it really was

but its a bit oversaturated in the indie scene at least

tribes ascend was supposed to be good but....hi-rez cannot make good games

but the vast majority of platformer rngs are not better games than metroid

ya

and metroid is not a game i would still play today

why can't indie devs in general make good games

super metroid was the last good metroid

they want to appeal to women, as a foundational idea for whatever project they undertake

so

what about prime

you're gonna get garbage

i think in general, ease of game publishing and development has lead to worse games across the board

indie, aaa

it's all garbage

but zero suit samus is an aryan queen

definitely true

ease of access tends to be the death of everything

we were better off when the barrier to entry was learning assembler for some new console architecture

lowest common denom production begins, everyone loses

or bitwise compiler optimizations for x86

making games used to be really hard

and there was a huge number of people who could not cut it and never got out the door

so only the fanatically dedicated would ever see their game published

also the fact that various weirdos and dreggs shitted up every major company at every level

well, i mean, here's the reality

its not just a bunch of old nerdy white guys making cool shit

you are a gaming company, all your actual real developers and artists who were good have retired

you want to leverage your brand but you can't make a good product

what can you do to have an audience?

you can prostitute your brand to political causes

it's pretty apaprent too..."writing" in games was pretty good because of the strange perfection of the team of Interplay and Black Isle....now it's almost all women

and...yeah...

ya thats probably a good point

in hopes that adherents to that ideology will buy stuff even if it is crap

mr. laughter is right

mass effect: andromeda made $110 million in revenue

how many times can u really do that tho?

pump out a shit product on name alone

in the first quarter of release

who knows