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So this faggot at a site I've never heard of writes an article bashing jrpgs...(Racism is okay when they do it!)

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But some info on the site turned up....

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TATE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODE!! said:
Hard Drive is a parody website.
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That's true back then. It seems to be a every average gaming journalist website now.
And also being supported by gaming journalism clique themselves.
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Reading the written article, it has the tones dismissing JRPG for their mechanics, tropes and writings. It's like a short review/opinion of each game. It doesn't feel really satirical enough.


Pokemon. Imagine upsetting about video game series for kids, is actually written for kids.
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Persona.
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Fire Emblem.
For some reasons, blaming Genshin Impact for waifu and husbando centric design, gacha mobile games. And that cringy last sentence "I'm a tough guy".
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Xenoblade. Totally not mad about the picture with grown up Rex.
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MembersSchoolPizza said:
Like I said, I know the indie scene is filled with crap.
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I think some people hyper focus on a handful of really shitty, over pushed indie games and act like that's the whole scene. Plenty of good indie games, and they can get into more niche areas of gaming that a big name dev would not be able to tackle (RTS games come to mind for me).

Sure it has its shit, but so does everything entertainment based these days, its all about the ratio. Once you figure out a way to find your own shit and actually make an effort to look for something that tickles your pickle, you can normally find something to take a punt on.

Even some "goyslop" stuff can be enjoyable. I think its harder because of ballooning budgets and trying to hide behind woke nonsense is a way to avoid the fact that plenty of top level publishers churn out too much shit, but it will burst eventually (already seems to be going through the process, regarding ubi, blizz etc all struggling. But these are huge publishers so it will take a while and they can find investments for now as they still have the brand to fall back on).

Its the same in music as well, plenty of shit even in the very niche extreme genres, but you still find some good stuff all the time, just have to figure a way to cut through all the dross and find those gems.
 
whogoesthere said:
I think some people hyper focus on a handful of really shitty, over pushed indie games and act like that's the whole scene. Plenty of good indie games, and they can get into more niche areas of gaming that a big name dev would not be able to tackle (RTS games come to mind for me).

Sure it has its shit, but so does everything entertainment based these days, its all about the ratio. Once you figure out a way to find your own shit and actually make an effort to look for something that tickles your pickle, you can normally find something to take a punt on.
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I mean, I'm advocating for indie games, but...

Yes, there's a lot of crap in general, indie or AAA, doesn't matter. The differences are the barrier of entry and the incentives.

Which a Unity or Unreal dev kit and very minimal knowledge, you can turn out a "game", post it to Steam, and make a few bucks. Same basic problem as on, for example, the Android store. So there's an incentive for people to churn out asset flips and half-baked ideas that are buggy, unplayable messes.

Worse, people like twitch streamers and youtubers perversely often disproportionally reward the crap games, because they're funny to make fun of or rage at or whatever. And when that happens, their legions of followers also jump onto the game. So you get devs periodically "making it big", making a bank off a half-formed Unity concept game that would barely even qualify as a pre-alpha tech demo of a real game... Which never ends up becoming a fully fleshed out game, because why would it? There's no incentive. They've already made a lot of money.
 
Frosted Snowflakes said:
Sophia Narwitz found some interesting screenshots on Kotaku's ousted editor-in-chief & beta cuck Patricia Hernandez acting like a male feminist cuckold telling people "If you don't like how bad and woke our sites are, you hate wahman!". The tweet was later deleted.
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And today's paragraph from Kotaku, it's read like something a mental child would write.
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I don't hate women, i hate that mystery meat cunt Patricia Hernandez, one of the harbingers for the absolute shitshow vidya has become in the present day. I never even read Kotaku and only know her bullshit articles from /v/ ragebait.
TATE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODE!! said:
If there's was ever a horrible cancer that's ruined just trying to find basic bitch stuff about a game it's Fandom.

Sure miss web 1.0 days of fan sites that didn't throttle my computer.
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I'd kill to get sites like rpgclassics.com back as the only mainstream, on-topic source.
 
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I stopped reading Kotaku when they revealed their giant autistic hate boner for Dragons Dogma. They really fucking hated this game for no reason at all. This caused me to realize what garbage people were working there.
 
The Feline Solution said:
I don't hate women, i hate that mystery meat cunt Patricia Hernandez, one of the harbingers for the absolute shitshow vidya has become in the present day. I never even read Kotaku and only know her bullshit articles from /v/ ragebait.

I'd kill to get sites like rpgclassics.com back as the only mainstream, on-topic source.
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Come on now, what is this talentless, bitter hag supposed to do when people point out she is fucking shite at everything. All she can do is say "you hate wahmeme". If you took that away from her, she would have to confront the fact she is a talentless diversity hire.
 
whogoesthere said:
Come on now, what is this talentless, bitter hag supposed to do when people point out she is fucking shite at everything. All she can do is say "you hate wahmeme". If you took that away from her, she would have to confront the fact she is a talentless diversity hire.
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Yeah, but shit gets real old after 10 years of that ish.
MembersSchoolPizza said:
Pompous cockgoblin tries to defend including a game from a AAA publisher in the indie category for The Game Awards.

The TL;DR is "shut up, it's up to our hand-picked jury of industry insiders".

This is the trans sports debacle all over. If you can't win on your own merits, compete against someone who is never going to be in the same tier as you.
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Didn't even know it had a big publisher behind it, i immediately dismissed it because it looks like artsy, 2deep5u indie slop of the Phil Fish variety. I echo @xXx: State of the Union here, who the fuck even cares about award shows anymore?
 
Chug Smuckle said:
Easy Allies is Dead
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Lmao, and the best members keep on leaving the group.
I stopped following them after Kyle left, but I did check them out every now and then, and they seemed worse every time. After Ian trooned-out in 2021, it was just a matter of time, but honestly I'm surprised they lasted this long.
I think Ian will try to drag the dead corpse of this company as long as he haven't hung himself, but this new change seems like a major blow to any hope they could have had and the remaining members will slowly quit until it's just the tranny and his fat black token female coworker.
 
Chug Smuckle said:
Easy Allies is Dead
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For context: Bradley Ellis, one of the founding members of the group invited a lifelong friend onto the podcast. The friend works for Last Stand Media, owned by Colin Moriarty, who was unpersoned a long time ago for making a mild joke. Trannies and pedos of the website Resetera were outraged that he dared to interact with his lifelong friend who had ties to someone they didnt like and went after Easy Allies over it. They instantly bent the knee and apologized for having such a clearly awful evil person on their show. Brad and his friend were obviously not too happy about that. Their sheboon "community manager" went on twitter to call anyone who had a problem with their statement illiterate. Last Stand Media then offered Brad a position at their company, which is much more successful than Easy Allies and has made several videos about industry layoffs, moving to patreon and why you shouldnt act like Easy Allies or you'll kill your company.. Easy Allies suffered a constant decline from pandering to woke people who complained but didnt contribute much, driving off great sponsors and contributors like HoegLaw, who went on to have a bigger youtube channel than them himself.

tl;dr: very clear example of going woke and going broke

Terror Sandwich said:
Lmao, and the best members keep on leaving the group.
I stopped following them after Kyle left, but I did check them out every now and then, and they seemed worse every time. After Ian trooned-out in 2021, it was just a matter of time, but honestly I'm surprised they lasted this long.
I think Ian will try to drag the dead corpse of this company as long as he haven't hung himself, but this new change seems like a major blow to any hope they could have had and the remaining members will slowly quit until it's just the tranny and his fat black token female coworker.
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The company will just be Isla & friends and Damiani playing FF14, they'll keep taking whatever free money they get from patreon.
I'm only sad there was never anything done about Ian/Isla grooming a child viewer
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