Today, EA announced a major company shake-up that will result in roughly 670 individuals, or 5% of its workforce, losing their jobs. As a part of that same reorganization, a Star Wars FPS in-development at Respawn is being canceled.
Damn, that was the game I was most excited for. Respawn FPS games are my favorite (TF1/Apex) and I was really interested to see what they’d do with star wars
I get what you’re saying, but “the entire video game industry” didn’t make Baldur’s Gate 3.
I’m not jaded enough to claim the entire industry is soulless (indies and AA still exist), but the AAA industry is pretty much there, with the rare exception.
Yeah and right now we’re all raving that Helldivers 2 is great.
The point is that on average these massive conglomerates of corporate shareholder-driven studios are not soulful because they have the soul beat out of them. Devs have tons of soul, but if it ends up in the final product is ultimately a decision of the management, and they have had the souls sucked out of them.
There are still soulful games, but on average the industry is soulless.
As is the case with all media. Nobody remembers Populous or Bill Lambeer’s Combat Basketball on the SNES cuz they were horrible games, but I still hear about Zelda: ALTTP and Super Mario World.
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I’m wondering if the low sales on Immortals of Aveum caused them to make this decision.
So we’re apparently meant to accept bad writing to convince them to keep making singleplayer games.
Was this the rumored Mandalorian game? A shame because Respawn’s pedigree for single player FPSes is short but incredible.
Damn, that was the game I was most excited for. Respawn FPS games are my favorite (TF1/Apex) and I was really interested to see what they’d do with star wars
The madalorian one that I grumped about a few weeks ago ?
Fucking EA. Let’s hope the Ubisoft one is good. And gets finished.
It’s going to be Assassin’s Creed with lightsabers, probably. Potentially Far Cry with scifi weapons, like Blood Dragon.
Can’t say that I mind that.
Maybe a Ghost Recon / Rainbow 6 in star wars? Aka Republic Commando successor.
Republic Commando fucking rocked, that would kick ass.
Damn I really wanted to play the FPS.
Lololol
Remember when spawn made games with soul? Good times.
Pepperridge farm remembers
Remember when the entire video game industry had soul?
It’s been years.
:(
Literally last year everyone was raving about Baldur’s Gate 3 because it had so much soul.
I get what you’re saying, but “the entire video game industry” didn’t make Baldur’s Gate 3. I’m not jaded enough to claim the entire industry is soulless (indies and AA still exist), but the AAA industry is pretty much there, with the rare exception.
It always has been though. Remember licensed games from the ps2 era?
Some were fun. I enjoyed the Harry Potter games and the James Bond games.
Does no one remember ET?
Yeah and right now we’re all raving that Helldivers 2 is great.
The point is that on average these massive conglomerates of corporate shareholder-driven studios are not soulful because they have the soul beat out of them. Devs have tons of soul, but if it ends up in the final product is ultimately a decision of the management, and they have had the souls sucked out of them.
There are still soulful games, but on average the industry is soulless.
This has always been true, since the very first decade of video games. People just forget because only the good games are worth remembering.
Yes for example the video game crash of 1983 that saw video game sales drop by about 97% in 2 years because the market got flooded with crap.
Atari even tried to make an E.T game that was supposed to be a console seller but was programmed in 6 weeks and was hot garbage.
And we’re looking at a similar collapse for at least AAA vendors because they’re flooding the market with half-baked crap.
As is the case with all media. Nobody remembers Populous or Bill Lambeer’s Combat Basketball on the SNES cuz they were horrible games, but I still hear about Zelda: ALTTP and Super Mario World.