Quote Originally Posted by kupomogli View Post
I actually disagree. While "some indies" are great games, I feel that some of them that have released aren't. For instance, Shinobi Art of Vengeance has some good combat, but it's still full of modern day garbage, and the game looks like ass, like a low effort flash game. Of course it's going to be profitable when it kind of feels slapped together. And if you consider the price that a lot of these lower budget games are requesting, there's much to complain about indie games as their are AAA games. Not every game is Hollow Knight, not every game is Expedition 33. And as physical collectors, it's also more expensive than it is digitally(in most cases.)

However, how often does a new indie game release now days that's either procedurally generated, a card game, a short platformer, 2D exploration game, or a 2D adventure game(Broken Sword/Visual Novel esque that's usually only a few hours in length.) There's very little originality now days whether it's indie or not and outside of the 2D exploration games, is it really all that expensive to develop these style of games above on modern development tools?
I'd just like to quickly clarify that I only meant that indie games are profitable compared to AAA games, not that indie games are mostly high quality or great games to actually play. It's like how low budget horror films are usually profitable but are far from being actual good movies, personally I never liked the Friday the 13th movies but they still made a lot of them.

You're right about the issues with modern games, like being overly large worlds spread out and padded rather than being full of actual content. There's a lot I don't like about modern games in general. Even with me liking adventure games I don't like how short they now are, they feel like the freeware adventure games that were widely available about 15-20 years ago made in Adventure Game Studio, which were fine for free games but not worth paying for. I mostly like games from the PS2 era or earlier, there's hardly any from the PS3/360 era I actually like. There's probably some modern games I would like but I haven't been paying close attention to modern releases, I've mentally checked out of modern console games at this point. Just like I don't pay attention to Star Wars or Marvel movies anymore.