• Jordan Lund@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        This year, two games really impressed me. Hi Fi Rush and Hogwart’s Legacy.

        Hi Fi Rush with the sound/game integration, and Hogwarts with the broom flight. It was crazy. Now I want an Assassin’s Creed with magic carpet travel. ;)

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      1 year ago

      In some ways I am with you. I see a lotta indie games as just knock offs of older games, no new ideas. Somewhat generic. Admirable, for being independent groups, but not my bag most of the time.

      The retro-styled “boomer shooter” genre that has popped up in the indie scene, though, fills a hole considering AAA devs aren’t doing anything there, and the mainstream FPS genre currently, IMO, has gotten kinda shitty with everything being some variation of BR, which I was already tired of from playing the mods the style originated from before it was a mainstream thing.

      There are also those indie games out there that truly innovate and make something unique and new. I’m all for those.