I didn’t realize they’d been out for 4 years already. I could have sworn it was just hitting like 2

What a dumb bar to judge them by. Not a single entity with an interest in fighting this fight would be doing it out of the goodness of their hearts

…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.

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.

Weren’t those already remastered?

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.

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

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.

Who the fuck is going to be paying the $1200 or whatever for a switch 2?

So not Titanfall 3 like the rumors had hinted at being worked on…

Was anyone expecting Bethesda to do any more than upscaling some textures?

This is a cash grab, plain and simple. Zero effort

These people also care more about what happens to fictional people than what happens to real people.

They want to restrict access to virtual guns, but actively fight any efforts to restrict access to real ones. It’s so dumb

It’s not a mistake when one of the upper management guys was ranting about it before it happened…

That’s interesting, as the initial reviews seemed to not like it.

Maybe the publisher wanted to push it onto some other team?

Funny coming from HP, who has poured billions into making their printing experience suck. Deliberately

People said the same thing when XP came to its end of life support dropping. You overestimate how technical the average person is. Or how patient those that are technical are who just want their programs to work without hours of tinkering each time they install something

You, specifically, enjoying a …remake of a spiritual successor to a game that came out decades ago… doesn’t mean the genre is alive and kicking.

Remaking a game from a few decades back reads more as desperate than anything else. They’re relying on nostalgia for sales, not actually attracting a new audience

I clearly touched a nerve. And, just like I’d expect from someone who would overreact like this to a very neutral comment, you completely misread what I said.

…Who was asking about Myst?

Point and click has been a dead genre for like 2 decades now

Maybe we should be barring these companies that dump their teams after releasing a game from winning awards?

What do you think will happen to them, because they pulled this?

so why the focus here?

I can pay attention to more than one thing. These greedy corporations abusing legal systems is why the world is so fucked. Trying to handwaved this as not mattering sounds like you admit you’re wrong

Not only are they getting away with it, it looks like they’ll continue to benefit from it.

I’m not sure what reality you’re living to think they’re not.

That’s where I do look, but even there it’s been a slim couple of years.

This is literally what Nintendo is doing right now.

They filled this suit, and only THEN filed for a bunch of extra patents they didn’t already have in order to increase the damages they could claim from Pocket Pair for being in violation.

I already think patents for game design mechanics are idiotic an unethical, but this is absolutely insane.

I was just thinking this. Japan’s patent system is so fucked up. You can do everything right, look up all relevant existing patents to make sure you’re in the clear, then a competitor ex post facto files and kills your business.

How about instead of wasting all this time sprucing up a game we’ve all already played… They make a new one.

I hate this remake remaster treadmill that the AAA scene has turned into. I haven’t been excited about anything coming out in years because it’s mostly shit we’ve already seen.

It’s not defamation if you’re actually a piece of shit.

Not a damn thing. Doesn’t help that the endless mergers have lead us to just a couple AAA devs left. And MS grinds every dev they attitude into dust. Very few ever make anything actually good after being bought.

“Still” is burying the lede. It’s gotten worse.

They have game-interrupting full screen ads? Our just product placement. Because only the former is banned

There’s plenty of proof of stake tokens that do not waste all that electricity that mining does

Very few game sequels are that tied in to it’s predecessor narratively that this is an issue. I would say the vast majority of games are designed to be picked up from anywhere in the series.

Even Mass Effect, where you play as the same character throughout a multi game story arc, still has each game giving the player an on ramp, and each game having it’s own miniature arc to play through.

And various local billionaires