At least Hi-Fi Rush and Pizza Tower were pretty damn good.

Baldur's gate 3 I have a hard time seeing it as a sequel. It's as different from bg2 than any neverwinter nights for example. The only common thing is the name and the universe, but many games take place in the forgotten realms. And many games took on the legacy of BG (all bioware and obsidian games for example).

It's not even real time with pause. It's not the same dnd edition. I have yet to discover the scenario link with the bhaalspawns.

I just wonder how they react at the office at EA or Activision when Battlebit got populair.

Its just funny and sad to see that these huge companies just don't learn.

For example, I play Call of Duty since MW2. What they do to Warzone is a great example of how to destroy a player base and its community. I mean, after Verdansk (I know there is some nostagia with that map) there was no map like it. The unlocking system for weapons is a grindfest for someone with a actual job and the abilities with lasers (!?) are just so stupid.

Comes all down to money I guess...

Add Armored Core VI to the list. Looks pretty good so far. Releases on the 23rd.

Your post got me thinking. The huge shift in Hollywood and gaming to almost exclusively be reboots, remasters, and sequels speaks to an over all problem in the gaming industry. If you compare how game companies were run on average in the mid 90's vs now, I think you'd see a lot more companies in the 90's were ran like startups, you had a group of talented passionate devs who had a grand vision and wanted to make something they'd love playing too. Those passion type companies yielded us games like Halo 1, nearly everything from Bullfrog Entertainment, looking glass studios and the thief series.

When you think of now, gaming is a much much much larger industry and many more companies are ran and old by mega large companies, who want to squeeze every dollar out of consumers. Battle passes, micro transactions in full price games, buggy and unfinished releases, and may other scummy things. The reason we're seeing much more in terms of reboots/remasters and sequels is, these large companies look at their bottom line and are extremely risk adverse, they're much more motivated by the profit then the passion of it, and as such want "Sure Things" instead of risky new IPs.

This is just a side effect of our favorite hobby getting so much more main stream. When huge companies only care about the profits and keeping their stock prices up, it's less about the passion more about greed. I hate it, but there isn't a solution.

I've really been enjoying Remnant 2 as well.

Crossing my fingers that Starfield has an acceptable launch. I don't need an amazing launch. I just need it to not be Redfall, Jedi Survivor, or TLOU.

Except in almost every single instance, a sequel of a beloved game sold better than the original? There is a reason companies just prefer pumping out sequels instead of new IPs.

cries in KSP2

Remnant 2 and Silksong (maybe?) as well.

I wouldn't be so harsh on Atlas Fallen, it's getting mixed reviews but it's not a bad game like Gollum or Redfall.

I liked Capcom's exoprimal, havnt played in a while, wish there was a lot more content, but there is something there for sure. Maybe starfield will be ight

Let us not forget that 2022 was the year of Babylon's Fall.

Exoprimal is pretty darn fun