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I think vehk does a good job identifying the likely culprit in the final bit here: attracting and maintaining the attention of thise who seldom interact with single player games. It's almost like live-service psychology shoehorned in. It's also a twenty hour game, for fuck's sake. Whyyyyy

I don't agree, I think this stuff is completely unconnected with the audience, any audience. It is giving them too much credit to think they're just targeting a different market

I just can't wrap my mind around this as a misstep in design, it doesn't feel like it fits the simulation we live in.

wolverine is literally not even a game with a high density of detail. look at it. it's clean. they were not doing this shit to address visual legibility concerns (or at least not real ones)

i know we all feel a bit smarter when we shift blame from what would be the obvious recipient onto some other fuckin thing because it's "more complicated than that" but sometimes it's not that deep. the bad decision is a bad decision for the obvious reasons. the available alternatives were better

as much as it is the attribute of a healthy, happy game developer to hate the audience, at no point has any gamer ever clamoured for this sort of thing and the buck stops with the developer. this only has anything to do with the audience in that that's who is being insulted by it