Why don't games seem to stay popular/relevant anymore?

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Slayrix 2 hours ago

Back in like 2010-2018 It seemed like so many major game releases stuck around even to this day, games like GTA 5, Skyrim, Souls games, Fallout, Minecraft, Halo, Red Dead, hell even Roblox is still popular and active to this day. Yet when games take off in popularity today, games like Black Myth Wukong, Expedition 33, Lethal Company, Phasmophobia, Among Us, even a more recent one, Peak, all these are popular games that pretty much broke the internet at one point and now you don't hear about them anymore it seems like. Yet the games I mentioned which are all well over 5+ years old without any sort of major release are still relevant to this day. Why don't communities stick around and keep games alive and active anymore? What happened?

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full of aura 2 hours ago

We are running out of ideas

W 2 hours ago

Pyranha Bytes and Bethesda changed the scene fundamentally
They put a very high level or ceiling

EndangeredPootisBird 2 hours ago

The soul of gaming, like all entertainment, has been sucked dry by the market. We are now witnessing the same prioritising of short-term profits and enshittification as the rest of the society.

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Christian 2 hours ago

All I play are old games. Lots of people play old games. They just dont stream them.

Some games are popular only because social media and are fleeting in their presence and popularity. It is my opinion that many of those games weren't even that good, and were only popular because some broccoli headed kid with 125k viewers on Twitch played it.

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Doctor Go-Go 2 hours ago

It's not as new and as impressive as it once was, that wore off. It seems the developments are becoming less original, less creative.

Slayrix 2 hours ago

Originally posted by full of aura:
We are running out of ideas

Yeah, a lot of games today are just games that already existed before but with mixed mechanics from other games it seems like, but then again I feel there's only so much you can do with gaming and mechanics but maybe that's me being simple minded.

Сааребас 2 hours ago

Because solid franchises like Dragon Age get handed over to franchise killers.
I think we'll need blood magic unheard of in the whole of Thedas history to revive that.

L1qu1dator 2 hours ago

Because they became mainstream, and casuals jump from one title to another depending on what the person they watch streams of is playing.

Slayrix 2 hours ago

Originally posted by W:
Pyranha Bytes and Bethesda changed the scene fundamentally
They put a very high level or ceiling

I can see that, I just find it weird that even though a game today garners a bunch of popularity it just doesn't seem to stick, I guess people realize that what's already been done is better and so they flock back to those games maybe?

Slayrix 2 hours ago

Originally posted by EndangeredPootisBird:
The soul of gaming, like all entertainment, has been sucked dry by the market. We are now witnessing the same prioritising of short-term profits and enshittification as in the rest of society.

That could very well be the case, companies have found what works best for profits and so now they decide not to innovate thus making people want to go back to the old stuff that actually has soul put into it

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EndangeredPootisBird 2 hours ago

Originally posted by Slayrix:
Originally posted by EndangeredPootisBird:
The soul of gaming, like all entertainment, has been sucked dry by the market. We are now witnessing the same prioritising of short-term profits and enshittification as in the rest of society.
That could very well be the case, companies have found what works best for profits and so now they decide not to innovate thus making people want to go back to the old stuff that actually has soul put into it

It's the ultimate irony of Capitalism. What once brought innovation and prosperity is now sucking everything dry.

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Slayrix 2 hours ago

Originally posted by Christian:
All I play are old games. Lots of people play old games. They just dont stream them.

Some games are popular only because social media and are fleeting in their presence and popularity. It is my opinion that many of those games weren't even that good, and were only popular because some broccoli headed kid with 125k viewers on Twitch played it.

Yeah, that's what I feel about Black Myth Wukong, it almost won GOTY but it's literally just any other souls like the only difference is there so many damn forgettable bosses the internet can't seem to agree with how many in total there actually are

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Z i o ⚡ 2 hours ago

Good games now are exceptions, and they're not made by big game studios as much anymore, so maybe there is less hype.

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W 2 hours ago

Originally posted by Doctor Go-Go:
It's not as new and as impressive as it once was, that wore off. It seems the developments are becoming less original, less creative.

It is a certainty that gaming will fade off, just like movies are slowly fading off.

It won't happen in our generation we will die out, but the next generation

I don't know. Maybe it will be virtual reality, AI simulations, who knows

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full of aura 2 hours ago

Originally posted by W:
Originally posted by Doctor Go-Go:
It's not as new and as impressive as it once was, that wore off. It seems the developments are becoming less original, less creative.
It is a certainty that gaming will fade off, just like movies are slowly fading off.

It won't happen in our generation we will die out, but the next generation

I don't know. Maybe it will be virtual reality, AI simulations, who knows

then how people cope with boredome? entertainment at the lowest point still offers de-stress at the end of the day. Things that are very popular with kids today like the skidibi toilet and its variations is the proof of cheap and easy to please entertainment

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