And I mean, that's maybe where the problems lie. This game is all jank and all generics, with no specific thing to present except "OMG LOOK AT OUR GRAPHICS!!!!". Which are also pretty unoptimized, so you end up with:

Only a tiny tiny fraction of players can even play it.
Then, the game is utterly generic. Despite how it might look to someone not knowing about it, DOOM 2016 and Eternal are quite unique games and have a very well-designed gameplay flow that even differs divisively between the two.
The writing is horrible and would make even an MCU movie/series writer question their decisions in life.
The magic is still just guns with replaced graphics. They didn't lean into the very premise of the game at all. And all they had to do is play Lichdom Battlemage from 2014 to get some ideas and that game already struggled with the concept. But at least it pulled it off.

Can't really say I'm surprised the game flopped hard. But unlike the dev I would call the underlying idea solid, just not anything about the execution.

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[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 134 points 9 months ago (8 children)

The development cost was around $85 million, and I think EA kicked in $40 million for marketing and distribution.

Apparently, $40 million doesn't buy you much in today's market, because I've literally never heard of this game until now.

[–] Decoy321@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

It was actually quite fun! I rented it off Gamefly and enjoyed it for about 30-40 hours. It's basically an action-adventure shooter like Metroid. It's a decent game, not groundbreaking, but definitely doesn't deserve the hate people give it.

[–] guacupado@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

but definitely doesn’t deserve the hate people give it.

I don't think it's getting hate. I think it's getting indifference because no one knows what it is.

[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Nah, I've seen hate. But mostly from people who hate Wesdon-Like quip writting and, well, women-haters who can't handle the characters being ugly (and they are ugly, admittedly), so I just dismissed the hate.

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