Wait, I bought the Legacy Edition not too long ago. Was that the wrong purchase?

Most games are frontloaded/defined as much as possible because most players don’t get that far into most games they play.

To be fair, I the only one I know is SypherPK, and he has over 7 million subscribers on YouTube alone. If I showed a picture of Lewis Hamilton or The Kid Laroi to all of my friends, I think only like one of them would know who he was, but that they’re obscure people.

I think people here are VASTLY overselling the influence that Spec Ops: The Line has. It’s pretty only talked about from people who actively hated CoD/Modern Military Shooters as a whole.

If you really want to attribute the fall of Military Shooters to a single game, I would say it would have to be Overwatch. While pure graphic fidelity, has gotten better since CoD 4, we’ve pretty much peaked in how close t get to realism since then, so people have gone towards more vibrant and colored art styles. People want more individualistic gameplay, where they can talk about their preferred roles and strategies like it’s their Hogwarts houses. People don’t want an interactive Michael Bay film, they want the kind of character and world building you can’t fit into a 8-10 singleplayer campaign. And especially the live service model has made games a lot less static than they have ever been before, before you attract people who were just tired of CoD/whatever their chosen game was, and wanted something different while they waited for the sequel to came out, due to a constant stream of new content, you’re pretty much only targeting people who would be actively sick of it by now.

Also, there are still plenty of military shooters out there, it’s not like they’ve gone way, just went to the realms of live service, in which you don’t need to come out with a new one every few years. CoD is still standing strong, unlock how games like Doom and Quake fell off after the 00’s. Ubisoft regularly makes Tom Clancy, and XDefiant is still coming up. Indie title like Escape From Tarkov and Battlebit Remaster are more than relevant. There is a solid difference between cultural relevancy and straight up popularity, and while military shooters may not have the former as much as it did back in the day, it still has plenty of the latter.

Goodbye Volcano High in Games for Impact

Anything particular about it other than the war 4Chan had with the developers? That’s been on my “to play” list, but I never got around it.

Bamco is pretty infamous in the gacha community for doing a similar strategy, when they hit it, they knock it off the park (finically) especially with DBZ Dokkan Battle and Dragon Ball Legends. SEGA has also been doing a similar attempt, but with lesser results. As far as I know, SMT Dx2 is the only game that has done even remotely well, and it’s success is pretty modest.

The Pokémon Company has also done well with around 4 (5, if you want to count the Pokémon Quest continuation/sequel that only China has) at the same time. But not only is riding off the benefit of being the biggest franchise in the world, all 4 are quite distinct from each other.