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by themitigating 1181 days ago
What is your feeling over this?

Nintendo had like 700+ US games and most of them were garbage. The video game crash of 83 was because of how much hot trash was released. Today I think that most games are amazing quality, perhaps you could say some are milking a franchise but what about "Last of Us", "God of War (reboot)", "Ragnorok".

This notion that anything made by large companies is more likely to be feels like it comes not from some subjective assessment but a general anti-establishment attitude of the person. For some reason it seems everything new is always worse than before no matter when it happens.

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Point of order, it was Atari rather than Nintendo who killed the industry with trash games. Nintendo came later and actively took steps to distance themselves from Atari, including monopolizing the ability to make games on their platform (ostensibly) to prevent such a thing from happening again
yeah, what about Last of Us? It was great to watch on YT when it was released, but it's not particularly game-y.
Visual Novels are also valid entertainment. Or in this case, interactive movies. (If you play right.)

Could be quite a bit better if the AI wasn't busted and monsters actually threatening after the first arena with them...

Are they worth immense price? Hmmmm...

Second one is much more of a game.

It was a good story back in 2013, but I just can't fathom why anyone would buy it like three times.
I'll allow it