Jagia about stagnation in the gaming industry has not stopped for the past 30 years. Do you want a quality product? Be prepared for the fact that it is non -original. But last year the situation was a little more unpleasant than usual. The annual gaming series are not only painful, the same type and boring, but also broken, low -quality. What's the matter?

What was it? The fed AAA-Khits in 2021 also turned out to be lousy quality

What should have been?
New generation Battlefield. A grandiose multiplayer action movie with an epic scope, the battle of dozens of infantry and technology.

What happened?
Battlefield of the past generation (the game was released simultaneously on PS5, Xbox Series X, PS4 and Xbox One), also mutilated with bugs, unbalanced, with flat, boring cards.

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition

What should have been?
Remake of your favorite classical trilogy GTA. All the same, only with beautiful graphics.

What happened?
All the same, only with ugly graphics, poor optimization and, for example, weather effects that completely cover the player's overview. Rockstar already apologized for such a remaster.

Halo Infinite

What should have been?
Halo of a new generation. A game with updated graphics in a huge open world.

What happened?
Halo with the level of the Xbox 360 level (all around is plastic and shiny) in an empty, impressive advanced, annoying paths from games with an open world. A large map is dotted with fortresses in which there are many enemies. Kill all enemies, grab the fortress, open a new section of the card. world. These are exactly the same Halo shootouts, only smeared with a thin layer on a naked, lifeless map.

Call of Duty: Vanguard

What should have been?
Another part of the annual Boevik series. A charge of adrenaline and dashing gameplay novel for a couple of evenings.

What happened?
A dull campaign without a general plot. Several fighters of the detachment take turns remembering their exploits, then the game ends.

Far Cry 6

What should have been?
Far Cry of a new generation for non-consoles.

What happened?
Far Cry a year before last. Go out this game on the Xbox 360, no one would notice the difference. The engine is the same, the mechanics of the seizure of the outposts are unchanged.

Diablo 2: Resurrected

What should have been?
Diablo 2.

What happened?
Diablo 2.

When we planned the top 10 best games of the year, there was an idea to put in the first place Diablo 2: Resurrected. Unlike all the projects from this list, Remaster Diablo 2 at least honestly works out the declared program: you wanted Diablo – here it is. Nothing new, but without hack.

Nostalgic bonus: click the G button, and the updated 3D schedule right in the middle of the run through the crypts is suddenly replaced by a terrible pixel picture. This touching detail, greetings from developers to those who played the original, see us a gloomy sentence of the entire today's game industry.

One of the best games of 2021 is not just similar to a militant of twenty years ago, it is he – in its original form.

In principle, it is impossible to come up with a more picturesque example of stagnation. We would put such G-sknops in general in all games in order to roll back to the original by clicking. It will not be difficult to crank up such a focus with the current state of affairs.

What was it?

It is hard to say. In each case, there was some kind of misfortune: Halo, for example, fell into production hell, and Far Cry 6 was almost officially called the last Far Cry of the outgoing generation (in the seventh part, a breakthrough is finally expected, and then the developers rested).

You can not write off the accounts of the pandemic, which painfully hit all industries (interruptions in the supply of equipment, the need to work from home).

But first of all, there is some kind of mortal fatigue of the developers themselves. It feels like they completely stopped experiencing at least some kind of their own creations, doing games as a tedious, unpleasant, but necessary work.

Giant teams are scattered around the world, more and more tasks are outsourced, hundreds of people work on incomprehensible what, trying to fit into key performance indicators. This is an inevitable problem of the growth of any large industry, but now it has become especially obvious.

In the coming year, the new generation consoles should finally strengthen their positions, Elden Ring will be released; Bethesda, we hope, will still release Starfield, not Skyrim, and the 2021st will remain in history as a lull in front of Neksten Burea, burdened with pandemia and a crisis of ideas.