Yeah that's my point. God of War used to be a hack and slash button masher, Ratchet & Clank was an action-platformer, Metal Gear Solid was Kojima's manifesto etc. Now everything is up its own ass pretentious guff that lectures you with endless exposition and resents giving the player any kind of agency in case they start having fun.
Can you imagine if naughty dog made a crash bandicoot game today? Instead of a fun platformer, we get a solemn reminder of the horrors of colonialism and the genocide that the aboriginals suffered through
No gameplay allowed
From what I remember of the little I played, the Crash 4 that Toys For Bob made was really good, satisfyingly difficult and made few concessions to the Modern Audience except for changing Crash's girlfriend from furry coombait into soyjak (furry) coombait.Can you imagine if naughty dog made a crash bandicoot game today? Instead of a fun platformer, we get a solemn reminder of the horrors of colonialism and the genocide that the aboriginals suffered through
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>please PC goymers, buy Miles Morales 2.
I'm sorry, you appear to have incorrectly sorted MGS into the "not pretentious" bin. Care to try again?
They haven't had a successful release in a decade when using old IP, I doubt their new IP that's already widely mocked and hated is going to do great
Oh god, they're unironically trying to pull a Ubisoft U-Play/Connect reward system.
Yup, for those unfamiliar with Japanese corporate autism, Japanese don't like to outright fire people. They'd rather just make their job worse and worse until they quit. Constructive dismissal is illegal in the US but is widely used in Japan. They even have words for this. Madogiwazoku means "window tribe", which are people who are given a seat next to a window and no real job to do. Sony is actually known for using Oidashibeya, which means "forcing-out room". It means putting employees in windowless rooms doing repetitive and boring work while their status is stripped away and they're ostracized.
The UN has been taking Ls left and right this decade. It seems like a lot of countries are tired of the activist meddling, especially when it's carried out by envoys from third-world shitholes that don't even uphold a fraction of the rights that these bureaucrats are trying to hold the developed world to.
multiplat from the start
I do not believe this game can make back its money. Between the amount of money it costed, the amount of sales it had until know, the fact that they have to pay the Mouse Tax and the fact that this game is considered bad, this game will either be a failure or a success on a technicality.
Honestly, do you even really want to give your money to this woke farce of a game? This game is infested with Sweet Baby's DEI nonsense everywhere, and I do mean everywhere you look in this game you will see either rainbow flags or BLM murals, not to mention they made MJ look like an ugly tranny.
I'm already seeing Soynys justifying the PC port's poor launch as "of course it would sell poorly, PC gamers only pirate". This combined with Microsoft throwing in the towel with Forza Horizon 5 going to PS5, I assume the Soynys will be extra insufferable for the next little while.
Those are copes I've seen as well, the latter more than the former at least.
The Insomniac leak stated its development cost was $315 million and made a profit of $75 million. However that didn't include marketing costs, which very likely heavily exceeded that $75 million in profit by several magnitudes. Then there's the question of whether those figures include the Disney licensing fees. They rushed to send this off to PC to hopefully make some money but its looking like Spider-Man 2 potentially lost even more money in trying to port to PC.