As much as I love the Persona games to death and want to support Atlus, have we reached the point of legit milking here with all of the different games that they've released and are planning to release in the Persona universe that ARE NOT Persona 5 yet?
Persona 4 Golden - No problem here. Added enough and expanded the original title enough that this was an aces remake
Persona 4 Arena - Alright, not my favorite use of development time but I guess I can understand wanting to bring in more money to reinvest in Persona 5 and it was a decent fighter game with an interesting story.
Persona 4 Arena 2 - Um....starting to feel a little wrong here...
Persona 4 Dancing - GTFO of here with this ****
Persona Q Chibi Addition - Did not ask for this
Don't care at all about the last three games on that list and this is give Persona games that are NOT Persona 5.
One thing that Jess said near the end caught my attention in a "whoa there, I got to say something about that".
EA does NOT deserve the benefit of the doubt. Not after such a long, documented history of rat **** ery. If anything, they deserve the opposite.
I also disagree that they deserve some sort of allowance for the release of a couple of their current games feeling unfinished or lacking in features. (NHL Hockey and The Sims) One of the core promises is that they wouldn't do that. Who cares how long they'd been in development before they made their "Players first" pledges? They're high profile example of not following those pledges by not taking the time needed to finish those games before releasing them.
Ultimately, I have zero faith in EA to make any sort of meaningful changes rather than changes to their PR and messaging intended to convince people that they've totally changed. If I could take a moment to make a hyberbolic and over-the-top and completely tasteless comparison...
...anybody who expects otherwise is like a person in a domestic abuse situation that convinces themselves over and over again to go back to the abuser because this time they've really changed.
Did they fix the second half of the game that sucked so very badly? I loved the first four chapters and thought that the last four that forced you to make your characters be pants-on-head level stupid in order to get the true ending were just plain painful to play. After the first four chapters, I was thinking 8.5 or 9.0 for the game. The last four chapters were so brutally bad and repetitive they dropped the game to around 6.5-7.0 as a whole for me.
I would try and sneak out of work early, but it's just not a challenge. As someone who works from home, all I have to do is set my work communicator to "Do Not Disturb" and people think I'm really, really busy and not just wanking around reading gaming reviews and watchingy overly sarcastic limey brits make videos.
(Not that there's anything wrong about that.)
(Not that I'm implying most Brits are closet gays.)
(Not that there's anything wrong about that either.)
(Not that this excessive disclaimer spam is compensating for anything.)
People don't like games like Flappy or Angry Birds for essentially one reason: they're afraid that these games represent the future of gaming.
We're told over and over again that mobile gaming and tablet gaming is the wave of the future and that the AAA model is unsustainable. We're told this not just from harmless nobodies, but by prominent individuals within the industry weighing in and being quoted in articles. People aren't mad at the Flappy Birds creator per se, nor even at the game itself.
They're mad at what they perceive as the slow road towards their own gaming preferences becoming niche or underserviced markets. It's why some RPG gamers *cough* get mad at MMORPGs being made in place of traditional RPGs.
Anger is often just a cover for fear. I'll own up to it. I don't like games like Flappy Birds specifically because I find them dull and unentertaining, but I also see how many developers and publishers have been pushing to capture the casual market in recent years, often at the extent of more "core" gamers.
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