I wanna complain about Nostalgia Teasing

Generally what Sony did with Astro Bot. Going “hey, remember all these cool games we used to make” but not making the games available. Or how Street Fighter 5 had a bunch of costumes that referenced games Capcom was never gonna make again.

The Nostalgia bait stuff feels worse when it reminds me that the era of creating mid sized IPs is over, at least for big companies. Bandai Namco will likely reissue every single Katamari game ever made, but if someone came to John Namco’s desk to propose the next Katamari, it’ll probably be passed on.

It made me think of that Fukuyama book, the end of history. How gaming has reached an end point and there’s no going back.

PS kinda rich for sony to nostalgia bait games like Ape Escape & Parappa when they closed JP studio down.

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a company has never been able to successfully bait me with nostalgia as a call-back, only ever as a rerelease of something i was nostalgic for lmfao. even getting the Kat costume in Astro Bot, yeah i was meming and stuff but in the end it just pissed me off. although i do know that Asobi is like 85% Japan Studios anyways so they probably wanted to put those references in themselves

but yeah anything i’m nostalgic for is my own doing

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