Brandon

The drop off in players is also influenced by outside factors. Personally I was infatuated after playing through 2 only to find that Randy Pitchford decided to treat fans like garbage after announcing Epic exclusivity for the release of Borderlands 3. I swore the series off when he suggested a fan "grow up" on X because they said they wouldn't install Epic after the data breach from their main page.

The fact that older BL games were made to run on most and the latest ran terribly on the top end stuff sealed the deal for many more potential customers, and Randy once again disrespecting people turned even more away. I won't buy anything Gearbox again.

Since Shadows' announcement people were calling it a GoT ripoff (hilarious btw). Now that the sequel released the same year, it's a pretty natural comparison even though the Ghost series is more dueling and less about stealth.

I hope they do stop making games for PC so we won't get awful buggy messes like Monster Hunter: Worlds and Capcom goes under from a lack of sales. That will make you happy, I'm sure.

In my opinion it was a pioneer of mixed media when it came out, a game that could've just been CGI to movie but Naughty Dog wanted to make it playable. The emotion captured in the dialogue and the mannerisms, the ability to craft a story that says things without saying anything. It had a massive impact on narrative-driven games that came after it.

Plenty of what's going on has been revealed in past games, and new lore comes from fragments you acquire from doing weekly quests, a slow drip of story.

The actual assassins operated in China and this is the story of the attempt to spread their belief and dealings in Japan.