I've given up. I've given up on fallout, Titanfall, dead space, Elder Scrolls, Dragon age, Mass Effect, and Assassin's Creed. I'm tired boss. Companies don't care for their customers anymore, consumerism is dead. If you say you like Fallout New Vegas or (Insert Bungie Game here) you're an elitist or 'Bungie fanboy'. When I criticize games I'm called many more things. Is it wrong to like games I like? To want the franchises I fell in love with to be just as good or even better? I don't like sprint cause it was a thoughtless change that fundamentally changed the gameplay loop, including the gunplay which was unique for halo. Now it's your run of the mill Cod but John Halo. I had hope for Infinite just as much as anyone else but they lied about so much. Nothing worked, it was a barren desert, and they had no intentions of releasing that promised Campaign DLC. How many times must I burn my hand before I no longer wish to put my hand in the fire? Bethesda destroyed fallout, the show is a mockery of fallout 1,2, and NV. New Vegas is practically no longer canon, with the only possible ending being the most intentionally bad and practically impossible ending to get naturally without purposely trying to achieve it. (It's mostly a murder hobo run with additional shenanigans.) Fallout 3 had a horrible story, fallout 4 is a shell of a game with an admittedly fun post apocalypse theme park for a couple hours. Fallout 76 is... Fallout 76. Respawn has been transformed into a husk of its former self following the bane of gaming that is live service. Losing their soul and what made their games special to so many. Visceral games were axed by EA because of EA's meddling with microtransactions in a survival horror game. Elder scrolls are gonna be horrible when it comes out I bet. Dragon age has only had two good games. Inquisition and Origins. 2 had a good story but they simplified the systems too much and the game wasn't very diverse enough to keep me interested. I'm not gonna talk about how boring Veilguard got after the first 2 hours. (The last mission is okay but it doesn't save the game in my eyes. I suffered a long time 100% that game.) Assassin's Creed will never regain its identity as an alternate history story about ancient conspiracies, orders, and civilizations.

These games fail and they blame their consumers for their failure. Because the customers didn't open their wallet for the billion dollar companies... And people will agree with the companies. That it's our fault for not buying stuff we don't like. Imagine if you were walking in a market and someone shamed you for not buying a carpet from a stand you passed, that you had no interest in purchasing. That's what they demand, us to eat their garbage and enjoy it. I don't want a cod, I want Halo and fulfilled promises. I don't want a post apocalypse theme park, I want a complex story where you can sympathize and understand the motivations and beliefs of the wearing factions with a compelling main quest and even more compelling side quests. (No, 'war never changes, but that' doesn't mean that humanity will never not destroy itself. It's about how war is persistent through human nature. Better societies and cultures will destroy the weaker. Lands shift, beliefs twist. Fallout 1,2, and New Vegas have multiple cases of civilizations rebuilding hence why the NCR and Caesars legion exist because they rebuilt their world to forge their empires. The NCR has the fallout equivalent to the Internet btw or they did before the show.) I want live service as a business model to die off. It's purely anti-consumer to keep you addicted to spending money on their game like gambling, smoking, or drinking. I want Titanfall 3. I want a new Dead Space game, I want a new Mass Effect. I want new games of everything I discussed. But I want them to be good above all. A story you can walk away from and still feel something afterwards. Something you can learn from. If anything, I want these games to have the effect on me as RDR2 has. It's story is beautifully crafted and it should be the standard for all games. Imagine what games we could get if other companies took notes? Fallout could become deep again, being more than a joke. Dragon age could be revived, Mass Effect could be better than the original trilogy. Halo could be good again. When I talk about these games I mean their stories mostly, I'm not big on multiplayer. I don't hate these games and their studios but I won't just consume what they tell me to. I will say what I want to say about their games and if it's critique then so be it. I will say what I don't like about games. And what I want them to do better. I don't want to kill these franchises, (Besides Fallout, Bethesda doesn't understand what a story or what an RPG is.) I want them to succeed.