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Any game with always online DRM that will inevitably be shut off at some point rendering the product completely unusable

ITT games people dislike

All the games that the person reading this loves and cherish

Does anyone even remember the hype around Diablo 4? That was barely 7 months ago lol

The Last of Us, probably. Naughty Dog makes games that wish they were movies.

The assassins creed games I would assume, their gameplay is stale.
Other RPGs with similar vibes. Hogwarts, that kinda stuff.

Call of duties, I hope.

RDR2 I think will be a worse experience in retrospect. The long intro, the restrictive missions... It's going to be the kind of game you remember fondly, but can't replay.

The horror games that do the Amnesia gimmick, like SOMA.

BG3. I have literally nothing to base this on, I like the game, it's great fun, but I just get the vibe that it will go the way of RDR2. All vibes no analysis here.

Elden Ring, Horizon Zero Dawn and it's sequel forbidden west, Starfield, and every cookie cutter Ubisoft open world game and their clones. The new Call Of Duty and Battlefield games are also going to age really badly, just rebooting 10+ year old titles (modern warfare and 2042) will age poorly.

Elden Ring is a great game, but it going to be a lot of people's first experience with a fromsoft game, and they are not for everyone. The horizon games are more tech demos than video games, and the less said about cookie cutter open world games, the better.

The Rick And Morty guy’s talking gun game

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet. Genuinely good things in its favor but the exploration/traversal is utter trash. The absolute second Open Wolrd stops being a buzzword, this will be a casualty

Cyberpunk it's the only game I've heard of in the past 5 years

Half life Alyx. Hey! wanna play this new and pretty triple A release from gambling addiction magnates and epic gamers of Valve? Guess what fucko, you need to spend your precious money on a big stupid headset, oh yeah you also need a room to play in so you dont trip on the cables or knock your stuff down, you also need to upgrade your puny computer so it can handle the glorious sauce 2 graphics engine with raytracing and real time vertex nipple twister simulations, breathtaking isnt it

Yeah nah turns out the only breath you'll be taking is right before you puke your guts out since VR is physically impossible to use for a significant amount of people, oh and that shiny headset we recommend for our brand new game? Yeah you need to shell out two months of rent to get one, thats another breath you'll take when the tidy numbers of your bank account turn into a nice fat zero.

So yeah, that game was a huge grift, and we havent heard a peep from Valve on VR ever since, comforting my opinion that VR as a whole is a stupid and wasteful grift that can't work unless we come up with something like the matrix.

i don't much care for the GTA series

real answer i think the "rotting" of previously well-regarded games is actually driven by degrading pleasure capacity in the median gamer. if we try to imagine what kinds of experiences the gamer of the future will soon be unable to derive any joy from, i expect that any story driven game in which a woman has a speaking role outside of dating mechanics will be dustbinned as unrealistic and grating.

I think that someday people are going to look back on Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom and go "what did anyone ever see in this soulless open-world sandbox mush"

Palworld

And open world games. There are so many at the moment, I can only imagine people will grow tired of them.

None because I am apparently immune to the "age poorly" thing because I still like Goldeneye, old JRPGs, Harvest Moon 64, and the Ps1 Resident Evils which are all considered to have aged poorly.

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