Mixtape - GOTY? IGN agrees!

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Pirated it and tried to play it on my shitty laptop, thinking that cel-shaded graphics on the lowest settings would be fine, I mean I could play Cairn on medium settings. Nope. Man this game is unoptimized as fuck
 
Well, considering that Oracle has gone all-in on a technological dead-end and Ellison's considerable fortune is going to struggle to deal with having tied itself up in so many debt-saddled acquisitions... if ever he was gonna astroturf a game that time will immediately forget, now would be that time.
 
p1138 said:
You mean southern 3/4. That first X on the path is north of San Francisco(about the border of Mendocino and Sonoma counties), right about where the bend is on the eastern border with Nevada, which is already north of Sacramento.
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all the skateboarding and stuff is very cali
p1138 said:
Plus why would they have a "welcome to California" postcard on the pin board if it wasn't going to be a trip at least from Oregon? Even if it does start in California, that's still so far north that it may as well be Oregon since it's up in the Shasta/Lassen area.
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the devs dont know anything about cali?
 
oh no its pipkun said:
all the skateboarding and stuff is very cali
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It's all very west coast. Seattle had as much of a skating scene as California did. And considering this was supposed to be the mid 90s, skating was big enough nationally that the X-Games became a thing right around that time and had people from all over the US in it.

Unless it is supposed to be set in the 80s and has CD burners, discmans(yes these existed in the 80s, no highschool kid would have had one unless they were some rich spoiled brat), and 90s music in it which would make no sense.
oh no its pipkun said:
the devs dont know anything about cali?
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Even if you know nothing about a place, you wouldn't plan a trip within a place you're already at with a "Welcome to <place>" sign because you're already there.
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That's the map from another angle, it starts at the Oregon/California border, which if they lived in southern Oregon would make sense because you wouldn't need to be planning "Crappy roadtrip stops" at the beginning of a roadtrip. Now what doesn't make sense, likely because the stupid Australian didn't look at a map, is that you wouldn't start basically on 101, and then drive through a bunch of national forests and parks to go to I-5, take that through the northern most part, cut across a bunch of dead open land again just to stop in Santa Rosa, just to take the local freeways back to I-5 and then do the same weird route shit again in southern California. You'd just take 101 till the SF bay area, local freeways over to I-5, and then take that for the rest of your trip. Unless you want to add an extra half day for basically no reason.

They're also not likely from the Portland or Salem areas, since those are even further north in Oregon, but could just be from some coastal city basically in the middle of bumfuck nowhere like Brookings or one of its suburbs since that's a whole 15-20 minutes away from California.
 
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No-Eyed Square Guy said:
Nothing about the game is convincingly Pacific Northwestern, and it mentions a Deftones song from 1997 so it can't be set earlier than that.

The only fully out of place song is the Alice Coltrane one. Claiming to like her is a millennial "hipster" social signal. In the '90s only musicians remembered her.

And there's too much Australian shit, because it's set in a 40-year-old Australian's third-hand fantasy of '90s American suburbia. If it were admittedly so, that would be a better premise.

It's all music I knew, and I'm almost the kind of person the game pretends it's about. Nobody ever existed who'd actually make that specific mixtape. It's the work of a smugly out-of-touch music supervisor...
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Yeah, I was a teenager in the 90s in the PNW and this invoked absolutely nothing. This is all music I knew, but we were listening to sub pop groups and shit like fuel or bush.

Nobody talked like that, either. This is the perfect example of anemoia
 
Mike Matei's Penis said:
None of these games (apart from Class of 09 afaik?) actually say gay and retarded like we used to drop in the 90s/00s. It's such a bold faced actual rewriting of history.
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By late elementary school we were already calling people we didn't like faggots. "Fuck" was still kindov taboo, but kids would say it as like a dare. This was late 90s/early 2000s. Hell we even had a kid get death threats in his desk. It was over some petty friendship triangle thing, but they were death threats none-the-less. God damn elementary school kids were "harder" than the highschoolers in this bullshit jew-funded walking sim.
Sawamura Simp said:
Wow, cool.

Back to Vagrant Story.-
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Now THAT game is art. What it's able to do visually on the PS1 is genuinely impressive. I have huge respect for the effort of it all.
 
No-Eyed Square Guy said:
Nothing about the game is convincingly Pacific Northwestern, and it mentions a Deftones song from 1997 so it can't be set earlier than that.

The only fully out of place song is the Alice Coltrane one. Claiming to like her is a millennial "hipster" social signal. In the '90s only musicians remembered her.

And there's too much Australian shit, because it's set in a 40-year-old Australian's third-hand fantasy of '90s American suburbia. If it were admittedly so, that would be a better premise.

It's all music I knew, and I'm almost the kind of person the game pretends it's about. Nobody ever existed who'd actually make that specific mixtape. It's the work of a smugly out-of-touch music supervisor...
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Exactly this, too much Australian shit. I recognize Silverchair's "Freak," and the Freak Show album was also a 1997 release. An actually talented team would've taken this premise for a game and made really good satire with it.
 
TrainWreckWatcher said:
It was another shitty visual novel that looked like it was made by a high schooler.
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Even funnier is that Zoey had a man program it, probably in exchange for fucking him.

p1138 said:
Unless it is supposed to be set in the 80s
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If the music being used is anything to go by, it's set in the very, very late 90s, 1998 or 1999, since some of the tracks used had come out in those years.
 
SmokelessFire said:
Pirated it and tried to play it on my shitty laptop, thinking that cel-shaded graphics on the lowest settings would be fine, I mean I could play Cairn on medium settings. Nope. Man this game is unoptimized as fuck
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I've seen videos of it on YT, and it looks and feels like it's 10 fps desperately trying to convince you it's running at 60.

I'd say it's like trying to run Crimson Desert on really old integrated graphics, something like an Intel HD Graphics 4000 from 2012.

But even then, I think the iGPU would still give a smoother experience.
 
I watched someone stream the entire game and everyone including the streamer held the game in complete contempt. The main character is Patrick Bateman tier in narcissism and pretentiousness. Negative character development and zero consequences for anyone involved. Calling this a game is extremely generous and could have been a mediocre two episode animation.
 
REGENDarySumanai said:
Patrick Bateman tier in narcissism and pretentiousness
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It's fascinating to me that all these woke writers keep coming up with characters that are so dislikeable, but are shocked when told audiences despise their donutsteal OCs and view them as the villains of the story.

I wonder if there's an explanation as to why they all consistently keep shitting out these characters like they're coming off an assembly line?
 
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