• smoothbrain coldtakes@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    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.

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      8 months ago

      This has always been true, since the very first decade of video games. People just forget because only the good games are worth remembering.

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        8 months ago

        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.

      • Early_Insurance_3334@lemmy.ca
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        8 months ago

        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.

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          8 months ago

          And we’re looking at a similar collapse for at least AAA vendors because they’re flooding the market with half-baked crap.