Exclusives can be beneficial.
By exclusives, I don't mean Sony/Microsoft pay the developer for exclusivity, that sucks.
What I'm referring to is a developer picking a platform and developing a game using that platforms full potential.
Games like Zelda, Crash Bandicoot, God Of War, Last Of Us all took full potential of their consoles architecture and brought pretty good games.
Yup. As an adult with less time to play, you really notice how much AAA games are just copy and paste with a new area on a map or same mission, but different npc.
I just picked up the 2022 remaster of Pacman World from 1999. The game design in that game is so nice. Each level has new enemies and new platform mechanics. I feel like only indie games bring innovation like that today while AAA is just rinse and repeat. (For the most part anyway...God Of War and Zelda are good examples of companies doing it right)
Dude amen, I hate the ideology of "I just want to have fun who cares if we win" ...your teammates do. Thank goodness for skill based matchmaking and ranked although they tend to slow down the experience at times.
Games should have "carefree" lobbies for people who want to "just relax and play"
OBS Had to do some simple broadcasting at work and was surprised when I found OBS and all the features it had, all for free.