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desmosthenes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’ve never made good games. They sometimes allowed one of their devs to make a good game when they weren’t looking, but no one is perfect.

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  • Ashiette@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    FIFA 99, Need for Speed : Underground, The Sims 2, C&C : Red Alert 2, SSX3, Black and White, LOTR 2 & 3, Burnout 3, Battlefield Vietnam, …

    There was a time when they were good, but they fell out of grace in the second half of the 2000s

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They had a reputation for buying better companies to own the IPs and gutting the teams before the late 2000s. It’s sort of cathartic seeing that happen to them now, but not really because all the shitheels who made those decisions will probably be getting a nice payout while the actually workers will just get kicked to the curb.

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  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Eh some of their stuff from the 80s was pretty groovy.

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    • KalSeth@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Didn’t they make Archon?

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      • psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah Archon, the Might & Magic series, Road Rash etc.

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  • barnaclebutt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, they made some bangers before going evil.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They accidentally made a really good Star wars game several years ago, but when they noticed they abandoned it. All the reviews for it were basically along on the lines of, this is really good, but don’t expect any updates.

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