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Let's back up a tick, Sway. You entered this topic complaining because David Cage games that "do things different" get over-criticized whereas the usual AAA yearly-release tripe gets a pass. Now you're tying Japanese games that get passes despite their failings.

Neither of these things are actually true. The AAA dreck and the Japan tiddy games both get their due of criticism for it, but that's not the point of this post.

My point is that my response of him having "multiple chances", while maybe not saying exactly what I wanted to say, meant to imply that the David Cage routine is not "doing something different" at this point. He has the same tired problems he's had for four games, and with DBH, he's introduced new ones.

So no, David Cage doesn't get a pass for trying something different, because for him, this isn't different at its core. He gets more money to make bigger game engines and hire bigger actors, but in the end, he keeps making a lot of the same mistakes.

And quite frankly, the idea of narrative-focused low-action games isn't different at this point either, even in the West. Telltale and Dontnod have been putting up showings in that field, and while not perfect, they're decidedly not making the mistakes Cage is.

And the REASON we give Cage in particular such a hard time is because he's so stuck up his own ass about being the auteur he thinks he is. I mean, name me a person in charge of Telltale or Dontonod who has "taken control" of their company to produce "their" games as a brand name. David Cage pokes his bald-ass head out there, begging to be bopped.
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