alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 month ago"Triple-A is in crisis" and games "don't have staying power because they're bad," says ex Gears of War director and Painkiller creatorwww.pcgamesn.comexternal-linkmessage-square2linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-link"Triple-A is in crisis" and games "don't have staying power because they're bad," says ex Gears of War director and Painkiller creatorwww.pcgamesn.comalessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square2linkfedilink
minus-squarehightrix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoCall me crazy, but I don’t want to play a game “with staying power”. I want to play games that are fun, I finish them, then move on. I don’t need a “forever game”. I don’t want seasons, season passes, dailies, battle passes, time limited, time gated content.
minus-squareragas@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoWith staying power I thought of games like Factorio. Bought it once, played it for thousands of hours. A decade later or so it gets an extension which basically quintuples the content, am playing it thousands of hours more.
Call me crazy, but I don’t want to play a game “with staying power”.
I want to play games that are fun, I finish them, then move on.
I don’t need a “forever game”. I don’t want seasons, season passes, dailies, battle passes, time limited, time gated content.
With staying power I thought of games like Factorio.
Bought it once, played it for thousands of hours. A decade later or so it gets an extension which basically quintuples the content, am playing it thousands of hours more.