You're exactly right. Using Fortnite as an example, it started life as a wave spawning zombie defense game where you collected materials to make traps and ammo to funnel zombies into a kill box.
Then PUBG came out and they scrambled to add that mode. Retiring the original point of the game.
Fast forward a few years and it's become a catch all for every pop culture character on the face of the earth. They even paid to promote people's music and videos and whatnot. They also hosted political crap in the game since so many eyes are already there.
It's become a shell of it's former self. Oh, and loot pinatas and an in game currency that makes them more money than a Steam sale.
The stupid mass market appeal chase has made every game boring. It can't have it's own identity if it's for everyone, and everyone can pick up and play.
Especially something like the ones mentioned, but also RTS.
People still play AoE 2. The latest offering from the Civilization series was horrible. People still prefer Civ4 or 5. Heck, Civlization Revolution was even kinda okay on the 360.
Anyone remember Bullfrog? I still play Theme Park, Theme Hospital and Dungeon Keeper every so often.
For theme park, there is nothing else like it that I've found yet. For Theme Hospital, they tried with 2 Point Hospital and it was pretty good. War For The Overworld picked up where Dungeon Keeper 2 left off.
But most of those mentioned aboves are going on 8-10 years old too.
Every genre is worse off because of this. Every company is worse off because of the mass market appeal chase. Bethesda I'm looking in your direction.
I'm impressed we're at this point.
If you can't contain your sexuality in front of children, you should not be in front of children.
This is not a difficult concept.
Except for all the evidence, there is no evidence. Biden on camera copped to quid pro quo in Ukraine, while he was still VP.
Maybe there should be an intelligence test to get into politics.
The vast majority of people in there are vapid idiots with NPD who don't understand a god damn thing. With the exception of knowing the art of deception.
I think my old favorite from the late 80s or early 90s was this possibly Korean one with Robocop that people call what the hell fried chicken because the company name is something like Nottahelm, or something like that.
It's a treat. There's a music clip from what sounds like back to the future 3 in there, robocop speaking korean but it sounds like "What the hell friend chicken" and "yo I'm about to eat" and "can I get a dessert?" Just a real treasure of a commercial.
Their corporate jingle sounds hilarously bad at the end too. "What the hell, ding dong shit fuck!"
Has the no true Scotsman fallacy ever worked more than once?
Anyone with eyes can see climate science is a hoax.
The people who tell you not to produce emissions fly on jets to a conference every year to fearmonger each other into thinking they're all doing a good job fearmongering the rest of us into polluting as little as possible while they jetset around the globe telling us how horrible we are for having a gas range.
The amount of bullshit embedded in green energy is enough to justify a thousand nuclear power plants.
If this is true, Walz never expected the guy to live through the encounter.
... "Diversty hire"
Oh so you didn't get the job just to raise the black skin color ratio around here?
What's your job title? What do you actually do here? if you're a not a quota, no word associated with the word quota should be in your made up job title.
Just because you're a propaganda victim who bought it doesn't mean I have to give a shit about you or 'your struggle'.
There are many reasons why Concord failed.
The biggest being a toxic positivity work environment that forbid negative things being said.
But that's not the only thing. It's just a big contributing factor.
games and media in general went from being created for the male gaze.
Now they are created for the male gays.
Anything conventionally attractive has to be uglified. Anything conventionally ugly must be displayed as a display of defiance against the status quo.
Except none of us created the status quo, they're just angry at marketing and losing jobs to beautiful looking people because those agencies wanted the 1% of the 1% of people who look like that, and not a 3/10s most of the rest of us are.
And instead of accepting this fact and being okay with it, they had to upend society so they can feel better about themselves that anyone can be anything and to question it is the same as splitting open a live kitten and eating it in public.
More democrat shooters? We haven't had a political shooting since that bernie bro nearly killed that republican a few years back at the softball game.
edit: and the guy that winged Trump in Pennsylvania.
Yeah, that's what really sticks out. They didn't care about the deaths, just that they had a vaccine that could profit from, the fact that it causes death be damned.
Nothing has changed.
"We did it to ourselves to spite him" Sounds a lot like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
But I mean, it'll probably work. They keep calling him the lions eating faces party.
Yet they're tearing themselves apart to blame him.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to paint my fence, which will somehow cure my neighbor of his illness.
"I put myself in a place I knew that would happen, because I felt the need to stand up to a president. And it happened and I'm mad about it. Nothing really happened to me aside from a few welts, but I was there okay? Remember black people or whatever, I was there okay?"
Was the president there that you are mad at? Of course not.
Police don't just immediately escalate with rubber bullets and pepper bombs. Someone started something and it wasn't peaceful anymore.
This ranks so low on a care-o-meter I almost cancelled this comment four times.
"It's not the rape, it's that you noticed it" Ohhh. Okay so ...
I guess you just get to rape now. If anyone sees you, it's their fault.
I'm just going by what the BBC told me.
There's no way they haven't had enough food, given that there's enough of that one to make 3 other normal sized people.
If you jiggle like jello, while sitting still, the issue might be you.
They were given training to maintain the wells, and they did not do it.
There is no helping those who do not help themselves.
If they want it so badly, let them burn and pillage their own cities under the guise of fighting the power.
If they start that shit in your neighborhood, go full roof korean.
I am proud of the country I am no longer a part of. Please don't send me back there. Think of the children, like the one you tear gassed after we assaulted people for taking others back to their countries, of which they are totally proud of, by the way and would never want to return to for some reason.
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Where the fuck is your argument? You're not Schrodinger's cat both in and out of the box.
If you love that country, go the fuck back. If you love it here, why the fuck are you protesting sending others back so less of your money is spent on keeping them here?
Ahh, thanks. I haven't used twitter in a decade, so I had no idea what that meant.
I don't know a dang thing about twitter, but it goes out of it's way at the top to say that tweet was automated. I'm not sure what that implies.
I am science man.
They are wrong.
Evidence: I am science man.
Very scientific. I have a lab coat.
I fucking hate how right CS Lewis was.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ― C. S. Lewis
Obviously consenting adults don't know any better, but we do, so you must tell us you're a consenting adult, and tell us what you're doing at all times. It's for your own good.