djr7

djr7 t1_j6b6oie wrote

yea that's not the point of the pass, yes it is a subscription service, just like any other subscription program. if you don't like subscriptions then that's just you're personal preference, that doesn't mean the service is dumb. It's not suppose to cater to just you.

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djr7 t1_j6akqii wrote

you do realize marketing is inheritently costly right? that's not new, it's been that way for decades.

also what companies are run by marketing? typically a company (a publisher for example) will set the budgets for marketing, and sometimes marketing costs don't factor in till later on where deals are made.

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djr7 t1_j6ajvzv wrote

cinematic games are those that take the player out of the direct gameplay, either via cutscenes or non-interactible scripted sequences.

being linear or holding the players hand doesn't inheritently do that.

also no, competition doesn't mean other types of games take a step back, majority of games don't fit the same mold. Popularity of an aspect "let's say open world" may influence a lot of games to experiement with that feature, but it isn't going to affect games that have no use for it. Even then the problem isn't really with the games themselves, but more so with publishers wanting to cash in on trends. The ideas aren't the problem.

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djr7 t1_j6ahqoi wrote

dude come on... if you write a statement and address it as an opinion then it's not an opinion, it's just you not knowing how to write an opinion. Here let me give you an example.
"In my opinion hats aren't real" - not an opinion and just inherently wrong

"In my opinion I don't like hats" - a valid personal opinion

remakes and remasters DO have valid points to their creation, just because some are taken for granted as cash grabs doesn't mean their entire existence is invalid. That kind of mentality doesn't work for anything.

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djr7 t1_j67t37x wrote

and how many is too many?

trendchasing isn't the worst thing in the world, competition is great cuz we get to weed out the shitty games and end up with some gems and new IP. not sure what "cinematic" games you're talking about since I don't think we actually get many of em, the only ones I can think of are the sub-par Dark Anthology games

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