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Xiahou_Shake posted...

Bayo 1 is still somehow their finest tuned game, though - honestly blown away how right they got that on their first try.

Not really a surprise. They put a shit ton of time and effort into it, and if it failed the studio would've been done. They had to create the whole concept and characters and enemies and weapons and lore and everything from scratch, not to mention the tech. There's just so much more time they had to balance and polish combat.

Not that the sequels are a cash grab. But they certainly weren't risking the whole company's fate. And the whole point of sequels is to amortize the cost of developing a new IP (unless you're a psycho like Kojima)