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Good points. But to be fair I feel this way about 99% of the games being developed over the past few years. Huge marketing budgets, big flashy announcement trai
by nxsynonym 9y ago
Good points. But to be fair I feel this way about 99% of the games being developed over the past few years. Huge marketing budgets, big flashy announcement trailers, followed by repetitive delays, pay-walled content, and broken games at launch.
As much as I love the AoE franchise, I doubt this is the comeback everyone thinks it is.
Game studios don't make good games anymore, they create and sell hype, and we keep buying into it.
- baby 9y agoExcept for a few ones. Naughty Dog comes to my mind. Everything they have produced have been consistently good. I'm following the ex team of infinity wards as well (haven't played titan fall but heard good things). Nintendo always produce good flagship games. What else can be praised out there?
- nxsynonym 9y agoYeah I mean there has been a fem gems, but it's a small fraction of the crap that's released. The bigger point is that there's no incentive to release polished, finalized games. People will pay for it either way, based on hype alone.
- tapoxi 9y agoBlizzard. Their last two games (Overwatch, Hearthstone) were incredible. I think their only mediocre game was Diablo III, but they actively worked to fix it.
- baby 9y agoI wanted to include Blizzard but I'm too sour over Diablo III :/
- InitialLastName 9y agoParadox Development and (the associated) Colossal Order have repeatedly produced some fantastic games. Paradox's grand strategy games (Crusader Kings II, EU 4 and Victoria, among others) are absurdly deep and have a really broad play style continuum. Cities:Skylines definitely has its flaws, but it handily took the torch from the fumbling wasteland of SimCity 2013. Edit: To add, both series/companies do a great job of using their DLC to add actual, refreshing content to the game. That's a big win in my book over "Buy this new hat!"