>>715084868 (OP)
To be fair it's not hard to be better than a shit game like Dark Messiah. It doesn't have to do anything with being released before October 25, 2006
>>715085642
This. I rented it on release, got filtered by the absolute dogshit opening sequence, and once I tried it again 15 years later I was disappointed that I was correct the first time. The novelty wears off and the story is horrendously juvenile, Twilight tier YA slop
>>715084868 (OP)
DM wasnt just great, it was the prototype of a 'perfect game' if it was iterated upon
but not only was it never iterated upon (outside dishonored at most)
it was never even copied
There's a lot of garbage and average games that have been lost to the sands of times but yeah there are way more bangers in the past than in recent years.