I've posted this already in the NiGHTS thread but I'll post it again because it bears repeating: Sonic Team writing is terrible. I don't know why they insist on doing it over and over again. It doesn't improve. Unlike the games, the plots were always a shitshow.
This IP has become unrecognizable. I jumped off the speeding train at Brotherhood, but I still remember how much I liked the first entry and how much of an improvement the sequel was. The development team knew what they were doing; they were going in the right direction for almost everything. What the hell happened?
And video games are an art form. It doesn't matter what the media format is: greed destroys art. Waving it off as "it's just business" is exactly the kind of defeatist mentality corpos want from their customer base. Don't think; just buy.
I and II were made by Squaresoft and they were great, then along came Enix and ruined everything, i will never forgive Square for ruining Square...
Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom felt like a Gmod game with Zelda textures, when i finished them i felt betrayed.
We can always count on Arnold to say the truth.
The thing about appealing to a bigger audience is that you can have two scenarios, Resident Evil 4 or...Final Fantasy VII Remake and Rebirth, both of them which divided the fans to this very day.
That's very true. I think it is unavoidable, largely.
The disconnect is that the creators see it for the art it is, corporations will just see a fattened bottom line.
Final fantasy 8 is a masterpiece and my favorite psx final fantasy. Very special to me
In regards to AssCreed, there is A LOT that could be said in regards to what went wrong, but the TLDR is that behind the scenes things were going wrong even by the second game. People just managed to either ignore, or not care, about the drastic changes happening because the Ezio trilogy was still really good.
That's a fair sentiment. In these situations, it's rarely the developers that are the source of the problem anyway.
Is it possible that the series was still young enough that players didn't want to rag on the changes too much? What I appreciated the most about 2 was the QoL changes; not so much the changes made to combat. My favorite aspect of the first game was the disincentivization of direct combat with guards. The developers really wanted the player to feel like stealth was the best option and I loved that. When AC2 rolled around, I noticed that getting spotted was no longer the threat it used to be but I hesitated to complain because, as I stated before, it seemed like the developers were still going in the right direction.
I'm really tired of this seemingly being the norm at game development companies. Heard similar shit regarding Bethesda.
Honestly I don't get the hate for 2, in ways its more fun than the first one and definitely more fun than TSA. And yes the story is worse, but its not like 3 has a good story either. The first one is still my favorite though.
Just to let everyone know that I've never played Chibi-Robo!: Clean Sweep (a game that was only released in Japan) but I plan to play it one day, since I've heard that it's also a good game.
I was about to ask about this one lmao.
All games should be arcade and colorful like Dreamcast games. Not like boring interlaced movie like games of the PS2 with bajillion cutscenes and loading times.
I like the PS2 era but goddamn there was a lot of brown/gray filters in that era. Even RE1 Remake which is awesome suffers from that.
And if that wasn't bad enough, next gen was the PS3 era with those awful sepia tones everywhere. Realism and poor optimization are the two things I despise most in gaming.
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