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Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher of Manor Lords, citing how gamers seem to be trained to expect endless content work now (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 4 months ago by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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This really does not sound healthy. The game is released, for a certain amount of money. If people don't like what they get for their money, they simply should not buy it.

But by now gamers have been so trained to expect to endless content treadmills and all their ilk like mtx and battle passes that publishers/developers get egged on if they don't work on their game 24/7 and forever.

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[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The other day I saw a Developer that was sad people don't like the new Fable commercial. I was interested so I watched it and it's some Mulan/Captain Marvel cookie cutter plot where the entire commercial is some dude singing the praises for a random woman (presumably the playable character), and then an evil smoky hand holding an evil wizard staff appears on screen for like 2 seconds. For all we know that female MC could be literally Hitler, we were told absolutely nothing about the game, setting, or characters except that the narrator is a retired hero. They have no depth or motivations.

Hopefully it was just a damn awful trailer and not the death of the series.

[-] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I had to go watch it. You're not wrong, it tells you absolutely nothing about the game. Everything looked per-rendered. It reminded me a lot of the Beyond Good and Evil 2 trailer from 2017... where it could just as easily be a CGI movie than a video game.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The dude was talking about the antagonist and not the playable character. That’s why the playable character says “She’s back” at the end. Also it was just a teaser trailer to remind us that the game still exist and to show some gameplay. It was definitely not a commercial to sell the game to us. The development is probably no where near finished.

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There was zero gameplay in the trailer, except for maybe a walking animation, but I admit I missed the nuance of them describing the antagonist while a bunch of scenes of not-that-person flashed inbetween dialogue.

Storywriting needs to come before all other aspects of a narrative driven RPG like the Fable titles. The development being ongoing is no excuse for that. The only time I can think of that story changes to an ongoing development resulted in a decent product was FFX and maybe the movie Emperor's New Groove but at the same time it's hard not to feel like we were robbed of the story it could have been.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

It’s just a teaser dude. Nothing about it says the writing is bad or good.

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Tease != an instant turn off

The media apparatus as a whole seems to have forgotten what 'tease' means.

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh yes it does. We can absolutely judge what we have seen so far. For some reason a narrative of this type is trending: main character is great because they're great and awesome and everything they do is perfect, and the bad guy person is bad because they just are, and we can't see this for ourselves so we need to be told?

We see it in movies, TV Shows, and Videogames, and people are rightly getting really sick of it.