Companies are never your friends.

That just seems so anti-SCP to me.

Maybe because they didn’t actually made a game about SCP.

Yeah I lowered the difficulty on some occasions during the game, the Rat King was one of them. The difficulty spikes were pretty rough, I wonder if this was intentional.

I also had fun discovering the tabletop game. I enjoyed looking at other people’s homes in general.

Yes. It‘s basic theory. Everyone does it all the time and you‘ll always find a customer/user who will say that some aspect of quality has been reduced too much.

Laziness implies that the workers who make the actual games are lazy which is obviously not true, unfair and audacious. Just use the right words.

To optimise project parameters.

It’s not laziness, that’s always been a stupid oversimplification. The workers work hard on your entertainment product. It‘s a business decision.

Stardew Valley, Morrowind, Republic Commando, Anno 1404, Max Payne 2

Don‘t most addictions?

20?? The devs gonna burn out just as fast.

Games generally, in every budget class, take longer to develop but they are not generally worse.

My longest playthrough this year has been The Last Of Us Pt. II I think. Didn’t really play a game with a freeform game loop.

The big money makers are Fortnite, yearly iterations of CoD and EA Sports titles, and mobile gacha crap. They overshadow „smaller“ AAA releases, which still mostly don’t have any mtx. Your examples are legendary. But do you remember any other flop on the 2600? Or games like Haze? Now forgotten like most other flops.

I think you’re high on nostalgia. Failures are not memorable, that’s why we can’t remember them. What you describe are a bunch of big money makers from the big publishers. It’s very easy to stear around them and still get more great games than there’s time to play them.

Like most major releases the past decade.

That’s disingenuous. You have terrible games now, you’ve got them 40 years ago.

There are a bunch of these in this shop. Another one that caught my eye is Godhusk.

Pretty sure China doesn’t care about Abe Lincoln. The regime cares about what the people should see and hear to maintain power, and the people are used to it.

That’s also heavily implied during the game.

Half-Life 2, Max Payne 2 and Mass Effect because I‘ve been an impressionable teenager and a nitpicking adult.