>>58172029
I can imagine having a picnic with an ancient snake god and find amusement is the absurd contrast. Most people wouldn’t do that though. They’d think it was weird and geeky and lame. So banking on people like me and you isn’t going to keep the franchise’s money printer running.
>>58172167
Normies like familiarity. They like simple concepts their brains don’t have to work too hard to make stick.
Weird alien jellyfish that’s also an anime girl that’s also part Viking that’s also a reference to three different mythologies that also has warpaint pattern referencing the ancient religion of the in-universe pantheon you’d need to play every game to know the history of? Yeah, no one but a geek is going to even attempt to touch that.
But a grumpy cat that breathes fire. Even your grandma would get that. And then she’d want a plush or coffee mug of that.
Sorry anons, but tpc is running a business, not an underground coffee house alternative art scene.