Creative Dis-assembly

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[Dionach]

Most AAA games these days are living off the work of devs from 10-15 years ago while milking the player base. Evil cannot create, only corrupt

[oberstdeutschland]

Every TW player knows: Much diversity means lower public order!

[UnhingedJessie]

Lesson for the future. If you create anything, gatekeep it like your soul depends on it.

[bordocofrivia]

Strategy games are one of the last bastions of normal non woke games.
I believe this is why they're pushing so hard to ruin them.

[dholl]

A hard pill to swallow is the realization that the studio and team that made great games like Medieval II does not exist anymore. The devs have moved on. The culture of fun first has expired. It's corporatized and monetized to the extreme now. Total War games will NEVER be as full-fledged, thought out, and complete again. Remember agent cut scenes? Remember having more diplomacy options? Remember full city building options? Remember not buying blood? Remember getting tons of factions as part of the base game? Remember taking prisoners and choosing their fate? Remember having to use unit tactics/formations? Remember how unit aesthetics changed based on technology level? Just gotta accept it and move on.

[mrbigglezworth]

The trend is that games get progressively more impressive visually at the expense of actual mechanical depth. Compare Total Warhammer 3, to Medieval 2:Total War.

[yvindlavold]

Small but important correction:
It wasn't Sega's idea to make Hyenas, it was higher ups within CA. I think it was the marketing division.
It wasn't until Sega themselves came to personally visit CA and look at this game that made them force CA to cancel it, cause they themselves thought it looked horrible.

[treydixon]

Loved Shogun.

Basically abandoned all social activities in favor of playing it.

Buddy of mine rolled around to stage an intervention. Put his hands on his hips, asked what could be so great about a video game.

I showed him a battle.

His response was, and I quote, "Holy ****, that guy's yelling at you in Japanese." Bought the game on his way home and played it for 4 days straight.

[Cunnysmythe]

"I don't play a game unless it has the ability to invade France because that's always been an ambition of mine"
Can we agree that Dan is more or less a national treasure at this point

[SouthernGothicYT]

I just want games to be playable offline >:(

[bloodrunsclear]

You either die a hero
Or you live long enough to see yourself become Activision

[BasementPepperoni]

I like how Nexus Mods banned a well known user for making a Mod for Baldurs Gate 3 that got rid of a Lesbian romance in a questline, whereas if someone were to make a Mod that removes ALL hetero romance from the entire game they'd prolly be made into a site Moderator.
This Fascist cult ideology has infested and is currently rotting almost every single facet of society and I'm so fckin sick of it.

[patmcgroin]

Gaming companies are best when kept small to medium in size and privately owned. At that level they are at their best creatively. People who create these things tend to love their work, take pride in their craft, play their own creations - which are also their hobbies.

When it goes corporate, the quality holds up for a while, but INEVITABLY gets destroyed because people that do not play the games and love the hobby control the process and ruin them. EVERY TIME.

It's fascinating. A cycle as sure as the rise and fall of, say, Civilization...

[riddytmeed]

Just look at the success of lethal company. made by 1 guy without any corporate shitheads getting in his way.

[npcperson]

Total War's Decline affects me MORE than Disney IP's.

[benyar]

I like how he says "I just want to invade France" and gets no reaction out of the other two, because they're also English, so "Yeah, of course."

[BasementPepperoni]

Take a well established IP, hire a bunch of slacktivists who hate said IP's lore and source material, then instead of taking accountability when your game, movie, show sells like sh^t because all of the people you're pandering to don't play or watch your product you blame it on the fans?
Genius marketing, works every single time. Disney is a PRIME example as to how they're just raking in the money right now, lolol.

[toastythebarbarian]

Thank you Carl for covering the total Warhammer mess, its sad how dumb CA has become

[pumacheyenne]

The Corporate culture is anathema to creativity of any kind. Art, music, architecture, gaming, with or without woke ideology.
Be ready for independent production to become the most successful in all creative forms.

[foobar]

"The fans were displeased and there was grumbling on the forums". Somehow that sounds so medieval