It really depends on the gamer. Gaming isn't an expensive hobby to me because I rarely buy games on launch, when I buy games it's on discounts and due to the games I usually like playing I get a shit ton of hours out of them. If one only plays the latest modern slop then it hits their wallet more. Then there's gacha addicts who ruin their lives for jpegs of waifus or sweaty men. The ones who choose the Pirate's Life are the biggest chads though and always will remain so.
This one especially gets me when I see it coupled with some dumb ass that has one of those 45 inch+ curved monitors. If you think having to turn your head at a nearly 90° angle to read some information off of tiny UI elements that are 2 actual feet away from the center of the screen is "cool" or in any way remotely looks good, you're psychotic. Games aren't made for billboard displays and they look legitimately awful when ran on one.
Won't be getting a top hat from me, I largely avoid multiplayer these days for these reasons. I personally regard myself as a "skilled" gamer, in that I can pick up pretty much any game and within hours be several steps above the "average player", and I still struggle to find any fun in most multiplayer games anymore. There's never any "average" or "above average" players to have casual play with anymore, it's always the sweatlords running meta and every mechanical exploit possible to the point it's so centralized that you either play ball with the boring shit everyone else is using, or you fuck off to somewhere else because all the characters/builds you would really prefer to play can't even compete with newbies abusing meta bullshit.
I think it was the last time outrage made a dev/publisher reconsider something, the fuckers had replaced Bateson and it could've very well become reality for Blood Money to be the last Hitman game he voiced
It's still massively preferable to me to have a little stretching of believability for more attractive characters than to have women that look like Dylan Mulvaney and Nikocado Avocado.
Yeah, I was checking out their site a few months back or so.
I don't think you'll find any disagreement there.
Tbf given how cod ruined a decade worth of shooters with their design choices, i can understand the hardcore autists. Doesn't help the single players have very little replayablity and bore me instantly when i boot them up.
If you ask the hardcore autists, the FPS genre has been ruined since 2001. Hell, probably even before that.
No one cares about the "MUH HALF LIFE RUINED SHOOTERS" retards, but i can see why in halos case since it did introduce mechanics and trends that would later become used in cod like two weapon limits,corridor level design ( even if some of the levels in halo were open and massive and not fucking time crisis tier linear ) and health regen.
I'm tired of pixel art. There's more skill in drawing 2D assets and animation than just pixels.
I'm tired of mediocre pixel art. I don't mind it when it's great, like Bloodstained. But I would prefer to see more Vanillaware tier 2D art instead.
