Ever notice how the best games out there are either indie games or made by ex-devs formerly from a big developer?
Capitalism does away with ingenuity and creativity. Look at the biggest developers, like Ubisoft or Activision or EA, and their most flagship product(s), and you’ll see that none of them are inventive in any way, they’re all just regurgitated forms of whatever sells.
No wonder ML text and image generators are so popular with large corporations.
It’s not capitalism’s fault. The games made by former developers also sell great and are financially viable, the audience also loves them.
What you’re looking at is pure greed.
It’s the same picture.
it isn’t Ubisoft to thank, it’s the “ex”. suddenly not having to waste your life peddling more assassin’s gray sludge can do wonders for your creativity.
It’s a sarcastic thank, like thank you for firing them, or thank you for driving them away from AAA studios.
Ubisoft is the sexual abuse place right?
…or is that Activision Blizzard?
…or Rockstar Games?
Is there a funny GIF that says “why not all three of them?”?
The unfortunate truth is there are likely a lot of very talented developers at most big studios who ultimately don’t have a say on what goes into the game.
Many don’t turn around and try making a start-up game though, most just burn out of the industry forever.
The way business is structured in the modern day completely strangles progress and innovation by ignoring and sometimes even punishing workers trying to improve. Companies should be run by workers not businessmen so that there’s a focus on the product rather than profit
I worked at a company run by a SWEngineer.
He was code-smart for code, but really bad for business.
You need to get a real CEO who does management, but keep that person in firm check by mandating half the board be stacked by engineers. Even as advisory roles, like if your company makes widgets you should have some Serious Fucking widget people dominating the board for big decisions.
“You make one thing” is like “you had one job.”
(And if you make two things so disparate, spin one off into a sub)
My argument is not “have someone better in charge” rather it’s “we should have less hierarchy in the workplace”
Stray was so mid… If it didn’t have cute cats it would have been forgotten instantly.
I was most flabbergasted by the fact that you never hunt anything!! What a miss! How do you make a game where you play as a cat without any stealth stalking of prey??
I remember when the first screenshots for it came out years ago as a cat game inspired by Kowloon Walled City and thought it would be this profound game where you play as a stray cat who weaves itself in and out of all the lives and stories of the people there…and then it turned out to be this really basic linear game. I was so disappointed.
So… you found it mid because it didn’t have more robust stealth mechanics than dealing with the Sentinels? It wasn’t GOTY material, but it was one of my top games that year. Do you also find games like Destroy All Humans, Portal, and Firewatch mid?
Disclaimer: I’m not mad if you find all those mid, just want to know what your baseline for a “good” game is.
Yeah, but it did have cute vibes and a lot of people love things just for cute vibes
If all the games didn’t have the stuff that made them enjoyable then they’d be mid.
I loved it. Even bought a plush of the cat, backpack and all
Damn it, I bought this game. I was hoping it would be like Endling but less sad. That game made me cry like a bitch and I haven’t played it since.
Highly recommend Expedition 33. The game play is exactly what I’ve been looking for in a game, and the story and world are both amazing.
I want to get into it, I even own it and I’ve enjoyed the like 4 hours I’ve played already, I just can’t get back into it for some reason.
I am concerned about expedition. Everyone I know that’s played it, finished it in 3 days. That is a lackluster amount of gameplay. And that’s with a job. It’s not like they were no lifeing it or something. It’s on Gamepass though so I’ll play it soon
Oh, that makes me wanna play it even more. Every single time I play a big RPG like witcher, cyberpunk, Baldur’s Gate, kingdom come, etc. I enjoy the first half and then I just speedrun the rest to finish the story. There’s nothing wrong with a 10-30hour game, honestly. Hell, a short hike is like 1-3 hours and I don’t feel bad at all for buying it.
Story is about 30 h and side content another 30, I think that’s pretty solid 🤷♂️
I’ve got 30 hours into it and haven’t finished it yet. I feel like it’s got a decent amount of gameplay so far. Plus I am already planning a replay once with different party members. I’ve also heard the story is better in the 2nd playthrough (you don’t really figure out wtf is going on until pretty far into the game). Definitely worth checking out, especially if you have Gamepass.
Played through stray for the first time recently
The game was great, especially for how relatively small the team was, but honestly the reveal of the largest mystery in the game was very underwhelming.
It’s still a good game though, I do recommend it.
Hey, your cat thinks you’re underwhelming as well, but she’s fine with that as long there’s food and scritches.
scritches
🤎🤎🤎
Awww, and here I thought only my family uses that word.No, no… It’s the proper denomination favoured by our kitten overlords. They whisper it into our ears as we sleep so that we may subconsciously start using it without getting suspicious.
It usually happens only when they plan for long-term associations.
Scritches and snoot are words to identify people who love their pets
The reveal that
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there’s a dedicated meow button
? I thought it was incredible.
I can’t wait for upper management to stop trying to make games.
You’re gonna be waiting a long time lol
Already have been. Embark (The Finals & Arc Raiders) is an amazing studio that I hope disrupts the industry.
I mean Ubisoft has probably tens of thousands of ex employees
And growing!
I love how theres always someone in the comments that’s like “this game is so mid” or “this one mechanic in the game is missing”
Stray was fantastic. So was expedition 33. Both of them are objectively good with overwhelming positive reviews.
They were successful in everyway a game can me… But according to some bloke it was “mid”. Jesus.
I hate how people think how much they like something automatically qualifys that as an official critique. It doesn’t. How much you like it is totally irrelevant!
They’re just giving their opinion man
Don’t forget about Outlast, Astroneer and Sifu!
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