• rafoix@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Games are not losing attention. AAA publishers have been copy/pasting the same game for 2 decades.

    Their greed made them risk averse which is just another way to say boring in an artistic medium.

    • Ulrich@feddit.org
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      2 months ago

      Its not just “risk averse”, its easy money. Look at Forza 6. Or the dozen different sports games that get rehashed every year. They sell like crazy.

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        2 months ago

        The location, modes, and featured cars are continually changing in Forza. I’m lagging on the titles and will probably skip Forza Horizon 5, but FH6 has great reviews on launch. While I can guess you aren’t into cars/racing like that, I guess I can’t really differentiate it from human sports games as much as I thought I could. A new football game has the same field shape, the same rules, and mostly the same teams, but just updates the roster and maybe background appearance? I don’t get it. But I can see the correlation to racing games if driving is a chore (not me) and if you aren’t up to date on the latest trends in cars (me). I guess both really come down to whether or not you can empathetically experience the game as something you actually want to do.

        It’s also been 4 years since the last FH. The shortest interval was 2 years, done twice. Six titles across 14 years. Forza Motorsport # is a different style and, unfortunately, has likely been ended.

        • dustyData@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          Top tier copium. FIFA games also release to raving reviews every couple of years. It’s just FOMO.

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            2 months ago

            And your last 20 comments are you being a condescending twat, so I’ll go ahead and ignore you without looking further. I’ll check again after you’ve done a track day

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        2 months ago

        Pragmata isn’t the game competing with crypto, gambling, porn, and TikTok. That would be the likes of EA’s Not-FIFA, Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty, Battlefield, Destiny, NBA 2K; the kind of game that sells to people who don’t play many different video games.