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It’s almost like there’s a limit to how many times you can return to the same creative well until you hit diminishing returns and run out of steam.
GTA, which SR was derivative of, is still going strong, and 6 will almost definitely make bank. I think the SR problem was keeping the same cast too long… and maybe expanding scope. Three was goofy but still fun, four got a bit too stupid. That’s something the SR reboot should have resolved inherently via a new cast and locale but they dropped the ball.
If you want other already released star fox nostalgia trips, astro dogs and ex-zodiac have your back and are on sale atm.
I think the better question might be what series should you start from game 1, brcause thats a much tougher question. Just about all the long running ones you can hop in wherever and be fine. Where you wanna start with Mario? Don’t matter. Whats the play for Final Fantasy? Probably whatever the recommenders first one was. Megaman? X, 0, or basic its nbd.
Yakuza is one I’d say you either start from the beginning (Technically Kiwami, but 0 is fine) or start at Like a Dragon (7, as it has a new protagonist)
If we look at a percentage overall sure but thats been the case for years owing to the rise of mobile and shovelware in general.
2024 had some absolute bops, offhand there was Wukong, Balatro, Metaphor, Helldivers 2, Warhammer, Erdtree, and thats without diving deeper into the indie stuff.
The stat being presented is a bit limited, as we’re seeing PC gaming rise further, and software downloads move more then physical.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2063390/VA_Proxy/
Still getting worked on, but does look sick.
Maybe its changed up since I last read about it, but when I did it, iirc it was an extraction shooter, they brought a bunch of Tarkov guys out to try it, and asked them if they’d stream it if it was live, to which all of them gave a hard no. Maybe it hadn’t been cooked enough yet so it didn’t have a compelling vibe, or maybe Bungie decided to change shit up since then, couldn’t say. I’m not a extraction shooter fan in any case so the whole thing has no appeal to me.
Rainbow is a personal favorite, it has a anime, along with a manga that ran well past where the anime ended, tho idk if it got fully legally translated, it was fan translated. Set in and around the 50s.
Barefoot Gen gets bandied about a lot. I never read it personally. Its set on and after Hiroshima’s bombing and the years after. There is a full legal translation of it. Coupla movies too.
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai was a fantastic bit of postwar literature, though it wasn’t set postwar.
Bit of Xenogears where you can mount into giant robots for fightin’
Bit of Chrono Trigger where you can see the enemies and choose to run into them
Has an enchantment system you can use to buff your weapons
You can build out the skills on each character as well which is wonderful for customization.
Combat system takes a smidge to get used to since it penalizes you for spamming singular skills a bit too much, but it’s not tough to work with.
If none of that does it for you, just wait a while until things calm down for you, not like it’s going anywhere, and it’s never hit 50% off so plenty of time for that to happen as well, which is my usual trigger for buying a game that looks good to me.
Infinite Wealth was deffo a bigger map and set thereof then its predecessors (Like a Dragon was also substantially larger, as was Lost Judgment in comparison to its predecessor), but it did absolute numbers, so I dunno about that.
I think it comes down more to if it feels appropriately sized and filled. Prior Yakuzas were bursting at the seems with shit to do everywhere in their smaller maps. Breath of the Wild had new and interesting shit going on everywhere too.
After a bit of looking into it: He has an unmonetized alt channel zackrawrr that is his primary streaming channel, but his main asmongold channel is still monetized and can be subscribed/donated to. I don’t personally follow the guy (as the only things I’ve heard about him have been uninteresting at best, and horrifying at worst [e.g. rat alarm clock] and have no interest in WoW.), so I was unaware. As a general statement regarding streamers though, what I’ve said is correct.
I’ve heard that it’s a two week ban, which for a streamer is huge, since any day your banned, subscriptions do not auto-renew. Guy will lose half his recurring income. Depending on the fan he could get it back of course since they could re-sub after he’s back, but there’s still gonna be a big chunk of folks who will either forget, forgot they were subbed to begin with and thus not notice they were un-subbed, or just use that as their clean break moment.
I add a lot of random games on my steam wishlist, many aren’t out yet. The oldest one I’ve wishlisted that is unreleased, by a good margin, is Silksong, back on 6/3/20. Next is Showa American Story on 1/8/22, then Clockwork Revolution (by the guys who did Wasteland 3 and Tides of Numenaria, good pedigree!) on 6/22/23. There’s a fair amount more that are closer to current day. Ultimately if these games never come out, I lose nothing. If/when they do then I get a lil e-mail that lets me know, and I can be like “oh yeah I did wishlist that didn’t I?”, then I look at a few reviews to make sure it isn’t absolute trash, and if it isn’t, I buy a cool game I wanted a few years ago and forgot about.
That’s where Silksong lies for me.
I feel real bad for folks who are deeply invested in it though, like brother there are a GRIP of metroidvanias out there. You are absolutely eating good in metroidvanias, don’t let yourself starve while you wait for Silksong, it’s only going to magnify any quibbles you have with it. Play Guns of Fury. Play Animal Well. Play 9 Years of Shadows. Play Pseudoregalia. Don’t let Silksong build itself up in your head.