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CladInShadows on 06 June 2019
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JEMC said:
CladInShadows said:

Publishers go after the big bucks.  The Call of Duties, The Battlefields, or whatever other trend is on top.  I think fans of Metroidvanias are very vocal, but don't compare to the sheer number of mainstream gamers who eat up the yearly iterations of the big blockbuster titles.

Fuck, I love metroidvanias though.

It's the biggest problem the industry had during the transition to HD with the PS360, they forgot the A and AA games and put all its efforts into AAA games. And Metroidvania games don't fit that class.

Thankfully the situation has changed a bit, for the better, and there's also the indie scene on PC (and later, consoles) that hasn't forget about these "niche" genres.

Agreed. It's a major reason I look at the 7th gen with such...disdain.  It the era which moved the industry towards a mainstream (and a much lower risk) focus, and killing (well, not killing, but definitely reducing to afterthoughts) a lot of game genres and studios in the process.  

I'm glad things really opened up in the 8th gen so that what was once mainstream can now at least thrive in the indie world.