Fabricant451

Hunting Grounds: A Survival Horror Experience

@TGM I'm like....50 percent done. I've got to do the appearance and the concept section which is always what takes me the longest to put to words, so I'm hoping to have it done by tomorrow, with Monday being the absolute latest.

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I guess skill wasn't the right word. Blame english not being my first language. What I was trying to explain is that because such games do not require direct immediate input from me as the player during the act of playing as opposed to basically spreadsheet work outside of the actual gameplay of combat they do not pose an enjoyable challenge to me.

@PPQ Purple

I mean, Diablo still requires you to move and avoid attacks and be generally quick about it - especially on the harder difficulties.

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(A store that probably still has a mountain of unplayable shovelware still on it. Like 'Life Of Black Tiger'.)

@SleepingSilence

Life of Black Tiger didn't blatantly lie to its customers either so notch in its favor.

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Seeing the various issues with Cyberpunk that aren't just crashes and t-poses but fundamental issues with the core design of the game (like the AI following set paths) makes me wonder if patches will actually be able to address that since it seems something that would require fundamentally changing elements of the game.

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What was the deal with "Devotion" anyway?

Why were Chicoms unhappy with it?

@BangoSkank

It had some unflattering things to say about Xi Jinping and his resemblance to a certain hunny loving bear.

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But they made The Witcher 3 and they said they care about Gamers™ there's no way they could actually be a corporation that does questionable things for monetary purposes, that would mean they're just like other companies that care about money more than the consumer! It's fine that they have their employees crunch because they will make the game I want to play and it's only bad when the crunch is for a game I don't like!

CDPR out here doing a goodwill tanking speedrun. Normally it takes more than one game not just one but damn they're on world record pace

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Why do people get so worked up over meaningless awards? Lmao. It’s the same with the Emmys, Grammys and Oscars. It’s hilarious how upset and salty some Gamers are getting over TLOU2 (again).

Ghost won the fan voted game of the year anyway.

@Heat

It's this weird habit a lot of Gamers™ have where they personally attach themselves to a game or product and take any slight against it personally despite having no skin in the game apart from spending money on it. Just look at the people who got legitimately angry because one reviewer gave Cyberpunk a 7; it couldn't be true, there's been 8 years of hype, it has to be at least a 9!

TLOU2's discourse is fucking tiring and it was before it even came out and at this point there's still an active community of people who just...can't...get over the fact that the game they wanted to be a masterpiece didn't land for them for whatever reason and they refuse to think that it could for anyone else, especially those 'out of touch' game reviewers that for some reason they still follow despite constantly saying how pointless they are and how they're not real gamers or whatever the fuck. TLOU2 isn't even a bad game, it's just a dull one and the problem in that game doesn't start or stop with the writing or the fact that some people think that 'revenge bad' is all it's trying to say.

The worst part of any fandom are the people who just can't get over the fact that something they like/dislike unconditionally can be liked/disliked by someone else. There needs to be that validation, that stupid thing in the brain that makes you feel like buying into the hype of a marketing machine wasn't a waste of time or else if it was a waste of time then you have to convince everyone that it sucks and that you're objectively wrong for liking it. The Game Awards have tried to be taken legitimately but this is the same thing that, in its very first show back on Spike TV literally announced the Game of the Year in the opening fucking seconds of the broadcast.

When every publication, podcast, and content creator has their own GOTY thing, it makes something like The Game Awards even less meaningful. How can anyone truly take it seriously when they give out genre awards on the pre-show, don't let every winner say their piece, and rattle off awards in batches because they have to squeeze in more trailers for games that won't be out for five years. It's less of a wank-fest disguised as prestige than the Oscars, which acts like only America and sometimes England makes movies, but that's only because game developers aren't celebrities though plenty of them act just as entitled and in their own bubble as celebrities do. This is why they treat Hideo Kojima like some kind of god and still go like "Hey remember that time Josef Fares said 'fuck the Oscars'? Boy that was something, huh, wasn't that something?" because it was the only time there was anything genuine and noteworthy in that artificial environment.

Play what you want, like what you want, and who gives a shit if it doesn't win an award, who plays games like they're looking for entries into the Criterion Collection.

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Abby's better than Ellie also fuck Joel

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TLOU 2 was a 3/5 because it's still really fun to stab people with shards of glass and then shoot heads into tomato paste with a shotgun and them adding death gurgles really fuels my murder boner and then playing as Abby was more fun because she kills good too

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It's really funny to me that like every place that talked about Oscar Isaac being cast as Solid Snake in the Metal Gear Solid movie uses pictures of Big Boss instead.