>>92115436Low budget/indie games are thriving. Games from big studios, especially Western ones, are less creative, more bloated in terms of content but dumbed down in terms of mechanics, , and more shittily optimized than they were even a decade ago. So both are true. Like I'm playing through Final Fantasy XIII right now and don't get me wrong it is not a good game, but it's bad in weird ways which makes it enjoyable while XVI was just bad in the same way most big budget slop is.