Thank you for the artshare 💜

You know recently a significantly less online friend - the kind who I worry could fall for griftier rhetoric if not careful - told me he'd gotten into watching your videos, and I was like oh thank GOODNESS Alanah will keep you checked into reality 😤👍🏾 thanks for talking about this stuff

In my opinion, no. Horizon has a ton of story and world but any "loose ends" are very much pointing to its next installment

Like neither the characters nor gameplay nor artstyle in the new thing are recognizable, or seem to have anything to do with HZD's tthroughline beyond limited aesthetic

Oh yeah, I mean the devs do stellar work

It's just like... I don't get who it's for I guess. The same way they moved entirely off of Killzone to create Horizon, I wish this had been it's own new thing, if anything

Feels like a weird choice, and we all know who suffers when such choices don't = $$$

Like there's nothing about Horizon's excellent worldbuilding and gameplay that makes me want to engage with it in... whatever's going on in that trailer

I dunno y'all I'm just bummed. The state of creative industries has me down, I guess

When I try talking about this stuff sometimes folks write me off as just hating multi-player games. I'm definitely more of a single-player person, but multi-player games are GREAT and VALUABLE when made with intention!

It's just these days often that intention feels like trend-chasing from c suite

At a certain point they're just making a whole different game divorced of its series - which they can do! But a NEW game of this type is probably not as 🤑🤑🤑 as Big IP Money x Big Trend Money

I'm just so very tired of the Mass Appeal watering down of anything fun and cool and interesting

It's the ole capitalism/stakeholder "take something folks love that made lots of money and turn it into whatever's trending which will surely multiply into MORE money"

No thought into what makes it appealing that got it all the money in the first place. Just Mass Appeal Multiplier 🫠

Has me sad in the same way of BG&E2's never-ending dev cycle that turned it into a multi-player thing that lost me more and more with every update it showed 😣

(Btw I'm venting on how I feel about a larger issue in games, not rag on the devs. Try that in my replies and you'll be gone soooo fast)

An old favourite I learned from some aunties is "the devil speaks highly of you"

okay but that could have been anyone