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Comment on Yakuza creator Nagoshi says the era of game size being most important is coming to an end

ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Here’s hoping! Not only has it ruined a lot of once-smaller games, but it’s also largely responsible for ballooning development budgets, so let’s get that down to something sustainable.

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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
God of war and Jedi have done great jobs of finally showing AAA they can make a smaller game and still have a great following. I’m so sick of giant Ubisoft worlds that have nothing to do in them. They’re boring.

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- ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I haven’t played the Jedi games, but it’s crazy that the new God of War games are somehow a demonstration of restraint, but that one from 2018 is probably twice as long as I would have liked, and Ragnarok is longer still, according to How Long to Beat.
  
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  - scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Compare it to a game like AC Valhalla and you’ll think it’s smaller
    
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daddy32@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Ha, you think this is to lower the budget or the price? Come on!

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- ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I know this is a cynical critique of capitalism, but even so, capitalists love lowering budgets and charging the same amount. Quite frankly, I’d happily pay the same or more to get a game with less bloat in a lot of cases.
  
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