• thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    This is why I’m quite pessimistic about GTA6; it’s been 11 years since GTA5 was first released on the PS3 and Xbox360! A lot of people forget that an entire console generation passed without a new entry into the franchise.

    The median turnover at games companies is significantly lower than 11 years, and even Dan Howser and Lazlow Jones have left Rockstar in the interim.

    The likelihood that it will live up to player expectations, given how heavily Take2 have milked the hell out of Online via Shark Cards, is woefully low.

    But I guess that’s the good part of being a pessimist; you’re either proven correct - or pleasantly surprised!

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    7 days ago

    Then theres back 4 blood with 6 or 7 of the original 190 people from Left 4 Dead, but they still claimed to be the same people who made it.

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      7 days ago

      Have you played B4B? I just learned about it from your comment but it looks good!

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        More focus on character loadouts, no focus at all on levels. Compared to the campaign selections on L4D, it was a massive let down. They needed to drop the card system and just build more levels. Instead they made a bunch of skins and such.

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        It isn’t left 4 dead 3. Personally I disliked it and never finished the main campaign. The levels I did sucked. But it’s hard to beat the carnival from l4d2

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        7 days ago

        There’s a reason there was big hype, and then it fell out of existence, with videos on YouTube dedicated to unraveling the truth…

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    And remember this… A lot of those developers made those games when they were the indie devs.

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      Biowares been doing it too. They rested HARD on their Baldurs Gate laurels. So much so they didn’t know how to react when they released DA2 to resounding mehs. And now you see it with mass effect and dragon age being the selling points.