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    7 hours ago

    This is why I’m quite pessimistic about GTA6; it’s been 11 years since GTA5 was first released on the PS3 and Xbox360! A lot of people forget that an entire console generation passed without a new entry into the franchise.

    The median turnover at games companies is significantly lower than 11 years, and even Dan Howser and Lazlow Jones have left Rockstar in the interim.

    The likelihood that it will live up to player expectations, given how heavily Take2 have milked the hell out of Online via Shark Cards, is woefully low.

    But I guess that’s the good part of being a pessimist; you’re either proven correct - or pleasantly surprised!

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    5 hours ago

    Easy, dont buy double a or above.
    Problem solved.

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    Then theres back 4 blood with 6 or 7 of the original 190 people from Left 4 Dead, but they still claimed to be the same people who made it.

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    Or, the private-equity shell company that bought the name of the original studio from the company that bought out the company that bought them and shut them down 17 years ago.

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      Knowing what private equity buyouts happened for products recently would actually be super helpful while shopping for pretty much any product.

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      9 hours ago

      Atari! Well, Atari Games. Well, Warner Interactive. Welllll, Mattel Interactive. Okay it’s Infogrames. AKA Atari. Who also went bankrupt.

      Happy 50th anniversary!

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    And remember this… A lot of those developers made those games when they were the indie devs.

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    “From whoever the fuck owns Atari’s corpse…”

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    Well they’re a corporation. They can’t just say “from Feargus Urquhart”, they’d have legal on their ass

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    This has to be one of the dumbest things I’ve seen gamers complain about lately. Many studios have marketed like this - only Naughty Dog gets this reaction because it’s cool to hate them now I guess.

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      Turtle Rock, Blizzard, and Rockstar also in this camp.

      Gamers are sick of being offered bare minimum product riding on the tailcoat of previous successes. We want new and risky titles that were works of passion.

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        This meme we’re commenting on is clearly a reaction to Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet which is an original IP. At the very least my comment specifically mentions Naughty Dog.

        I want original content too and find your comment agreeable but it’s not what this meme is communicating. The creator of this meme is simply coming off as whiny and saying a studio can’t take pride in its history. The artists deserve much credit and I praise the real humans that make our favorite games possible but to say a studio shouldn’t use their track record as a selling point is silly. Nobody would react this way to a FromSoft trailer saying “from the makers of Dark Souls and Bloodborne”.