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SilverIll
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the very funny 2024 feeling that the live service game you're enjoying is going to disappear by the end of the month because it's getting shouted down by the righteous gamer mob


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I was a huge destiny 2 fan until the story soured me. then after i left i realized how much time the game demanded out of me to keep up. literally one of the things i love abt this new thing is the utter lack of timers and dailies and fomo bullshit in the areas that matter. it feels like some of my favorite singleplayer and coop sandbox-y action games with strong loops that i can play exactly as much as I want to and always feel like im improving myself or doing something in a new way, like shadow of mordor or hated diablo 3. I know its not for everyone but I wonder now if people actually did riddler challenges in arkham or if it was just me that enjoyed actually engaging with the mechanics rocksteady put together or if everyone just sits on their hands and waits for a new series of setpieces and cutscenes.

you'd be utterly shocked how much side content people don't engage with. people don't even beat their games.

i think people are also tired of the ip and underwhelmed by the 9 year wait since the last rocksteady game. but actually, if you look at the steam reviews, they're not that bad and dragged down by pc version technical issues and $70. i think people had fun with this game, it just wasn't good enough to really land as a staying power in the attention economy for live services in the wake of helldivers 2. you'll recall something similar happened with square enix's marvel's avengers.

its funny i dont recall. i have so little love for comics or ip's or anything like that, i haven't been breathlessly waiting for this, so ready for it to fulfill all my fantasies of really being the suicide squad. I just liked the last three games this studio made and that's always been worth a gamble on a change of pace for a followup in my book. for nine years ive just been doing Something Else with my life and then the game came out. for nine years i assume like 300 people have been probably crunching to produce what we got, which is why its astounding to me its so coherent and considered and that people are still demanding more as if rocksteady wouldn't have put another boss in if they didn't have to sacrifice something else they were proud of. Like i don't think you're wrong that that's how people see it but it seems so insane to me.