TalentAlwaysWins
Banned
"Sony this is your tape"
kidding of course
Cuningas de Häme;234140601 said:Yeah... I am pretty new to this site, and I can't tell the difference between Reddit or any other gaming forum. There's some awesome posters on this forum (Thraktor, blu comes to mind from Switch speculations) but majority just the same shitposting, fanboying crap one can find everywhere. Especially if Sony is "threatened" by something.
The informative threads are awesome here, but way too often it becomes some crazy e-peen competition. I always thought that this forum is for proper discussion between gaming enthusiasts, but it certainly doesn't feel like that. Especially every damn topic regarding Nintendo always boils down to same stupid shitposts and those usually by the same people, one would think that repeated shitposting is a bannable offence but...
And the amount of devs and other industry people saying that this place is just plain toxic should ring some alarm bells... When you get decent people banned because some arbitrary reasons and then shitposters just continue thrive it really is not a good look for this forum.
EDIT. I've never seen the same amount of hatred in Reddit that I've seen here. Just saying... But to be fair I just can't understand how Reddit works, that site is so bad. Hate using it, like forums like this a lot more.
I lost interest in this game when I saw that the Switch version was going to cost more.
I've been guilty of this. Said something like "I don't know what they were thinking making this part of the game," a dev (somewhat jokingly, I assumed) commented with "we were happy working on the game." It was for sure a bad part of the game (one of my favorite games even, from a great studio which closed down after it released) but it was known that the development had been troubled and that the developer's hands were tied by the publisher. In all likeliness, they knew that the area wasn't great but couldn't find the resources to fix it. Although I think the comment and response were both pretty "light" it made me consider how I frame my criticism. In particular it generally isn't useful to drag developer motivations into it, even jokingly.I've seen people shit on games, then pretty much do a 180 when they realize the dev is a GAFer and active in the thread itself. Even if the dev doesn't reply to them specifically, just the realization that their words can reach the ears of the game's creator seems to spark some sort of epiphany and suddenly the game goes from "trash" to "very competent effort". I don't know if it's deference or just instinctive conflict avoidance.
It's actually pretty funny to see, in a cringe comedy kind of way.![]()
YMMV on that one.Off-topic side is just so much better that the gaming side. Less toxicity, better discussion, less trolling.
Movie threads and political threads disagree with you.Off-topic side is just so much better that the gaming side. Less toxicity, better discussion, less trolling.
They stopped posting for good reason, it became open season on them.Developers used to comment here. It's literally been years since I've seen a major developer comment here.
Yeah this is accurate.Movie threads and political threads disagree with you.
Off-topic side is just so much better that the gaming side. Less toxicity, better discussion, less trolling.
They stopped posting for good reason, it became open season on them.
It was more likely to end in a PR headache than anything positive, very unfortunate.
I lost interest in this game when I saw that the Switch version was going to cost more.
They stopped posting for good reason, it became open season on them.
It was more likely to end in a PR headache than anything positive, very unfortunate.
Why would the Switch version cost more???
For once because of higher production costs for cartridges compared to discs and second because Nintendo requires eShop prices to be on par with retail.
I lost interest in this game when I saw that the Switch version was going to cost more.
That all sounds awful.
Why would people claim the game was fake?
Did you read the OP? It's all explained there.
OTs are awful about this. Especially divisive but not popular games - the people inside are defensive and prickly and are eager to shut down any dissent.
To some extent, I do wonder how many people who call out something as garbage really believe that, or they just think it's the only way their criticism will be noticed.
I'm confused.
he's retroactively emotional and scared and mad at perfectly legitimate complaints
about the time when his game was a target render,
getting funding from a company that doesnt do target renders and wasnt meeting milestones of being a playable product because they made a target render instead of finding out if their gameplay loop worked or was at all fun before seeking funding?
And he only read those posts now,
after the game was actually done and had actual gameplay and actual puzzles and actual gameflow but its still affecting him and making him super emotional?
Is he upset because its reminding him of a time when his game was basically a lie
because he went into it with the concept of "kickstarter culture" where you make a target render / aesthetics and themes video and just magically trust that you'll come up with solid and compelling gameplay / a vertical slice of that gameflow to secure continuing funding after you get the first funds in?
I'll show my true hypocritical colors here, but the reason I personally 'attacked' him (I said we shouldn't put much stock in his opinion), is because he was, to my estimation, not an actual insider, but a vetted social media influencer. I didn't want him scared off the site in any way, and the topic got locked before I could further elucidate my point, but I don't know what it has to do with the matter at hand.Even if shinobi was hyped about mass effect and didn't properly show his thought in a more honest way, i don't think attacking him was the way to go.
While that may be true, sometimes it's for good reason: some people simply seem to inhabit OTs to shit on a game, and what exactly does that contribute to people who like the game, especially weeks or months in, when people aren't bound to look into the OT to decide whether to buy the game? I could cite examples of posters that made it their life mission to shit on a game at least four times per page, with absolutely nothing else to contribute. I can't fault fans of the game for being upset about that.
Yeah, I did. People had little to no evidence and some still chose to make the claim.
I'll show my true hypocritical colors here, but the reason I personally 'attacked' him (I said we shouldn't put much stock in his opinion), is because he was, to my estimation, not an actual insider, but a vetted social media influencer. I didn't want him scared off the site in any way, and the topic got locked before I could further elucidate my point, but I don't know what it has to do with the matter at hand.
Weltall Zero said:They were absolutely nowhere near the lightyear vicinity of being "legitimate", considering they were based on a (Spanish, of all things) forum rumor.
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Humans, for everything else they're capable of, sometimes put their heart and soul into something that not many other people enjoy. It's not your fault if you have a negative reaction to someone's work, but maybe assume that person wasn't trying to attack you emotionally or trick you into relinquishing your free time.
I agree with you about shinobi, i just think that there is a line between criticizing him and attacking him personally to the point of him wanting to leave the board.
I agree with you about shinobi, i just think that there is a line between criticizing him and attacking him personally to the point of him wanting to leave the board.
Off-topic side is just so much better that the gaming side. Less toxicity, better discussion, less trolling.
Really good post. It ought to be stickied somewhere.We can't make you be nice.
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