Gamers:
“HOLY CRAP MASS EFFECT ANDROMEDA WAS AN ABOMINATION! SO MUCH SO WE JUST HAD TO SEND DEATH AND RAPE THREATS TO AN ANIMATOR AT BIOWARE. WHY CAN’T DEVELOPERS STOP SELLING US UNFINISHED GAMES?!?! WHY CAN’T THEY TAKE THE EXTRA TIME??? IS IT BECAUSE ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS MONEY??!?!??!?!?!”

Yes.

Who even cares at this point...

I can’t be the only one excited about the Wipeout collection...

Not sure what I want to see specifically, but I am curious about Nintendo’s long-term plan with Switch. The $20/year online service with a library of older games seems way more interesting than the ‘one game a month and its gone’ interpretation Gamers were screaming about originally.

it didn’t go anywhere...

It’s cute how they threw a dev known for knocking out games and sequels highly efficiently under the bus, than blame their golden child Nomura, who they had to pull off FFXV to make sure it actually came out this decade.

Unless you buy them on PC (Skyrim, Bioshock) - then you just get it for free.

But then you add pressure by not buying store-exclusive items.

they only face problems they’d rather not deal with

That’s like saying because Big Macs are only sold at McDonald’s, they never have to change the prince in light of a Whopper existing. There’s just no competition out there!

and as we all know, we can’t stomach a place pursuing its own interests, even if it has no effect (or a positive one) on us!

I liked that idea 1000x better than the game that came out

It’s Bioshock in space without its head up its own ass, like Bioshock. So maybe?

I was under the impression they use whoever/whatever they want, because this stuff is usually for internal presentation purposes and (hopefully) never seen by the public or taken as a promise to lock in certain existing work/talent/etc.

It’s super easy to like your personal interpretations, wants, and dreams of a pie-in-the-sky concept that will never be released vs. something that actually exists and can be examined, so...I have no idea why you’re making this statement like vaporware is the undeniable killer app vs. what exists.

Or maybe a testament to: current Sonic fans don’t value what older fans did, and rather than understand that, dismiss it as some odd anomaly or ‘wrong’ thinking.

I mean at one point Sonic was crazy popular

Seeing kids play it at conventions, stores, even barber shops, alone or with their siblings, makes me think the ‘gimmick’ isn’t really dependent on Gamers liking or legitimizing it in order for it to work with a wider audience.

You ever get the feeling that many AAA developers (heck, devs period) want nothing more than to make movies, and are kind of embarrassed that they *have* to put the game part of the game in their game?