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Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

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how dare you insinuate that I'm a racist

@mdk

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

@mdk No that's disingenuous, I'm not near any slippery slope of intellectual inconsistency or rabbit holes of left wing nonsense. Put your strawman voodoo doll away. What I said was 100% correct, that some White nationalist racists use harmless things such as milk and frogs as meme symbols, I made no other claims. Anything else you are inferring about the way I think is fantasy I'm afraid.

You're sounding paranoid, you hear something anywhere close to something some left wing idiot has said and you start tarring with brushes. I've seen you do it before, you've mistaken people in this thread criticizing trump as somehow being sympathetic to Hilary, you've mistaken people in this thread attacking the alt right as some how being supportive of Antifa, you deal in black and white extremes and I want no part of it, attack MY ideas not some imaginary buzzfeed strawman.

Underrated and Overrated Video Games

".....the guy directed Shawshank let him work".

@Fabricant451

Speaking of overrated................hmm maybe another thread.

I liked games better when people weren't able to just go "It's Tumblr quality" in lieu of actually having an opinion. Andromeda was bad for that.

@Fabricant451

I mean there are two extremes here, the people who think the game is bad purely because of the Ess Jay Dubyoo-ness, and then the reactionary people who do nothing but suck the game's dick to make up for the unfair press it got.

But the truth is somewhere in the middle, was the game overly dogpiled because of a few glitches and an anti progressive community backlash? Yes absolutely.

Would the game have been pretty weak overall anyway without said backlash and glitches?
Absolutely.

That's not saying the game has zero merit, the combat works most of the time and the characters apart from ryder and the citadel(or whatever the fuck its called in MEA) people aren't extremely unlikable. But the plot is boring, the dialogue is boring, the quests suck, the exploration sucks, the menu system is cumbersome, there is too much to do and a lot of it isn't fun to do, oh and the bad guys are underwhelmingly dull.

Its similar to the Ghostbusters thing, just because there was a huge chunk of body pillow owning MRA virgins who boycotted and trashed the film, it doesn't mean that everyone who didn't like it is a misogynist.

Underrated and Overrated Video Games

Here’s an underrated games opinion for you folks.

I like Mass Effect Andromeda. Genuinely. Yeah, you heard me, I like the problematic mess that is the fourth Mass Effect title, all of its flaws doesn’t deter me enjoying it as a video game. It is not as fundamentally broken as people say it is nor is it’s writing “unforgiveable”. It’s a mess, but I have fun playing each and every playthrough.

@Inkarnate

Yeah and I like Fallout 4, I like the shooting, the gun modding and a lot of the characters. Nothing wrong with liking a flawed game as long as you can recognise it's flaws. I think people have a problem when supporters of something try to pretend that said flaws don't exist like the people who like DCEU movies.

Underrated and Overrated Video Games

@Fabricant451 I mean after you said bioware fans are very critical and pretty hard to please, you sorta sound like a Bethesda fan who is critical and hard to please, and you definitely aren't the only one. When it comes to those two developers I really still do believe that the fanbase have slightly more fun bitching about the games than playing them.

Even some of its more vocal critics can say positive things about it because despite it being broken and bad and boring and stupid and it literally making no sense at all from a lore and story telling perspective if you just blatantly ignore all of that you can probably find something that is enjoyable.

@Fabricant451

Since when did we start talking about Andromeda?



Its a shame that this isnt a thread about overrated TV because I would have sweet sadistic pleasure in tearing apart TWD in long form. Yes the first season was somewhere between decent and good (if not almost unbearably campy sometimes). But everything else has been pure unleaded horseshit, its a bad T.V, show with poor acting, poor plot-lines, shitty production values, predictable as sin, shit dialogue and the worst pacing I have ever seen. Game of thrones occasionally suffers from these problems but benefits from having the odd critically acclaimed episode to make you forgive some of the crap they throw at you. TWD has a mildly more involved season finale where they decide to spend more than £1000 dollars on the budget just enough to trick people who breath through their mouths to come back for the next one.

TL;DR
Season One is competent, probably has about 4 episodes that could be labelled as 'good' the rest are okay. Every other season of every other episode sucks hairy nutsack and you know it.

Sky Warrior Stories: The New York 5 (closed)

@Skepic So while we are waiting, is there a reason your pilot characters wolfenstien waifus? (I'm certainly not complaining) but its a very interesting aesthetic choice.

Underrated and Overrated Video Games

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Season One

Episode One

@Fabricant451

Underrated and Overrated Video Games

This is sounding more like your issues with the game rather than the community as a whole.

@Fabricant451

I mean they sound like my issues because they are my issues, but just like your complaints about various games, I'm not the only one who holds these views.

I REALLY dont want to bring subjectivity here, but if a game has a large disconnect between critics and fanbase then there is a case for the game being both overrated and underrated depending on who you talk to.

Fallout 4 is a good game, its an open world FPS action game with some lighter RPG elements, but considering how different it is to past installments, you can see why some of the fanbase don't like it. I personally wouldn't have given it a 10/10 but trying to find a positive conversation about the game on the interwebs is like trying to find a good episode of the walking dead. I can see how someone might sit through a snobby 2 hour long 'critique' video of Fallout 4 that absolutely shits down its throat, only to play the game and have quite a lot of fun.

I dont personally think sales are relevant, people who buy games like Madden, Fifa, COD probably know their games aren't very good but that's just what they like passing the time with.

Frokane's Mildly Politcal Hangout Thread

@The Harbinger of Ferocity

Thanks for clarifying, Cat-Man.

Sky Warrior Stories: The New York 5 (closed)

Short and sweet to get this moving. Assuming she pulls it off, Hanna will definitely have opened fire with at least her guns the moment she can.

@Skepic