JonTron Salt - feat. the growing Yooka-Laylee shitstorm (Mighty No. 9 2.0)

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AnOminous said:
It's like these three are in some kind of Biggest Cuck competition where whoever wins gets to masturbate while Anita Sarkeesian fucks eight black dudes with a strap-on.
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FTFY

Secret Asshole said:
These are people who believe male sexuality is dangerous, and that seeing unclothed or scantily clad females will inspire dangerous urges. Also sexually suggestive language is problematic, even parts of the body. Inanimate objects also can inspire dangerous male sexuality.

Oh wait, those were the Victorians. How are they different from 19th century prudes?

(They aren't)
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It's all about control really. They want to hold the reins of the mainstream narrative so they create faux moral outrages in order to do so (i.e. the notion that male sexuality is inherently dangerous shames people out of depicting women in ways they don't approve of).
 
Lensherr said:
It's all about control really. They want to hold the reins of the mainstream narrative so they create faux moral outrages in order to do so (i.e. the notion that male sexuality is inherently dangerous shames people out of depicting women in ways they don't approve of).
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Zootopia actually kinda follows a similar plot line and surprisingly goes right of center with it. That was actually a much better movie than I was expecting
 
scorptatious said:
My brother's going to be crushed if this game turns out to be bad.

The Banjo games have been a pretty big part of our childhood and he's really looking forward to playing this game.
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I'm not totally convinced, I was speaking to a business advisor I know recently and mentioned this situation as he has helped them in the past. While a lot of it "goes over his head completely" he's told me some interesting things, alongside stuff I checked myself.

Playtonic is headed by three former Rareware bods who were mostly middle managers, I.E they were mostly the types which worked at the coal face and of those three, none of them came into management posts straight up, so they worked their way up before deciding they wanted to go their own way and give it a try, so they know the culture better than most. They're the "initial core" that worked on stuff like Banjo Kazooie, Donkey Kong Country etc.

Recruitment of staff wise, it seems they drew from several former Rare employees when their contracts came up, which again leads to a decent core staff who know what the shit they're doing, buuuuut these guys aren't the classical gods we know and love, and are more Perfect Dark Zero and Kinect Sports guys. Not incompetent by any stretch but maybe a tiny bit souless in their creation.

Final tier are kids fresh from Uni, they apparently asked for "only the best" and were "incredibly picky" with their choices to even do any work on the project whatsoever, let alone offering them actual jobs. Uni's love to give their kids actual "life fire" shit these days in exchange for job offers and letters of recommendation.

The Kickstarter made them expand a lot faster than they had initially planned, with an initial team of about 10 leaping very quickly to 20, and now topping out at 26 as seen today, and its possible they expanded too quickly, hence the partnership with Team 17 and the fuckup we're seeing now.

Anyways, long and short of it... Having thought on it and done a little digging around... I don't think it'll suck. The actual company behind it are all super passionate and, in the case of the management/founders do it out of sheer love. So I doubt it will suck.

Their publisher however... definitely does.

And Jonno's an idiot.
 
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Sinners Sandwich said:
Aparrently fat fuck Jim Sterling implied in a recent potcast that Yooka Laylee is a bad game (he has a review copy) and everyone who pre-ordered it should think twice.

If that's true: Top fucking kek
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On one hand, I did have a bit of excitement for this game prior to this drama starting up, but i'd pay perfectly good money to watch Team 17/Playtonic and Jim Sterling tear each other apart.
 
Williams puts on a facade of being "the reasonable one", and compared to his ex coworkers (Jeremy Parish and Bob Mackey), he might very well actually be that, but he's still just as much of a scumbag as all the journos involved in Gaf.
 
TheScooper said:
I had the feeling that the game was gonna be at least pretty, but boring, there will be salt to surpass Mighty No. 9
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Given there's still uncertainty as to whether or not we're even going to be getting the version some of us requested AND Fangamer still hasn't received the assets to mail out the trash and trinkets (like the game box mockup), I don't know if the salt will be that bad. MN9 went downhill relatively early into the Kickstarter, unlike this where stuff didn't start falling apart until the game was practically released.
 

Apparently the game's riddled with technical problems. How exactly you get such a dodgy framerate on Xbox One with these graphics is beyond me.
 
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