As much as I like to believe it's because people are growing up, I doubt it. It's far more likely that Vanguard just sold poorly a) because people are a bit bored of WW2 at this point, b) because so few people have a current-gen console, and c) because people with last-gen consoles weren't thrilled with the idea of an inferior version.
I'm sure all the man-children and actual children will flood back soon enough.
Whoever is still believing this crap at this stage needs to see a doctor. They have the tone of a struggling used car salesman begging his loan shark for more time.
“Come on man, just one more time pleeeease, I promise you, I promise, I'll have it up and running by this time next week. It's going to be the most advanced you've ever seen, I swear, I swear it, the most advanced ever. It'll be groundbreaking, innovative, just pleeease.”
And the fact that they're not struggling at all makes it infinitely more pathetic. They don't even need to grovel and they're grovelling.
@dugdiggler: I never enjoyed the fixed angles, but I got used to them eventually. Though they definitely improve the immersion, no doubt. I call it atmospheric immersion as opposed to environmental immersion, because it gives the environment a lot more character, but at the expense of feeling like you're actually in it. It's the room watching you as opposed to vice-versa. I definitely got some enjoyment out of 1, 2, 3 once into it, but I had to work for it. I absolutely loved 4. It was as close to perfection as it gets in my eyes. I've played it so many times though that it's hard to remember how in awe I was the first time. I liked 5 because it had 4 DNA, but again, I had to work for it. I literally couldn't get through two levels of 6. A great game in there somewhere no doubt, but thanks to a few catastrophic design decisions... unplayable for me. I fell in love with 7. Loved everything about it. Even loved the limited scope of it. The tanker bit dragged at the end on repeat playthroughs, but the game was so damn good I couldn't complain. I even loved all the minigames, which I never do. Like, all of them. I genuinely think that's never been the case in a video game before or since. I didn't like Separate Ways, in RE4, for example. I really wanted to like RE2 Remake, but Mr. X took a big chunk of my enjoyment. I wanted to soak in the atmosphere, but he really ruined that for me. I tried my best to ignore him and enjoy everything else, because there's a huge amount to appreciate there (besides young Leon's dumb face). It was a labor of love. I could feel how excited original RE2 fans must have felt. RE3 Remake was good in the way was RE5 was good, i.e. to the small degree it deviated from its predecessor, it was bad. It had a lot to like, but it felt like the devs didn't really care at that point. A bit cash-grabby when you consider how much of the game was already made with RE2 Remake. Village I really liked, but it wasn't the deviation from 7 that I disliked, so much as the dumbing down. I couldn't shake the feeling that I was enjoying the game more than it had any right to be enjoyed. It felt like a low-resolution RE7. Too far zoomed in and too far zoomed out at the same time, but the superficial RE4 similarities got me excited nonetheless. I'm just glad that the hardest difficulty setting wasn't a cake walk.
The points listed aren't enough to justify a 1/10. But I probably would've given it the same score, like the last game, for the one thing that isn't mentioned: It's one of those rare games which actually makes you feel gross. Like you actually want to shower afterwards. I'm not a sensitive guy in the negative sense, but it's so deeply ugly in such a profound way it's impossible to put into words. It's like the opposite feeling of falling in love with your best friend and having it returned. It makes you hate it and yourself and world and life and being itself. It's an abomination. I'm convinced these games only exist for the same reason as FBI agents pretending to be little girls online. It would explain how on earth they still have the money to keep vomiting up these slimy ulcerated tumours they call games.
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