Just what the FUCK is happening in this industry?

Full spectrum enshittification of everything. The end of first world countries.

Incompetency crisis.

Nobody asked for more bioslop

Didn't Bioshock already get a remaster?

>>717232371 (OP)
>leadership shakeup and narrative overhaul nature is healing

If you make a good game quickly, you get fired. If you make a bad game slowly, you get paid for longer and still get fired. You may as well just coast along until you get fired.

nintendo won

I would like to shoot bees out of my arms.

Software development can lead to massive disasters...
>With protracted development spanning four years and $2 billion (or 0.6% of IBM's revenue for that period), the project suffered development hell characterized by workplace politics, feature creep, and the second-system effect. Many idealistic key assumptions made by IBM architects about software complexity and system performance were never tested until far too late in development, then immediately proven infeasible. In January 1996, the first and only preview of Workplace OS was released under the OS/2 family with the name "OS/2 Warp Connect (PowerPC Edition)". It was limited to special order by select IBM customers, and had limited functionality compared with the original OS/2 for x86. The entire Workplace OS platform was discontinued in March due to very low market demand, including that for enterprise PowerPC hardware.

>>717232371 (OP)
bioshock 1 was lightning in a bottle, even the creator is fucked

>>717232665
>the last corpse standing upright wins

>>717232543
They did but this is specifically a remake.

>>717233030
>bloated zombie demands a healthy man die with it

>>717232371 (OP)
Gay people go to school majoring in journalism
Gay people live in the gay bay
Game studios are also in the gay bay
Gay people apply for writing job
Gay people get writing job
Gay people believe that characters who actually live in their own world is hokey, and as such characters will make self aware gay statements that make no sense in universe(ie: OMG IS THAT A FREAKIN FLYING CAR!!!!) which shouldn't be shocking to the character that lives in a world full of flying cars.
Gay person writes bad story as they have no history of ever writing good stories and having irony poisoning
This happens 10000 times

>>717232371 (OP)
>original game looks fine
>already got a remaster with "better" (worse) graphics
>they were going to also fully remake it
why? why waste the money? why waste the manhours?

>>717233258
>Gay person writes bad story as they have no history of ever writing good stories and having irony poisoning
Fight Club, American Psycho.

>>717233435
They didn't think they could make anything new

Turns out that now they can't make anything old either

>>717232371 (OP)
it turns out firing everyone after every project doesn't mean that you can hire functional new people.

Kelley Gilmore is a marketing and PR person and was touted as 2k Games FIRST studio head ever.

I suspect her lack of programming and software development skills is a factor here.

>>717232770
Ken Levine is uneven. But he was on thief, and system shock and swat 4. I remember after Infinte he publically went out saying he absolutely didn't want to make another system shock.

But I guess they won't give him the money he wants unless he works on that.

>>717233494
>gay person writes about all the things they hate, positioning it as bad
>its really fucking cool
I will never not side with D Fens

>>717232371 (OP)
they know they can't get away with woke anti-capitalist bullshit anymore

>>717232371 (OP)
The bioshock 1 remake isn't cancelled btw, it's "ice boxed" meaning they're putting it away not working on it for the time being.
I would wager they cancel 4 and just focus on the remake of 1.

>>717233258
>>717233494
Previous generation of gay writers who have talent and experience and ability to write beyond just being gay are saddened by the failure of their "children".

The best parts of some of bioware's early games were written by a gay dude. But we're not getting anything like THAT out of trick weeks.

>>717233680
>as they have no history of ever writing good stories

>>717233680
It's not a gay thing. Modern writers can't see past their own dick and can't help but write about themselves.

Pixar is very publicly suffering from this. Turning Red, Elemental, and Elio were all about the writers writing about themselves. The scene in Elemental where the fire girl's grandmother is on her deathbed begging her not to racemix is directly lifted from the writer's life. Turning Red and Elio are literally the writer's childhood with supernatural elements stapled to it.

>>717233671
can we "ice box" all remakes of xbox 360 games for at least 20 years until they approach relevancy or purpose

>>717234010
I thought Ello's problem was the gay writer being unable to get over his gayness. You're right about turning red as that's an asian woman being unable to get over her period.

And to be fair, trick weeks is non binary, so that's not gay. I think.

>>717234010
Every good pixar film was storyboarded in one afternoon lunch session between several white men. Theyll never reach that peak ever again.

>>717234058
*burps in your face*
Sorry anon.

>>717233680
>trick weeks
Huh... He must be one of the few theymabs I know.
The others being the creator of Sneedalis and Yora, the artist that loves muscular women.

>>717234154
>I thought Ello's problem was the gay writer being unable to get over his gayness.
They removed the writer and retooled the movie to remove his gayness. Cope is that the movie would have done better had they not done that, but I remember the same cope over Brave and while Brave was also shit, I sort of doubt that the movie would have been much better if they'd left the original creative head in charge. Elio looks like absolute shit from the moment they revealed his design a very long time ago.

Weeks is a very funny case because he wrote characters people loved like Mordin and Tali and then he...I dunno what you'd call it but after he changed he wrote shit like Taash so something inside him broke. Taash is just the funniest shit ever. They wrote a character to be nonbinary and made her stupid and rude and completely unlikable but refused to let you actually confront her in any way. It was like 4chan writing a nonbinary person meant to intentionally piss people off as some sort of propaganda piece to the point she got the only explicit sex scene while being the ugliest party member

>>717234701
Forgot to mention while most people talk like they live in a fantasy world, Taash talks like an ADHD-addled zoomer. It's extremely jarring

>>717234701
>>717234839
It was so over the top bad that I though trick weeks was trying a pol psyop of something. Same thing with Dustborn.

>>717234701
How the FUCK do you make visiting the space UN, with pixar with a virtually unlimited budget boring?

>>717233494
Fags back then had to hide their powerlevel and actually function in society or get the shit kicked out of them.

>>717232371 (OP)
>moderns devs can't make water even remotely as good looking as the original Bioshock 1 with its physics intact

grim

>>717235404
>Fierstein began working in the theater as a founding member of The Gallery Players of Park Slope before being cast in Andy Warhol's only play, Pork. Fierstein's other early roles included "a transvestite in his own Flatbush Tosca...a 300-year-old woman, Lillian Russell, and 26 other parts in Ronald Tavel's My Fetus Lived on Amboy Street". Fierstein also performed his own drag routine in Greenwich Village, including an impersonation of Ethel Merman singing "You Can't Get a Man With a Gun".
Harvey Fierstein voiced Karl in The Simpsons.

>>717232371 (OP)
He was right.

>>717232371 (OP)
>Just what the FUCK is happening in this industry?
Hopefully total crash soon

>>717232371 (OP)
What? Are you mentally ill?

Ubisoft should suffer and burn. Total French Death

>publisher review

These motherfuckers don't even make video games or play video games

They just invest money, a non-productive thing

They should sit the fuck down and shut up when the DEVELOPER is talking

Hyperfocusing on GWAFICKS instead of making a good game will do that. Just drain your time and money trying to make every single resource from scratch.

>>717235636
>(((Fierstein)))
I swearing killing all jews would kill like 95% of faggots.

>>717232371 (OP)
Pic related was made about public sector institutions, but it applies eerily well to western video game companies too.

>>717232371 (OP)
Bioshock wasn't even good the first time.

>>717232470
This. when you hire too many people who speak and don't do the actual work things crumble fast

>>717233494
Fags back then were actually repressed and could channel that pain into their writing. Fags nowadays THINK they have it tough while asking for benefits when the world has already been treating them favorably.

>>717232371 (OP)
I don't specifically care if it existed, I'd rather just play the original. UE5 probably would have ruined it's distinct look and atmosphere from what was built on UE3. Even the remaster got some things wrong.

>>717232371 (OP)

So I have no evidence for this. And all the actual evidence says the opposite
But

Global iq has to be dropping right? Especially in younger generations. People seem so fucking dumb now.

>>717241118
The media blames stay at home sons for not finishing college and getting a job.

>>717233680
>>717233494
>>717233258
you messed up. what's happening is x-gen and boomers peaked 30/50 years ago and have been doing everything they can to destroy competition. young white men are banned from writing and x-gen/boomers are just trend chasing retards who fried their brains with coke and who think catering to brown people/women is super genius business sense.

the only people who write western slop are nepo babies and women who sucked dick to get the job.

>>717242061
This is a problem
Women get degrees more than men now
What is the cause? Fucked if I know

>>717232371 (OP)
You can't just shit out a AAA studio. Every still living AAA studio basically grew into it at the start of seventh gen, besides rare outliers like Machine Games who on the other hand were all seasoned veterans who had the simple midbudget Wolfenstein New Order to make.
>lmao we're gonna make a new studio to do (insert any task)
You also need a capable producer/project manager to make sure milestones are being reached, and concrete progress is being made. These are not a dozen to a few dozen dudes mashing away at computers, these projects need hundreds or even thousands of people.

The other half of it is as >>717232543 pointed out, what the fuck warrants a Bioshock 1 remake.
Trying to figure out what they'd bother doing at all is probably another reason why this project has gone nowhere.

Or maybe it's just the Ken Levine curse.

>>717232371 (OP)
They did it to themselves
A decade of cyclical hirings and firings basically weeded out everyone who had better prospects in other industries and made the idea of a career in video games into a joke
Video games are now made by people who either can't or won't hack it anywhere else, who put up with conditions that would make abusive employers in low wage industries blush (they are also commonly located in low wage countries like India)
To top this all off people now get college degrees in making video games, and there's nothing like educational doctrine to murder creativity before kids even know what their own style is like

>>717241118
We need to put the lead back in the gasoline

>>717240702
>want to make a cool drawing on my own
>have a good vision takes me a day to execute
>drawing is huge success!
>get 100 people aboard to help me draw
>drawing is unfocused, takes forever to be done, need time to fix problems some people made
Kinda yea

>>717240702
>>717244859
Reminds me of that Tim Cain's video where he claims that he wanted one coder to make him an aggro table and the coder's refusal to do it within any reasonable timetable caused workplace drama that required team lead mediation.

>>717244859
>get a drawing done in a day
thanks for reminding me I'm shit

>>717232371 (OP)
How do you remake Bioshock when the game is still perfectly playable, and doesn't feel like it's out of date

>>717233494
>two terrible movies midwits are fucking in love with
good examples

>>717243031
what makes you think a degree is worth shit
women's iq hasn't increased, but the amount of women with degrees have

>>717245931
add more homos and women

>>717243031
Boomer parents were obsessed with college and pushed it on millennials and youngest gen X like crazy. My parents got genuinely angry as fuck at my little sister back when she was in junior high and told them she wants to become a hairdresser. She eventually ended up getting a media degree and never work a related job in her life, ending up in furniture retail. Fortunately for her she managed to marry upwards and seems to be happy in her marriage.

>>717245931
That's what I thought too until I actually tried to replay it recently.

>>717232440
I’d like to remind you that the book ‘enshittification’ has a poop emoji on the cover and was released after the creator wrote ‘IRL’, which is a horrible graphic novel that this place needs to hear about sometime.

>>717232371 (OP)
>Bioshock 1 remake cancelled
Good
>Bioshock 4 cancelled
Even better

I see no problem here.

>>717234327
Lebanese whore

>>717232371 (OP)
publisher mass hires loads of low skilled developers because they think many workers = faster project
these developers are shit and ruin the game. the game either gets cancelled or comes out and flops (concord, veilguard, etc)
these developers are fired because the project has concluded and they don't need 10000 people working on it any more
they get mass hired again at a different company and repeat

>>717247905
>publisher mass hires loads of low skilled developers because they think many workers = faster project
They do that because traditionally growth for the sake of growth has been a sign of healthy high value company and brings in tons of investor money.

>>717245931
Shooting and movement are fucking horrible. And were like that since day 1.

>>717232371 (OP)
kek they couldn't even reproduce a game for free money, DEI hire are really retarded monkey

>>717232371 (OP)
bro just vibe code the whole game and assets, shalom

What is the story going to be about?

Bioshock infinite made it a many worlds where every lighthouse is just another version of Rapture, Columbia or some variation of them.

>>717248762
Shhhhhhhh

I think we can all ignore that part and just focus on how cute Elizabeth is.

Remakes getting killed before even coming out is a good thing, so much that we could say, dare I utter the words, gaming is healing.

>>717248890
Elizabeth a cute but the story needs to be something other than just another variation of Rapture or Columbia. Would be good if they did a game focusing on the Lutece siblings.

>>717232371 (OP)
Todd will save us

>>717248762
>What is the story going to be about?
Same thing they're all about; men should sacrifice everything for women.

>>717232371 (OP)
narrative overhaul means they injected so much dei shit, which is no longer in vogue, that they have to scrap the entire thing or else asmond is going to react and tank the entire project.

>>717249459
Kek

>>717249197
I was talking about Infinites story in particular. Multiple universes just cheapens everything. As for new games, I hope none ever get made cause we all know they ain't gonna be good in the slightest. I will just keep my(lobotomized) waifu near my heart for all my Bioshock needs.

>>717249308
TES VI when?

>>717232371 (OP)
The diverse "devs" they brought aboard to replace white straight males were not up to the task. A lesson.

>>717246918
Normgroids need words like "enshittification"
>worsen
>deterioration
>degeneration
These words don't make good click-bait

congratulations, chud. you won.

i will never, ever understand why people want remakes and remasters of games from the late 2000s and up. the only games that make sense to remake are early 3d games like pic related and remastering games from the early 2000s. why the fuck would anyone give a fuck about an extremely good looking game from 2007 being remastered? its completely unnecessary

>>717249308
>we wil be saved by the guy behind: Fallout 4, Fallout 76, Starfield, Elder Scrolls Blades, etc

Todd has completely lost the plot, he has no idea what the fuck he's doing anymore

>>717232371 (OP)
>failed publisher review
>narrative overhaul
Judging from increase in loxism from 1 to Infinite, Ken Levine make a game about whites inventing a technology to racism the planet in the 60s and the only way to defeat them is to steal their foreskins and drain the blood of their children

>>717249308
why do you people still fall for King Liar's bullshit? everyone rightfully called out and started ignoring Peter Molyneux, but still worship this retarded dwarf?

>>717240173
It's the same as that one comic where pink dudes make their own space, greys come in and push them out.

Pioneers vs immigrants.
Artists vs wagies
Dedicated small teams vs bloated corporations
Smaller, cohesive tribes vs civilization (germanic tribes vs rome, nomads vs china, etc)
Oldfags vs newfags

>>717232371 (OP)
We're reaching Hollywood levels of creative bankruptcy.

>>717233494
Ok-ish novels, but they were a good basis for movie scripts.

>>717232371 (OP)
Gonna assume they cancelled the remake because they couldn't make the environment look as good as the original.

>>717248762
It was supposed to be a civil war in a city in Antarctica with some sort of ideological division. It doesn't seem to have any real meat to it.

6 and the industry burns to the ground in real time this year

>>717248967
game name?

>>717253752
pretty sure it would be due to elizabeth being hot and how she acts like a weak, passive woman during most of the game

>>717232770
It wasn't even that, it was a great story and setting slapped on to a generic shooter that suffered as a result of trying to pander to fans of the series it shouldn't even have been a part of. If it hadn't been for Rapture and Ryan, literally no-one would be remembering that game

I only play chinese games

>>717232371 (OP)
>Just what the FUCK is happening in this industry?
An epidemic of gross incompetence.

>>717250672
B-But, what about those epic Reddith Ur memes on Youtube?

>>717256615
i should have added except Morrowind, but Todd was more the guy that okay'ed everything, rather than a true director. when it came to MW, it was Rolston and Kirkbrides game.

extreme overhiring from rock bottom interest rates and covid make every studio bloated beyond belief
now that the free money train is over they're collapsing under their own weight

>>717232371 (OP)
>What's happening
Devs hire cheap incompetent retards instead of paying for devs who knows what their doing. So the project takes six times longer and cost five times as much but somehow devs/publishers think this is cheaper

>>717232371 (OP)
>Just what the FUCK is happening in this industry?
It's dead and nobody knows what to do.

>>717242949
>banned from writing
bro they don't even bother writing themselves, they have ChatGPT for that

>>717232371 (OP)
It evolved, like all industries with a majority of male, white, heterosexual customers.

>>717232371 (OP)
>the story is ass, let's trash the whole thing
jesus

>>717257136
Pretty much this. Exactly why places are resorting to remakes and products with fewer risks: to at least stay afloat.

>>717258158
>"Why won't you buy comics"
Because the blue ape himbo I liked is a schizo before he died, and his clone isn't as hot as him

>>717232371 (OP)
Bioshock isn't that good, I can see the series being gone

>>717241118
I feel like I've gotten exponentially dumber in the last decade, I wish it were just me but I do also get the uneasy feeling everyone doesn't know what the fuck they're doing anymore, from videogames all the way to decisions made by world leaders, it's either that or people have always been stupid and I'm only realizing that now that I'm getting older. I think it's the latter to be fair with you

You couldn't make a bioshock game today because all the gamers would cry about it being 'woke'

>>717232440
we just had to have a Global supply and industry chain.

turns out globalizing the entire fucking worlds industry and Jeet/Chinkifiying everything, then bringing in all the Jeets and letting the Chinks own everything was a bad idea.

>"so in bioshock 4 you are controlling a black handicapped muslim ftm woman..."
No wonder the publishers didn't want any of it.

>>717233494
exceptions prove the rule, retard.

and Fight Club, while it resonates with young men, was never intended to, you are supposed to think Tyler Durden's crusade against civilization is bad. because it was written by a Gay Jew who accidently hit on a growing resentment from men about their place in the gay globalized hellscape.

he forgot that hitting on the message is enough, ending the story with the death of the driving message didn't change anything for the viewer.

How hard can writing a new bioshock be

>set game in a city encased in ice in the arctic
>completely ignore infinites bullshit story
>pick a political ideology to feature in the game and pick the opposite one to be the "rebels"
>put in some plot about eugenics so you can insert some form of plasmids again

>>717234010
this, our knew crop of Gay writers cannot write about anything but themselves, they also only talk about, and think about, themselves, at all moments.

the mind of narcissist cannot be properly comprehended by the average prole, only by studying them, and having a decent IQ where you can properly map out how they would think, can you grasp how insane they really are, average normal people fail this, and will entangle themselves to Narcissists and give them power on accident, thinking they are like depressed people or people with mild bi-polar or something that can be managed.

it can not, lol, not at all, full narcissists don't view other people as "real".

>>717234701
they gave in to their internal obsessions and now its all they think about or talk about.

>>717241118
lol no, Boomers were retarded.

the Internet happened, now everyone can cloister with people as dumb as them, and never strive to be smart to fit in with the average around them.

>>717259067
1 was not woke but very very Kosher.
Infinite just added more obvious woke spice mix.
4 is so woke it was so woke and yidish, it died from circumcision.

>>717250052
It's very useful to have a term for the specific process services go through once they hit a large enough market share to start squeezing profits. It's a shame we're stuck with enshittification because it's fucking cringe.

"Degregation of services" doesn't convey the malicious frog boiling scam artistry that characterises all contemporary corporate products and services

>>717254268
a floating city and a ocean floor city are way wilder than building in the snow.

>>717259924
The city would be in the ice, could maybe take inspiration from hollow earth theory

>>717233494
Gay people sure are better writers than boring straights

>>717232371 (OP)
Made for weird DEI initiatives that are now dead.

>>717259849
turns out Levine now claims 1 is about Jewish prosecution and how the White Man needs to save Jew's and then die.

not joking, not exaggerating, that's what he claims, dude is fucking nuts.

he likely didn't like the sequel because it shit on Communes.

>>717260054
source?

bioshock 1 was about libertarianism taken too far

>>717232371 (OP)
>Ken Levine leaves to go make a shitty looking, low budget bioshock clone
>Bioshock team wastes a decade making AAA vaporware then dies
Why do creative leads always do this, they quit only to come crawling back in a diminished form while the team that built them their reputation dies in their absence. Nobody wins, the director essentially chopped of a bunch of limbs, the original team has no head and dies then the consumer gets regurgitated indie slop.

>>717260018
nigga we could literally build that now, nothing is fantastical about that whatsoever.

>>717260138
look it up nigga, I 'm not joking.

this is clearly Levine rewriting the past, like the Wachoski "sisters" did with The Matrix "is totally about being Trans now".

>>717260054
Bioshock infinite was heavily criticised for insinuating victims of oppression go on to become monsters themselves, I don't know if he feels vindicated watching Israel get the gold medal for genocide.

>>717260054
True
When I played it in 2012 I was less "in the know", but returning to it now its just talmudic as fuck.
>>717260138
There are many bits, but after looking into it from the proper angle the ancestry of Levine becomes more obvious.
When It came out I didn't home in on the "germanic" creators of Rapture, especially when every log calls them "krauts".
But then you get their dairies and every single of them is an escapee from holocaust and just can't keep it down how superior they were to actual Germans.
AK already did the legwork to compile and archive it for others, have a link
https://odysee.com/@AmericanKroganArchives:1/Bioshock.pt1:f

>>717254268
Fucking lame, should have been a soviet futurist utopia on the moon where you play a communist chinese agent looking to re-establish connections.

>>717259849
>go to save the image
>start typing in "It is as I..."
>file system shows that I already have an image of this kind saved
Well done, past me.

>>717254268
Wasn't this plot for super early version of first Bioshock?
When it was supposed to be an environment simulator and not linear story game?

>>717254268
So it's Snowpiercer: the video game then?

>>717232371 (OP)

Games got too big and expensive

Real talent got replaced by DEI

>>717259067
and that's a good thing

>>717232371 (OP)
>publisher review
aka our sharesholders didn't think the cast and story reflected diversity enough.

>>717255461
filename you dummy

>>717235404
You call Choke "hiding his powerlevel"?

when kikes had a better grip on mass media they could manufacture success flow their fellow tribesmen easier

>>717260054
1 is about libertarianism which is extremely jewish on its own, the tldr of libertarianism is that goyim need to permit their enemies to do whatever they want while jews scheme against them

bioshock 1 and 2 were just too good for their own good
>>717233538
>and swat 4
swat 4 too? what a guy

>>717264457
Tolerence of paradox, moron. Libertarians support freedoms for anyone to do ehatever as long as it doesnt interrupt or impede on anyone else's freedom. If you want to paint a lawn to make a picture that is your right, but the moment you start painting my lawn then you've gone too far.
Bioshock 1 critiques Randian objectivist philosophy. Freedom is often hustled to us as a carrot on a stick, yes, but the tale of Bioshock shows that the line between the working class and the "parasites" cannot be easily and CONSISTANTLY defined, and corruption of power can affect us in many different ways, and whenever there is total control there will be the consequences of human imperfectionism visible.

>>717232371 (OP)
probably would of been a ue5 remake lmao.
that engine needs to DIE.

>>717265497
paradox of tolerance is another kike idea tldr goyim should be tolerant of everything unless jews don’t like it

>>717267069
Looking back I didn't articulate myself well enough. I claim that >>717264457
is saying libertarians evoke the paradox of tolerence, but the concept is a waste of time when recognizing harm or overreaching is much simpler than that, and frankly it brushes across libertarian concepts without addressing them.
I realize by just saying the name of the concept I'm not directly denouncing it or stating that it is the "fallacy fallacy", and that's my bad.

>>717240818
kek. Saved, me like

>>717232371 (OP)
test

>>717232769
The official inflation figures are garbage, gold price is the real inflation measure

If you can't make a triple A game in less than 3 years and with 50 million or less then you are failure as a studio lead.

>>717269368
AAA is a measure of funding alone.

>>717269506
Originally, each A is meant to represent a top grade in a specific area, I think it was budget, scope and quality or something like that. But the AAA industry took it to mean anything made by a large company, in order to separate it from AA and A/indies. It's a bastardized term that doesn't really mean anything anymore

>>717232371 (OP)
Probably they needed more diversity

>>717269368
50 million is a very moderate budget
no man could do it for less than a 100 million
200 million is a good starting point
300 million is the standard ,adjusted for inflation newplusgood industry standard
why all the antisemitism?

>>717260652
>talmudic
There's no way you actually know what that word means

>>717245090
I loved how brutally honest Tim was with flaming the younger staff at Obsidian, like that one guy who literally burst into tears because Tim and Leonard were having a heated (but not disrespectful) argument over system mechanics. The guy wasn't even involved, he was simply watching from the other room and broke down. What a soft generation.

>>717232371 (OP)
How much did they spend on this already? Wouldn't be surprised if it's around half a billion dollars sunk (so far).

>>717232371 (OP)
I mean where do you even go with Bioshock at this point? The original setting was already rebooted once because they were out of things to do with it, and Infinite just cemented it as no longer being even vaguely a system shock successor, and there's more options for that niche these days. Bioshock has little reason to be here at this point.

why tf would bioshock need a remake they already remastered 1 and 2 years ago
why can't they let anything fucking rest ffs

>>717232371 (OP)
If your game doesn't look like it can bring in 10 million week one it won't survive development. That's going to rise to 30 million sometime during the next console gen. Combined with the competency crisis going on across all of tech, that means most games are doomed from the start.
Eventually, you'll see entire companies reduced to 2 or 3 live service games. They won't last.
The only survivors of this will be Fortnite, Chinese gacha games, and indies. That's the future of the industry.

>>717232371 (OP)
Investors don't want to spend money on games. It's been like that for a couple of years now. Everything is getting leaner and safer until the interest rates go down but even with that they'd rather gamble the money on AI for hopes of a better return.

>>717243031
Women are just better wired for the kind of environments university produces, although the quality and value of degrees has been on the decline for some time now. I remember in my undergrad my religion professor telling us we should have been out "protesting" and the class collectively told him we weren't paying X thousand a month to fight his battles in the globohomo wars.

It throws me that the UK now has a smaller economy than Poland and is objectively a shit heap, but Oxford is still the most prestigious (and expensive) university in the English-speaking world.

>>717275015
Wasn't the remaster ass? That's one reason to try it again, I suppose

>>717276850
Society as a whole has turned more and more feminine, from the way education and policy works, to the way we interact with each other and function at work. HR isn't something men would do

>>717278306
>Wasn't the remaster ass
heard there were issues but seemed absolutely fine when I played it

>>717232371 (OP)
This is pretty good news, Bio4 was started in peak woke era and even boomers could see how messed up it would be in todays age.

You just know they had some weird trans thing going on with splicing being the key game theme.

>>717265497
not even according to Kev Levine
https://kotaku.com/bioshocks-jewish-roots-run-deep-1827482206

>>717234010
dogs can sneeze? huh.

>>717246624
this anon gets it

>>717247905
concord flopped because it looked like the biden whitehouse

>>717232371 (OP)
We do not need a remake of this game nor a sequel. They will only fuck it up. Plus we got Ken Levine making Judas for our Bioshock fix.

>>717279594
You seriously never seen a dog sneeze? Take you never raised one if you haven't.

>>717274319
Because they're used to echo chambers, they don't have practice disagreeing

>>717234701
>brave

The one with the cute redhead?

>>717260054
>>717260652
B:I is just ham fisted jew fetishism turned up to 11
>throw this ball at the mixed race couple. There are no consequences for not doing it, but there are consequences for doing it
>yaaay you made the correct choice!

>>717232371 (OP)
Bioshock never needed a remake. It already got a remaster. Reminds me of how the retarded MDK2 HD exists when you can still play the original MDK2 on Steam.

>>717233258
Almost all of the bad modern writing comes from women. Fag men are not responsible for most of this cringe shit.

>>717232371 (OP)
Companies should stop remastering games that can still run fine on modern hardware.

It must have been super bad UE5 demo to get rejected. Like Perfect Dark from Microsoft got cancelled because the UE5 demos they showed were so bad.

>>717232371 (OP)
This industry itself doesn't know

>>717279594
They can also woof
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83m261lAlrs

>>717281128
I never said gay men, I said gay people, all of those women you're talking about are "heteroflexible" ie: gay

>>717274884
space

>>717278408
>HR isn't something men would do

my uncle is HR but he's metrosexual af. wouldnt even be surprised if hes closet bi

>>717259067
We did when Infinite wouldn't say nigger

>>717281461
But that's all women so it seems silly to say "gay people" when 99.9% of the people you're referring to as women which will mostly fuck men.
Just say women if that's who you're referring to.

>>717235526
Now apply this to shit metallurgy, engineering, aircraft, hospitals, food production plants, etc etc
We are literally living on what's left of boomer infrastructure.
As the failures mount in number, society WILL collapse.

>>717281560
I didn't mean the position - a lot of people take whatever job they can - but rather the system as a whole. Men would just solve their problems and move on, even if that means firing someone who doesn't work well with the group. Women are the mediators that try to enforce a false sense of social equality. I.e. the longhouse effect

>>717281827
I once asked my boss why he is endlessly searching for experienced people when I self-trained myself into position.
>But what if they leave for competition after I spend money to train him?
I realized that I am observing the end of the civilization at this point

>>717232371 (OP)
This is what happens when you only hire based on diversity standards and not on skills

>>717232371 (OP)
https://theresalwaysalighthouse.com/
>Staytuned

LOL

>>717282449
>there Sal ways alight house

>>717232371 (OP)
not enough financial flops

>>717276850
>but Oxford is still the most prestigious (and expensive) university in the English-speaking world.
It's because the top jobs are all about who you know and not how good you are at something, and Oxford has an extremely extensive old boys' network across the upper echelons of society.

>>717281615
Sorry gayboy, gay isn't YOUR word.

>>717284087
cope

>>717274319
zoomers and alpha are failed generations but all the zoomers and alpha that sit on here and try to larp as big boys shit their pants and meltdown when you point it off, the mask automatically comes off they cant stand it anymore they have to defend their trash generations lol.

>>717269110
because the supply of gold is fixed?

>>717232371 (OP)
What is going on with Levine's other game Jewdus

>>717282965
It's an anagram for "southwesterly hag alias he". The game is about a middle-aged transman from California, you see

>>717232371 (OP)
maybe feminism and not pushing culturally boundaries, leads to creative bankruptcy

>>717232371 (OP)
Why the fuck would they even bother remaking it? The remaster is perfect as is.

Ceos and Jews (same thing) are prepping for the next big recession. The writings on the wall and we've been balancing on a knife blade thin edge like a looney toons character for around 4 years now. Only difference is between this one and the one from 2007-2009 is the Internet and technology has advanced DRASTICALLY so now Jews can sniff it much earlier in advance.

It's coming. It's gonna fucking suck big time and with how high tensions are between class divides compared to almost 20 years ago It's going to be very fucking bloody. You'd have to be a drooling retard to not see this.

The bright side is the comeback will be god tier.

>>717285934
He's right you know

>>717285934
This. The kikes have been pulling the bandaid off at a snails pace. They don't want it to come off, they're doing everything to make it as slow as possible but it's almost off now.

>>717232371 (OP)
The industry is full of Hollywood rejects that didn’t have the talent or nepo-points to make it big. So now they use gaming to cope and hope they can use it as a springboard to get into Hollywood. Most of them are retards. Not to mention their brains have been poisoned by idpol shit and they act like mini versions of corporate executives. Creativity? Barely. Passion? Nope. It’s all just cynical retards making trash out of spite and then getting mad when people don’t like it.

>>717285934
I welcome it. I'm a 45 year old boomer, the last recession sucked but when we came out of it my life improved drastically. I've got much more money to play around with for this one

>>717251029
Post nose.

>>717255525
Confusing BioShock with Infinite there.

Why do so many of you faggots want a recession so bad?

>>717285493
I can't believe it's an accurate anagram.

>>717286838
A recession hurts everyone. But it hurts the Jews the most. It's something they literally cannot benifit from unless they went full running man universe and while "the little guy" will suffer as well its not comparable to the level of suffering the Jews get from it. And once its over the little guy has a serious come back and the jew goes from ultra rich, to rich, to having to spend a while to be ultra rich again

>>717282965
>Sal
What does it all mean?

>>717233494
>both had better books

>>717259067
Back in the day the Tumblr SJWs whined endlessly about the little sisters, Elizabeth and the rebels being bad.

>>717259453
>>pick a political ideology to feature in the game and pick the opposite one to be the "rebels"
That's the hardest part since most intellectuals in the West are politically brain rotted and cannot form a single coherent thought of their own.

>>717286990
what

>>717274319
jesus christ. i now understand why the outer worlds is so faggy

>>717260186
He was the one who close down Irrational tho. 2K are retarded but they had to make a new team from scratch by picking what was left.

>>717269110
>logarithmic
Oh god oh man.

>remaking an xbox game
why?

>>717282449
how do you weigh a lighthouse

>>717232371 (OP)
Bioshock doesn't need a remake, and there should be no more Bioshock titles after the diarrhea travesty that was Infinite.
>Wait a minute, that card....
More like wait a minute, this game is complete fucking dogshit

>>717269506
The label AAA means that all the production values are top of the line. The archetypical AAA game was Final Fantasy VII since it had an impressive soundtrack, pre-rendered cutscenes, very detailed environments, hours of gameplay and a complex story with memorable characters. Years later the standard was set by Uncharted and the The Last of Us having full mocap, super detailed graphics, and cutscene direction on par with a Hollywood or HBO production.

>>717256736
didnt kirkbride make two versions of every design, one he wanted in the game and one that was too crazy, and always present the crazy one to todd first so he'd always approve the one kirkbride actually wanted

>>717288294
t. Halitosis

>>717288943
That speaks good of Todd since a generic CEO would just shut down all the weird ideas right away.

>>717233494
you're just cribbing from the /pol/ thread yesterday.

APOLOGIZE

>>717289103
Todd isn't a CEO, he's a director. But he's not a bad one, though I think he was out of his depth with Starfield cause that game felt like it had no vision. Team was too big I imagine, same problem plagues all western AAA devs.

Bioshock 4 was a Wakanda-themed city and nothing actually went wrong on it, was just a peaceful city sim with no crime system

>>717289183
I didn't played Starfield but it looked bland as fuck outside of the part where people travel between parallel universes. The game clearly needed more weird ideas, both in gameplay and setting.

>>717232371 (OP)
not woke enough.
also bioshock is too american for them.

>>717282162
I'm in exactly the same position, anon.
I'm just waiting for it to happen so I can finally die of starvation or exposure or something

>>717285041
Yes.
Why, how much gold have you dug up or panned lately lol

APOLOGIZE RIGHT NOW

>>717276850
uk's economy is four times the size of poland's...

>>717232371 (OP)
>remake cancelled
GAMING IS HEALING

>>717289906
>Uk is printing four times as much debt as Poland
Wow

>>717289876
No, he’s the reason everything went to shit with the series.

>>717233494
Those aren't even stories, they're literally just vibes (and degenerate ones)

>>717232371 (OP)
>Bio1 took 5 years just coming up with what setting it wanted
>BioInfinite took 5 years rebooting the game several times; last-minute rushjob
>Bio4 going on 10 years and NOW needs a reboot
>only Bio2 enforced a short development window for quick multiplayer money

The series is cursed with this shit.

>>717240173
That is 1:1 the timeline for Bungie.

>>717232371 (OP)
Too much bureaucratic tier bloat. Can't get anything done. Too many people who are shit at their jobs getting hired anyway. Adult daycare centers.

>>717287438
Yea, it would have no subtlety at all, the blue people versus the those marked by the devil(they wear red hats), and their leader, an unusually orange person.

>a coin flip in the sky city is a constant
>but the sky city itself even existing isnt a constant
????????????????????????

>>717232371 (OP)
WAIT A MINUTE

>>717232371 (OP)
>Bioslop remake canceled
Gaming is healing...

>>717234010
Yep. I've heard this same argument used, convincingly, about Star Trek. 20th Century Trek was written by white or Jewish nerds with a noticeable appreciation of history and literature. Some even had military experience. This led to some excellent episodes with a genuine intellectual backbone, clearly drawn from a wealth of knowledge and experience.

Then you get nu-Trek and it's just YA-tier slop written by millenials raised on Tumblr and TV Tropes

>>717232371 (OP)
Series died with Infinite. There's nothing anybody can do to salvage it after introducing multiverse faggotry.

>>717290573
He also created the series thoughbeit.

>>717290712
They were making other games while making BioShock tho. The actual development was a few years.

>>717291395
>sudden plague, the bad guys shoot those who distribute medicine
>evil dictator invades innocent twin city ruled by a guy in a t-shirt
>bad guys from underground city take hostages from wealthy city

>>717290712
Bioshock story was too good and yidissm was too subtle for Ken to make it by himself.
Bioshock Infinite was probably the only time he was not held by his hand

>>717293863
The George Lucas effect

>>717232770
Why the fuck were they thinking of remaking 1 in the first place? Like I could understand a remaster with the added QOL improvements seen in 2 but a full on remake? Fucking why?

>>717291524
The coin flip is the result of a bunch of previous contrivances that led to that moment. The sky city doesn't exist if the Lettuces aren't born. The logic is pretty thin tho.

>>717295515
Money

>>717293863
Ken was actually smart and was forced to finish Infinite in a rush. He come up with the constant and variables bullshit so he didn't had to come up with multiple endings.

>>717295515
They already made a remaster. The whole idea of remakes is to put sweatshop artists and coders to work without actually getting creative people involved. It doesn't carry the risk of making something new, just make new product for mass consumption.

>>717232371 (OP)
it's hilarious seeing redditors always blaming management
personally if i'm in charge of a gaming studio and they have nothing to publish after 5 years let alone 10 i'd fire everybody

>>717297236
They already did that.

>>717295515
Zoomies and normalfag sees the year the game came out and don't want nothing to do with it even though any game from 7th gen was already casualized garbage
It needs to be """""new""""

>>717296157
He hated multiple endings since long before, and was told by 2K to make two endings for Bioshock. Infinite was always going to be about the multiverse and pre-determined outcomes as the game's analogue to 'would you kindly'.

>>717232543

Those publisher reviews can be really tough.
Prey 2 got canned because it didn't meet Bethesda's high standards

>>717297236
management let them go 5 years without producing anything

>>717297236
It's the managements fault if they go 5 years without making anything too thoiugh.

>>717291836
Hey, but Lower decks was chock full of tropes, and was actually good, against all expectations.

>>717291607
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_u18_BKczg
What an absolute classic!

>close entire company except for like 15 people because making games with big teams is too stressful
>11 years later still don't have a product to show
ken is a genius

Industry's failure rate hasn't gone down, but the consequences of failure have risen drastically. Its sort of a problem with how numerous tech sectors have gone. 30 years ago, the idea of investing into the tech sector was ultimately about plugging a whole lot of money for R&D on hardware. Something that focused on enterprise and business systems because anyone who wasn't already working in a big business probably was a hobbyist using UseNet a few years back or possibly using stuff like Amigas for creating stuff like music or for playing video games. Video games were a niche product even for the time when people were playing more than ever.

Look at industry legends. Tim Cain's already been mentioned in this thread. These people jumped from failed project to failed project, studios they joined closed down, there's probably things we've never even heard of that they had a meeting about that might've had some funding or budget put towards them. Ultimately, they could job hop easily to another studio though or found another studio. Simply because they'd already worked on a previous video game and the industry was niche enough that hiring a guy who had some basic portfolio of Amiga work out of a university club was a legitimate "safe hire". Failure was normal, somewhat expected.
Now though? Failure means closure of a studio, and these studios have potentially billions injected into them, with intellectual properties worth potentially millions. They're a pillar of the tech industry at this point, they've adopted the same hiring tactics and corporate cultures of bigger technology companies.

Video game developers at the very top wanted to become like all the other industries.
Now video games and video game companies are seen as "too big to fail" and the consequences are too heavy to bare. Too much money locked up within them, one project failure means too much. Entry back into the industry isn't as nearly as easy.
There won't be a crash like last time. Merely a change.

only gachas will survive this debacle. Eat shit faggots lmao

>>717298214
Ken's own team has shown Judas off plenty of times. Bioshock 4 has nothing to do with him.

End of the world. They're out of ideas. that's why they just hired Jeets and women.

>>717234010
rampant narcissism is getting worse every day. how many dickheads you see out there livestreaming everything? too many. i dont suspect it will get better any time soon.

>>717232371 (OP)
The industry as we know it, is collapsing.
The current model of games taking 10 years to develop and costing as much as 850 million (that recent ubisoft pirate game for eg), just isn't working.

>>717260387
Why would he feel vindicated when he retconned all of that shit in the DLC?

>>717232543
It got some "upgrade" to coincide with the double pack release. It just showed up in my steam library one day. No idea what it means. Probably means they fucked the lighting and made it soulless

Why do people still complain about this game?

>>717232543
>>717299564
it was literally only done so they can track people
that 2K launcher originally was the piece of software doing it but people caught on and they instead just re-released the Bioshock games and Borderlands as remasters that require you to sign a new EULA that allows them to gather all of your personal data.

my point is that the industry is in even worse shape than you think

>>717300129
Retards being retards. It may not have been as good as 1 or 2 but it's still on the whole a good game. The positives outweigh the negatives.

>>717300129
The marketing lied about almost everything and the media sucked it off way too much.
The final product was a barebones linear experience with shit writing.

>>717232371 (OP)
>he thinks the mass DEI hiring practices aren't having extreme ramifications in development
The failures you know are only the ones that successfully launched. The games themselves don't even need to be "woke" - just hiring incompetent fuckwads due to forced equity hiring is enough.

For every game that flops that you know about, 10 more games are quietly cancelled because the company internally realizes how utterly shit they are.

>>717300129
Same reason people still hate on Prey 2017, regardless of its quality a game that takes the name of another while having zero meaningful crossover, thus destroying any future for the original's lineage will always be maligned

And Infinite isn't even a very good game unlike Prey 2017 so it gets doubly shit on

>>717232371 (OP)
probably not enough black people in the game

>>717254268
iirc from the leaked stuff that was posted here one city would be above ground and a mirrored, upside down version of it underground or something

>>717232371 (OP)
>AAA budgets are too damn high
>too many members on a team that should be small
>wasting money on shit that can be done by hand
>corporate oversight
>leftism
>Indians
>PC GPUs costing too much
>Windows
>next gen Xbox is $1200
>PS6 is $700
>PC handhelds cost too much
>PS6 handheld is $600
>Microsoft and Sony going third party
>multiplayer games are losing to singleplayer games
>Age Verification will finally put the final bullet in multiplayer games
>tariffs
>conservatism is saving gaming
>independent develops and AA developers are taking over
>Switch 2 is $450 making it the most affordable console handheld
>Steam Deck 2 will be $500 making it the most affordable PC handheld
>Nintendo and Valve won proving that video game companies can only handle this industry

>>717300995
>*developers

>>717300724
>Faerin Lothar
I actually like her as a character

>>717269368
AAA shouldn't even exist, fuck Sony and Microsoft for creating it.

>>717232371 (OP)
Multiple things
>Recession
Should be obvious. Between the economy swinging wildly because the powers that be want to make easy money off of the stock market, alongside constant and unpredictable tariffs, we're in a recession, and it's gonna get worse, and all the companies currently around are run by people who remember the last recession and are prepping hard for it.
Seriously, why do you think Sony said "no" to Bandai Namco basically prostrating themselves and begging to be absorbed before the Chinese got to them?
>Bloated Market
All the big publishers want their games to sell tens of millions of copies. The issue is, only a handful of games can sell that much, sort of like how every MMORPG wanted to be WOW, but obviously people will only have so much time so most of them will fail to actually be WOW (that example also applies to live service titles).
Some publishers recognized that and pushed for live service, which could (theoretically) make the same amount of money (eventually), but refer to the WOW example. Maybe 5 of them will be successful a year, while the other 50 all crash and burn.
>Gaming Market is Shrinking
Simple reality.
Phone games are still the dominant force. Most people are playing free titles that they occasionally spend money on rather than titles that have a gated entrance fee of $60, or $70, or even $80.
A good example of this is Dragon Quest, people still view it as some titan of Japanese games, but its market share has shrunk considerably since 2017. The latest major title, the DQ3 remake, barely managed to sell 2 million in 2 months, a feat the last major title before that, DQ11, accomplished in just two days on two far smaller platforms (PS4 and 3DS) with ONLY the Japanese release in its launch numbers.
And if you look at the demographics, Dragon Quest is primarily played by people in their 40s-50s. Since DQ11, it had shifted nearly a full decade in age demographic with no new blood.

>>717269110
you can artificially push and dump gold with market manipulation
something banks actively do with certificates and mine closures

>>717276850
>Oxford is still the most prestigious
for inbred european elites

>>717276850
>Women are just better wired for the kind of environments university produces
That's primarily because western culture has reinforced this idea for nearly a century that being educated and seeking higher education beyond how to do menial tasks is feminine and weak.
The idea of the educated man went from being among the upper echelons of society and something to be strived for, to something to be mocked essentially. Conservative governments realized that men with interests in philosophy and literature weren't conducive to the brainwashing and reprogramming required in military training I suppose.

This thread has taught me that age verification is a good thing, the internet ruined everything and led us here today. I want to go back to the 80s and 90s and stay there forever but with constantly advancing and evolving technology.

>>717298513
Redpilled

>ai upgrade
>game crashes
>”cancelled”

Never made is more apt

>>717298513
It's advisable that these companies start following indies and AA and downsizing hard.

>>717258158
there were already "Diverse" Western comics and comicbook writers
it wasnt Superhero Capeshit

and all the Capeshit was literally outdated Propaganda that was turned into shitty villain of the week bullshit with just enough tits churchgroups will allow added so they could hawk it to teenagers
Japan isnt run by shithead evangelicals who want to die for israel, so Manga shat all over the entire industry to the point theres only a single shelf for capeshit in barnes noble

>>717258158
>like all industries with a majority of male, white, heterosexual customers.
The audience of comics was children, then nobody.

>>717303004
>evangelicals killed comics
>not leftist
retard

>>717291524
It's written by a guy way over his head, and duct taped together with pathos. The ending is a holocaust of unimaginable scale. Elizabeth erases half of the timelines in their entirety, their Elizabeths included, because she has the sads in her penthouse, and a few American cities get bombed. She is supposed to have an intuitive grasp of time and the multiverse, and she chooses to erase quadrillions of people, millions/billions of years of human civilization. She can literally visit any of them pre-drowning.
If it was a Paul Atreides moment of shirking responsibility in exchange for personal happiness, that would be ludo, but the game just sprinkles magic dust whenever the plot has to work a certain way.

>>717298214
He has a small team so the development costs are much lower than making AAA vaporware for 10 years.

>>717300129
Their IQ is too low to understand the story and its themes.

>>717232371 (OP)
>Be corporation
>Take fewer risks
>Phase out B-Studios by buying them up and setting them up to fail so that you can collect money off of them through tax write-offs
>AAA games you NEED to bring in some bank ends up breaking it instead. Multi-million dollar losses because their budgets ballooned out of control
Not hard to grasp

>>717304126
If people never existed then they cannot be killed.

>>717305717
>She can literally visit any of them pre-drowning.
Bombardment scene is way in the future. She can go anywhere before that baptism nexus bullshit.

You know I actually replayed it recently. Why the fuck did people actually say Infinite had a good story? This shit was downright insultingly stupid. Playing 1 and 2 before it it's unbelievable how noticeable the gap in writing quality is.

>>717306760
Beats me. Liz is cute, so people were on board with whatever. It said, uh, something, about racism and causality. Quirky British timetravelers. A twist. Ken does it again.

>>717307342
>Liz is cute
Is she, though? She always looked off to me.

I mean I can't deny she inspired something in autistic modders and basically caused the boom in amateur 3D porn but I can't really understand why

>>717260308
we can't, we just have some shitty tunnels instead

>>717232371 (OP)
Why do you act like this was worth the salvage? LOL series was dogshit past half of the 2nd game and on.

>>717306409
That timeline got erased so it doesn't exist epistemologically.

>>717307987
>pertaining to knowledge
>all the surviving Elizabeths know what they've done
You are not being clever, just let it go.

>>717232371 (OP)
The "leadership" of the industry is comprised of dunning-kruger MBAs, longhouse dwellers, Marxist activists, and weak men who tolerate the presence of the above. The first three groups are childish narcissists who can't handle dissenting opinions from people who know what they're doing, the latter has zero spine and will gladly fire those dissidents so that the narcissists can have their agenda.

How is an industry like this supposed to get anything done? How is it supposed to do anything other than collapse in on itself? We need to destroy the socialist apparatus that makes the institutional investors invincible (this is the reason why we can't just purge these people at the moment; you can't really participate in the economy unless you have access to the 50% of the nation's wealth that's being sucked up in taxes and then funneled to the institutions) and we need strong men who will tell the MBAs, longhouse dwellers, and Marxists exactly how much of a cancer they are.

>>717232371 (OP)
>Just what the FUCK is happening in this industry?
>Fire competent people because they're all white men
>Hire mostly leftist women
>All you're developers spend more time on twitter ragging about muh gaymurs being raisist than developing the game
>Furthermore, they inject their politics in every single place of the game, absolute not caring a bit about making a good and fun game
>Higher ups literally just parrot the ideology mindlessly because not a single one of them has ever played a videogame in their whole life, and they haven't even seen first hand how the game is and feels
>Cycle repeats itself until company is struggling
>Now that they're struggling and money dried up, they're actually seeking good games
>All studios got gutted and not a single one can make shit
>Fail
It's basically the snake bitting its tail, they pushed the ideology so hard no one competent is left, or it there's some, their opinion doesn't matter in any decision and they get ostracized until they leave the company, totally self inflicted pain.

>>717308296
Elizabeth also ceases to exist. The DLC ain't canon.

>>717308409
>socialist apparatus
Misspelled Zionist there.

>>717308823
It's funny that indie devs and publishers keep growing bigger and bigger to the point that it's fairly obvious that indie and AA devs are just going to usurp the AAA sphere on a pure basis of a vacuum existing.

>>717259453
>utopia city in the middle of Detroit

>>717309273
Marxist Jews on one end, Zionist Jews on the other.

They're both the banking cartels and they both use socialism to rob the public.

>>717309292
Technically already happened with Larian and Sandfall. They are making games on the standard of AAA developers while being far more independent.

>>717309542
bg3 was funded basically exclusively by fucking blackrock and state street and vanguard, lets be real faggot

>>717309585
BG3 was mostly self funded via revenue from Divinity sales. You made up the Blackrock shit.

>>717309425
Putting it that way would imply that the ideology is largely irrelevant.

>>717300129
First two public iterations of the game were leaps and bounds better than the basic corridor shooter we ended up getting, and even then those trailers prioritized action spectacle over everything that made Bioshock or better yet System Shock what they were. It's an okay game with nice art direction that was advertised as so much more, when in reality the development was a total disaster and the final game was rushed and Frankensteined out of what assets they had.

>>717232440
First post, best post unfortunately. Just fills like the same general drop in quality everywhere.

>>717232371 (OP)
>series that never released a good game is having trouble releasing a new one
Yes you heard me.

>>717310063
>First two public iterations of the game
Aka a pre-rendered cutscene and a scripted vertical slice. They promised way too much, but it's crazy gamers weren't expecting it after the Killzone 2 controversy. That also doesn't explain why 2K hasn't been able to make a new BioShock game either.

>>717310247
Being underage while posting is against the rules.

>>717310327
Dark Souls 2 also.

Bioshock Infinite had the most bland, vanilla and generic gameplay I've ever experienced. Extreme fucking dogshit.

>>717310327
I'm well aware that's what they were, anon. It only adds to the bullshot fake advertising already rampant in the industry, and made worse by IG's volatile development being unable to come even close to matching the gameplay (or setting, that got changed too) in those trailers. They didn't just fake it, they set the bar in overpromising up until FFXV's entire debacle took the cake.

>>717310445
Dark Souls 2 was a different case because they were actually making an open world game with dynamic lighting but they had to redo everything since the consoles weren't able to handle it.

>>717310594
>matching the gameplay
The gameplay was pretty close to the second major trailer tho.

>>717232627
This.
If you work for a wage, why would you not milk it knowing that there are no real repercussions for taking your sweet time?

>>717232440
I still hope things can get better. I hope for the best for you, and others as well.

>>717310724
In a barebones sense yeah, the sheer scale and level of radiant elements and choices are otherwise nothing alike. Consoles then couldn't handle those kinds of battlefields at all.

>>717232543
A remaster and a remake aren't the same, people use the terms interchangeably for some reason but they're different things

>>717311087
Even today devs would have a hard time pulling a multilayered level as big. I was surprised that they were able to pull the skylines at all.

>>717295515
It's easy, safe, and a good way to gauge public interest in the series before they release an actual new entry.

>>717311228
>people use the terms interchangeably for some reason
Because the terms are obfuscated by shit like the Demon's Souls remake which is super close to the original in terms of gameplay, but no one calls it a remaster either

every remake should be like ff7 remake

>>717289789
Those numbers use paper derivatives, anon. There are thousands of times more paper metals floating around than physical to satisfy the demand. One of the ways prices are manipulated

>>717311228
It's not players who do that. It's devs who've muddied the water with the definitions. Look at the Last of Us "remake" that came out a bit ago.

Both shit stories though....
>le heckin it was all in their heckerinoin headski

ken levine is greedy hack jew for sure but at least he had talent
like harvey weinstein or whatever

>>717286618
why? you want to move into it?

>>717292112
I like to think it was lightning in a bottle to Bioshock 1. Either he had a tard wrangler on him and his team was talented enough to push through his BS.

>>717232371 (OP)
They got what they voted for.

>>717241118
It's funny that for all of its technological advancement humanity only made like 1.5 generations that are computer literate. Zoomers and Alphas are basically Boomer tier when they have to grapple with something other than their iSlop products