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I don't think big companies know how to make a good FPS campaign anymore, let alone hone in on classic deathmatch multiplayer. The last FPS I bought was Half-Life: Alyx four years ago, and the first one to come along and interest me since then was Phantom Fury, but I'm letting that one iron out bugs for a few weeks before I pick it up. Even former TimeSplitters devs, given the opportunity to make a new TimeSplitters, made another Fortnite instead. Likely this new Perfect Dark was built to turn it into a live service that keeps players playing it forever rather than just making a fun deathmatch to play with your friends a handful of times, which would be missing the point. And all this is to say nothing about how those devs must be feeling when even a great game that sells well won't save you from Microsoft laying you off.

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[-] Peffse@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

It's funny how much survivorship bias we have. Movies, Music, Games. It's so easy to forget how bad some previous stuff was.

[-] aniki@lemm.ee -3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Nah fam -- go look at the movies that came out in 92 or 94. They were all absolute masterpieces we still about. There's definitely a filter of time but there's a reason for the precedent. We went from having a good bell-curve of quality to just 95% shit, 5% sufficient.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I’d love to see a scientific study that shows this, if the effect really does exist.

[-] aniki@lemm.ee -1 points 3 weeks ago

The complete lack of Hollywood creativity? You're trying to use science to prove art. Just look at the releases that came out those years.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls042393412/

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls076329509/

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

But what wasn't happening back then was prestige TV pulling the top Hollywood talent to streaming platforms for a gold rush.

[-] aniki@lemm.ee 0 points 3 weeks ago

That's not happening now either.

[-] Peffse@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Is this bell curve change a recent thing? Because it looks to be the same ratio to me based on box office Pre-COVID.
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/1992/

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2019/

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