ArjanN

House of the Dead: Scarlet Dawn was released in 2018. I think light gun games are hanging on by a thread in arcades too, they're just totally dead on consoles.

I think I would second the argument that traditional RTS games are pretty much dead. Age of Empires 4 came and went recently but seemed to largely be a non-event. And we are getting Homeworld 3 and Company of Heroes 3, but those are very non-traditional RTS games in that they have no base building component, or at least past entries didn't. Can't say I've been closely following either's development.

EDIT: I have a vague memory of an RTS being announced within the past two years with a cinematic trailer at E3 or some other gaming show. Might have been ex Blizzard people? And I recall the title being awful and generic and I have therefore forgotten it. Or I could be describing a fever dream I had or something. But I feel like this is a real thing.

@arjann: No desire to spend my energy on that piece of shit again. You can get ciation from the review I wrote.

https://www.giantbomb.com/bayonetta-3/3030-63119/user-reviews/2200-32193/

I would have said yes back when the Chainsaw Man book started. Now with Bayonetta 3 being a big letdown, I would say no.

Besides, Denji running out of blood to start his chainsaws sound like a running out slow-mo juice in Vanquish, that other Platinum game. The feature killed a lot of joy in that game.

It seems like almost every JRPG is this way. Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Ni No Kuni, Kingdom Hearts, Persona. Their stories all feel like they were written by teenagers. I’ve struggled to get through almost every JRPG I’ve played in the last 10 years, except for Persona 5, in which the gameplay alone pushed me along. Why haven’t we seen JRPGs with more adult story lines? Where is the Witcher or Mass Effect of JRPGs? At this point it’s feeling stagnant, like the genre is just doing the same thing over and over again.

@ravelle:

Huh. The implication of your post is that you’re thinking about returning to NeoGAF because ResetEra is already having problems. I wonder how many other people are working through the same thought process right now.

Wow can you tell that GAF was gutted in terms of users. Even ignoring the shitposts and ban me threads in all their colorful forms, there's nothing of notable quality going on there since it reopened. I suppose that Evilore's response ruined the chance that it could go back to normal.

Brad said people were shitty for wanting to return and talk about games on GAF. I guess I'm just conflicted about whether or not that is the case.

That's why I went there. I didn't use it as a source for change in the industry.

The problem is the dude that runs it sucks, but the dude that runs most of your things sucks.

A lot of people that arent shitty seem motivated by hate for the owner. That seems like a bad play too

For the time being, I think they're discretely distributing the secret codes just to groups of people they've vetted to some extent. They've been primarily doing this through the various Discords that NeoGAF sub-communities fled to. I don't think there is going to be any open application process available for a while.

I think one good thing that could come from this is moderate people caught on either side of a damaging, politicised divide getting to mix together and share in their mutual appreciation of video games