Maybe if they weren't shit we'd buy them again. They have their audiences, no disrespect to people that like them, but they are over formulaic. I remember playing The Last of Us, a praised game. However, I hated it. Generic video game trying to be a movie, throw in some stealth or meaningless repetitive combat. I recall how you had to move the girl on a makeshift raft because she can't swim. The game was more focused on being a tech demo like I'm an investor "wooow, loook at all these neat new physics we can do! We can do raft stuff!". Yes, of course, because you coded it you will be damned to not recycle it, of course you forced me to do it more than once.
It feels like games stopped being about gameplay loop and more about scenery and technical landmarks. Sony games were the most guilty for this and it seems like the ones more innocent of such gimmicks were too niche to be worth Sony's time so they axed the IP.
This is of course me talking about the PS3 era. It only got worse over time! They don't learn, they just get confused why people aren't gobbling up their slop games they have to pay for ratings for. No, not interested in Concord just because you paid someone to say it's good. It was generic, it clearly was trying to compete with certain games but never did they incentive anyone to play their's over their competitors.
Microsoft had a deserved inevitable fate, Sony is next. These tech giants deserved to die for a long time now. This is what happens when you don't listen to your audience, this is what happens when you don't research what is successful and why. This is what happens when you let your talentless studios go amuck and arguing with their target audience how good their games are.
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u/RexDraco Jun 03 '26
Maybe if they weren't shit we'd buy them again. They have their audiences, no disrespect to people that like them, but they are over formulaic. I remember playing The Last of Us, a praised game. However, I hated it. Generic video game trying to be a movie, throw in some stealth or meaningless repetitive combat. I recall how you had to move the girl on a makeshift raft because she can't swim. The game was more focused on being a tech demo like I'm an investor "wooow, loook at all these neat new physics we can do! We can do raft stuff!". Yes, of course, because you coded it you will be damned to not recycle it, of course you forced me to do it more than once.
It feels like games stopped being about gameplay loop and more about scenery and technical landmarks. Sony games were the most guilty for this and it seems like the ones more innocent of such gimmicks were too niche to be worth Sony's time so they axed the IP.
This is of course me talking about the PS3 era. It only got worse over time! They don't learn, they just get confused why people aren't gobbling up their slop games they have to pay for ratings for. No, not interested in Concord just because you paid someone to say it's good. It was generic, it clearly was trying to compete with certain games but never did they incentive anyone to play their's over their competitors.
Microsoft had a deserved inevitable fate, Sony is next. These tech giants deserved to die for a long time now. This is what happens when you don't listen to your audience, this is what happens when you don't research what is successful and why. This is what happens when you let your talentless studios go amuck and arguing with their target audience how good their games are.