But i'm asking why, i'm not asking for a list of games wich i already know. I want to know what people their honest opinion is what the studio does that makes the game great instead of a list of games everybody keeps giving me. Also Nier isn't fully theirs seeing it is from the guy who created drakengard and they made it together with him sort of seeing the Director was still Yoko Taro
Gonna say that Nier: Automata was mostly carried by Platinum. Or have you never seen any of the previous games made by Yoko Taro in action? Because Automata, I can
guarantee you wouldn't have done so well if it wasn't for Platinum handling the gameplay. Even the original Nier upon which Automata is based, again,
from what yours truly saw in action, didn't look too exciting to play in comparison, and that's the last game that's stable unlike the mess with Drakengard 3 on PS3.
As for what makes Platinum Games special, let me put it like this: they are still in business after about 10+ years of being formed, have had several games that weren't critical bombs under their belt (sales is another story, not that it makes a difference for how fun a game can be), and despite some of the critical bombs mentioned in various posts here (mostly for licensed shit they shouldn't have signed up for, IMO. Licensed games that aren't developed with any care in mind and only for some movie deadline(s) need to die in this industry), are still in business and clearly still making games, some of which are new games exclusive to the Switch hardware which, correct me if I'm wrong, but a criticism a lot of people have of the Switch, justifiably so if they use it more as a console than a handheld, is that it's mostly full of flash/mobile/indie/released-on-every-other-platform-known-to-mankind games that have been out for a while but are just now getting ported to the Switch.
I don't know about you, but more
real exclusives (*looks at Super Mario Odyssey, Smash Ultimate and Mario Maker 2 contrary to the "it's just a Wii U port hurr durrr, everyone got a Wii U, right?" train of thought, Metroid Prime 4, BOTW2, SMT5, Bayonetta 3, Persona Scramble (*cries in no Persona 5 Royal port*), etc.") to the Switch ain't a bad thing when you think about it that way.
Also, who the fuck says that if you don't like Platinum, you have to hand over your Geek Anti-Gatekeeping card that isn't asking for a Yakuza-esque Heat Action? If you don't like their catalogue, go find something else, play something in your backlog. I'm not gonna lie when I say that, given how shit is going in my RL lately, I think I'll be checking out of the new console hardware race after the 9th generation of consoles. I'm just too busy with crap to really care about playing every new game under the sun. There's plenty of older games worth playing that, movies I haven't seen, anime I haven't binge watched, and other things to do than trying to keep up with what they're doing with Street Fighter 6, Guilty Gear Xrd: Just End It Already, You're At the Fucking Climax!, Yakuza: Except you'll never experience the full breadth of content in the game, Persona 6 in 2027, etc.. You do you!
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