cool_boy_mew on Nostr: You could already see it during the beginning of the 360 (it came first, IIRC?), the ...
You could already see it during the beginning of the 360 (it came first, IIRC?), the AAA goldrush happened and a shitload of decent studios died attempting to make a "mature shooter" they weren't ready for
What's ironic is that a lot of the big franchises were once AA budget games that did something right that grew into what they are now. They're basically not actually letting these games happen now
It also pisses me off in other ways. Apparently some marketing guy from Microsoft scoffed at the mention of Banjo-Kazooie. Basically, the dumbasses at microsoft bought the scrimblo company, probably bought them mainly for Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, and bought them exactly when the talent that did these fucked off at Free Radical (hence why Nintendo didn't quite want them, also Microsoft vastly outbid them)
They gave them a chance, didn't let them grow into it and now they franchises are... On Nintendo's consoles, because Xbox literally never bothered to make the platformer fans jealous with envy with their offering. No, they had to constantly chance the next thing (too late at that) with Kinect (They shoved Rare on it IIRC) and yadda yadda
They chased the next big thing, failure after failure, but they never tried to be innovative and BE the thing
What's ironic is that a lot of the big franchises were once AA budget games that did something right that grew into what they are now. They're basically not actually letting these games happen now
It also pisses me off in other ways. Apparently some marketing guy from Microsoft scoffed at the mention of Banjo-Kazooie. Basically, the dumbasses at microsoft bought the scrimblo company, probably bought them mainly for Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, and bought them exactly when the talent that did these fucked off at Free Radical (hence why Nintendo didn't quite want them, also Microsoft vastly outbid them)
They gave them a chance, didn't let them grow into it and now they franchises are... On Nintendo's consoles, because Xbox literally never bothered to make the platformer fans jealous with envy with their offering. No, they had to constantly chance the next thing (too late at that) with Kinect (They shoved Rare on it IIRC) and yadda yadda
They chased the next big thing, failure after failure, but they never tried to be innovative and BE the thing