[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

A couple of days ago I played the first Sonic Riders Game for the first time, because as an avid Sonic fan, I am determined to try and play all of the Sonic titles.

And I will say that I was mixed on the Game's overall quality, there's definitely some cool ideas in there, but execution could've been better imo.

Like trying to get the rings to speed up your Hoverboard, was extremely frustrating in execution imo, I'm not the best at explaining things, but I feel that the Game could've made the controls a little bit nicer when it came to ring collecting imo.

In retrospect, I will say that I think that Sonic Riders is actually a decent Game, yes it's a challenge, but tbh I'm just in a funk with Gaming at the moment, even the Gundam Game which I thought was decent, had a couple of points that drove me up the ****ing wall (and not in the fun way) so I was probably a bit harsh in my initial take on Sonic Riders.

And speaking of my Game funk, I tried Control out over the last couple of days, in the hope that it would break me out of my funk with Gaming.

And imo it's no Quantum Break, the story is good on Control (easily my favourite aspect of the Game) but the exploration and map design is ropey to say the least, and the combat is a crime against Humanity, I haven't seen combat this bad since Yakuza 7, in fact it's worse.

I'm honestly getting sick to death of Video Games falling into one of five horrible camps.

1. So difficult just to be in with the Souls-Like crowd.

2. Having so little gameplay that you end up feeling like you've watched a really bloated Movie.

3. Monetization.

4. Releasing broken Games on launch.

And 5. Somehow combining multiple of these problems into the same Game.

I have never felt so low about the Video Game industry before, but for the first time ever in my life, I am considering just not partaking in the industry anymore.

I know people might think that I'm either bullshitting or being OTT, but I honestly don't want to support an industry that is either making bad Games, broken Games, or a combination of the two, especially considering buying Games are more expensive than ever before, I could actually spend that money on something actually worth while.

Don't get me wrong, I'd still gladly do replays of my favourite Games, play retro Games that I never got to experience when they originally were out, and obviously I will always gladly support Indie developers when I can.

However AAA companies need to start bucking up their ideas, as the current quality standard that's formed since 2019 has been shocking, barring the odd exceptions to the rule.

Even Resident Evil and Sonic have had boring installments during this period, and that's not something that can easily be said, even in their previous darkest moments, they were still more fun than Village and Frontiers imo.