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BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. (bsky.app)

submitted 2 weeks ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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Warner Bros. is also canceling the Wonder Woman game.

This is maybe the biggest bloodbath we've seen in this industry? What a damn shame.

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[-] villainy@lemmy.world 106 points 2 weeks ago

Sure is great that they patented the Nemesis system just to do nothing with it for the better part of a decade then shut down the studio that invented it. Brilliant use of talent and the US patent system there.

[-] technomad@slrpnk.net 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I know I'm in the minority here, but I really didn't like the nemesis system at all. Just like roguelikes, the infinite repeatability of it was a turn off for me and made it feel pointless. I'd much rather play a hand-crafted, limited, curated experience that actually feels meaningful. These generative systems just feel lifeless and pointless to me.

Also, fuck warner bros.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 25 points 2 weeks ago

I have the exact opposite opinion of procedurally generated continuity (because I play for the gameplay and that stuff keeps the game going well after the story ends), but share the same opinion of Warner Bros.