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Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape (www.gamespot.com)

submitted 8 months ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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I don't think big companies know how to make a good FPS campaign anymore, let alone hone in on classic deathmatch multiplayer. The last FPS I bought was Half-Life: Alyx four years ago, and the first one to come along and interest me since then was Phantom Fury, but I'm letting that one iron out bugs for a few weeks before I pick it up. Even former TimeSplitters devs, given the opportunity to make a new TimeSplitters, made another Fortnite instead. Likely this new Perfect Dark was built to turn it into a live service that keeps players playing it forever rather than just making a fun deathmatch to play with your friends a handful of times, which would be missing the point. And all this is to say nothing about how those devs must be feeling when even a great game that sells well won't save you from Microsoft laying you off.

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[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

As someone with an avatar of the Q from Quake 1, I can avidly say that writing was not better in the past.

Just off the top of my head from the last decade:

-Baldurs gate 3 -Firewatch -Return of the Obra Dinn -Disco Elysium -Tyranny -Shadowrun Dragonfall -Red Dead Redemption 2 -Witcher 3 -Hellblade Senuas Sacrifice -Life is Strange -Prey (2017) -The Red Strings Club

Seriously, go check the story to Perfect Dark. Hilarious? Yes. A "good story"? No.

There are myriad issues in gaming now that weren't there in the past, but good writing is (thankfully) still around.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 months ago

The writing in Disco Elysium is so good that it wouldn't matter if the gameplay between dialogue was just some match 4 bejewelled ripoff, it'd be worth it.

Anyway, I agree we've got so much better in the last decade+ at fitting fiction and gameplay together in a satisfying and complimentary manner.

I remember finding games like Chrono Trigger being as stumbling upon an overflowing oasis, compared to the paltry and usually badly translated heroes journeys that we typically got.

But now I can think of dozens of games, many of them indie, that have stories on par (and if I set aside my nostalgia goggles, even surpassing) that of old classics like CT.