The 2023 Golden Gremmies
It's the best year ever! The industry has been consolidated into a black hole, investors are gambling with people's livelihoods, projects and studios are getting shut down on a nearly weekly basis. ITS THE BEST YEAR OF ALL TIME!!
And, indeed, we might not have a year quite so packed with releases for a while to come. In terms of sheer volume, 2023 was a banger. But pulling back and looking at the state of the industry as a whole paints a far more dire picture, one that speaks to a looming crash as budgets balloon beyond sustainability, IPs are indefinitely shelved, and hard-working developers are put out of work. "It's the best year ever" read like a cheer at the start of 2023, now it just sounds like a weak affirmation that everything will be fine.
Anyway here's some shitty games.
And, indeed, we might not have a year quite so packed with releases for a while to come. In terms of sheer volume, 2023 was a banger. But pulling back and looking at the state of the industry as a whole paints a far more dire picture, one that speaks to a looming crash as budgets balloon beyond sustainability, IPs are indefinitely shelved, and hard-working developers are put out of work. "It's the best year ever" read like a cheer at the start of 2023, now it just sounds like a weak affirmation that everything will be fine.
Anyway here's some shitty games.
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2023 is the best year in gaming for me burying my head in the dirt trying to forget everything the industry is doing. excited to see how 2024 challenges this position
@moschidae im exactly the same lol i heard about bg3 about a week before it came out and i was like, wait people have been losing their shit over this for the past 3 years? i've been in a couple of convos about how good this year's been and im sure it has been for a lot of people but im just sat here like, i didn't play any of these :')
@moschidae im exactly the same lol i heard about bg3 about a week before it came out and i was like, wait people have been losing their shit over this for the past 3 years? i've been in a couple of convos about how good this year's been and im sure it has been for a lot of people but im just sat here like, i didn't play any of these :')
@moschidae I do think it is one of the stronger years we've had just in terms of the quality and quantity of releases. But yeah, early on in the year I saw a lot of people looking at what was slated and saying it might be the best ever and I don't think I agree.
@faea Well, Embracer did say they'll continue to "restructure" until March of next year, so... Lot more of this shit is going to go down in 2024. Hell, Ubisoft also got breached today, though the ~900GB the hackers tried to extract either wasn't taken in full or at all. It's such a mess.
@faea Well, Embracer did say they'll continue to "restructure" until March of next year, so... Lot more of this shit is going to go down in 2024. Hell, Ubisoft also got breached today, though the ~900GB the hackers tried to extract either wasn't taken in full or at all. It's such a mess.
moschidae
5 months ago