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[–] [email protected] 29 points 14 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!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Have you played B4B? I just learned about it from your comment but it looks good!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 31 minutes ago

There's a reason there was big hype, and then it fell out of existence, with videos on YouTube dedicated to unraveling the truth...

[–] [email protected] 31 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

"From a studio with the same name as the studio that brought you..."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

"Hi, I'm the guy from the video you just watched. He's a clipshow of the video you just watched."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

Follow the companies those developers are now instead their former companies.

[–] ICastFist 7 points 15 hours ago

Square and Blizzard have been like that for ages now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Sounds like a good idea! A website where you can enter a product or brand and it answers when it was acquired by private equity

[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Could be worse, it could be Rare.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

You mean Ultimate Play the Game?

Best game Battletoads hands down

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

And the fine tribals of Arroyo!