Or, the private-equity shell company that bought the name of the original studio from the company that bought out the company that bought them and shut them down 17 years ago.
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Knowing what private equity buyouts happened for products recently would actually be super helpful while shopping for pretty much any product.
Sounds like a good idea! A website where you can enter a product or brand and it answers when it was acquired by private equity
This is why I’m quite pessimistic about GTA6; it’s been 11 years since GTA5 was first released on the PS3 and Xbox360! A lot of people forget that an entire console generation passed without a new entry into the franchise.
The median turnover at games companies is significantly lower than 11 years, and even Dan Howser and Lazlow Jones have left Rockstar in the interim.
The likelihood that it will live up to player expectations, given how heavily Take2 have milked the hell out of Online via Shark Cards, is woefully low.
But I guess that’s the good part of being a pessimist; you’re either proven correct - or pleasantly surprised!
"From a studio with the same name as the studio that brought you..."
"Hi, I'm the guy from the video you just watched. He's a clipshow of the video you just watched."
Could be worse, it could be Rare.
You mean Ultimate Play the Game?
Best game Battletoads hands down
And remember this... A lot of those developers made those games when they were the indie devs.
Then theres back 4 blood with 6 or 7 of the original 190 people from Left 4 Dead, but they still claimed to be the same people who made it.
Have you played B4B? I just learned about it from your comment but it looks good!
More focus on character loadouts, no focus at all on levels. Compared to the campaign selections on L4D, it was a massive let down. They needed to drop the card system and just build more levels. Instead they made a bunch of skins and such.
There's a reason there was big hype, and then it fell out of existence, with videos on YouTube dedicated to unraveling the truth...
It isn't left 4 dead 3. Personally I disliked it and never finished the main campaign. The levels I did sucked. But it's hard to beat the carnival from l4d2
Square and Blizzard have been like that for ages now
Biowares been doing it too. They rested HARD on their Baldurs Gate laurels. So much so they didn't know how to react when they released DA2 to resounding mehs. And now you see it with mass effect and dragon age being the selling points.
Follow the companies those developers are now instead their former companies.
Well they're a corporation. They can't just say "from Feargus Urquhart", they'd have legal on their ass
And the fine tribals of Arroyo!
Easy, dont buy double a or above.
Problem solved.