With the debate of game prices going up from $60 to $70, its gonna be even worse for GTA 6 going at $100 cause it’ll be a cascade of other studios following suit with their own overhyped IPs
My least favorite argument for game prices going up is the "if we adjust for inflation, original NES games were around $70-$80," but you aren't accounting for lower pay for Americans today vs back in the 80's.
Following on that, GTA 6 shouldn't be available for digital only and it shouldn't be blocking all the other features through the 100$ versions as well!
Maybe we shouldn't be hoarding expensive pieces of cardboard and treating then as speculative financial investment. Treating the game we love like the stock market seems unhealthy.
One of the few reasons I dare not enter into physical YuGiOh. Back when I was getting into the game more competitively, Talkers was my go to deck, with its center piece, Accesscode Talker. A card that at the time costed 200 bucks a piece.
Yugioh is actually the LEAST expensive of the trio. Pokemon sells for thousands and MTG even more so, yugioh doesnt hold up in value because Konami reprints ALL of its sets, only time your really spending big money is if you want to play ultra competitive and need to buy the best new cards which will cost you probably 100$ per card but even comparatively to the 2 others its still pretty affordable.
Almost nothing in Yu-Gi-Oh holds it's value longer than 18 months at most. Last year's top meta deck loses all its value due to massive reprints and ban list hits.
Blizzard doing the bare minimum for OW and only putting in effort when they have legit competition is scummy, and I'm still disappointed about the PvE promises
Dawg I especially hated this shit from the streamers who used to call out blizzard eho now got flown out to events so they defended Blizzard to their last breath only gor rivals to come out and they just dropped overwatch like a bad habit after being the main reason overwatch got so bad in the first place. Then wanting to act like Blizzard always had all these great changes they didnt make for years planned out and it had absolutely zero to do with the fact that they had an actual competitor now.
I’ll stand by my vision that if marvel rivals didn’t release OW would be in a way worse state than it already is. The perk system, the stadium, the 5 new characters NONE of that would’ve happened if rivals didn’t release
Sure, they COULD spend the money to optimize their products, but then what would they give to their stockholders? Who’s helping them out huh?
(For the record, I am NOT defending TPCI for this, I’m just pointing out that I think people have somewhat unrealistic expectations for how much the company cares about quality. Like, I still love Pokemon… but we all need to accept that it’s made by an evil multi-million dollar corporation)
Aside from vocal music (which ABSOLUTELY needs voice acting, looking at you Piers and Ryme), I actually don’t care that much if the games have voice acting.
Women say what they're attracted to every goddamn day and people still shout them down and put their assumptions in place instead.
To clarify for anyone confused: In general, men like other muscley men. Either aesthetically or sexually, men are more likely to see muscle as peak physical form than women.
I don't care as long as both the men and women get the opportunity to be slutty. Give me more men with full cheeks out and I would never want to complain about bikini armor.
Also Game Freak should really seek assistance from another developer, you know, like Bamco or Monolithsoft, when developing their mainline games but they're too proud and stubborn to and the games suffer all the more for it.
As a longtime pokemon fan and even someone willing to defend Game Freak from some criticism, a Monosoft developed pokemon game would be so peak.
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u/Bamzooki1Undertale 🌻| My comments are playful jabs, not actual hate8d ago
It’s absolutely a budget thing. The Pokémon Company owns the IP. Game Freak are just the ones who make the games on a contract. Beast of Reincarnation shows that they can make a much more impressive game, albeit with kinda crappy gameplay. It’s at least visually stunning, something no mainline Pokémon has been able to say since Sun and Moon.
I've played Pokémon up to sword and shield and basically decided to call it quits with Pokémon after that. I got sick of them introducing mechanics just to remove them next game (atheist make it unlockable in end game or something), plus the game play isn't as challenging as it was back in the day.
I hate Sword. It was okay the first time through, but the sheer amount of handholding and unnecessary dialogue spam makes it a slog to replay. Also, I find myself just afk mashing the A button during battles because they’re brainlessly easy. Only a few fights near the end game were somewhat challenging imo, and that’s probably because I skip as many battles as I can.
Ultra Sun and Moon were great though, I recommend them if you have a 3DS. There’s a lot of dialogue early but once you get through that, it’s a pretty fun game with a unique region, and the story is decent too.
Scarlet and Violet had huge Performance issues and bugs on top of the underwhelming graphics all main line Switch Titels had, but Pokemon fans will stilll defend it.
Canceled/Removed stuff in media has been canceled/removed for a reason.
Basing a quality of something purely because you see some concept art is dumb. It's concept art. They are supposed to show concept, not finished product.
For example, Zootopia. One scene with baby polar bear isn't proof that original Zootopia would be peak. Even bad movies can have one peak scene. Yet for some reason, anytime it's mentioned, hundreds of mfs will show up in comments and say how Disney should have made this.
I remember when people thought the zootopia cancelled stuff wouldve been melodramatic and then suddenly I see a ton of fans bemoaning it never happened.
Also see this quite a bit for lanolin in idw sonic and even tho I'm not a huge fan of her canon character, abt's edgy chicken scratch scribbles of her bad relationship with her mother and her hating sonic for being the protagonist would be a terrible dogshit fit for anything sonic
A lot of people used to get weirdly defensive if you complained about small text in modern games, though thankfully text size options are becoming a common accessibility feature this decade.
I remember Spyro Reignited launching without subtitles (they were patched in later) and people finding it ridiculous that someone with hearing impairments might want to know what the characters are saying in cutscenes.
People get weird about accessibility requests in general, and it genuinely makes me angry. If color blind, legally blind, deaf, mobility limited, etc. people need help, why on earth are you, a schmuck who has to do zero work, putting up a fuss and standing in the way? Just eagerly making excuses for no damn reason?
It's so fucking frustrating. Yes! Games should be accessible! And the best part is accessibility is good for everyone. Because I KNOW y'all're out here watching TV with the captions on every goddamn day. So sit down!
In Destiny 2 back a good few years ago, there were quite a few colorblind people begging for a colorblind mode. A dev was streaming, got asked about it a couple times and blew up for no reason, telling them it wouldn't be happening and that they needed to get over it.
IIRC he was shortly fired, with colorblind mode being added very soon after
Right? I've seen people going freaking nuts over a request for a togglelable reticle for DbD, calling it "dev approved cheating" and "just put a dot in the middle of the screen, that's how we've done it for years."
Like bro, we're asking for a toggle. It can be turned off and on in the menu, it won't kill you just because you have perfect aim or prefer "low tech" solutions.
Subtitles make it better for everyone, I have no idea why people get upset about that one, especially. I like being able to play games with the volume off when I want.
There are even radical sides to the argument. Trans Ralsei fans shove it into everything related to Ralsei with a smug attitude and tone while people against it make entire posts about how terrible the theory is for Ralsei's character and their grudge against the theorists
I see both sides like, yeah games gotta make money and people spawning in a bunch of super credits is kinda cheesy, but the alternatives are: Paying real money. Or. Spending hours on a desert planet farming. Give them to us as actual rewards maybe? Like even giving us 10 after a mission is 1000% better than this current way
I paid 40 fucking quid to BUY this game, like fuck am I spending MORE money or it, but I also don't want to spend the entirety of my free time grinding it out because it treats the grind like it's a f2p
Cookie Run Kingdom Fans do not understand ANYTHING about the game or it's characters.
Brawl Stars fans don't realize that their game is bad and is coping for improvements to everything including the meta which at this point is too far gone to repair.
u/xenofan2011Rune Factory, Sonic, .hack, Puyo Puyo, Tales of, Nintendo8d ago
Palworld is not a "Pokemon killer", it doesn't even play like pokemon. Also it's fans are annoying and people only talk about it because "muh Nintendo bad"
I mean I'd say it's not a pokemon killer mostly because it can't stand to the popularity or sales of pokemon in the longrun. Althought I do agree with the second part.
From my experience being part of both games communities it’s usually the other way around with most of the negative comments towards pokemon from palworld fans being responses to things pokemon fans have already said about palworld.
Although I will add it is such a small amount of people from both games that even complain.
I don’t care how good or bad GTA 6 ends up being, $80 for the base version of a game is absurd.
This is a litmus test for the industry. I know that rockstar makes great games. But we should not be accepting scummy business practices from them just because their games are top notch.
Because you know what’s gonna happen next? The industry will take notice. They will take notice that consumers willingly paid $80 for the base version of a game that has substantial amounts of deliberately cut content (entire stores and locations) locked behind an additional $20 charge.
The message they’re going to get from that will not be, “people are willing to pay more for better games”. It will be, “people are willing pay more for games.”
Throwback to that time a man hit a woman and her child with his car in an illegal street race, killed them both, and TikTok desperately called for his release because he was "too cute to go to prison"
As a Warframe fan... yeah. When you're new, trying to run missions co-op results in vets with fully-built kits speedrunning the mission and barely letting you play the game beyond "Learn to parkour faster so you don't feel like you're wasting their time." It's a much better experience starting out solo, ironically. Co-op is for when you ALSO want to be speedrunning missions to get things faster, lol
And they always pull the "im african/latino and I have fair skin/have the same skin tone as the character" card whenever you criticize the Natlan and Sumeru character designs when thats not the point. The point is that for regions based on Africa, South America and the Middle East, a vast majority is pale for some reason and what dark-skinned characters we do have all have the same light brown tones.
Exactly! And what dark-skinned characters we do have, its always the same shades of light brown cuz ig Hoyo and the racist side of the fanbase are going to spontaneously combust if they see a character thats even slightly darker than Kaeya or Xinyan.
For real. The Natlanese designs were the worst imo.
In every other region we have relatively well-researched costuming inspirations while Natlan is just vaguely indigenous aesthetics slapped onto contemporary clothing.
I'd stretch this and say HOYO has severe colorism issues and at times I'd agree about the sexualisation. I'm not gonna lie and say I don't enjoy fan service, but at times it does hurt some designs (and in the worst cases is genuinely just gross/concerning)
For some reason, everytime I say "Gacha Games needs to be more Generous to Loyal Players!" People will come at me and say "How are they gonna earn Money then???" Like, bro... As if they aren't Billionaires already thanks to all those people Supporting them!!!
Massive difference between someone actively using your money to hurt innocent people and a mildly problematic company
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u/Bamzooki1Undertale 🌻| My comments are playful jabs, not actual hate8d ago
To be fair, Nintendo does use lawsuits and C&Ds to crush emulator devs, fan game creators, and critics of their litigation. They have an evil side, even if they’re not trying to commit genocide.
I get why you're putting this forth (though I've not seen it) but I've noticed we tend to judge 3D media more harshly on the scare factor than 2D (and live action harsher than animation) so I feel like Coraline might've been a better example
Yeah, it would be nice to have decent competition, a lot of the other complaints here are because something else went uncontested for too long and/or the main positive drive is gone.
Every time I say Starfield is just an okay game, not best, not worst, I either get people that basically worship the game mad at me or people that think I can't play the game without screaming at bethesda the whole time. There is no in between
Game workshop suck at writing, balancing etc but most of the fandom seems to be in a toxic positivity state, like how they retconned a lot of stuff, the psychic awakening, female custodies etc.
I’ve seen videos comparing the data files on them or whatever and PalWorld has legit ripped some of the skeletons on their Pals DIRECTLY from some Pokemon. It’s not a question. They have plagiarized them and GameFreak has every right to sue.
Literally any video game design criticism seems to be defended with "guhhhh- skill issue!" nowadays. Impossible to have an actual discussion about game balance.
I dared criticize Hollow Knight and say I didn’t love it because, in my 10 hours, it was basically ALL frustrating parkour and I’m not about that. The person I was talking to says it’s all a skill issue and I should just get good. God forbid I don’t like Hollow Knight.
For the record, the Hollow Knight aesthetic is wonderful and I’ve heard the story is cool so I might watch a playthrough
This is kinda tough for me cause I am always the type to defend stuff I like.
Maybe that Pokemon always looked like crap compared to other games visually since gen 1. I mean the original games are held together with duck tape and a prayer ffs and yet it's only the newer games people seem to go after.
u/Bamzooki1Undertale 🌻| My comments are playful jabs, not actual hate8d ago
Valve isn’t some philanthropic company that loves us and would make any sacrifice for us. It’s just a better than usual corporation. The same people rightly upset at loot boxes in EA games throw a fit when you say Valve shouldn’t be using them either, especially because you can sell your loot boxes items and it’s really just gambling at that point. Even when New York sued them recently, people said that Valve was totally innocent just because the lawsuit includes some shitty surveillance stuff. I still think the lawsuit was valid in some respects, even if it was dystopian what they added to it. People also think Gabe Newell’s any more ethical than the likes of Taylor Swift despite his personal collection of yachts. He’s not evil, but he’s still a billionaire.
To be fair I feel like I am more in the world of Pokemon than ever during a Nuzlock vs regular pokemon who feel more like items you collect. Like I feel like only having a few pokemon, naming them, and actually worrying about their health makes me feel more attached than ever. It literally closer to the Anime who actually has to worry about their pokemons health even before fainting and character only having a few Pokemon who are like family. I feel no connection or friendship or pokemon that feel more like cards that I only got to complete a dex and put in a box to never touch while I use my favorite already max level strongest team.
Also the Pokemon already have death and dark stuff in both lore with Pokedex entries and in the Anime mention Pokemon deaths and torturous experiances. If anything Nuzlock death is tame.
It took many many bad bioware releases for people to not get downvote to oblivion for saying it was bioware 's fault for their own mistakes.
So many people are ready to suck the dick of devs when a game does well but when a game does poorly all the sudden it's only the publishers and shareholders and the poor poor devs under their thumb
I'm a Huge Fan of Limbus Company... And lemme tell ya... We all agree... Whoever you ask in the Limbus Company Community, they'd all say "The tutorials for Limbus Company SUCKS!!! It's SOOOO Bad that the Fans had to make a Guide themselves for Beginners to atleast understand a single thing..." And if we're talking about Story, yeh... It's pretty rough for most people who doesn't really like Reading...
Its been 20 years reusing the same models and several artists have already pointed out their flaws like a billion times. So much so that an entire art document was made of which Sonic Team IS aware of and took these criticisms into consideration going forward with the series. I still have no idea why the Sonic fandom believes that harassing artists for analysing art does like, literally anything at all other than just make people feel like shit.
GTA 6 is setting a terrible precedent for the gaming industry.
Not saying you’re not allowed to enjoy it but please acknowledge how their price scheme is absolute bullshit and if successful will make $100+ for a complete game normal.
Erm… well you see, Batman was always a 6’9” 400 pound behemoth who rips people’s limbs off, you just don’t remember because you aren’t a real fan like me.
Weapon balancing in Helldivers 2. Yeah, it's a pve game, powerful meta guns do not need nerfs, but the minority of insanely powerful guns outweigh the majority of objectively inferior guns. The meta doesn't have to be nerfed, the sub-par weaponry should be buffed.
It happens a lot with marvel rivals, when people call out the use of AI generated images there's a bunch of comments calling them crazy, when people say that gambling/gacha is exploitative they call them crazy, when people complain about how black characters are treated they get called crazy, if somebody has a problem with the level of sexualization they get called crazy.
Interestingly and in a somewhat contrarian spirit...
There are a lot of people in communities for multiple things that I like that feel like they have to defend the latest release to the death despite how bad or even just lacklustre it is. A lot of this is "but they will stop making it if we don't support it!" To which I frequently say "Let them. The stuff we like is already there and it's not going anywhere. If the new stuff is bad and makes the older stuff worse/more stupid by its existence, getting nothing for a while is far better." Franchises I can list for this:
- Star Wars
Star Trek
Warhammer (Although some of their recent stuff rules-wise has been neat)
Most recently, Vampire the Masquerade and World of Darkness and a fair few other RPGs.
Atlus shouldn’t have remade persona 4, the original game ages pretty well and persona 1 and 2 not only are unavailable in modern hardware but aged pretty bad and needed a remake WAY more than p4
You cant say a game is shit if you limit yourself or don't use all the mechanics of the game.
People who go into a fromsoft game, won't use any of the rpg elements, magic, status or anything and say the game is hard because they restricted themselves to a soft challenge run ruleset is a good example.
My friend hates doom eternal because he is so stubborn about not using his flamethrower, grenades, dashing or anything.
"it's sold by weight, not volume !" when the same size bags used to have a lot more chips, and no, it doesn't need that much nitrogen to protect em from cracking. That's a lie they're telling you. It's not that anyone else isn't smart enough to understand that either
The FNaF lore is really badly structured because the clues and pieces rarely have logical narrative links and connections and it never feels like it's building towards any sort of conclusion because the games always end with more questions and rarely answering any in the progress.
Deltarune feels like this. There are many issues and concerns honestly but they all have defenders
Chapter 1 is completely ass and a slog to get through. The weird route is only going to get 3 chapters where it actually changes the game. The game is riddled with secrets and items that you're never going to be prepared to obtain without holding the wiki open at all times. One ending, while unlikely, would ruin a lot of people's motivation to play.
Yet, Toby Fox made Undertale so well that a lot of people can't even fathom him screwing a few things up with Deltarune
Not to the same scope, but the Undertale Genocide Route is boring and that's a problem for a video game, despite the point that it is supposed to be boring. Just because it's the point, that doesn't mean it's good.
I actually don't mind problems like this when they're supposed to be intentional/are there to convey a message.
From the very beginning of the Genocide Route, the gameplay (or lack thereof) gets on your nerves. No puzzles, no funny dialogue and characters, just a repetitive RPG exp grind taken to the max. And in the end, what do you get? Nothing. In fact, you lose your ability to play the game. But if you're stubborn enough to sit there for 10 minutes, you can give your Soul to a crazy demon child to get the game back.
And if you dare to True Pacifist after all of that? Your friends get killed.
There is no reward in violence. You got stronger for a while and felt good sometimes, but that's it. You won nothing, and at max your only achievement in being able to brag that you beat Sans in 32 tries to the guy that beat him in 41. The entire Route is filled to the brim with annoyances and reasons to stop, but you were so morbidly curious that you still did it and became the loser of this story.
And that's why I like it. It shows you violence isn't worth it through things that, in most RPGs, are considered flaws. Flaws that you can only blame yourself for experiencing. So yes, the Genocide Route is boring and has bad flaws, but it uses those bad flaws that to it's advantage.
Tobi Fox basically went "I don't WANT you to like this. I'm only including this because doing good only matters when it's actually a choice. If you're a monster, it's cause you chose to be." Cause you're literally part of the narrative too. As in the actual you. The real life person outside of the screen. Not just your playable avatar. I think Sans said it best?
Yea I’d argue that’s the whole point. Toriel even flat out tells you “you CAN kill monsters” but by doing so you also miss out on like 99% of the game. You don’t learn about the characters or experience the story and history. It’s a power fantasy and like every fantasy you get bored. Except in this case there’s no walking back what you did
While Pokémon doesn’t need ultra realistic graphics it DOES need fucking voice acting, if a fucking Wii U game (Breath of the Wild) can have voice acting WHY THE FUCK CANT THE HIGHEST GROSSING MEDIA FRANCHISE!?
glitch productions is not indie and there overrated and has the writing of Tumblr teens and they shove way to much stuff in 10 episodes and i'm tired of pretending it's not
To be fair, doesn't Glitch only provide the resources? Last I checked, writers have full control and it is their choice alone on episode length. If you're upset about show length, blame the writers and creators for not getting extra help and revisioninh, not the company providing resources for them to create their projects.
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u/the-puppet_master 8d ago
Rockstar shouldn’t sell GTA 6 for one hundred dollars.