Bruh if you're still giving a shit about what any pre-election polls were saying after they've repeatedly failed to predict so many elections I don't know what to tell you.
I said it before he stepped down- America is too misogynist and racist to vote in Harris. Even the economic left. Would Biden have done better? I can't say. But I do think it's pretty damning that Harris didn't even win the popular vote like Biden and Hillary did.
I mean... It's hard to really find solid numbers because Bethesda hasn't published them, but we know that Prey's opening week of sales was 60% less than Dishonored 2's was. All the estimates and discussion i can find on the Internet either concludes that the game lost money or, at best, broke about even.
It got great critical reviews. People who identify as "gamers" seemed to love it. But it gets compared to Bioshock a lot- Bioshock Infinite came out 4 years earlier and the market was saturated with similar games by the time Prey came out.
So I don't think it's unreasonable for management to want to move in a different direction. That direction ended up being a terrible one with Redfall, but i can't automatically assume that the studio would have been any better off making another game like Prey.
You can find every example you could look for in history. Studios who changed direction successfully, like Insomniac going from FPS to 3D platformer. Gamefreak went from platformers like Pulseman to making JRPG's and ended up making the most successful media franchise in history, while all of their later attempts to do anything else have failed miserably.
And it's not as if it would have made sense to have Arkane make Weird West. You can't just slash a AAA studio down to an indie overnight.
I still don't understand why people have so much hate for Bethesda for... Paying independent creators to make better mods for their games and charging for those mods.
I can understand criticizing the execution: the quality and price of each mod, the grey legal area where these weren't included in Season Passes that were supposed to include all DLC, etc. And I certainly wouldn't call the results a success.
But nothing about it ever seemed particularly greedy or "unfair" to me. It solved a lot of problems that the modding community has. It protected the creators from having. Their content stolen and re-used or re-distributed. Mods (especially for-profit) were always kind of a grey area legally because... It's Bethesda's platform and IP. Bethesda may not be as great with modders as other companies, but they're a lot better than the worst offenders like Nintendo. The Creation Club has better quality control. And it's better for the end users- easier to install, usable on consoles, no need to go to sketchy 3rd party websites or mess with the installation. I know people complain on the Internet anytime Bethesda updates one of their games because it breaks their mods- I could be wrong but I've never heard of that happening with CC mods.
Seems to me like most of the hate for CC comes from people just wanting more content without paying for it.
My thought is that it's revealing the construction and weak points of the death star. It may have been constructed in two hemispheres that were joined together, and that seam might have been the failure point where gassed were released when the internal pressure got too high.
Except then we should see the two hemispheres blow out from each other a bit, which they don't.
Oh wow I loved Moto Racer on the PlayStation. I knew there were 4 main entries (still on Steam today) and the GBA one, but didn't realize there was a DS one. That's neat.
It's neither as simple as the article states nor what I see in the comments here.
It's not just about staying on Trump's good size to avoid his wrath, getting lucrative government contracts, or getting personal tax breaks. It's also about stopping or rolling back regulations that would hurt profits.
Keeping the minimum wage down. Eroding worker's rights, allowing the union busting tactics that Amazon is famous for. Removing consumer protections. Allowing mergers and acquisitions without all those pesky antitrust lawsuits. Rolling back environmentally regulations, staying on fossil fuels. Foreign policy that allows these companies to exploit cheap global labor and sell to the wealthy. Heck, Musk at least seems rather cozy with Putin- i would not be surprised to see these billionaires try to roll back Russian sanctions.
A war crime according to... Who? Is there some treaty or convention that happened? Is there some customary international law that he violated? I can't find the Hague anywhere on any maps in this universe but maybe I missed something.
Scarlet and Violet may only run at 10FPS and there are plenty of other flaws, but it's still a ton of fun. And those are sequels, not remakes. The gameplay is a dramatic shift from everything the mainline series has done before.
Legends Arceus has performance issues too, but was was critically acclaimed.
As for the remakes, they're generally pretty good upgrades. Gen 1 has really aged poorly, but FRLG are fantastic. I never liked Diamond or Pearl, but BDSP were really solid and fixed almost everything they could without making fundamental changes to the game. I'm really hoping they re-make Gen 5 because those are my favorite and they are stuck on the DS- my adult hands can't handle holding something that small for hours on end.
Or... Maybe for most of human history we re-told the same stories over and over again for thousands of years until the relatively recent concept of "intellectual property" has forbidden us individuals from doing what comes naturally, forming this sort of weird resentment for when corporations do it?
Depends on how you define important"
The HD Zelda remakes would be nice to have on a real console.
It's notable that there is still a Kirby game stuck on the WiiU.
I've heard good things about Nintendoland but I've never played it. Still, that's kind of the soul of the WiiU so might not be likely to get ported.
Paper Mario Color Splash is notable, though I don't think it sold well. If they ever do a compilation of the second wave of Paper Mario games it'll probably get included.
I liked Pushmo World. I wouldn't mind a new entry in the series, though as a puzzle game the line between sequel and remake is kind of blurry and irrelevant.
Sega loves to do Sonic compilations so I would guess Rise of Lyric would get re-released at some point.
There's the infamous Star Fox games. Nintendo has been known to re-release old games that were obscure, sold poorly, or were just plain bad before. But I wouldn't expect that for a decade or two. Either as part of a compilation or hidden away with a bunch of other games on a digital storefront.
Devil's Third may end up as lost media someday. The spinoffs probably do too. Pokemon Rumble, plus the "party" and "sports" games.
Are they even good at gauging general sentiment though?