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1. McNabb (mcnabb@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 12:05:55 JST McNabb
   In most media, and especially video games, I think sound design pretty much peaked and leveled off a long time ago. Games from a quarter century ago legitimately have top notch soundtracks and fantastic general sound design.
   
   I'm not saying that new games are necessarily worse, just that there's not much appreciable progress in that arena anymore.
   • Sky (itsskydragonz@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 12:05:54 JST Sky

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     @McNabb Modern games are mostly worse, so so much worse. The tools for making them has kinda peaked, but the quality is in a constant downward spiral for a few reasons.
     
     - old games are good because they did the best with what they had, finely polishing it until it was the very best it could possibly be, modern games have large limits to what they can do so they just shove a bunch of random shit in and release it
     
     - no more games made by a few dudes in a basement, if they are, theyre trannies that produce the most mid game ever
     
     - AAA game studios just turned it into a money factory, producing the same old product over and over to make the same cash, never experimenting, never competeing
     
     - game companies fired all people with talent and replaced them with diversity hires that suck
     
     I could go on and on, i could write a fucking book of whats wrong with modern games
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   • Charliebrownau (charliebrownau@pieville.net)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jan-2023 12:08:23 JST Charliebrownau

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     • Sky

     @ItsSkyDragonz @McNabb

     Most of the corporations are poltical slushfund generating machines since AT LEAST 2004-2006

     We can bitch and moan

     or
     stop feeding the parasites and instead fund

     Small Studios
     Indie Efforts
     Crowd funded projects

     We might have to totally give up on STEAM and just go back to games sold with no patchs on physical media , be it , small SSD/USB stick or BR pressed disc