It's interesting you bring up Nier Replicant because I'm also not totally sure what I think about it. I only played it because I enjoyed its sequel Automata so much. When I finally got to the original, the story was interesting enough but I wasn't having a ton of fun in the act of playing. Still, I earned all the endings and even got a good way towards all achievements (the amount of material grinding made me throw in the towel). I just have to wonder if I did all that purely because I wanted to recapture the feeling of Automata. If Replicant wasn't connected to it, would I even have finished it? I'm not sure.
On the other hand, I'm basically committed to beating every Yakuza game at this point, regardless of quality.
The CEO of Atari recently did an interview with MinnMax where he admitted the company is not profitable. So I don't really know how all this will shake out, I hope it's positive but I'm not exactly optimistic.
I've put so many hours into this game, one of the all time greats. In regards to freelancer, I struggled a lot when I tried to play it. I was on the PS4 version so the long loading times were frequent which annoyed me a lot. On this very day, I got a PS5 and downloaded that version of the game, so maybe I'll have more success with that. ...Who am I kidding, there are so many games coming out, I have no idea when I could get back to it.
@glots: It's a great point that we're not just losing a studio, but effectively an entire genre. Perhaps another team will revive it again, but I struggle to see it done with the same care and production value of Mimimi. They certainly left their mark.
This whole fiasco is a conspiracy by Jim Ryan to provoke a negative response to any game older than The Last of Us.
I wanted to play Ridge Racer Type 4 a few weeks ago and I rembered hearing it was ported. But then I saw you have to be a subscriber. Forget that noise. I was willing to buy the game again - instead, I ended up plugging my PS2 into a tiny handmedown CRT and sitting on the floor which unexpectedly went a long way to reviving nostalgia.
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