I’m a casual Half Life enjoyer. Spent some time on the subreddit and man is it off the wall.
Tunic has an interesting fandom. That writing system has inspired a lot of cool stuff. The subreddit is censored six ways from Sunday because of how spoiler-sensitive the game is, but I have to wonder what random passers-by must think.
The Undertale fandom has permanently put me off trying the game. It’s not really my kind of game anyway, but I enjoy the soundtrack.
Minecraft has to have had the biggest demographic shift in its player base I’ve ever seen. I bought the game when it was in beta. Most fans were adults who were able to give a random Swede 20 bucks via PayPal. After the game’s release, and especially after the console ports and eventual MS buyout, the average age got younger and younger. I miss the old Minecraft forums.
It is almost an entirely different game now from the state it was on release.
It’s an indie dev team of a few dozen people and almost self-published if not for some assistance from Sony. They bit off more than they chew with their ambitions and made the mistake of teasing the game too early in the dev cycle while failing to manage the hype build up. They released what they could because development was taking too long and they needed something released or else the doors were gonna close but what was released had some key missing features from what they originally promised and, combined with the game becoming over hyped beyond Hello Games’ expectations, resulted in a lot of backlash.
Even with this massive stumble, they never stopped working on the game and have continued to regularly release massive, game changing content updates (seriously, with the most recent one being released like a few weeks ago adding creature battling) entirely for free and making the game into what they promised it would be.
Did they shit the bed on release? Yes. That said, did they own up to it and do everything in their power to make up for their mistakes? Also yes.