r/Games • u/AutoModerator • 15d ago

Discussion Daily /r/Games Discussion - Free Talk Friday - December 13, 2024

It's F-F-Friday, the best day of the week where you can finally get home and play video games all weekend and also, talk about anything not-games in this thread.

Just keep our rules in mind, especially Rule 2. This post is set to sort comments by 'new' on default.

Obligatory Advertisements

/r/Games has a Discord server! Feel free to join us and chit-chat about games here: https://discord.gg/zRPaXTn

Scheduled Discussion Posts

WEEKLY: What Have You Been Playing?

MONDAY: Thematic Monday

WEDNESDAY: Suggest Me A Game

FRIDAY: Free Talk Friday

20 Upvotes

80% Upvoted

22 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/higuy5121 15d ago

Kinda wild how the entire ps4 generation naughty dog had no new IP. Maybe it's not that wild. Maybe that's just normal given how long games take to make. Still kinda wild to think that that studio has only been doing uncharted and last of us for the last 20 years

2

u/ZaDu25 15d ago

Most studios only do one IP for years and even decades because existing IPs are easier to sell. FromSoft effectively does the same thing it's just that the "IP" is a genre, they're doing the same thing over and over but with new titles and different themes. Rockstar hasn't had a new IP since, what, Manhunt?

Just the climate we're in. As games become more expensive to make you'll see less studios taking risks. And it doesn't help that people constantly whine about IPs being "abandoned" as it further encourages studios to steer clear of starting new IPs.

2

u/BP_Ray 14d ago

Honestly, it only makes me more awestruck at RGG studio's output.

People are already kind of in awe that they manage to release a Yakuza game every single year, and that's impressive in It's own right given how big yet high quality those games are.

But now they're branching out even further. Yakuza plays nothing like Super Monkey Ball which plays nothing like Virtua Fighter which plays nothing like Project Century (from what we've seen) -- It's one thing when Yakuza and Judgment are two IPs that essentially share the same formula, but these are all games that have very little in common outside of some surface observations.

I hope that they can sustain this without a big stumble along the way.