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I mean... It's hard to really find solid numbers because Bethesda hasn't published them, but we know that Prey's opening week of sales was 60% less than Dishonored 2's was. All the estimates and discussion i can find on the Internet either concludes that the game lost money or, at best, broke about even.

It got great critical reviews. People who identify as "gamers" seemed to love it. But it gets compared to Bioshock a lot- Bioshock Infinite came out 4 years earlier and the market was saturated with similar games by the time Prey came out.

So I don't think it's unreasonable for management to want to move in a different direction. That direction ended up being a terrible one with Redfall, but i can't automatically assume that the studio would have been any better off making another game like Prey.

You can find every example you could look for in history. Studios who changed direction successfully, like Insomniac going from FPS to 3D platformer. Gamefreak went from platformers like Pulseman to making JRPG's and ended up making the most successful media franchise in history, while all of their later attempts to do anything else have failed miserably.

And it's not as if it would have made sense to have Arkane make Weird West. You can't just slash a AAA studio down to an indie overnight.

I still don't understand why people have so much hate for Bethesda for... Paying independent creators to make better mods for their games and charging for those mods.

I can understand criticizing the execution: the quality and price of each mod, the grey legal area where these weren't included in Season Passes that were supposed to include all DLC, etc. And I certainly wouldn't call the results a success.

But nothing about it ever seemed particularly greedy or "unfair" to me. It solved a lot of problems that the modding community has. It protected the creators from having. Their content stolen and re-used or re-distributed. Mods (especially for-profit) were always kind of a grey area legally because... It's Bethesda's platform and IP. Bethesda may not be as great with modders as other companies, but they're a lot better than the worst offenders like Nintendo. The Creation Club has better quality control. And it's better for the end users- easier to install, usable on consoles, no need to go to sketchy 3rd party websites or mess with the installation. I know people complain on the Internet anytime Bethesda updates one of their games because it breaks their mods- I could be wrong but I've never heard of that happening with CC mods.

Seems to me like most of the hate for CC comes from people just wanting more content without paying for it.

A war crime according to... Who? Is there some treaty or convention that happened? Is there some customary international law that he violated? I can't find the Hague anywhere on any maps in this universe but maybe I missed something.

Scarlet and Violet may only run at 10FPS and there are plenty of other flaws, but it's still a ton of fun. And those are sequels, not remakes. The gameplay is a dramatic shift from everything the mainline series has done before.

Legends Arceus has performance issues too, but was was critically acclaimed.

As for the remakes, they're generally pretty good upgrades. Gen 1 has really aged poorly, but FRLG are fantastic. I never liked Diamond or Pearl, but BDSP were really solid and fixed almost everything they could without making fundamental changes to the game. I'm really hoping they re-make Gen 5 because those are my favorite and they are stuck on the DS- my adult hands can't handle holding something that small for hours on end.

Or... Maybe for most of human history we re-told the same stories over and over again for thousands of years until the relatively recent concept of "intellectual property" has forbidden us individuals from doing what comes naturally, forming this sort of weird resentment for when corporations do it?

Depends on how you define important"

The HD Zelda remakes would be nice to have on a real console.

It's notable that there is still a Kirby game stuck on the WiiU.

I've heard good things about Nintendoland but I've never played it. Still, that's kind of the soul of the WiiU so might not be likely to get ported.

Paper Mario Color Splash is notable, though I don't think it sold well. If they ever do a compilation of the second wave of Paper Mario games it'll probably get included.

I liked Pushmo World. I wouldn't mind a new entry in the series, though as a puzzle game the line between sequel and remake is kind of blurry and irrelevant.

Sega loves to do Sonic compilations so I would guess Rise of Lyric would get re-released at some point.

There's the infamous Star Fox games. Nintendo has been known to re-release old games that were obscure, sold poorly, or were just plain bad before. But I wouldn't expect that for a decade or two. Either as part of a compilation or hidden away with a bunch of other games on a digital storefront.

Devil's Third may end up as lost media someday. The spinoffs probably do too. Pokemon Rumble, plus the "party" and "sports" games.

There was the whole big lie about Obama's birth certificate because he was black.

John McCain was born in Panama but no one seemed to care about him.

Melania Trump was an illegal immigrant and that didn't stop her career or prevent Trump from winning the presidency.

Raphael "Ted" Cruz was born in Alberta yet no one seems to care.

White and Right is alright. I'll cede that maybe if some useful idiot with dark skin and murky citizenship rose to power conservatives might decide to look the other way, but you need to be at least one for them to do so.

But would sovcits even register? Or would they just show up to the polls to harass workers with a bunch of made-up pseudo-legalize documents they found on the Internet?

It feels as though there's a cycle with waves of this kind of junk. Stuff that consumers really don't want but companies are so convinced are revolutionary they try to shove it everywhere

3D TV's were pushed, but not that hard. Cryptocurrency had a brief moment in the sun where it looked like it might be viable. There's smaller things like physical buttons being replaced by capacitive and eventually touch screens on everything from phones to appliances to cars (it seems Apple might be reversing that). There's been a huge push away from digital media, but 80% of PS5's sold have been the disc drive version and the markets for DVD's and Blu-Rays seems to be heating up despite stores saying they are going to stop carrying them. There's probably a lot more I can't remember.

Companies have been shifting away from meeting consumer demand and towards trying to shape consumer demand themselves instead. I blame the Marketing industry- with the rise of the Internet, TV, and even cheap printed materials over the past couple hundred years. It's so easy to make a new brand that there's no incentive to maintain a reputation anymore. Craftsman is a famous example.

The power has shifted to investors. Announcing AI integration makes the stock price go up. We saw the same thing with crypto a few years ago- the most famous example is probably the Long Island Iced Tea Corporation changing it's name to Long Blockchain Corporation and getting a stock price boost without actually changing their operations or products at all.

We will buy what our oligarch overlords decide to sell us and we will be grateful to them for the privilege.

That's a good point. I've decided I'm not going to vote for Obama.

Tragic that someone so old still has to work a drive through to make ends meet