Devolution...of a subreddit.

The problem with this statement is you assume those gamers are the same.

The crowd who bitches about the game not looking realistic are casual idiots who play games like gone home and everybodies gone to the rapture and thinks they are a masterpiece in gaming and not just a walking simulator. These people are fickle and dont show loyalty to any one game. They dont see a franchises history and future and play the past games while also eagerly awaiting the next one to come out. They hop from game to game with the latest graphics maybe wasting 5 to 10 hours per game.

The crowd who wants deeper gameplay and story are the true fans. The ones who stick loyal to a company and buy every game to see the story. The ones who read the books and talk about lore and try to uncover all the secrets. We gladly pay more money for extras and remakes just to replay our favorite game and experience it all over again.

Loyalty unfortuanately means nothing anymore in gaming as we watch series brought down to caveman like levels of features. Everything must be simple enough for or handheld enough for even the most basic of player. Series like mass effect losing rpgs elements entirely after having the skill focused changed to branching trees before deciding that was even too much, fallout with dialogue choices that matter not what you choose as everything has to move the story forward, elder scrolls where beings have become unkillable so that your story can still finish if you were dumb enough to try to kill important targets and then save.

At the end of the day though these series are seeing less and less players since the casual crowd wants new games not just the same in the series unless it has new age graphics and the loyal follows feel burnt by the gaming company and seek more caring developers that at least seem to care a little more then just money based.

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