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Sunset TV in-game message to reviewers
- Thread starter BeforeU
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Judging by your post history the game would have never succeeded anyways.
Like all of your recent posts are anti-xbox and you're in an Xbox related thread acting like that?
Instead of one line posts insulting people who like the game and the game itself, try explaining why you feel that way instead of shitposting.
That was actually the segment/dialog I actually thought was legit funny from what I have seen so far in this game lol Good stuff
and people, if someone else doesn't think it's funny or think it doesn't have a good effect on their impression of the game..that's perfectly fine. You don't need to dig through their post history to find a way to discredit the opinion each time...it's just silly and overly defensive
and people, if someone else doesn't think it's funny or think it doesn't have a good effect on their impression of the game..that's perfectly fine. You don't need to dig through their post history to find a way to discredit the opinion each time...it's just silly and overly defensive
Looking at the post history of certain posters in this thread is certainly interesting.
But it's interesting nonetheless.
Lucent
Member
Yep. Just looked at one and I can say that what was said about this game seems funny since the games in their post history definitely don't really try anything new and are also culminations of previous games put into an updated version. And don't seem like anything special either. =/
Spottiettiedop
Member
What is your definition of flop? Just curious.
This thread is about a game getting meta with reviewers and in that regard it's trying too hard with the ingame video. Thanks for the post-history witch hunt though.
You are right, I apologize for that. I just hate it when people post one line sentences and don't bother explaining why.
I'm kind of weird. I love the PS but I dislike Sony, I like Microsoft in the "well at least you can always trust them to be honest about wanting your money and nothing else"
That certainly excuses one line shit posts all right. I don't care if you don't like the game or its humor, but at least explain why.
And it took 10 seconds of work to copy paste, you're the one who made the posts comparing obama to phil spencer.
Freeman
Banned
Being funny requires a certain level of subtlety. This game seems very juvenile (not a uncommon trait for games, but still not a good one), mix that with the fact that it constantly tries to be edgy and it just feels off.
To save people the trouble of going into my post history I don't like MS at all, although I'll give them credit if they make a game I like (like Alan Wake, despite all the its flaws).
Lucent
Member
lol I think that's the idea. And it's refreshing to me. Too many serious games nowadays.
I can understand that. But I do disagree that being funny means subtle, sometimes people find humor in thing simply being cringy and ridiculous. So it can go in either direction, I think it will be interesting to see publisher/user reviews on the game. It could certainly go either way.
MightyHedgehog
Member
Eh, something being funny depends on the audience response. So, instead of having a game that tries to be funny, the alternative is to surrender to the endless tide of humorless, self-serious epics we're drowned in with AAA games. Sorry, I'd rather have ten SOs that fall flat on their face than another Watchdogs or Destiny or Assassin's Creed or CoD or Halo or whatever that we already have tons of every single fucking year. Not saying I don't want those games in the marketplace, either, just that it's nice to have things that try to not be so much like other things already out there.
They have already mentioned free content and updates.
Hockeymac18
Member
Do people here making these claims not see that the game's premise and setting are obviously satirical? They're "trying too hard"on purpose, that's the point of the satire.
I have so far found the writing and jokes that I've heard to be funny, and love how they poke fun at themselves and games in general.
Also love the Dreamcast vibes I get from the game. Some of the bear years of gaming for me.
Freeman
Banned
I was going by my own taste, I get that different people find different things funny. People I know ask me to recommend movies for them and usually the only ones that I don't get right tend to be comedies.
Backfoggen
Banned
I think the style and humor of this game works well because it doesn't take itself serious at all. But I could really do without the punky rocky music, I wish we'd see more experimentation in that regard.
That reminds me of a post I found a while back about this game on just how differently people can view a game. I find the humor to be hit or miss but I find the graphics style, the tease of how fun the game may be with friends, and the traversal system in addition to the "don't give a shit, just have fun!" to be the reasons why I'm interested in this game. But someone else might see all that and form a completely different opinion, this is NOT my post:
"Eh, I think #1 post is onto something. As a PS owner This is a very immature game meant for a very different crowd than Ratchet & Clank. Those games, as with Spyro, were at least meant for imaginative children with a more mature mindset, they werent all about being crass and gross. And as I mentioned, theres even some good political satire.
But Sunset Overdrive is for the BOOBIES! crowd. It stars a douche-bro fighting the most generic foes ever. It has a certain Army of Two vibe about it. Which also featured douche-bros fighting generic foes. Im sure itll go down well with the aforementioned crowd of immature extroverts whove little intellectual value between them. But for a more intelligent audience, this isnt appealing.
Id prefer more Ratchet & Clank, or at least another IP that isnt so very brah and crass.
As Ive said so many times, this is Ratchet & Clank for stupid people.
1.) Remove the primarily introverted and nerdy cast (Ratchet, Clank, and Al), and replace them with a gormless, smug douche-bro, a douche-bro so obnoxious and irredeemable that youre rooting for his imminent demise. (I dont find brah culture to be something I can relate to. To me, it comes over as more of a cancer.)
2.) Remove the wide gamut of very memorable, silly, and beautifully imaginative foes from the game. Then replace them with zombies. Then add some more zombies, then steal zombies from Left4Dead to add more zombies to the zombies because zombies. Creatively bankrupt, much?
3.) Remove the engagingly odd and eccentric alien worlds and attitudes in favour of earth. Just earth. A slightly Asian earth, but still incredibly familiar so that the intended douche-bro audience can enjoy it.
4.) Remove the finely crafted levels, which actually require skill to traverse (especially in Going Commando), and replace it with a blad, lazily made open world focused on providing the player with instant gratification. Gotta have some of that one-button style Assassins Creed gameplay that the kids are raving about, too.
5.) Remove the goofy cartoon violence (including weapons like the groovitron, which can even be used for non-violent playthroughs), and replace it with gore, gore, GORE, GORE, GORE! HEADS EXPLODING! Because, oh boy, being unnecessarily gross doesnt squick me at all. Not at all. I will stress again: Sunset Overdrive is Ratchet & Clank for stupid people."
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
Since when?
statham
Member
Miles Quaritch
Member
ChosenPredator
Banned
I'm noticing a pattern with certain people in sunset overdrive threads, lol. You don't really have to look at the
history it's just bam right there.
Freeman
Banned
Since I was answering to someone who asked why people say the game tries too hard.
Just my take on it and the way I feel, relax.
Maintenance
Member
Cringe.
Wasn't much of a "hunt" since it took less than two minutes for me (haha).
But no, I'm just noticing a trend in Sunset Overdrive threads. People not interested in the game saying it over and over in some fashion. Not that there's anything wrong with not being interested in the game but it's becoming overboard.
Nope, I screw up too much.
Lol. I didn't care for you the first time I saw a Sunset TV, but by god you've grown on me.
Co-stan-za
You're a perfect fit for this game and company and you're doing a great job promoting the game.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
So it's trying too hard because you feel subtly is a requirement of humour? I'll respond with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VqoFuffwes
Nope, I screw up too much.
You do a good job, dude.
Lmao that is hilarious oh man people need to learn to at least be consistent.
Freeman
Banned
Am I supposed to think that video is funny?
HighResTomato
Member
Pound_lb003
Member
Also, to an extent, why are they here if they aren't at all interested and they continually comment on it?
Anywho, I am really intrigued how the game is gonna review. I would love to get the chance to try it, cus I love open world games. But at least from videos there's a few things I reckon I'd be gripey about.
But I won't get a chance till I buy an XB1.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Reminds me a lot of Titanfall threads before that game came out really. There was some very surreal posting going on back then lol.
yeah i don't get the tries too hard comments either. i mean we live in a age where AAA videogames have been trying too hard for years.
this just looks harmless fun.
Poodlestrike
Banned
You should really put that in quote blocks or something.
BeforeU
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
Bravo...
SerTapTap
Member
I thought it was cute. No way you can call that "pressuring" reviewers
Yeah I've been surprised by the amount of times people play games "wrong" or times I myself have missed pretty important mechanics.
Yeah I've been surprised by the amount of times people play games "wrong" or times I myself have missed pretty important mechanics.
Elwood Blues
Member
Sunset Overdrive tries to hard? More like Sunset Overkill, amirite?
Miles Quaritch
Member
Leave CoG alone!