• Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip
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        27 days ago

        While I understand your point, a crappy game is a crappy game, dudes make shit games all the time

        And folks don’t bring their demographic into it when that happens 😅

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    26 days ago

    Is this about how women in Western games don’t have giant bazongas anymore.

    Not gonna lie, I miss giant bazongas, but I’m not on fucking twitter making photo-edits of Aloy as a bimbo

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      26 days ago

      90s notalgia hits hard.

      huh, the internet told me that it’s because gamers are all pedos now so they want women that look like little boys.

      or femboys maybe? i can’t keep up with these trends what degeneracy i am supposed to find attractive. or whether it makes me woke, or anti-woke. i’m just sleeping over here i guess.

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      27 days ago

      Yeah, the devs are desperately trying to make whatever they can with the limited time and suffocatingly safe direction they’re given by the executive suite, who know that the game will give a much faster return on their investment than a well-made game given the time and freedom it needs to flourish. Game companies don’t exist to make games, they exist to make money; they’ve long since figured out that bad games made quickly make better money than good games made slowly. If they could sell empty boxes for more money, they would.

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    27 days ago

    idk, but who cares? Just ignore them all and go for indie titles. I had way more fun with FTL and Noita than RDR2, etc.

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      27 days ago

      I love FTL, but weird choice for an unfun AAA game, as RDR2 is actually one of the best AAA games in “recent” history.

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        27 days ago

        …maybe you’re missing their point that fun is relative and what’s fun for you might not be for them.

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          No, I don’t think I do. The goal of their message is to point out that the modern AAA game industry makes similar, boring and repetitive games. RDR2 isn’t that, it’s a genuine piece of art. Why pick the one good apple from a pile of bad apples, when complaining about the aforementioned pile of mostly bad apples.

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    26 days ago

    I mean, it really is as simple as you’d think it is.

    They’re entitled, vain, and incompetent.

    Gigantocorporate structures… do that to themselves and their constituents.

    They have a whole other kind of ‘social norms’, just like any particularly culturally different group or economic class of people have noticably different expectations and behavior patterns.

    The corporation values ass kissing and gaslighting more than anything else, it takes an extreme and constant, consistent effort inside the company to make that not happen, like pushing a boulder up a hill.

    You can place varying degrees of blame on management or devs, on specifically full of themselves and insufferable people…

    … but the ultimate reason this happens is because shareholders say line must go up, and the social dynamics that occur in an organization that is rabidly aiming for that goal… produce narcissists that are full of themselves.

    Because a mass shakeup, an attempt to reset that via resetting people… well that means downtime, that means ‘a rebuilding year’… but that line needs to keep going up NOW. And firing all your top leadership is a near guaranteed way to tank your stock value.

    So, the most influential people with the most wrongheaded ideas fail upward, untill the money printer breaks, and then, at that point… shareholders are okay with firing leadership, because the bad thing, the line go down, that already happened.

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    27 days ago

    Western game bad when unfuckable player character, or characters above the age of 18.