discussion About the decline in the quality of games

[Seo In-guk]

The solution would be to help extract the normal (good graphics) and compressed for those who cannot play in HD. The last bad quality game I played and I couldn't watch, I don't remember its name

 

[goons]

I disagree that quality of games is decreasing. People just view them differently. We have open worlds, beautiful graphics, great stories, good gameplay, everything dubbed in different languages. Everything is bigger and better. I think why people feel the opposite is because:
1. Nostalgia.
2. There was a lot to discover in video games regarding to gameplay and genres in the past.
3. Progress in quality was noticeable in the past, like progress in 10 years between 1990-2000 and 2015-2025 is way different.
4. A lot of things felt fresh. Today new game "is like..." or "it feels like a mix between...". Still, we get fresh stuff sometimes, like Undertale, Vampire Survivors or DDLC.

Almost all of the masterpieces from the past wouldn't be masterpieces today. If Myst, Megaman or Contra came up today nobody would notice them. Games were not better in the past, we just didn't know better.

I agree with you, games and movies have come so far from what they were, in fact we’ve come so far that we don’t even notice the quality anymore.
An example in movies are Jurassic Park, I took my younger siblings to the latest movie, graphincs were good, nothing amazing in my opinion. We then watched the first movie, known for its phenomenal graphics at the time and massive success, it looked very fake and most of my younger siblings left partway though it, the movie didn’t hold up to its fame.
An example in gaming would be FF7, the original was long and had great quality, a phenomenon of its time. But really, how does it compare to the remake? You could say you liked the originals gameplay more or the story beats, but everything else can’t really compare.

 

[Kernist]

I agree with you, games and movies have come so far from what they were, in fact we’ve come so far that we don’t even notice the quality anymore.
An example in movies are Jurassic Park, I took my younger siblings to the latest movie, graphincs were good, nothing amazing in my opinion. We then watched the first movie, known for its phenomenal graphics at the time and massive success, it looked very fake and most of my younger siblings left partway though it, the movie didn’t hold up to its fame.
An example in gaming would be FF7, the original was long and had great quality, a phenomenon of its time. But really, how does it compare to the remake? You could say you liked the originals gameplay more or the story beats, but everything else can’t really compare.

You are right. I can launch today Sonic Adventure, CS 1.6, Stronghold Crusader, Soldier of Fortune and I will still be happy about how awesome these games were, but if I told someone who never played them before to play them today they would consider them shit.

 

[Vanquish123]

I think a contributor would be when you start playing games, you have no baseline or little expectation. You spend more time and detail playing (and in turn find better games).
But at some point they start being familiar, and same thing recycled, and i think at that point you feel quality is declining.

Not saying that quality isnt declining, just that this could be a contributor.
But overall yes i do think its declining, most of my fav games are early 2000s

 

[Redyscom]

I have a different perspective on this.

Although it is true that there has been a drop in the quality of games, I don't think it's for the reasons that have been given, the reason behind it is that the "normal" quality has been going up over time and a game that maybe 10 years ago would have been applauded, today is called mediocre and it's not the dev's fault.

Many are first-timers when creating their games and you can't ask them to be on par with games from people who already have much more experience. They are people who are just learning to use the engine, they are just learning to make models and they are just learning to write stories, that's how games were many years ago and nobody complained because it was what there was, now the community has become much more demanding with what a game should or should not have and although that is good to avoid people wanting to take advantage with half-finished work, it also harms new devs who are learning on the fly.

For example, you can't compare DarkCookie who is developing SummerTime Saga, who have a large and experienced team, to Destriarch who recently released a demo of their game Fairytail Village and are just getting started.
Or also, few remember the first versions of Harem Hotel made by Runey, because during many updates he has been polishing his skills and has even had to erase and undo events in his story because he knows that they were not up to the quality, hindered the development of his characters or went down a path that he could not develop organically.
Or what about EcchiSensei? Loved by many, mainly for its DarkMind (Actually, it was the most attractive part of the game) but if you look at it now, the models, the scenarios and the writing were mediocre to bad.

What I mean is that it's good that we have quality standards, but we also have to know how to give a chance to those who are just starting out, not be so picky about certain things and obviously give feedback in the form of constructive criticism to the developer.

 

[UStinky]

I feel like theres quite a bit of games I follow/ have accumulated that are quality enough for me that whenever they update, i feel sated enough.
i just play the less fleshed out ones while i wait for those others to update, or to find another. and thats okay for me

 

[Kal2628]

I don't agree with your analysis.
At least, not entirely.
I think there are still good games, with good stories and good renders.
But above all, there are more and more games, and it's getting easier and easier to make them. This logically increases the amount of crap, but even if there are more and more of them, there are still excellent games made by enthusiasts who know what they're doing (and who do it well!).

 

[Whyknott]

Personally do/don't believe the quality has dipped. As a long term lurker, when the community was small maybe 1 in 5 games was a hit.
Fast forward to today, where the community has more than grown tenfold and the ability to create a game has been made more available to beginners, every second or third member has developed a game diluting the quality to maybe 1 in 10.

I would like to think as these developers gain experience and more new developers increase over time the quality will dip and rise.

 

[azobo12]

they need to get better

 

[ChaosLoli]

I think this is mostly a human nature problem. Lots of old games were shitty too, but we don't remember them compared to the awesome games.

 

[XIa]

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The quality of games is decreasing day by day. The story is already consumed when the game is first released. If a movie has a series, for example, only the first movie of that movie is good. I'm not talking about cult productions like Lord of the Rings, we can think more locally. Here, I don't think that the updates added to the games later on add anything extra to their previous versions. On the contrary, I don't feel like playing the character who was already corrupted when I first started the game after being corrupted. Only that stage seems enjoyable. By the way, for some reason, there is a huge collapse in image quality in the latest games. I have a hard time understanding the reason for this. Rander of course, but I don't understand why the images of the games that are already released late are so bad when you can release them a little later and make a better quality production. It may be that we are no longer smart enough to produce NSFW stories. A story can be created with a paid version of artificial intelligence in these, and even edits can be made to them later. Please don't release poor quality games anymore. There are already 1-2 people playing them. Don't lower the quality of big games. I hope there will be a developer who will read this. And then he'll see it.

oh your actually right ive noticed it too