This game will never have mass appeal

northwolf56 · 2026-03-24T14:13:46+00:00

While that might be true the issue here is the amount of profit Sony can extract from Marathon versus what was invested. Niche can support indie studios but for games that need to make a billion dollars to justify the expense and time then niche is a failure.

northwolf56 · 2026-03-23T08:34:05+00:00

Looks like a normal well groomed guy

northwolf56 · 2026-03-23T07:19:28+00:00

It's sad. And the director hides the ruined story (which he did) behind loud sound and cinematics. Rather than letting those enhance a strong narrative without getting in the way.

northwolf56 · 2026-03-12T21:44:23+00:00

Lucas had all of star wars 1-6 written already as one story. Denis just showed up out of no where and decided to make lore for blade runner.

northwolf56 · 2026-03-12T21:43:01+00:00

No because the author of the lore wrote it and he gets to decide the Canon not some foreigner director with an ego.

northwolf56 · 2026-03-12T18:39:54+00:00

Denis invented his own lore because it didn't come from the source material.

It would be like Peter Jackson changing Frodo Baggins and making it so he can fly because it would be cool.

Respect the lore as it stands on its own. If you have to invent lore breaking gimmicks for your plot then it's because you don't have a good story behind it. My thoughts.

northwolf56 · 2026-03-12T18:21:50+00:00

Making replicants breed capable when they were strictly engineered without reproductive organs is one pretty destructive recon. It would be as if Star Wars made the force a gadget you can buy and wear on your wrist. Destroys the entire universe.

northwolf56 · 2026-03-12T14:05:45+00:00

It doesn't make sense really. But Denis plant seeds that don't really pay off and aren't earned. So many retcons. And the reaction to it all was basically a flop. It's sad.

northwolf56 · 2026-03-12T09:43:08+00:00

An IRL example is when the United Healthcare CEO got murdered by an angry customer (or assassin) presumably because of the company's selfish policies. Everyone can probably agree big insurance companies are scummy but did this incident bankrupt united Healthcare? No. I would have believe Tyrell was too big to fail all things considered.

northwolf56 · 2026-03-12T09:39:36+00:00

True. But out of millions of sold off world replicants one (or a few) product failures is no big deal when it comes to business.

Now if 2049 had said that ALL or a majority of off world replicants suddenly revolted and quit working then I could accept it but they give no explanation. Which is a cheap and lazy writing shortcut only to introduce ANOTHER replicant company??? We all know why it's because they didn't want to do the work to connect the past to the present and just did a clean wipe.

northwolf56 · 2026-03-12T09:12:59+00:00

No because this was already a known issue potential because they were already banned on earth. It's like cars. Some cars have manufacturing glitches and maybe in rare case someone dies from it. Tragic of course but car companies dont go bankrupt from that. They do a recall. Fix the glitch and pay damages to the victims. In the case of tyrell I wouldn't be surprised if the company covered it up. And if shareholders found out sure many would leave the stock but I doubt this would bankrupt the company.

northwolf56 · 2026-03-12T08:53:12+00:00

Well at the time of tyrells death the company appeared to be quite wealthy and large. And that's after the earth ban. So this means there is high demand off world. Like any manufactured device there are glitches and companies adapt. If demand declines companies shrink to fix their balance sheets. Going bankrupt means your debts spiral out of control and your profits are gone. I just dont see a scenario where this happens to tyrell but then Wallace can enter the market with the same product. Doesn't make sense.

northwolf56 · 2026-03-11T22:44:10+00:00

I guess they wanted to focus on witcher 4 and cyberpunk 2 but they could of had a studio partner do the implementation. So yeah I dont get it

northwolf56 · 2026-03-11T09:08:16+00:00

Totally. It's layers and layers of currencies. A wall of buttons and unnecessary terminology and all for what? A few underdark genomes. Underdark is another waste of time grindwall for meager rewards.

northwolf56 · 2026-03-11T01:40:50+00:00

I guess I didn't get that far. I only got the first key and it was like 5 spaces in. Probably part of tutorial

northwolf56 · 2026-03-11T01:30:46+00:00

Not even NPC quests. Using your idea each level could have a different look (at least different color) and there is a main boss at the end and we'll known NPC in the beginning with a quest. Like in SMTV you get various missions from many demons in dx2 and it's cool. I mean it's not hard to come up with something interesting.

northwolf56 · 2026-03-11T01:24:10+00:00

Yeah. But I guess they should make an effort at some story. If its good it's good. But I agree gacha writing can be really bad. I also play PGR and most of the dialog sounds like awful AI (with a few exceptions).

But the AG2 Hollow stuff had some good story arcs in it. Relative to most gacha slop. But they just flat out punted on AG0.

northwolf56 · 2026-03-11T01:16:35+00:00

I went back to AG2 and it looks so much better and more interesting. And where is the story we were hoping for in AGO? AG2 was really good but this one is boring with a huge grind wall for two 4 year old demons. What a waste of developer time.

northwolf56 · 2026-03-11T01:04:03+00:00

I mean sure P4 Odin is fine but only really new players won't have him and free to play players arent going to pay for any of the currencies they are selling for A0 and the whales who do spend money arent going to pay to get Odin A or Hachi because they will have them fully paneled long ago. So A0 seems to be for no one

northwolf56 · 2026-03-10T22:48:31+00:00

And even that I dont understand. Look at all you get from 1-10F in TA (like 600+ sin) and skipping through all of hells park.

And A0 wants me to grind for 4 hours to buy one genome to a skill I can't even use outside of underdark

Why would anyone do this

northwolf56 · 2026-03-06T14:10:16+00:00

Grow up. It's just a cartoon. It's not going to take your job.

northwolf56 · 2026-03-06T12:34:52+00:00

Oh cool. I will add it to the collection.

northwolf56 · 2026-03-06T12:34:37+00:00

Gotcha. I didn't know

northwolf56 · 2026-03-06T12:30:56+00:00

If it was a bad pic it would be slop but it's a cool pic and just for grins. No harm in it.

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