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my guess is all the chronic ‘loved it, didn’t beat it tho’ guys are the culprit

I feel like I first caught this when I realized River City Girls 2 had been out for months and nobody I followed who was crazy about the first one even made a peep about it.

yeah even in-class it's not better than competing things like selaco or supplice or hedon in... pretty much any way. I'd rank it as a mid-tier megawad if it was a doom wad

I wonder if this kind of underperformance (or more likely just a regression to the mean) could be better absorbed when money was cheaper.

I wonder if that includes refunds? I got the game on sale and refunded it because the encounter design was... extremely amateurish. second one is probably better for that

I was a fan of the first one and I didn't even know this existed, what??

I kinda wonder if this also dovetails with how much people are used to getting entertainment for 'free' now, like there's so much art out there of any medium that you can just tap into that the thought that someone has to get paid a living wage for this is like, a violation somehow

every time i see some "what happened to this game???" retrospective where the answer is "it got finished and released" i feel an undescribable dread

RE4, if we treat it 5 and 6 as its own functional trilogy was basically making a 10 out of 10 game and losing all confidence in its qualities for the sequels because call of duty was making too much money

I'm still trying to figure out whether Look Outside is the game I saw people talking about a while ago that's changed so much that it's fundamentally different now than it was at launch or if that's something else

I agree with this wholeheartedly, but it did conjure the phrase "Dwarf Fortress IX: Vengeance" in my brain

this is like kojima's best gimmick

It becomes clear that I should not buy your game at launch because it isn't done or that these studios are so insecure about their vision willing to change everything on a whim to satisfy the philistine user base which just puts me off of someone's game entirely

GaaS

It’s wild to me that the GOTY winner from 2016 is impossible to play anymore because it was fucking Overwatch and the game has gone through a billion updates (and a sequel I guess???)

try saying that about cyp2077 and you get crucified

basically makes me not want to ever buy a game at launch. I'm not gonna be playing your shit in six months I got other stuff to play!!

weirdly, some games like zomboid can seemingly do this? I have no idea where their money comes from, surely they can't slowly patch the game forever unless they're getting forever sales

We should have never normalized "Early Access". All games must now be Sisyphus' rock for years before they release. Sure, sounds great.

Likewise, it *is* iterative, and although Boltgun 2 is definitely a great game, I'm sure lots of people bought the first one *because* they saw it as a fresh warhammer experience

given hoppo is now at valve and they sold it to gearbox, I'd prefer gearbox did not try to make a ror3

there's a boltgun 2 ?

Maybe them putting a girl in it scared off the average 40k Fan

Gotta trick people into thinking its an expansion when its actually a sequel. Thats the only way to get around this problem now

they didn't put it on GOG unlike the first one is my reason, though i imagine i'm not exactly representative