One of Them Has to Go

Which Company Would You Sacrifice?


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No matter how lame any of them get, you never know how they might turn around. Unless you're owned by Microsoft, then it's over. So Bethesda.
 
I would've gone with Rockstar if not for RDR. I'm sick of how GTA dominates everything.

I would've picked Bethesda, except I loved previous Elder Scrolls games, and I have a tiny flickering hope that the next installment might not suck.

I would've picked From Software because I don't like their formula, but I know others do, and I am a merciful executioner.

So I'm sorry, Neil, but you've got to go.
 
The one thats made the same game 9 times. And all of them are ugly

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This.
 
Rockstar and From Software (love them or hate them) are the only Premiere developers that still continue to define and evolve the genres They Created. So whomever needs to go, it's not them.
Rockstar's gutted their brand to the point that their most recent game, RDR2, is effectively a typical Bethesda looting/crafting game with a bleeding-edge gore mod.
Fromsoft hasn't eroded their brand.
Fromsoft games look like Fromsoft games and play like Fromsoft games.
Rockstar games looked like Rockstar games and played like Rockstar games up through "The Warriors".
A whole bunch of studios became 'Rockstar' studios, key people left, ideas changed, etc.
Everything Rockstar's shipped after "The Warriors" is off-brand, inconsistent and beneath the edgy envelope pushing Rockstar that gave us GTA 3 and Manhunt.
A T-rated kids game about a kid, where nobody dies.
A terrible game called Manhunt 2.

Several low quality Gameboy games.
A boring detective game.
A E-rated table tennis game where nobody dies.
2 boring morality-based cowboy games, the 2nd being slower and more boring than the first.
2 SIMS games sold as GTA4 and GTA5 that have almost nothing in common with the franchise defining PS2 Grand Theft Auto games.
 
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All four. FROM is just coasting on reused old content, Rockstar can't tell stories anymore, ND is a cuck factory, Bethesda will just fuck up then remake Skyrim again.
 
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Its pretty funny seeing the hate for Naughty Dog who literally haven't made a bad game in forever.

TLOU2 really broke some people's brains... like TDS level!
ND haven't contributed much to fun in gaming in almost a decade. But keep licking boots. I replayed the OG trilogy back to back 3 times, that's how I much fun it it was. No more fun though. Yes, animation and gameplay have evolved. But entertainment factor is down the drain. You probably think Sarkeesian was right too.
 
Rockstar's gutted their brand to the point that their most recent game, RDR2, is effectively a typical Bethesda looting/crafting game with a bleeding-edge gore mod.
Fromsoft hasn't eroded their brand.
Fromsoft games look like Fromsoft games and play like Fromsoft games.
Rockstar games looked like Rockstar games and played like Rockstar games up through "The Warriors".
A whole bunch of studios became 'Rockstar' studios, key people left, ideas changed, etc.
Everything Rockstar's shipped after "The Warriors" is off-brand, inconsistent and beneath the edgy envelope pushing Rockstar that gave us GTA 3 and Manhunt.
A T-rated kids game about a kid, where nobody dies.
A terrible game called Manhunt 2.

Several low quality Gameboy games.
A boring detective game.
A E-rated table tennis game where nobody dies.
2 boring morality-based cowboy games, the 2nd being slower and more boring than the first.
2 SIMS games sold as GTA4 and GTA5 that have almost nothing in common with the franchise defining PS2 Grand Theft Auto games.

And GTA6? You think that's going to be a 'Bethesda looting/crafting game with gore mods' or a "SIMS game " (🙄) and not innovate the open world crime drama genre? Really?
 
Naughty Dog? Y'all are on cocaine. Bethesda hasn't made a good game since Skyrim. I don't count Doom.
 
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Entirety of Bethesda shouldn't be considered. It would be unfair. They have made some masterpiece tier titles not too long ago

Prey (2017)
Doom trilogy
Hi Fi Rush.

This is without counting generally decent titles like Deathloop, Fallout 4, Starfield etc.
 
This is a good one.

Its a toss up between modern Bethesda and naughty dog.

Naughty dog has never made game that impacted the industry like fallout and elder scrolls so ill have to choose Naughty Dog.

I never really played their games until Uncharted and I adore the first three but 4 was awful to me.

So yeah. Naughty Dog gotta go.

Question. Does it erase their old games because if not, its Naughty Dog easily. Because then I can still play uncharted 1 to 3 and lost legacy.
 
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From Software and their technical incompetence can leave this industry and i won't shed a tear.
I say that having platinumed Demon's Souls twice, Bloodborne and DS1 and having over 2000 hours in their games combined.

From Software and Game Freak are the two studios in the industry that even though they had great success, they never improved their games performance.
 
I enjoy playing eastern games but I'm biased against them. Why do you want less choices when you have plenty? There are plenty of trash examples out there but I don't want to mention them unless gaf recognizes them, otherwise, it's a common biased opinion against western games.
 
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ND haven't contributed much to fun in gaming in almost a decade. But keep licking boots. I replayed the OG trilogy back to back 3 times, that's how I much fun it it was. No more fun though. Yes, animation and gameplay have evolved. But entertainment factor is down the drain. You probably think Sarkeesian was right too.

TLOU2 came out in June 2020, and before that they were golden.

Literally, all its taken for people like you to claim that they've gone from heroes to villains is 1 game and a trailer!

You cannot justify that rationally, especially when contrary to your view, not everyone hated TLOU2. Many people thought it was GOTY material.

So, at best, you can call it divisive.

Once again, 1 divisive game, 1 pretty bad cinematic trailer, and you think that deserves pitchforks out ?

Sorry, not convinced.

And no, I don't believe I've ever agreed with anything Sarkeesian has said.
 
TLOU2 came out in June 2020, and before that they were golden.

Literally, all its taken for people like you to claim that they've gone from heroes to villains is 1 game and a trailer!

You cannot justify that rationally, especially when contrary to your view, not everyone hated TLOU2. Many people thought it was GOTY material.

So, at best, you can call it divisive.

Once again, 1 divisive game, 1 pretty bad cinematic trailer, and you think that deserves pitchforks out ?

Sorry, not convinced.

And no, I don't believe I've ever agreed with anything Sarkeesian has said.
Why create divisive games instead of beloved games? For what purpose exactly?
 
Why create divisive games instead of beloved games? For what purpose exactly?
Why make R18 films? for what purpose? everyone can watch a PG.
Why make interesting games?
Why make interesting TV?
Why try anything new?

There are loads of by-the-numbers games out there but one game pushing the boundaries is a bad thing?
Also, gamers are entitled crybabies who will complain no matter what so EVERY game is by default "divisive".
 
I'd probably make Naughty Dog leave to be fair. I care about replaying games and Naughty Dog games are the least interesting in that regard. Nothing you can do different.
Rockstar is more or less in the same boat, but even they had some missions where you can pick an approach or at least an order of how you want to deal with things.
 
Yeah, just like that shitty painter Van Gogh who made all his paintings with the same swirly bullshit, amirite?
He died poor, no one wants his swirly bullshit at the time, he became a genius after his death. So, From Software must to die to become great, hence the vote, I'm tired of this soulslike infection.
 
Why make R18 films? for what purpose? everyone can watch a PG.
Why make interesting games?
Why make interesting TV?
Why try anything new?

There are loads of by-the-numbers games out there but one game pushing the boundaries is a bad thing?
Also, gamers are entitled crybabies who will complain no matter what so EVERY game is by default "divisive".
interesting and new doesn't = divisive

Druckman exhibits classic characteristics of hubris and prelest.
 
I def say from software. I usually agree with the gaming community at large probably 85% of the time on what games are good but I just don't see the appeal of these games. I played dark souls and Elden ring so maybe I missed something in the other games but they just looked cheap to me. The graphics remind me of a PlayStation 2 game if you smoothed out the polygons and gave it a resolution bump and frame rate boost. I also can't stand the way enemies respawn when you rest. It kills my immersion. When I kill an enemy I want to feel like it's dead.

The only game that even remotely resembles a souls game that I liked was Star Wars Jedi survivor. I loved the combat of that game but that's the only one and it wasn't a from software game.

Second on my list would be naughty dog. I've just never really gotten into their games. Even the last of us in my opinion was massively overrated.

Anyways that's my list. I'm sure I will get slaughtered on here for dissing from software but it's my honest opinion. So it is what it is.
 
interesting and new doesn't = divisive

Druckman exhibits classic characteristics of hubris and prelest.
I don't find him likeable either but the game is great.

From what I gather, the divineness is due to a) what happens to a main character early on b) the relentless brutal violence and for all the bigoted chuds c) a lesbian relationship and d) a physically strong female character

It pushed the boundaries of gaming in many ways and no-one who plays it will ever forget it but of course it's not for everyone.
 
Also, gamers are entitled crybabies who will complain no matter what so EVERY game is by default "divisive".
We are customers, no publisher/dev studio is entitled to our hard earned money, especially if we talking 70$/€ at launch, soon 80, if game doesnt make us hyped and/or looks disgusting guess what- bargain bin at best, and in many cases not even that coz players time is more valueable compared to playing bad/unenjoyable game for free even :)
 
We are customers, no publisher/dev studio is entitled to our hard earned money, especially if we talking 70$/€ at launch, soon 80, if game doesnt make us hyped and/or looks disgusting guess what- bargain bin at best, and in many cases not even that coz players time is more valueable compared to playing bad/unenjoyable game for free even :)
TLOU2 looks disgusting, bargain bin at best and plays badly?



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How does ND have more votes than Bethesda :messenger_expressionless:
Coz it really dropped the ball hard from 2017 onwards under full cuckman leadership, u go back in time to 2018 before ppl find out how they fucked up tlou2/joel and ND is still among top devs with rockstar/from software(hell graphically above from ezpz which isnt that hard obviously)- they just got mediocre unfortunately from that point on =/
Just look at that tlou2 reveal trailer, over 10m views, and extremly good like to dislike ratio(342k likes, only 5k dislikes), ppl really wanted to love this game just like first part:

 
TLOU2 looks disgusting, bargain bin at best and plays badly?



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I still got ps4 to this day, connected to the tv, never bothered to buy/play it, even tho i loved all ND games(including ofc first TLOU, it was masterpiece, had great ps4 remaster too).
Game has amazing graphics/animation tech but rest of it(aka characters/story/dialogues, setting) is crazy bad.
 
I still got ps4 to this day, connected to the tv, never bothered to buy/play it, even tho i loved all ND games(including ofc first TLOU, it was masterpiece, had great ps4 remaster too).
Game has amazing graphics/animation tech but rest of it(aka characters/story/dialogues, setting) is crazy bad.



I wonder why you don't like the story and characters...

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Wait, you didn't even play it even though you loved the first one but know it's "crazy bad"?



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Bethesda. This should be the only option. Unlike the other 3, they are the quintessential WRPG studio in the world and when their "next-gen" game barely registers in impact compared to past successes, it means they've hit a wall and will go out sooner or later. Unl as ES6 actually live up to the hype
 
I wonder why you don't like the story and characters...

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Wait, you didn't even play it even though you loved the first one but know it's "crazy bad"?



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this short vid explains it better than 1k words:

Normally woman, even on mild dose of roids, would get buldozed with that gun hit(not bullet) to the head, in the game abby has cyborg-durable skull, that even brock lesnar would want to swap for, is on srs dosages of juice and somehow is voiced by very femine voice actress- where we all know voice is first thing woman loses, even 90-110lbs bikini competitors get that deep kratos voice after prolonged juicing :)

Even hbo(which is pretty woke too) knew how unnatural it all looked hence stark difference between crazy woke cuckman vision of tlou2-the game and the hbo show where some1 told him to fuck off with that craziness:


And its not like there was no compatible "actress material" to portrait game-abby, hell they could even go HAM on that character in tv show with women like this:

Dat voice tho, straight out of 7th cyrcle of hell, at least its body/musclemass apropriate :P
Remember, we are not talking about professional female bodybuilders who cycle for years, sideeffects of all kinds will happen way way earlier(u can google/learn about them but tldr woman basically gets more and more masculine in every possible way, voice, musclemass, clit enlargement, very thick bodyhair everywhere, including face, libido increase and plethora of others :P ), women have very fragile endocrine system and absolutely cant handle even mild(from men's perspective) roids dosages w/o showing crazy sideeffects :messenger_ok:
 
this short vid explains it better than 1k words:

Normally woman, even on mild dose of roids, would get buldozed with that gun hit(not bullet) to the head, in the game abby has cyborg-durable skull, that even brock lesnar would want to swap for, is on srs dosages of juice and somehow is voiced by very femine voice actress- where we all know voice is first thing woman loses, even 90-110lbs bikini competitors get that deep kratos voice after prolonged juicing :)

Even hbo(which is pretty woke too) knew how unnatural it all looked hence stark difference between crazy woke cuckman vision of tlou2-the game and the hbo show where some1 told him to fuck off with that craziness:


And its not like there was no compatible "actress material" to portrait game-abby, hell they could even go HAM on that character in tv show with women like this:

Dat voice tho, straight out of 7th cyrcle of hell, at least its body/musclemass apropriate :P
Remember, we are not talking about professional female bodybuilders who cycle for years, sideeffects of all kinds will happen way way earlier(u can google/learn about them but tldr woman basically gets more and more masculine in every possible way, voice, musclemass, clit enlargement, very thick bodyhair everywhere, including face, libido increase and plethora of others :P ), women have very fragile endocrine system and absolutely cant handle even mild(from men's perspective) roids dosages w/o showing crazy sideeffects :messenger_ok:

I imagine you complain every time about anything possibly unrealistic in video games.
 
If choosing as a developer Bethesda Game Studios. Their stubborn use of a buggy outdated engine has arguably slowed progress in open-world RPG design, indirectly holding back broader innovation.

If choosing as a publisher then Rockstar. Their focus on massive ultra-polished blockbusters has set unrealistic expectations for budgets, timelines, and development scope, pushing the industry toward slower releases and risk-averse creativity.
 
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