Some games are built for replayability.

GTA V was really imitating a 90s early 2000s sorta web.

Anyone who tries to copy Rocket League will just be seen as a shit Rocket League

Consoles are loss leaders to lock you into their gamestore and subscriptions. Just like with printers, most people don’t think about the long term costs so are allured by their seemingly unbeatable price to performance. Then include ease of use and exclusives.

Just look at the new games coming to Game Pass. A lot of it is crap. I don’t mean games like GTA V which existed before Game Pass, I mean the newly developed games that have launched directly onto it.

Someone’s getting fucked here. It’s either us, Microsoft or the game developers. We are getting a great deal, for the price of 2 games you get access to hundreds, so it isn’t us. Microsoft is apparently turning a profit so it isn’t them. It’s the developers.

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Maybe just don’t play Ubisoft games?

Free to Play games. When there’s no price there’s no demand for quality, so no one complains when they sell immersion breaking skins for $20.

There have been many great singleplayer games in the past few years

I just don’t see how this business model works. For the price of 2 games you get access to hundreds.

It’s all nice and shiny now but someone’s getting fucked here. Gaming is going down the path of movies, and that’s scary.

The problem is in Bethesda games they’re just slapped on. They don’t feel important to the game at all.

Take FO4 for example, if I were to design the game Dogmeat would’ve been your one and only companion. He’d be important to the story, and you’d build a bond with him over the game - perhaps in the characters mind filling the void created when his family was taken from him. You’d be able to equip him with armour, storage pouches, etc. He’d have skills that you’d unlock as your bond improves. You’d use him to solve puzzles, scout out areas or in combat with his abilities.

Or something like that. The point is companions can work they just have to be integrated properly