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If people can’t spot some of the obvious flaws of the current AAA landscape, they are willfully ignorant.

I still find games that I enjoy, but it’s far from a golden age.

it's the same issue that infects most creative endeavors in our current era.

The cost of development and the sheer scope have eroded any sense of creativity or vision and replaced it with pursuing formulas to generate a guaranteed return or at least minimize the risk of failure.

The problem that arises is that people grow tired of formulas and look for something new and captivating after a while.

And going to the cost aspect. I can understand that we have not adjusted the pricing of games for inflation in quite some time. However, I will counter that by saying the introduction of microtransactions, in game currencies, and in game storefronts have largely made up the shortfall.

If we were to move to a more rational price point for today's economy, what assurance do I have that the excessive predatory practices of current day game development go away? I already know the answer, there is zero chance. Which is why I largely do not support any sort of a price hike. We are already getting gouged and largely getting mass produced trend chasing slop which means there is no incentive for these devs to change. No sale.

I do think that there is a burgeoning AA/indie market that may help to alleviate some of the problems that some of us have with the mainstream AAA product offerings. Will that result in a renaissance of gaming in its entirety? probably a pipe dream.

They shouldn’t have tried to rush out the last bit of the doom ‘16 & eternal plot through eternals dlc.

I’m don’t find a prequel retread back to the glory days of argent d’nur particularly compelling. I’ve played 10 chapters so far. It’s fine, but I think id have rather seen a different direction. Prequels are so low stakes. I don’t care what happens to these medieval people.

My own personal head canon is that doomguy took a break from killing demons to huff cat piss and cheese his way into the heavy metal universe.

BioWare died after they released anthem. They’ve been surviving on reputation and a catalog of IP but it’s evident with each release that any perceived momentum they had was just inertia that has slowly petered out to a crawl.

They will not survive this decade.

I can see where that might be useful. I used to make clips on Xbox one occasionally for funny moments whenever they heavily marketed the record feature with Kinect. Perhaps it’s aging, but I just don’t care enough to save footage for comedic purposes or to hone my skills at this stage.

Never. Doesn’t seem interesting to me. I don’t stream or create any sort of content so it would just be taking up space.

The way I would imagine my ideal quake reboot playing out would be something similar to how bloodborne introduced its arcane elements.

Play it straight for the first third and then adjust the weirdness dial up as you progress.

Could even tie in the strogg somehow as adherents to an evil entity within the slipgate which then would marry the various quake universes together

Staying up late to watch adult swim in junior high was a peak memory.

I loved the era of adult swim spanning space ghost, aqua teen, sealab, etc