ZyroXZ2 said:
That's... that's EXACTLY it... While we have made increasingly complex games, we have also dramatically altered and improved the tools to do it. If you spend time looking into Unreal engine, for example, the leaps and bounds they've made to speed up and improve game development and rendering tools is absolutely amazing. There's a reason you see YouTube channels simply making their own things, now. What was once a joke is now true: anyone can make a videogame (not speaking to whether it would any good, though lol). Game development IS easier now, and so are the tools to do it. Humans work smarter, not harder. That doesn't mean there aren't hard-working people in game development, but it means there's a clear correlation between the overall industry's increase in ports and remasters because, well, it's "easy" money. You can also dig into marketing budgets, and you'll be shocked to find that marketing budgets have MASSIVELY increased overall, sometimes quadrupling what used to be spent before. An example is that the marketing for TW3 was $30 million... If you wanted to know what's gotten more expensive, it's the marketing! The only company I've seen fold recently was MS when, admittedly, they made a dumb move of trying to double the price of yearly XBL Gold (likely in an effort to shoehorn more people into GP). Nintendo is nearly impossible mostly because they'll simply rely on legacy, but the fact that their Nintendo Online itself offers no real "online" function (their multiplayer games are still peer-to-peer, and there's still no Switch-based party chat or party invite system) but instead is more of a limited retro library access point says how they seem to be ignoring just how much even their own fanboys want better online functionality. Naturally, I HOPE they rectify this with the next Switch... not to mention ditching the abysmal Friend Code system lol
Your definition of authenticity is hearing the words you want to hear. There is nothing I can do on planet earth that you won't find cringeworthy. Just say you don't like me and move on rather than create forced critique.
Oh I definitely find the DLC to be priced reasonably. I'm going to buy the $20 DLC island on the PS4 BC version, though. It's the fact that in order to get the "true" PS5 version, I have to pay an extra $10 for its enhancements. That's almost universally THE sticking point right there. I'm actually excited about the island DLC itself, haha |
My definition of authenticity is being genuine, true, not fake… It has nothing to so with what you said.
As for the rest, through your replies in the various topics you created here, you have shown to be someone who will continually self-pat himself and condescendingly act as if you know better and more than those who take part in the discussions, so I won’t push this much further other than to point out that you display many traits of narcissism.
Last edited by Hynad - on 21 July 2021
