>>55190233>licensed games of yesteryear could stand on par with AAA games at the timeYou are so underaged it's not even funny. Most licensed games looked and played like absolute dogshit. There were exceptions like Spider-Man 2 but that itself was basically a AAA game with its budget.
>Now everything is franchised and well known, why put effort into it when it'll sell no matter whatNow this, THIS, is the most retarded post I've seen all week. Licensed games were exactly that. They were low effort, low budget trash that only sold due to brand name. Parents see Little Mermaid on a box and buy it for the name alone. Kid loves Shrek so he buys a Shrek game. You're a dumb kid so you get Madagascar over Metroid because you recognize the brand. Part of the reason licensed games died off in the seventh gen was because people were using the internet and could more easily learn what games were bad.
Like, have you never heard the term shovelware? That's what licensed games were 99% of the time.
