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[God's Strongest Dragoon]

Am I schizo reading this as games journalist is passive aggressive seething over the fact people just want to play the game, while both sides of the grifting fence losing their shit over it are being mostly ignored outside of twitter?

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Found out the reason why they are being passive aggressive about Inzoi

 

[CalciumAnimal]

Man, must be nice to have relatively innocuous memories of young childhood. My surviving memories from when I was that young are:

- Being told the family dog was going to have to die because he was so old
- Trying to slide under a chain I strung over the slide and accidentally 'hanging' myself, only being noticed and saved when I was starting to lose consciousness
- The convenience store across the street from my house exploding in the night with such force it threw burning debris through my window

No wonder I'm such a stable and well adjusted individual!

Riding down a stupidly steep hill on my Razer Scooter hitting a crack and LAUNCHING my self all the way down the thing that broke my fall slamming into a telephone pole.


no I don't know how I'm alive either I was airborne for a good two minutes the hill was that steep.

 

[Smelliest007]

Found out the reason why they are being passive aggressive about Inzoi

Wtf does this even mean? That it emulates real life LIKE A LIFE SIM? WHERE THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE STRAIGHT? God I fucking hate tjournalists, they have the same talking point as that troon vtuber who has been beefing with Kirsche, thinking being straight is the outlier.

 

[God's Strongest Dragoon]

Man, must be nice to have relatively innocuous memories of young childhood. My surviving memories from when I was that young are:

- Being told the family dog was going to have to die because he was so old
- Trying to slide under a chain I strung over the slide and accidentally 'hanging' myself, only being noticed and saved when I was starting to lose consciousness
- The convenience store across the street from my house exploding in the night with such force it threw burning debris through my window

No wonder I'm such a stable and well adjusted individual!

-Was given 2 mice as a child. Woke up one day to find a decapitated mouse and the other one is twice as fat. Turns out it ate the other one because mice are known to become cannibals in captivity. I think I was like 5 or 6 yrs old at the time.
-Was playing around with a Spider-Man action figure, wanted to have a "web line" to swing from. Noticed the fan's white cord hanging from wall but its stuck in there. Get scissors and cut the electrical cord while it is plugged into the wall. Get thrown across the room. There's a big hole burnt through the scissors. Parents now have a noticeable twitch whenever a light flickers.
-Hang out with friends on street. There's a young couple that hangs out with everyone else during block parties. They have no kids and the husband grows to hate me because whenever this fag with a motorcycle tried to act cool in front of the other kids, I'd bully him. When they are leaving, the husband leaves before the wife and leaves a video for all the kids to watch. We all go to their house and in the video, he says nice things to all the kids except for me, where he goes into a rant calling me an asshole. Shrug it off, don't care what that fag thinks. Comes up in conversation with family a year ago. Look up the guy out of curiosity because everyone in the family thought that couple was super weird. Immediately find a mugshot of him getting arrested for molesting kids he was coaching. Turns out he hated my guts because he was trying to schmooze with the other kids but I kept bullying and embarrassing him so much that I ruined his plan to molest them.

I too am a stable and well adjusted individual.

Wtf does this even mean? That it emulates real life LIKE A LIFE SIM? WHERE THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE ARE STRAIGHT? God I fucking hate tjournalists, they have the same talking point as that troon vtuber who has been beefing with Kirsche, thinking being straight is the outlier.

You don't understand, ALL GAMES MUST BE GAY. HETEROSEXUALITY IS GROSS! THERE IS NO SLIPPERY SLOPE!

 

[CalciumAnimal]

-Was given 2 mice as a child. Woke up one day to find a decapitated mouse and the other one is twice as fat. Turns out it ate the other one because mice are known to become cannibals in captivity. I think I was like 5 or 6 yrs old at the time.
-Was playing around with a Spider-Man action figure, wanted to have a "web line" to swing from. Noticed the fan's white cord hanging from wall but its stuck in there. Get scissors and cut the electrical cord while it is plugged into the wall. Get thrown across the room. There's a big hole burnt through the scissors. Parents now have a noticeable twitch whenever a light flickers.
-Hang out with friends on street. There's a young couple that hangs out with everyone else during block parties. They have no kids and the husband grows to hate me because whenever this fag with a motorcycle tried to act cool in front of the other kids, I'd bully him. When they are leaving, the husband leaves before the wife and leaves a video for all the kids to watch. We all go to their house and in the video, he says nice things to all the kids except for me, where he goes into a rant calling me an asshole. Shrug it off, don't care what that fag thinks. Comes up in conversation with family a year ago. Look up the guy out of curiosity because everyone in the family thought that couple was super weird. Immediately find a mugshot of him getting arrested for molesting kids he was coaching. Turns out he hated my guts because he was trying to schmooze with the other kids but I kept bullying and embarrassing him so much that I ruined his plan to molest them.

I too am a stable and well adjusted individual.

You don't understand, ALL GAMES MUST BE GAY. HETEROSEXUALITY IS GROSS! THERE IS NO SLIPPERY SLOPE!

the slippery slope is the otherguys backside.

 

[PleaseCheckYourReceipts]

Schedule 1 just now hit 413,314 when it peaked 319,461 yesterday. This is fucking ridiculous, it just picked up nearly 100k peak player count while it's valley between now and yesterday was 151,649, more than twice that of Shadows. This 1 game just outdid Starfield, Monster Hunter: World, Destiny 2, Throne and Liberty, and Hitman 2. It has jumped up 11 spots in highest peak count as it is now at #29.

Troon deaths? None
Troon psychic damage? Cataclysmic
Game Quality? Alright, actually feels like an older game from the 2000s in design with it being mainly a collect-a-thon and the way combat is designed. If you never watched Harry Potter, eh? If you enjoy Harry Potter, definitely pick it up.

I hadn't checked until I was logging in here. Geez, Schedule 1 is an absolute smash hit. About to hit 28k reviews, which in the older metrics I've seen analyzed pointed to around 70 purchases per review. Which points to over 2 million in sales. This game has found a market like few have in ages. It's wild.

The Harry Potter game is weird at this point. WB Games is an utter disaster as a company. WB itself is an utter disaster, but that's a different topic. The design made a lot of sense as it was targeted towards a non-mainline gaming audience. The FIFA and COD overlaps would be small. I'm just more impressed it was functional when it came out.

Well, almost everyone.

I distinctly recall the occasional case of seethe by gaming journalists in the early 2000s about how dare there being a game catering to the female market and why won't women play real games instead? Bitches.

Different breed of gaming journalists back then, but the exact same seethe, just at different things.

Been twenty years, so I'm afraid not, or not on the quick, at any rate. I'll try looking whether I can find it again, tho'.

I do remember a bit of complaints about wanting more people to play "real" games. It was always pro-corporate seething, so my assumption would be the intention was in the inversion of the statements. They wanted to make less "core" titles and more "general audience" ones. Before the mid-2000s, Journalists at least had some skill in what they did. At least in the States. The rest of the world generally assumes outfits are biased by their ownership, while the USA had a period of kind of "straight shooter" journalism. It never really was, but they at least had a sense of professionalism. Now they're basically just people too ugly to be camwhores.

-Was given 2 mice as a child. Woke up one day to find a decapitated mouse and the other one is twice as fat. Turns out it ate the other one because mice are known to become cannibals in captivity. I think I was like 5 or 6 yrs old at the time.
-Was playing around with a Spider-Man action figure, wanted to have a "web line" to swing from. Noticed the fan's white cord hanging from wall but its stuck in there. Get scissors and cut the electrical cord while it is plugged into the wall. Get thrown across the room. There's a big hole burnt through the scissors. Parents now have a noticeable twitch whenever a light flickers.
-Hang out with friends on street. There's a young couple that hangs out with everyone else during block parties. They have no kids and the husband grows to hate me because whenever this fag with a motorcycle tried to act cool in front of the other kids, I'd bully him. When they are leaving, the husband leaves before the wife and leaves a video for all the kids to watch. We all go to their house and in the video, he says nice things to all the kids except for me, where he goes into a rant calling me an asshole. Shrug it off, don't care what that fag thinks. Comes up in conversation with family a year ago. Look up the guy out of curiosity because everyone in the family thought that couple was super weird. Immediately find a mugshot of him getting arrested for molesting kids he was coaching. Turns out he hated my guts because he was trying to schmooze with the other kids but I kept bullying and embarrassing him so much that I ruined his plan to molest them.

I too am a stable and well adjusted individual.

You don't understand, ALL GAMES MUST BE GAY. HETEROSEXUALITY IS GROSS! THERE IS NO SLIPPERY SLOPE!

Yeah, any omnivore will do that for various reasons. Unfun way to learn.

As for the weird family, boy did that story take a wild turn. See, pays to be mean to people that give off weird vibes.

 

[Brosnan Pierce Brosnan]

The Sims was neat because I remember it being marketed as a sort of God game at first. And then it became a huge hit with women hence the Sims 2 and then the casual PC game explosion. Which were both pretty awesome. Now we just have shit on both fronts.

I don't care if the Sims 2 or Peggle were made for women they are still way better than anything released last year or the year prior damnit (I can't remember what came out in 2022 so I'm playing it safe)

 

[Todd's Strongest Howard]

The Sims was neat because I remember it being marketed as a sort of God game at first. And then it became a huge hit with women hence the Sims 2 and then the casual PC game explosion. Which were both pretty awesome. Now we just have shit on both fronts.

I don't care if the Sims 2 or Peggle were made for women they are still way better than anything released last year or the year prior damnit (I can't remember what came out in 2022 so I'm playing it safe)

Elden Ring is the biggest thing I can think of from 2022.

 

[John Vtuber👁️]

Did you know a Game of Thrones game released in Early Access a few days back? Well, now you do!

(Trigger Warning: NetMarble)



It's about a decade late to the party, which should help explain the lack of any fanfare whatsoever. And the mixed reviews.

...Season 8 being shit really was an overnight cultural shift, huh? You gotta have real talent to fumble the largest bag in history that hard, when it was almost guaranteed!

 

[RestlessRain]

Palworld has taken its first step into becoming a multimedia franchise:

I'd assume it was an April Fools' joke but today is the 31st of March and the Twitter page is doing giveaways for a body pillow based off this game in mid-April, so who the fuck knows?

I normally wouldn't be interested in high-school dating sims, but this looks like a hilarious shitpost of a game. I'm down.

 

[PleaseCheckYourReceipts]

Did you know a Game of Thrones game released in Early Access a few days back? Well, now you do!

(Trigger Warning: NetMarble)



It's about a decade late to the party, which should help explain the lack of any fanfare whatsoever. And the mixed reviews.

...Season 8 being shit really was an overnight cultural shift, huh? You gotta have real talent to fumble the largest bag in history that hard, when it was almost guaranteed!

It's hard to explain how culturally impactful that screw up on season 8 was. I'm pretty sure that's the point where the Millennial Cultural Zeitgeist completely shattered. Obviously, 2020 happened, but that was the last fraying threads. It's completely open and massively split everywhere and that will probably be the foreseeable future.

 

[CalciumAnimal]

It's hard to explain how culturally impactful that screw up on season 8 was. I'm pretty sure that's the point where the Millennial Cultural Zeitgeist completely shattered. Obviously, 2020 happened, but that was the last fraying threads. It's completely open and massively split everywhere and that will probably be the foreseeable future.

such a screw up even the cast could not hide how disappointed they were incase people forget that was the big tip off.

so little effort they could not be assed to remove or edited out the coffee cups littered around the set and just left them in there.

 

[RestlessRain]

 

[ogey_rrat]

Geoff will have his revenge:

 

[UberSoldat]

Civvie plays that KISS FPS

 

[Kazuma]

What the fuck

Four-Way Bidding War Erupts Over Starcraft IP Rights - Power Up Gaming

NCSoft, Nexon, Netmarble, and Krafton are competing to secure the rights to Blizzard Entertainment’s iconic StarCraft franchise.

powerupgaming.co.uk

 

[TKN_Lurker]

What the fuck

Four-Way Bidding War Erupts Over Starcraft IP Rights - Power Up Gaming

NCSoft, Nexon, Netmarble, and Krafton are competing to secure the rights to Blizzard Entertainment’s iconic StarCraft franchise.

powerupgaming.co.uk

Once premier american gaming franchise/IP reduced to scraps being shared between four chink companies. Oh how the mighty have fallen. I'm still upset that they cancelled Starcraft Ghost and did nothing to compensate for it. What a waste.

 

[Punished Anime Discusser]

Once premier american gaming franchise/IP reduced to scraps being shared between four chink companies. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

I don't know why you're surprised that Koreans want to get their hands on Starcraft, it was more popular in Korea than it ever was in the US.

 

[TKN_Lurker]

I don't know why you're surprised that Koreans want to get their hands on Starcraft, it was more popular in Korea than it ever was in the US.

Maybe the chinks can do it right for once if that's the case. That's more love for the franchise than Blizzard themselves ever did nowadays.

 

[PleaseCheckYourReceipts]

such a screw up even the cast could not hide how disappointed they were incase people forget that was the big tip off.

so little effort they could not be assed to remove or edited out the coffee cups littered around the set and just left them in there.

All because they didn't want to give someone else the seat and let them finish out the extra 2 seasons they needed to flesh out the execution. It wasn't wrong. Dany's Insane Turn was forecast in the books, no less, but it's possibly the worst executed "Heel-Face Turn" in popular media. You needed 2 seasons of slowly unhinged actions to setup The Fall. Though the series jumped the shark hard in ep 3 with the Night King's death, but it burned the entire franchise to the ground in the middle of ep 5. The self immolation was very impressive.