Why is every single big game flopping this year?

Why is every single big game flopping this year?

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people get scarred and quit spending money when their futures are uncertain

Why do you keep reposting the same cancerous anime image and why do people keep responding to your weak bait?

Pandering

NBA 2K17 was a big success famalam

Do you know what else is flopping?

People realized indie games are cheaper and better

Your weanus peanus?

after 3 years Sony sold less ps4 than ps2 and ps1

this generation is the worst generation ever

>people
You mean those who fell for the pc meme?

Its the same shit in hollywood movies

Zero creativity, endless sequels, and pandering to sjw losers while insulting half of the country at the same time. If hollywood and san francisco developers think niggers and paco will buy watch dogs and see nonstop super hero shit till the end of time, let them at it. Most fresh game I played this year was recore. I don't even care about its flaws because its a breath of fresh air for the most part and a non nintendo 3D platformer is something to celebrate at this point in time. Entertainment as a whole is fucking reaching all time lows

Cause folks are putting shit to unrealistic standards and then pissing their pants when those standards aren't met.

And most of the community is becoming jaded with the oversaturation of mediocre games.

They aren't. At all. Most games have been major money makers this year with DOOM and Overwatch being otherworldly successes.

because current year is soon over
a new age begins, and with it comes good games

expensive consoles, expensive games, shitty economy
as someone who plays a lot of old shit and indie games i think it's been a pretty good year

>Why is every single big game flopping this year?
Because nobody asked for, and/or wanted them.

>Hyper Light Drifter
>Enter the Gungeon
>Pokken
>Final Fantasy XV

>flopping

kikes, masons, vaginas

underrated post

>Cause folks are putting shit to unrealistic standards and then pissing their pants when those standards aren't met.
lol kill yourself.

Denuvo and progressive diversity. At times it's just a shit game that could've been better but devs listened to idiots (usually publishers and executives)

Only the shitty western ones.

Sales aren't reaching the publishers' unrealistically-high sales expectations, but it's not as if the studios are being put in the red.

I want to pull down joules scarf and violently kiss her cheeks and nose

>but it's not as if the studios are being put in the red
Oh they will be

>AAA games appeal to sjw, lgbt, proggresist, etc
>These people don't actually care about videogames
>Publishers refuse to believe this, because otherwise their tran sex slaves would get mad at them
>Their games don't sell
>They blame piracy
>They add denuvo
>Their games still don't sell
>???

>EA dying in your lifetime
People are still eating their shit, and will continue to do so.

Well Pokémon isn't.

Who said anything about EA dying? user mentioned studios, not publishers

APOLOGIZE

>thq died
>ubisoft and ea and blizzard will live on for several more decades

source?

haha

>thq died
:^)

>scarred

>Three games that went completely forgotten a week after release and a game with such an unrealistic expectation there is no way it won't actually flop.

>be shitty no name dev
>buy name of bankrupt publisher
>re release one of their titles so people realize you exist

Don't forget all the pointless remasters.

>shitty, casual, multiplayer-only fps
You sure showed him.

enter the gungeon was too easy and boring
i stopped playing after a week

It also raked in a gajirrion dollars. Which is the point of the thread, cuz

>buy name
They bought EVERYTHING, user

>relic went to fucking sega
why even live

Sum/Moon sold 2 million in the first week in Japan alone so

Because they're the same shit that released last year with a different coat of paint.

Ubishit is probably the worst offender right. All their games are the same bland open world garbage. They might as well be sports games

more like electronic farts

>BBBRRRAAAPPFFFHHTFFGH

>They might as well be sports games
The Crew has radio towers

People are tired of the same shit every year.

Only Sup Forums pretends to care about the SJW elements so they have something more to complain about.

>climb this tower to unlock an area of the map
>got to this outpost and kill some enemies to take it over
>repeat 20 times

Every single fucking ubisoft game. Why do people still buy this garbage. Then that bitch who's the lead publisher at ubi or something had the audacity to say that video games are boring. No fucking, you've made the same game for the past decade. Fuck these faggots who don't even like games working in the industry

overwatch, accept you saviour already.

To be fair, i found Far Cry series fun

It stopped being fun the 10th time around

yeah all they do is suck the life out of GTA mods

its all same shit and you´re gonna get bored if you have more than one ubishit in your weekly rotation

>moving the goalposts

I thought Ubisoft would put on a "push for quality" or some shit like that and give their devs more time for their games. (That's, for example, the reason there is no AssCreed this year. Or is there?)

Did they just forget about that? Or was that intended for next year?

Combination of customers getting sick of extortionate prices and the same games.

The most successful titles this year that aren't sports games so far are Pokémon Sun and Moon, Battlefield 1, Forza Horizon 3, Uncharted 4 and Overwatch. All of those had either a twist on a genre or just incredibly polished (Though Uncharted 4 is a bit of a variable because retail sales died after its first month and most of its copies shipped have been through bundles. It was a success, but not a mega-hit)

>Overwatch
>DOOM

Two examples of AAA games that have been incredibly successful.

I don't think indie games, no matter how good, are counted as "big games". You're right about Pokemon though.

Can't comment on FF.

People are sick of the same old shit.

Was DOOM really that successful? I'm not denying that it was a success, but I don't think it was a enormous blockbuster. Then again I could be wrong, I don't know exact sale figures.

Overwatch is a dead game

I have no idea. I don't even care anymore, fuck them.

They don't five a shit about "quality." The real reason is that people seem to finally be waking up and stopped buying their trash so they have to rethink their strategy.

Bethesda said it smashed their projections and they are incredibly happy with it. SteamSpy has it at 1.2 million copies as well.

Best selling game this year so far, m8. Looking very likely it's going to beat Call Of Duty, even.

>You mean those who fell for the pc meme?

Atleast they have games they can play. : ^)

Two shallow and terribly contrived games.

I'm picking it up on black friday since it's gonna be on sale for $15. Surely a game that is that successful shouldn't have such a dramatic price drop just 6 months after it released right?

Cycle repeating itself

Probably stretching it when I said incredibly successful, but it was by no means a flop. Sold 1 million copies on the PC alone by August and received great reviews.

$15 is a steal. I thought it was worth it full price on release.

Battlefield 1 is not really a twist, is it? And CoD has not released yet. Or has it?

No matter how much shit CoDs get thrown at them pre-release, they are always a massive success.

Oh, make no mistake, I don't believe one second that Ubisoft cares about quality. I am just wondering what happened to that big announcement they make about it a few months ago. Was it really nothing more than hot air? I expected very little, but that would be even more pathetic than I ever thought.

Is 1,2 million that much these days? I mean, yeah, it defied expectations, but I wouldn't call that "incredibly succesfull", and I don't think Bethesda had high expectations for it anyway.

Keep in mind that I am not attacking the game itself, it seems preddy gud from what I heard.

>Pandering to SJW's
>Le reddit meme's
>Nothing new or original, just the same shit again
>Insulting white men, the people that are actually the ones buying your games because SJW's only bitch about shit, never actually buy it.
>Blaming it on torrenting and pirating instead of them fucking selves

Just look at watch dogs 2. I didn't play the first game but that at least looked fun but this one is pure SJW the game

>PC has games
>tax managing and cuckholding simulators are games now

It truly diddles my noodle

>DOOM
>Overwatch
>Dark Souls 3

Meme off, cuccboi

>pandering to sjws
apart from like one tranny character there's nothing like that lmao

>PS4/XBone have games

Oh wait they don't. : ^)

>muh SJW boogieman

The real thing killing games is big suits forcing a massive team of devs to develop something with no vision because the marketing teams tell them what sells well. Gaming's biggest problem is most of the budget going towards garbage live action trailers and advertising on the side of buses as opposed to investing time on better tech, optimisation, and polish, and less risks are taken because the budgets have blown sky-high. The SJW crowd you're saying they pander to is tiny in comparison to their biggest audience.

>The SJW crowd you're saying they pander to is tiny in comparison to their biggest audience
That's the problem, marketing teams see how much presence SJWs and the like have in social media and think that it corresponds to an equally large demographic

You did not read his post at all, didn't you?

I think you fell into your own trap by only believing the stuff that you are exposing yourself to.

Don't forget extremely expensive voice acting, and focussing on the stuff that is marketable - for example, graphics - to create a culture around HYPE where 95% of a game's sales happen during the first 2 weeks after release. There aren't really any projects with long legs anymore, except maybe the regular juggernauts like CoD, Pokemon and Blizzard's stuff.

Also, the AA market is essentially non-existant.

What everyone said above. I havent bought a game in a long time especially a game from the big ones like EA, ACTI, etc. It just doesnt interest me, coupled with the fact that the core audience is small on PC and getting smaller on consoles since software sales are down across the board.

And for that, thank Sony and hate Sony, years ago they wanted the AA market dead and now they want it back saying how they want the PS1 era back. Voice acting is a cancer that needs to go away, not only are games designed differently because of it, less dialog, exposition, lore, but a great amount of money is wasted. You hit the nail on the head with everything else.

In what way did Sony try to kill AA?

I think AA died because certain games became too succesfull because its audience got too big that a domino effect started. Business men saw the big profits, market research teams told the game devs what sells, devs focus on flashy animations, good graphics and expensive voice acting etc., game's budget bloats up to account for more expensive game development, marketing budget bloats up to ensure the expensively produced game sells, sale expectations rise even higher, gaming media only focuses on the expensively marketed game, game sells well, developers except the same growth next time, etc. It's a positive feedback loop.

And at some point, AA devs just couldn't keep up anymore. And I think we are starting to reach a point where AAA can't keep up with expectations either, especially since diminishing returns make people enjoy the same game for the same market tested audience less and less.

Now I am not saying that Sony did not play a role in this, but I don't think they are entirely to blame.

(Fuck their movie games though.)

I feel like I know that anime but I don't

Overwatch was a resounding success, both critically and commercially.

Persona 5 sold extremely well in Japan, too.

Same thing happening in Hollywood. Producers confused how it's possible a Ben Hur remake could fail.

>Final Fantasy XV
Are you trying to imply this game is going to be good?

>need to dump huge budget into making game for it to succeed
>need to market the hell out of it because there's a good amount of competition, game needs a lot of time to be made, good team etc.
>run out of time or funds, use pre-rendereds for all your fucking trailers and use a much lower engine for the actual game so it can run
>people are disappointed since all the marketing was more or less a lie
It's funny: games tried to be a lot more like hollywood movies to the point where they run into the same problems they do. There's extremely little originality because publishers are rightfully afraid that they'll lose money. So nobody really trusts new IPs or non-sequels unless it's a success from the get-go, or made by an indie who can afford to fail.

I wish we could ban this kind of threads. It only leads to shitposting and actual discussion gets tossed aside as shilling.

But this thread is actually pretty good

Not him, but it certainly won't flop. FF has more than enough shiteating fans.

Because Normies fucked everything up

It probably wont flop sales wise but it will be a garbage game in general.

I keep forgetting there was a Ben Hur remake.

t. a guy who thinks this smiley face makes people rage

:^)

>inb4 haha it made you rage!!

Dunno user. I get a mind scar everytime I see an AAA trailer

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>or made by an indie who can afford to fail.
Well, that phrasing is a bit off. Indies can afford to fail just as little as big devs, but their expectations are much lower and they are more passionate and thus more likely to take risks. Doesn't mean many people don't pump months or even years of their life into game development, and it is not rare that they even quit their actual job for good to make a game.

Unless by indie you mean the likes of Newgrounds flashgames.

That post didn't even have 10 words. Why does he get a coupon?

Wildly underrated post.

These companies are trying to appeal to an audience that would never actually lift a finger to help a cause (SJWs, LGBTQANG+, etc.) and certainly don't have the money or interest in their games, so the audience it would most appeal to is alienated and opts to stay far away from their games.

As a result, their games flop and they sic their SJW lapdogs on social media to attempt to shame people for not being more progressive.

Fuck 'em.

The thread actually has decent discussion going on. Maybe read a little before replying next time.