Were they ever really that good in the first place, or did everyone just latch onto them as a way of coping with AAA western gaming going to absolute shit in the 2010s?
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Believe it or not, there was a time where western dev teams looked like this and they regularly created games that were fun to play and dominated their genre.
>90s-2000s: asset flip shovelware >2000-2005: Experimental era >2006-2011: Death of AC and birth of Souls >2011-2018: Souls natural life cycle concludes >2019-2025: asset flip shovelware