Simon Says wrote on Aug 29, 2019, 21:33:

NKD wrote on Aug 29, 2019, 21:24:
The era of "Trickle Down Game Quality" where somehow publishers banking tons of extra money leads to better games, or lower prices, instead of bigger payouts to execs.

xD Priceless!

Yep, having the approval of Koch is not something you want, quite the contrary. LOL

RedEye9 wrote on Aug 24, 2019, 19:45:
Be Forewarned; For your transgressions you shall be labeled a shill, called an idiot and anytime you mention facts or disagree with a tribe member you will henceforth be known as a troll. There are no ways around it. The best you can hope for is that the labels won't haunt your offspring. This is serious sticks and stones stuff, I just thought you should know, I wish you the best.

RedEye9 wrote on Aug 8, 2019, 08:03:
When both of ya'll walk into a shoe store I'd be amazed if they all didn't fit.

But go ahead, keep defending this behavioir because they "should have known" and "it's the internet". ffs

Do you support dozing and swatting with the same fervor. What about review bombing.

NKD wrote on Jul 11, 2019, 14:44:
Might be some Internet Explorer 3.0 DNA in there too.

jdreyer wrote on Jun 26, 2019, 14:42:
You can't sell for $45 on EGS and $60 elsewhere.

Stormsinger wrote on Jun 12, 2019, 19:29:
A more likely explanation is that both sides finally clued into how much they were annoying their fanbase, and finally decided to just let it go, rather than continue to destroy the cash cow. This claim that they're going to work together, I'll believe when I see an actual game come out of it.

RedEye9 wrote on Jun 11, 2019, 21:47:
"John Romero wants to make you his pitch"

How do you sleep at night

Kain wrote on Apr 27, 2019, 07:36:

Wesp5 wrote on Apr 27, 2019, 05:05:

WitcherOntheProwl wrote on Apr 26, 2019, 23:43:
This is one of the worst games I've ever played. Super, super, super, super boring.

I agree. I wouldn't even call it a game, it's just a walking simulator in which you go around opening stuff! I think this and Dear Ester started an endless list of Indie games from developers who just can't handle NPCs so everybody is always gone and I can't ever remember any explanation for this that was satisfying...

I was always confused why the press was tripping all over themselves to love up this up. I have no problem with the idea that its a non-traditional game or even the value proposition. What bothers me is that even if you accept it on its merits and treat it like a bit of an interactive novel, it's frankly not a very good one. The writing is mediocre, the story is filled with red herrings and pacing problems. The themes its trying to represent are admirable but handled clumsily so its comes off as patronizing and stretches credulity. The whole game just sort of fails at being anything of substance.

This and Firewatch are some of the most overrated indie titles I've seen. If people want something with better writing and at least a bit of actual gameplay and impact then they should play Life is Strange.

Free is free but if you value your time, I think you can find higher quality enjoyment elsewhere.

Beamer wrote on Apr 3, 2019, 16:43:

Parallax Abstraction wrote on Apr 3, 2019, 16:31:

Beamer wrote on Apr 3, 2019, 15:58:

Parallax Abstraction wrote on Apr 3, 2019, 15:26:
Clickbait rags like Polygon, Waypoint and Kotaku (save these occasional investigative pieces) are the enemy of gamers and the elements of the industry they choose to put in their crosshairs (which usually isn't the AAA ones for some totally inexplicable reason.) What is now laughably called the "enthusiast press" seems to somehow have found a way to be profitable by hating their audience.

When did you go all alt-right? I don't feel like you used to be this way, but "hating their audience?"

If you think disliking Polygon et al. and the endless moral grandstanding and lecturing that they consider games coverage makes me alt-right, you really need to understand what being alt-right truly means. Not agreeing with the methodology of these ultra-left sites does not suddenly make someone alt-right. My views are actually quite progressive on most issues (and I can send you a video example to demonstrate them, not that I really have to justify myself to someone who judges my entire character based on two sentences) but the types of coverage those sites provide is a parody of progressive views, because moral lectures and attacking anyone they disagree with is sadly, very profitable. Outrage is now a business model and it's fed by the likes of sites like that.

I think "hating their audience" is a GamerGate/Alt-Right slogan. And really not true. Show me an article that has them hating their audience. I don't think you can. Perhaps they hate you, if you're the type to run around calling everyone the F word or whines about female characters, but then again, if you do that, you're not their audience.

Much of this comes back to "gamers" feeling like they're the audience of all things games, which isn't true, is ludicrously entitled, and is where half these issues come from in the first place (it amazes me how many people think review-bombing something is smarter than saying "well, I guess that's made for someone other than me.")

Burrito of Peace wrote on Apr 3, 2019, 16:31:
God damn, gamer entitlement on full, naked display in this thread.

CJ_Parker wrote on Apr 3, 2019, 15:46:
Hahahahaha hell hath no fury like a Steam elitist scorned.

Comedy gold. Keep the whinging comin' guys!

P.S.: To lighten up the mood a little... look at the bright side, it could be A LOT worse. Imagine they'd put it on the Microshit PC store with UWP garbage and everything. Y'all should thank Cranky Bitchdork for sparing y'all that horror at least.

Beamer wrote on Apr 3, 2019, 15:58:

Parallax Abstraction wrote on Apr 3, 2019, 15:26:
Clickbait rags like Polygon, Waypoint and Kotaku (save these occasional investigative pieces) are the enemy of gamers and the elements of the industry they choose to put in their crosshairs (which usually isn't the AAA ones for some totally inexplicable reason.) What is now laughably called the "enthusiast press" seems to somehow have found a way to be profitable by hating their audience.

When did you go all alt-right? I don't feel like you used to be this way, but "hating their audience?"