I was perusing the news recently when I saw a headline from PC Gamer called “Oof: Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League lost Warner Bros. $200 million—which is $25 million more than the original 2016 movie cost to make“. This didn’t really surprise me as I could tell player enthusiasm was poor and that the game felt like a malicious attempt to milk consumers for money but there was one particular quote that stood out to me as being particularly infuriating. In the last paragraph, it notes “Despite the internal concerns among frontline workers, executives from Warner Bros. kept reviewing… The post The Obsession With Video Game Graphics Must Stop! appeared first on Immortallium's Blog.
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