>>720631250
>it's so crazy to me that
>barely 10 years later
You just have a messed up sense of what "forgotten" means in our ridiculously hyper-competitive market, 10 years is a lot of time, enough for an entire generation to get over it, play something new and for internet meme to be saturated by something else.
Old games are remasted as GaaS to boost numbers when advertising, also baiting with curiosity/nostalgia peoples who won't actually finish those old games once their discover the clunky gameplay.
Meanwhile, actual masterpiece disappear in silence because their IP belong to a company who cannot pay for advertising anymore.

Inertia is not enough to keep a game alive even if the sequel quality remains a constant.