The First Descendant - The Last Thing We Need (Review)
The First Descendant is the last thing I want to play right now, nauseated as I am by how much of a swindle it is. Designed entirely to frustrate and trick money out of players, it gives nothing in return but the same “live service” mundanity that’s soaked the market in an ocean of filth. CLICK HERE for the full review!
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who is playing these games? Like...somebody must be for them to keep making them, but I've never known anybody who played any of them beyond that handful of big established ones like warframe, fortnite, etc.
No one. That's why they die after a year. But executives see how much money the popular ones made and are chasing it. Not realizing that no one is going to leave the live service they are playing for a new one. I say this as a Warframe player.
So-called 'live service' games only make sense, to me, for one genre: MMOs. Because they are providing, quite literally, a service (game) which is live. Even in that case the monetization can be ludicrously excessive, especially in current year. This game is just... it's a bit of nothing, isn't it? Reminds me of the phrase 「山[場]なし、落ちなし、意味なし」 -- no climax, no point, no meaning (but without the fun genre connotations such a phrase is known for.)
I was invited to join someone to play it the other day. I said I avoid live services these days, I don't want to risk getting invested in something that will be killed off in a couple of months. There'll be another such mediocrity out next year no doubt.
New game development rule: if you're going to release a LIiiiiive Service game in this the year of our Lord current year argument, it had better be designed with more thought than free to play games that were released 10 years ago. I mean, in a perfect world we get no LIiiiiiiiiive Service games at all, but if they're going to insist on getting blood transfusions from a well squeezed rock at least they could put some effort into it.
The First Descendant might be the last thing we need, but the cognoscenti know that a new monitor is the first thing Steph needs. 😉
More like “Belongs in the Trash”!