I don’t know if any of these things are going to doom the game outright, per se, but there’s been a lot of hype building around the game for a long time and I think that’s… potentially ominous. It’s being positioned as the Next Big Thing™, and it’s rare that any game can live up to that. Even if it’s not a complete Cyberpunk-esque disaster, failing to live up to the frankly impossible expectations that are being foisted upon it are very likely to result in backlash.
I have always had so many mods that I don’t really know what is original and not anymore(to some extent). It was too many years ago I played without.
This is my goal with all modding, honestly. As much as anything else I’m attracted to the idea of making a game my own unique, customized experience. My holy grail is getting to a point where everything is so thoroughly integrated that it’s impossible to tell at a glance what’s vanilla and what’s modded, and to just sort of lose myself in that sensation.
Define “console” here. The GameCube was underperforming, but Nintendo was dominating the handheld market with both the Game Boy Advance and the DS. I’m not sure a similarly underperforming Wii would have doomed the company, but I suspect it may have led Nintendo to try a crossover style handheld/set-top hybrid like the Switch a generation early.
Too hard to narrow down the entirety of the classic series, so here’s one story for each classic Doctor: