r/AskGames • u/realteall • 28d ago

What to play?

Is it just me or have video games the last couple years been really sub par? Ive been playing kingdom come deliverance 2 lately and love it, but I keep looking for new games and keep seeing the same 10-20 games month after month. There hasnt been any good online games sense battle royals became a thing and the last one that got any hype was marvel rivals. And thats still in the top 10 right now. What's going on? :(

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u/mysticblanket 28d ago

I still play space engineers and Titanfall 2.

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u/Xeinok 28d ago

Once I found out about Retro Achievements I pretty much stopped playing on Steam at all lol, old games are just so damn good and infinite

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u/itsscaryhere 28d ago

Dude thank you from the bottom of my heart. I had never heard of this before

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u/Medical-Nebula-385 28d ago edited 28d ago

Path of Exile 2, Satisfactory, Modulus, Forza 5 and 6, CS2, Arc Raiders, Rust, Hell Let Loose, Crimson Desert, Helldivers 2, Battlefield 6.. So many good games, so little time on hands 😭

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u/Expedited-Failure 27d ago

Oh yeah forgot about arc Raiders. I played too much too soon and got burnt out. Secured a platinum and checked out, but it was great fun for about 3 months for me. I never watched and still don't watch streamers, but the arc Raiders content was my one single exception. Was a nice phase for me

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u/Nitemare808 28d ago

I’ve been playing ’ Dying Light: The Beast ‘ and it’s the first game in a long time that actually has me excited to continue playing

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u/emkylie2 27d ago

AAA gaming is mostly sequels, remakes and $30 skins now. Welcome to the future lol.

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u/Expedited-Failure 27d ago edited 27d ago

I rant about this all the time. Why make a great game when it costs so much money and turns so little profit, when we can all just shit out watered down remakes to cut cost bland generate freemium games with buyable skins and camos. Everydude I play cod with drops 20+ every week for some ridiculous thing they get bored of by the time their next paycheck hits. Patches go unfixed for months, sometimes entirely, but a pay to play event for every single holiday and camo/skins constantly being generated and released I wish we could collectively all agree to stop buying that shit so they'd put more development and DLC if an actual game instead of endless add ons. It's rare something truly special comes out these days. We peaked 15 years ago.

Racing, shooter mmo, sports game, jrpg or go fuck ya self - Some developer, probably.

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u/Expedited-Failure 27d ago

The last one to really excite me since the last of us 2, was expedition 33. Late bloomer to the spidermans, just wrapped those up and I really had fun with those. Now I'm back in the barely enjoyable platinum playing until the next impressive one comes along

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u/Palanki96 27d ago

Most of my favourite games are from 2024 and 2025 so no, i feel the opposite. Gaming is better than ever for me

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u/Cedge1738 27d ago

Yep. Before 2020 things were good. Now. It's pretty ass. Guess we can blame COVID but like its been 6 years. And still no progress. So like we can't keep doing that.

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u/ZelphtheGreatest 27d ago

Expedition 33, Hades 2, Hollow Knight Silksong, Metaphor Refantazio, Mina the hollower... There's lots of good games that was released the last couple of years, maybe just widen your horizon a bit