paulrainer: i really didn't mean to hurt your feelings regarding banished , but for me its everything but a good game , its pretty , but its not my brand of vodka
Fenixp: I don't really give a toss about Banished, not my thing either. What I oppose to are generalization, such as that most indie games are either shovelware or crap. You know what vast majority of non-indie games are? Hidden object games, farmville clones, bejewelled clones, that kind of stuff, now
that's shovelware. I'm not disputing that most indie games indeed are crap, they are - but that doesn't only apply to indie games, that quite simply applies to most games ever released. Only in case you want to apply your filter to high-budget AAA titles, you get into territory where most games are at least passable as they get a solid share of QA - but by doing so, you'd be selectively looking at such a small percentage of the market that such a statement becomes completely negligible.
I agree that there are very few great games that have been released in the last 11-12 years
I stopped buying / playing games in 2002 / 03 and got back into it last year and was surprised at how bad things were in the pc market.
C&C got raped by EA
unreal tournament wasn't a thing anymore
everyone sucks up COD every year but is essentially the same game year in year out with 4 dlcs each
DRM has gotten obnoxious
for reference these are the games I have that I would consider reasonably decent
http://imgur.com/0V1XHKv,CSQI3Ip http://imgur.com/0V1XHKv,CSQI3Ip#1 since 2003 these are the games I would consider buying
Portal,
portal 2
halflife 2
Doom 3
GTA 4
mirrors edge
starcraft 2
diablo 3
there may be more but its not a huge list - so yes over the last decade lots of game have been released but there are very few I would have an interest in - its the same in the indie market
but since some of these have obnoxious drm I wont be buying all of them anytime soon
