Gonna go ahead and take my swing at the dead horse for a moment:
I fucking hate the state of gaming, and Sony is one of the companies that owns a chunk of my contempt for it all. With their stupid fucking movie games and their ubisoft tier checklist of horseshit every game they put out must have. Mega budget, 3rd person, heavy on the narrative slop. Sony built up so much goodwill with me from like 1996 up to like 2012 to where they could do no wrong in my eyes, to wanting to see them flame out, hard. They'll push a DOA product like fucking Pronouncord out with all of the time and resources that wasted but can't fucking set aside a few million for a Dead Nation sequel? That game was an absolute gem and goes down in my history book as one of those games where it's a travesty we never got more out of the IP.
Rockstar, Sony, Activision, EA; for all of the great that they've done for gaming during their existence, they've all been equally responsible for its erosion. Every game must take tons of money to make, multiple years to release, they must be riddled with microtransactions, and they must make back what was invested tenfold or else another studio dies. And with gaming being an industry of copycats, they've all set god awful precedents.
If you were to sit down some kid who considers himself a hardcore gamer and told him about a time in gaming where GTA III, Vice City, and San Andreas all released inside of a 3 year, 2 week window, he'd probably look at you with befuddlement as if you were explaining to him what a landline wall mounted telephone was.
