/v/GAs – Voting

Nothing says soulless like twelve currencies and a .4% chance to prove you'll never succeed at anything else.

Gacha

PLEASE SPEND MORE YEN ON OUR SLOP

Buy enough assets on the Unreal Marketplace with angel funding from Dad and Kepler Interactive, and you have a 100% certified "self-made indie" game.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Sandfall Interactive

Free market transactions between two consenting parties? Isn't there SOMEONE you forgot to ask?

Payment Processors

PORN BAD, every other vice is good

Breath of the Wild and its consequences have been a disaster for action-adventure games.

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

Retro Studios, Next Level Games, Virtuos

See you in a few years when they win Redemption Arc and the cycle begins anew.

Nintendo

$80 Mario Kart, Game Key Cards, Paid Enhanced Editions

It's one thing to fuck over your customers. What Yves Guillermot should really worry about is fucking over their shareholders.

Ubisoft

No longer just creatively bankrupt

I no longer wish for Pokemon Z to find out what Zygarde is all about.

Pokémon Legends: Z-A

Game Freak

Give it enough years, and games might eventually cost as much as they did on the Neo Geo.

$80 Games

Developers need our money bro you don't get it

Your PC parts cost more than your mortgage to allow you to ask for beige tinted Ghibli art with mutant fingers.

AI

@grok make her wear a bikini and turn her asian

Now that DEI is no longer in fashion, let's hear it again for old time's sake.

SJWs

Every year until you like them

A shameful display, indeed.

Assassin's Creed Shadows

Ubisoft Quebec

Let's see... Secure Boot, AI textures, 70 dollars, SBMM, the only thing it doesn't do to fuck you is bring the lube

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7

Treyarch, Raven Software

It's impressive to dethrone EA as "where game studios go to die"

Microsoft & Xbox

Cancelling games to double down on AI