Remember The Game? #389 - Resident Evil 5

It is our opening segment here on the show.

I read a few comments and questions from our patrons, usually gaming related, but not always.

And we call this segment blowing in the cartridge.

He blows all right.

He blows big time.

That's it, honey.

Get into the

spirit.

Let's blow our first blower this week is Bort License Plates, who said, What's up, Sir Blankcelot? Hey, why don't we have weird tie-in games anymore? We used to have movie games, food tie-ins, soda.

I'll take a new Cool Spot game or a new Yo-Noid game to break it up a little bit.

That's a good question.

sport license plates, because you're right, if any of you were, y'all, all my fellow, gather around the lemon tree, youngins, and let the old man, the old man's talking, you go back to the NES, pretty much every franchise in the history of humanity at that point had an NES game, they're right, like, Cool Spot, there was, like, a puzzle game that starred the little dot from 7-Up, the Sprite guy had games, like, Yo Noid the Pizza Guy had games, Everything, kids, like everything had a game back in the day.

And you don't see that now.

I have to imagine the main reason we don't get as many of those tie-in games now is because the cost of game development has skyrocketed.

Like, look around.

Like, fucking studios are getting closed every week these days.

When I'm recording this, we're only about 72 hours after they announced that BioWare is getting shut down, which, you know, obviously, sending my best to everyone that got let go there.

That one hit particularly close to home because it is close to home because BioWare Edmonton.

got closed uh i think the gaming mark like landscape is just so much more competitive now than it like back in the nes days it was like put anything popular on a game doesn't matter if the game is good or not people will buy it super nintendo genesis same thing uh whereas now it's like you know you can preview games more than ever you can watch full playthroughs of them online before you buy them there's so much competition for your gaming dollar the cost of making games has gone up so much i'm like It's why I've always wondered why we haven't gotten a new Simpsons game in so long.

But I wonder if it's like, hey, the cost of development in addition to the cost of licensing is insane.

Whereas, like, I don't know how much it costs to make Cool Spot, you know, on the Super Nintendo.

But I'm guessing it probably costs somewhere around the lines of like $36.

So they spent the rest of the money licensing that little red dot to put them on the cover of the game.

So...

I would imagine that's probably why we don't get more of these tie-in games these days.