19 Things Video Game Fans Are SICK Of
7. Long Gaps Between Releases
This writer is an unashamed fanboy of the Mass Effect Trilogy. Bioware's sci-fi saga of genocidal spaceships, galaxy-shaping moral dilemmas and battle-sharpened camaraderie is one of the leading lights in the video game pantheon, and time has only highlighted the scale of Bioware's achievement. The developers created a stunningly reactive trilogy on a scale modern games don't even attempt to match, and they did it in five years (admittedly 5 1/2 if you count the Citadel DLC as the true ending, which, yep, fair enough).
Which makes it depressing that in the fifteen years since the trilogy's conclusion there has been only one new release - the highly divisive Andromeda - with Mass Effect 5 years away from release (if it ever comes out at all).
Sadly, this is an increasingly common practise in the games industry. It's been over 10 years since the last 3D Mario, Naughty Dog haven't released anything since The Last of Us Part II came out in 2020, and Grand Theft Auto VI took 13 years and more money than God to make.
The process of developing games has simply not kept up with the technological advances made in the field, and something needs to change. For some developers, the answer to that is AI which raises a few new problems...