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As the Borderlands movie slides into oblivion and Risk of Rain 2's new DLC burns, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford compares himself to The Beatles, who he says only "had a 25% hit rate" (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Also the Beatles were garbage so his comparison is apt.

Your welcome to your personal opinions of course but the Beatles were obviously both popular and commercially successful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists

Anyone involved in commercial art would love to sell that many units.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Some people love to say like "the Beatles were trash" or "overrated" but I'm always like by what metric? They're commercially and critically acclaimed. Why would anyone else care about one random nobody's opinion? Especially one that isn't showing any work for how they came to it.

"I don't like it" =/= "it's bad" is a distinction many people don't respect.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social -1 points 2 weeks ago

I think an individual opinion can matter, even k the face of commercial success

But here's the thing - "I don't like it" doesn't cut it. If you can't tell me why you don't like the beetles, your opinion is less than worthless

Personally, I think the beetles were great, and I think rush of rain was too. It was the first rouglike platformer shooter I've ever heard of... The beetles consistently pushed boundaries, doing it once doesn't put you on their level

On the other hand, the beetles were able to to that because no one was there to tell them no. I agree with the sentiment - games are art. I'd happily overlook a dozen failures for each success