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Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just based on Wikipedia, many commercial failure video games have a sequel made much later on, or have their IP used in a remake or reimagining. Psychonauts is the one I remember since I like the sequel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The original psychonauts was a cult classic though that got great reviews.

Starfield is in the opposite boat, it doesnt seem to have been a commercial failure, but fan sentiment is really low with the starfield franchise to the point that the hype around a sequel would be nowhere near what it was for psychonauts 2... But this is all my assumption, difficult to find/trust empirical data on fan interest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I think that may play into Starfield 2’s favor. If properly advertised it could reignite the hype for the first game… if it delivered.