Not another game like this? Caveat that I don't play, but it looks for all the world like the love child of HD1 and Deep Rock Galactic (which is itself the love child of Left4Dead and Minecraft). There's also Darktide, plus Starship Troopers Extermination in the pipeline. None of those are an exact analog and STE is admittedly an Early Access dumpster fire right now, but HD2 isn't exactly un-replicable. If it does implode, somebody else will pick up the formula and release something that scratches the same itch within a year or two. Hell, that's exactly how we ended up with Cities: Skylines in the wake of SimCity's hard flop.
Indeed, not another game like this, where the Devs actively manipulate the lore/story/in-game events, giving the illusion that the game is really evolving or adapting to players' actions. The rest of the game is nothing new, and like you mention, could be found on some level in other games, esp. extraction shooters. But actively evolving according to player performance and a steadily shifting narrative to keep players engaged? There aren't really any games putting out that level of proactive engagement.
Who knew complaining would actually do something. I sure didn't see this coming. Sony is usually pretty tone-deaf, for many reasons too... not just PlayStation related.
What a big victory this was, and best of all - it didn't take 1 year for them to fix the issue.
It's a very small victory. Modern Sony can be surprisingly stubborn, and have shown in the past that they can and will eventually get their way when it comes to things like enforcing PSN accounts. But it's very much true that SIE has been extremely tone-deaf, and it's only gotten worse when everything got centralized and led to an overall reduction in game output and other poor decisions. On the other hand, the rest of Sony is slow to adapt, due to their slow and steady culture in Japan, which leads to its own kind of issues. It also doesn't help that SIE is currently seeking a new CEO; the interim one is the 2nd in command of Sony's entire business, and he's focused more on growth, and assisting with managing the entirety of Sony. SIE is just a temporary CEO position for him.
