Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Polident]

Horizons story is shite, second one takes it to loony tunes territory

Whether this is a positive or negative is debatable. Horizon felt like young adult fiction. Like Hunger Games or Divergence or any number of those that were popular in the previous decade. The Fifth Wave. The Hundred. Nothing about the worlds made a whole lot of sense. Somebody comes up with a gimmicky sci fi idea and a young ordinary woman (who secretly isn’t ordinary. A twist!) rebelling against their parents  the evil totalitarian system.

I know it came out next to Zelda BOTW in 2017. At the time there was a lot of   . But it makes sense to latch onto the storytelling of its time.

[Venice]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/god-of-war-ragnarok-debuts-on-steam-with-nearly-23k-ccu.986607/page-7#post-129035118
Holy shit, Angie kept updating the CCU every hour til it finally hit 30k 

Yeah Taco, you're right! This is so fucking pathetic! And Angie is being encouraged for it too. She's literally posting every 15-30 minutes:














Sony-Ponies Era when almost no one on the planet is playing asswipe game Concord:

"Leave Concord alone chud! Stop posting the CCU! YOU'RE STOPPING PEOPLE FROM BUYING IT!" 



Sony-Ponies when a Sony game has a little bit of success:

"Allah Akhbar! Keep posting the CCU! Allah Akhbar! Everything is ok in PlayStation land!" 

[malfoyking]

Sony stans are always bragging about Horizon 1 selling 23 million as if 23 million people bought it online or in the stores specifically. I wouldn't even be surprised if sony counted the amount of people who redeeemed it after all the free giveaways to boost the sales.

They always forget the fact that the game was bundled so much thats why it sold that many. Or they forget that Breath of the Wild completely destroyed and overshadowed the game which is no one but their die-hard stans ever remember the game.

[Besticus Maximus]

The game sold well but the real success of horizon seems to be that decima engine, which is a legit banger and presumably the reason why Hulst is fuhrer now. They seem fairly capable of getting games out on schedule with good tech.  The games are just a bit meh.

[HaughtyFrank]

Mid-season Concord was bomba, but I'm just waiting for next black celebrity to do something heinous and have BCT run defense to spice things up. PDiddy doesn't count since he's rich so it's a wash.

Actually surprised that Royalan hasn't shown his face in the Diddy threads yet as it seems to keep coming up that Diddy is also into men

[HaughtyFrank]

[Polident]

Sony stans are always bragging about Horizon 1 selling 23 million as if 23 million people bought it online or in the stores specifically. I wouldn't even be surprised if sony counted the amount of people who redeeemed it after all the free giveaways to boost the sales.

They always forget the fact that the game was bundled so much thats why it sold that many. Or they forget that Breath of the Wild completely destroyed and overshadowed the game which is no one but their die-hard stans ever remember the game.

That's how I got around to playing it. On PS5 with the 60 FPS patch.

It's a solid and enjoyable time. In a "what if somebody made a good Ubisoft game" sort of way. Come to think of it, that's how I'd describe Days Gone and Ghost of Tsushima, as well.

[DocWager]

Am I the only one who felt that Zelda Switch was nothing but grade A Nintendo slop that fanboys ate up happily? Horizon to me was how you mix combat, with traversal without dumb meters, and let’s face probably the dumbest way you implement physics. Garbage game, with a garbage cartoon world, and 100% garbage fans. Nintendo rewarded once again by unnecessary childhood memories.

[kaleidoscopium]

Nah horizon sucked ass, retarded franchise and guerilla games is waste of time/money. Should go back to killzone

[Shecky Fragbaum]

This looks like it's gonna be a real doozy of a thread. Do you guys remember Gene Park who, almost one year ago, single-handedly bitch-slapped the shit out of 3 of Era's biggest pussies, ZeoVGM, CuckyCal and VisaWife over Easy Allies?

Action starts here:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/easy-allies-ot3-begin-corrections-music-please.145554/page-387#post-113519660

Escalating to this memorable post:



Well today, this thread was posted where Gene Park finds it odd that franchises keep re-inventing themselves with every sequel:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gene-park-wapo-rgg-studio-like-a-dragon-series-finds-it-peculiar-that-other-game-series-practically-reboot-themselves-with-every-entry.987756/

It took 49 posts for the first brown-noser to show up:

Gene Park, of WaPo and Last Stand Media.

Stop platforming this guy

And OP reacts by showing he has a backbone made of marshmallow:

Wait, since when?

Isn't he a friend/member of the forum?

Idiot, don't engage   Just ignore.

Absolutely NO ONE is a friend of ResetEra. Haven't they realised that not a single, even mildly, important individual from within the Games Industry posts there anymore?

Because every single person is just one misunderstood comment away from being cancelled, hated and having Era trying to destroy their reputation, livelihood and life.

 
Gene even touches on this early in the exchange:

I hate to do this but I just fundamentally disagree with painting certain people with certain views just because they said one offhand comment several years ago that was ignorant at worst.

Iluminating the laughably flawed ideological throughline of these histrionic freaks while calmly and politely refusing to be baited; the sizzle is still fresh.

And just a random aside: when did the more militant posters in the BCT decide it was probably a good idea to back off the "model minority" verbiage? Was it before the Summer of Knuckles a few years back?

[Nintex]

I'm not really impressed by the "launch" player count of God of War Ragnarok. Considering it was the "Game of the Year" and one of the biggest Sony first party franchises.

Launch is usually the "peak" for these type of games and it sits at rank 55 today and at rank 475 overall on SteamDB.
It sold about ~50k copies at best. Something like Dragons Dogma dropped in at a peak of 225k players.
The first God of War had 75k players at launch, so this is less than half that number. Even if it goes up to 50k players this weekend that's still only 2/3 of the previous game.

Reviews are mixed too because the game is choppy past the opening. 

Sure $60 x 50k = $3 million in revenue but I doubt that even covers the development cost of the port.

If I dunno, some niche JRPG or platformer sold 50k copies on day 1 on Steam I'd be impressed. If God of War does that, I'm like aren't these games supposed to be million sellers?
 

[Boredfrom]

My first thought when I saw their trailer showing all those accessibility features was...
If someone is smart enough to read and operate each one of those settings, they can then deal with moving platforms in the game.
I could see a concept where you pick "I'm a toddler" and the game is then set up for that target group, but all those seperate settings with its dozen of microdecissions to try and pander to each individual taste makes me feel like the Devs are simply defined by their own insecurities.
Quite a disapointment.

If a young kid is having issues with the game I would expect their parents to help them with the accessibility features.

And kids aren't the only ones who need those settings.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kotaku-zelda-inspired-plucky-squire-shows-what-happens-when-a-game-doesnt-trust-its-players.987771/page-2

Imagine writing that comment after saying kids will just ask parents help. Obviously, there is a difference between over explaining and being a obtuse and cheap NES era level game, but come on…

[PogiJones]

Am I the only one who felt that Zelda Switch was nothing but grade A Nintendo slop that fanboys ate up happily? Horizon to me was how you mix combat, with traversal without dumb meters, and let’s face probably the dumbest way you implement physics. Garbage game, with a garbage cartoon world, and 100% garbage fans. Nintendo rewarded once again by unnecessary childhood memories.

I can't believe I'm forced to read bad opinions like this. I feel unsafe, I thought The Bire was supposed to be a safe space. Benji, can you sort this out

[Jansen]

Zelda sucks. I haven't played one since twilight princess because they all look boring af

[Nintex]

Am I the only one who felt that Zelda Switch was nothing but grade A Nintendo slop that fanboys ate up happily? Horizon to me was how you mix combat, with traversal without dumb meters, and let’s face probably the dumbest way you implement physics. Garbage game, with a garbage cartoon world, and 100% garbage fans. Nintendo rewarded once again by unnecessary childhood memories.

yes you are the only one. 

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kotaku-astro-bots-soulless-devotion-to-the-sony-brand-is-a-real-problem.987762/page-14#post-129046689

Brat-Sampson
Member
9 minutes ago
#661
Calling Astro Bot Soulless or Cynical when it's one of the most inventive, passionate and lively games of the year... But no I'm sure it was the heartless moneybot suited execs at Sony standing behind Asobi insisting they make a *checks Notes* Loco Roco stage.

Some people are utterly joyless and these takes degrade the entire hobby / industry. Imagine saying this about the Smash Ultimate Spirits on release

Cry more, sfag

[Boredfrom]

A week old but people keep “agreeing” with her:

Sadly people are too addicted to Deadlock to care about Valve's acceptance of nazis and both the store and the studio being a nazi bar. I wish that there was a way for Valve to face actual, tangible consequences as a company for the way they just endorse nazis and nazism like they do, with how they defend bigoted bullshit on their forums. And on their store too, with them having the fucking Alex Jones game on there.

The latest game I bought on PC was Nine Sols and I bought it direct from Red Candle through their own shop. The copy of the game was a Steam Key. I wish it was a DRM-free copy like World Of Goo 2 lets you buy from them. I despise how Steam Keys also create customer lock-in.

But yeah: There are other places you can go to support devs and pubs that aren't nazi shitholes like Steam and Valve.

Bitch is crazy. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/gamergate-2-0-chuds-furious-about-a-consulting-company-named-“sweet-baby-inc”-which-overviews-scripts-to-make-sure-nothing-offensive-was-written.823731/page-97#post-128732649

[ComeAgain]

Nostalgia and references to other PlayStation characters/dressing up Astro Bot as those characters IS the character though. 

Game is a joy to play. Actually agree with quite a few Era posters that if even this game makes you this cynical, time to find a new hobby and job.

It’s ok to turn off the cynicism and actually just enjoy something in a world otherwise increasingly going to hell. And the constant “corpos are bad!” shit, yes we know. I’ve watched and loved Mr. Robot too, but again, it’s ok to turn off the cynicism once in awhile.

[DocWager]

I didn’t realize I was on the Famiboards. I apologize for buzzing outside the hive mind.

[BananaBlast]

With how suspicious looking that avatar looked, I decided to google Ash_Greytree out of curiosity.

And yeah, according to a site named Pillowfort, he's a fucking furry coomer. Profile states he's 30 year old bisexual man with he/him pronouns.

He posts straight and hardcore gay furry porn. I saw big furry boobs with LGBT pride flags, nude gay furries with enormous cocks, and I saw Jax from The Amazing Digital Circus with his erect dick out. 🤢

[Hap Shaughnessy]

[Jansen]

I didn’t realize I was on the Famiboards. I apologize for buzzing outside the hive mind.

Yeah thebore in both incarnations has had an abundance of nintendumbs

[Boredfrom]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/8/7/saudi-group-apologises-after-airliner-post-resembling-9

The group later apologised for the “inappropriate” post and said the image was meant to symbolise the return of Canada’s Ambassador Dennis Horak, who was ordered to leave the kingdom within 24 hours on Monday over the diplomatic spat.

[Nintex]

I saw big furry boobs with LGBT pride flags, nude gay furries with enormous cocks, and I saw Jax from The Amazing Digital Circus with his erect dick out. 🤢

[BananaBlast]

I saw big furry boobs with LGBT pride flags, nude gay furries with enormous cocks, and I saw Jax from The Amazing Digital Circus with his erect dick out. 🤢

no way I just rewatched blade runner LITERALLY yesterday 😳😳😳

[DJ Bedroom]

I saw big furry boobs with LGBT pride flags, nude gay furries with enormous cocks, and I saw Jax from The Amazing Digital Circus with his erect dick out. 🤢

no way I just rewatched blade runner LITERALLY yesterday 😳😳😳

Wow, stay safe

[DavidCroquet]

My first thought when I saw their trailer showing all those accessibility features was...
If someone is smart enough to read and operate each one of those settings, they can then deal with moving platforms in the game.
I could see a concept where you pick "I'm a toddler" and the game is then set up for that target group, but all those seperate settings with its dozen of microdecissions to try and pander to each individual taste makes me feel like the Devs are simply defined by their own insecurities.
Quite a disapointment.

If a young kid is having issues with the game I would expect their parents to help them with the accessibility features.

And kids aren't the only ones who need those settings.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/kotaku-zelda-inspired-plucky-squire-shows-what-happens-when-a-game-doesnt-trust-its-players.987771/page-2

Imagine writing that comment after saying kids will just ask parents help. Obviously, there is a difference between over explaining and being a obtuse and cheap NES era level game, but come on…

It's funny to see this conversation happening right alongside the launch of Astro Bot. 

That's a game that introduces new mechanics almost every level and has almost 0 text of any kind. This is a solved problem. 

I've got a kid, and it frustrates me when so many cutesy "kid-oriented" games completely miss such an obvious mark: they're clearly made by people who don't have kids and don't interact with kids. Just get to the fucking point: some of your audience can't even read, and those that can read don't care how clever a wordsmith you wasted money on.

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

I'm bummed that Plucky Squire turned out to be one of these since I was actively looking forward to it and the trailers seemed blissfully textbox free.

[Vertigo]

bernatorial-candidate-self-avowed-nazi-and-slavery-enthusiast-mark-robinson-is-pressured-to-drop-out-of-the-race.985896/page-15#post-129048546

Look at this worm. So he can finally admit a MCU/Disney product is trash once the coast is clear

Right there with you, fellow Quantumania enjoyer

Oh, no. I was just going to easy on it at first. It's bad. :(

When that movie came out he was all over it saying how great it was.

What an absolute shill

[Besticus Maximus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-xbox-is-operating-under-a-challenging-set-of-revenue-and-profit-goals-following-activision-acquisition.987363/page-6

There are some real sad and broken people in this thread. Because someone makes more money than you doesn't make them stronger emotionally.

Have some fucking empathy.

 bourgeois false consciousness?

Once again the soviet of Benjis remains steadfast in upholding correct thought while the supposed leftist forum enables the landlord class

[DJ Bedroom]

Someone login to the riotous account and reply "actually, it's great"