The point is that on average these massive conglomerates of corporate shareholder-driven studios are not soulful because they have the soul beat out of them. Devs have tons of soul, but if it ends up in the final product is ultimately a decision of the management, and they have had the souls sucked out of them.

There are still soulful games, but on average the industry is soulless.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This has always been true, since the very first decade of video games. People just forget because only the good games are worth remembering.

[–] TheQuietCroc@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

As is the case with all media. Nobody remembers Populous or Bill Lambeer's Combat Basketball on the SNES cuz they were horrible games, but I still hear about Zelda: ALTTP and Super Mario World.

[–] Early_Insurance_3334@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes for example the video game crash of 1983 that saw video game sales drop by about 97% in 2 years because the market got flooded with crap.

Atari even tried to make an E.T game that was supposed to be a console seller but was programmed in 6 weeks and was hot garbage.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

And we're looking at a similar collapse for at least AAA vendors because they're flooding the market with half-baked crap.