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you guys realize there's no such thing as "the dying video game industry" right? As long as games still exist, people will keep buying them, because even the shittiest money grubbing game is better than their pitiful lives. And every once in a while, someone who actually cares about it comes along, and you get a brilliant, masterpiece of a game, and everything is right with the world for a while.
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Hence Life is Strange, The Walking Dead, Valiant Hearts, This War of Mine, and a bunch of other games worth mentioning other than the typical triple A slop.  Naturally the person to blame for the decline I say wouldn't be the developer but the publisher.  The reason AAA games lack creativity anymore is simply that, money, barbaric time constraints and deadlines, shilling out a game every damn year with quality just as crappier or even way shittier than the last one.  That's why though I'm chomping at the bit to get Metal Gear Solid 5, I'm hoping that it is worth the wait and possibly is going to make me cry a thousand times more that 3 and 4.