…at what point did I write off Skyrim?

20 minutes is enough to get an idea if a game is going to be fun or not.

Stop idolizing billionaires.

Which is weird they’re STILL having these problems, anyway. If you watch any of those making of Halo docs, it comes across like it was a fluke those games ever got released in one piece. Every time.

The fractured but whole.

Weren’t those already remastered?

That’s a very different privilege, one that is in direct contradiction to the consumer’s right to repair

This is where I point out that being able to retain the context of the conversation is helpful. I specified AAA titles. There being thousands of indie games of varying quality out there doesn’t change the fact that AAA games are taking years to release, there’s been a huge amount of publisher consolidation which always leads to studio closures, and them pushing these remakes/remasters is only adding to the staleness facing AAA

And your entire second paragraph is completely irrelevant to my point.

Given that NEW games are taking longer and longer to make. Remakes coming out at the same rate as always is a problem.

It’s all they do now. Copy paste Sequels and remasters.

Turns out some people want new exciting experiences and are such of the repetition. The industry focusing on these means less new stuff in an already barren wasteland of interesting games.

This is my fear. It’s already bad enough. AAA has been yeah for years now.

Half of those budgets is marketing

Developers have been underpaid for years. These increases are not going to them.

Man… Unity really went to shit in the last decade.

Nah, people are reaching on this one. There’s a lot of reasons to be mad at Nintendo. Cartoony proportions being a low key hint at GenAI is not one of them

False dichotomy. The world is more nuanced than this idiotic black and white world view

Bro, their actions do not support the things they claim to believe. Their excuses don’t matter at that point.

Yeah, I do. A bunch of consolidations is AAA companies have left us steps away from a monopoly on publishers. Given the lack of competition, these big companies have gotten lazy and keep releasing the same shit over and over, some of it ripoffs, some of it remasters. People are getting fed up with it and their easy cash cows are now less profitable than they were.

Instead of changing their plans, they’re firing people. Because the only ones in charge are MBAs, not people who know what their products even are.

Another AAA game I want planning to play getting delayed doesn’t say anything about the games industry. Haven’t been excited about a AAA game in many years now. Everything is a bland cookie cutter sequel, remaster, or battle pass loot box multiplayer arena thingy.

Are you being sarcastic here… Or just a dick?

It’s a privilege to work for a shitty mega corporation making substandard pay for the skills you have?! And those mega corps routinely buy up the small studios, so it’s not like people have to even seek out employment with them to end up working for them.