9 Reasons You Shouldn't Have Faith In The Video Game Industry

2. Every Game Plays The Same

If you described the game you're playing right now there's a good chance it would fit the bill of just about every big release that's hit shelves in the past few years. Whether it's open world, boasts a crafting system or has a check-list like, online-oriented structure (or all the above) too many recent games have shared the same systems without feeling the need to put a new spin on them. Hell, no matter the genre, whether it's the sci-fi horror of Alien: Isolation or the online MMO-style of The Division, the core gameplay of most modern titles remains astonishingly similar, to the point where you're playing more on muscle-memory than anything else. This repetition gets even worse if you consistently play games released by the same publisher. At this point it's almost become a running joke that every Ubisoft game, no matter the genre, is built around the same features. Yet while this has been exaggerated a little, it's actually strikingly close to the truth, and the more games these publishers pump out the more whole franchises start to just blend into one another.