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Slimebeast on 03 November 2017
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Nuvendil said:
Slimebeast said:

You are right. The real world stuff is making it cringey. It's hard to relate to, with all these smiling people casually doing their thing, I just get a strong subconscious feeling of "that's not me".

I am sure the majority of gamers feel this too. And that's why most companies don't use real life footage in their commercials and as a great example, Sony turned strongly away from that compared with their 90's style of advertizing. But apparently it works for Nintendo.

The milking of Skyrim is cringey too btw. I really dislike what Bethesda has become in recent years. Reminds so much of Ubisoft and EA in how they prioritize the short-term Dollar stream instead of being in touch with their userbase. But it can backfire, like it did so strongly for Microsoft.

Sony still uses a lot of live action stuff in their ads.  As does Microsoft.  As does EA.

And comparing Bethesda to EA because they remastered one game - their most popular game - is, to be blunt, silly.  They put out Doom last year, Fallout 4 the year before that, have Wolfenstein 2 coming out this year, and have other franchises running like Evil Within and Dishonored.  And they are the only western publisher I know of that is putting up the money for 16GB game cards and not just going with 8GB or lower and leaving players to download 15 to 20+GB just to play the basic core content.  Honestly, this is the very definition of hyperbole.

But my Bethesda criticism is about a lot more than just remastering Skryim. They have made a theme park MMO, an Elder Scrolls card game, launched a pathetic system for paid mods on Fallout 4 and Skyrim, they hide the original Skyrim in Steam store, and they have loot crates in ESO.

EDIT: and they dumbed down the Elder Scrolls and Fallout.