Death Stranding came out in 2019. Death Stranding 2 will come out in 2025. That’s six years for two games. If these were the PS2 days Kojima would have cranked out 3 Death Stranding games by now and we’d be getting Death Stranding 3: Subsistence along with a teaser for Death Stranding 4 next year.

Remember when video game trilogies used be to a huge thing in the sixth and seventh generations? You’d typically get 3 games in about 5-7 years

See: Halo, Gears of War, Resistance, Killzone, etc

      • AtomPunk [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        3 months ago

        I’ve tried to get into other 4X’s like Europa, Stellaris CK but the learning curve is pretty high admittedly! I’ll give Europa another shot someday.

        I actually welcome how each Civ tries to do something different, but the districts in 6 are such a huge addition that I’m a little sad they won’t return in 7 in the same fashion. Nothing lights up my monkey brain like finding a +6 Campus/IZ/Harbor tile knight-nod

        If there’s one thing I worry for 7, it’s that the fanbase for 5 is very vocal online. I enjoyed 5 for what it was at its time but going back now it seems TOO simple with the streamlined culture tree and the overemphasis on building Tall. It’s a 4X game, turtling at 4 cities is no fun!! The less influence the better.

        I started with Civ Rev I for the PS3, I appreciate the goofy art style in 6 haha.

            • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
              3·
              3 months ago

              I played Old World and it was pretty boring, though definitely best of the crop, maybe they improved it since release? I also don’t like warfare in Civ, something like 95% of my playtroughs since original civ1 were not warlike ones. My favourite tactics was always PRODUCTIVE FORCES all caps.

                • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
                  2·
                  3 months ago

                  I like all manners of 4x and grand strategy games, though i must say that even though i don’t play in Civ lately, it has been possibly the most consistently fun series of all strategy games, i enjoyed all games greatly except Civ 3, which makes it a whooping 5/6 great games (and Colonization and especially Alpha Centauri were also good).