Pains me to see Marathon on this list. The game is so good in so many ways. Gun play, world building, narrative, characters. The quality is truly there. Their problem was that they made the wrong genre. Why they would spend so much time and money on an extraction shooter is beyond me.
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mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoThere’s been a growing number of AAA flops in the past 3 years. Here’s an incomplete list:
- Concord
- Skull and Bones
- Marathon
- Redfall
- Highguard
- Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
- Saint’s Row (2022)
- Lord of the Rings: Gollum
- Star Wars Outlaws
- Marvel’s Avengers
Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Because extraction shooters make money.
Well, some extraction shooters.
Ok, actually a very tiny fraction of extraction shooters make money.
But we can totally tempt people away from it, and make all that money for ourselves!
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
A small number make a lot of money, so gambling addicted CEOs want to try their hand at it
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I mostly liked Saint’s Row, I didn’t like the gang based on antifa (It just screamed of “Hurr durr, kids these days want everything handed to them!11”) and why is Freckle Bitch’s now called FB’s? That’s just fucking weird.
But other than that I enjoyed it
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I really don’t want to consider Outlaws a flop even though i know the studios do. I played it (public library copy) a year after release and it was plenty fun. I’d probably pay $15 for it.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Tbh, that’s probably most people’s reaction to it on launch, instead of full price. Hence why it lost money