i miss when gta v sent like one preview to game informer, had like three trailers and then was out. now we got this game that had this cool trailer that hooked everybody, but is now showing off keanu reeves, all the celebrity musical guests, hanging out with elon musk on twitter, has the office references in it. it's like its been redditfied or something.

Like it still could be good, but man, what a terrible direction the marketing went in

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Games have become bogged down by capitalism. Too many studio execs now wanting things like celebrity casting and "movie-like" stuff.

    Remember when a characters design was such a careful process. Whole games were designed around what they looked like and acted like and how it affected the environment and story.

    Now it's like, "Nah give all the money to Norman Reedus and make him the main character, people eat that shit up and it's less effort."

    If I see another game with "Grizzled white-dude" as the main character then I quit.

    As shitty as Nintendo is, at least their games still have whimsy, colour and actually feel like games.