Gameplay innovation is fucking dead. All we're left with are very open and shameless ripoffs of older games ("Dark Souls in 2D! Dark Souls in 3.5D! Dark Souls with ninja! Dark Souls with pirates! Dark Souls with clowns!").
YOu might think that gameplay becomes more polished, but it usually gets dumbed down to attract more normies.
And why even create something new and innovative if you can just claim you did? This usually happens with open world games that promise an ever more living world with NPCs that have real goals and needs.
You take that the fuck back you fffffffffffuuuuck! That PreCure game will come and it'll innovate the fuck out of gaming, you'll see!
Besides, it's not like anyone will play games that actively CHANGE and INNOVATE. Case in pont :
Code Vein lets you be a Soviet waifu with a gas mask. I don't see how you'd ever want any other Souls clone.
>The Soviet shit
>The flat-chested clingy retard with the shitty long rifle
>Not any of the lusty titty monsters
>Not the nurse lady who clearly wanted to ride you while you were sleeping
>Not the big-tittied roastie dealer that wants you as her son-bando ever since she lost her son
>Not even the busty mechanic in the base that clearly lusts for your cock
>Not any of Io and her infinite clones for a paizuri harem
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The big reviewers are just consoomers who naively take it all.
They are but they also have a vested interest to kiss ass so they don't get blacklisted.
This definitely happens at some places, mostly YouTube shills. I doubt it happens at the really big outlets like IGN and GameSpot though, simply because they're too big. You're right that they have a vested interest in a different sense though - they don't just do reviews, they have a whole slate of video content that they out out around a games release, so they need to keep people hyped for the games so they keep consooming videos about them.
The big reviewers are just consoomers who naively take it all.
They are but they also have a vested interest to kiss ass so they don't get blacklisted.
That + when I say "paid," I mean paid off in some way. Not necessarily with money. But still paid off. It's a carrot-and-stick environment. If you review the games well, then the publisher sends you advance copies and other goodies and gets you into special events. These benefits ultimately bring you more exposure and money over your competitors who maybe don't have this level of access. But the carrot comes with a threatened stick: If you review the games well and the publisher sends you a bunch of free shit, the expectation is that you will continue to review their games well. If you do not, all your perks disappear overnight and you are blacklisted by every organization that has any dealings with that AAA publisher. With no access, you're forced to buy games at the sale date with the rest of the plebs, meaning your review is delayed weeks behind your competition, you can't get pre-release info and you lose exposure and money.
Make no mistake: these are PAID reviews. They're just not always paid in such an obvious way as with a traceable check.
Now, combine this with review embargoes, which ensure that only the curated preview content from paid-off cucks gets to the consumer prior to release, and you can see how shit games are so often amazing sellers on release.
I doubt it happens at the really big outlets like IGN and GameSpot though, simply because they're too big.
They are but the single dude writing the review isn't. I bet you couldn't write a review trashing a big hype game for them and have it released. They will sort it and then you out.
Jeff Gerstman has already been mentioned. He was fired with the question if he happened to notice that the site was running whole page banner ads for weeks for K&L 2.
Ubisoft might not blacklist the very large sites in terms of a review copy but they won't be too keen to invite you to shill events or buy ads on your site if you don't "keep it civil".
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imagine not knowing about paid reviews in 2021.... Its not even believing at this point its been confirmed so many times from big companies and small individual youtubers.
Heck not just the reviews, look at all these shills whod been paid or recruited to hype the game up before launch
