial dud like Xenoblade Chronicles X in the hope that it sells better on Switch than create a new game that is a total question mark. Far less investment for something that 95% of people didn't play the first time around. Its a win win for consumers and businesses in my view.
Besides the spicy first sentence I'm on board with this take. It's not just that there are so many games that I have not played - there are so many games that I own that I haven't played. My backlog is enormous; I have hundreds of games. Some of those I'm never going to get more than 10-15 minutes of (thank Humble Bundle and the shovelware they sometimes put in for that), but there are many high-quality games that I just haven't gotten to.

The best games being made today are independent - and I hate to say it, but those are coming out on PC first - probably Steam. Good Old Games (GOG.com) is making sure that the best of yesterday's games remain playable. Some of the complaints here about "games not dropping in price" are console problems that I simply can't relate to in this day and age...because I haven't bought a console since the Wii (which I still have unfinished games for).

Deep Rock Galactic is probably my favorite game of the last 5 years - I'm surprised by how much time I'm willing to put into it. Baldur's Gate 3 is an incredible RPG. If you go 10, 15 years back there are incredible games from almost every genre available on PC - the Shadowrun RPGs, Mark of the Ninja, Space Food Truck, Subnautica, Card City Nights, Whispers of a Machine, Northgard - the list goes on and on. The ports don't even bother me - maybe a little, if they censor things and then the original is unavailable - but let them do it. It just shows that the major game companies are creatively bankrupt and that provides wide open space for all these other, independent creators to shine.