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Arglebargle III posted:This is getting way too weird. Can't we go back to posting about how the game is bad? Game is bad and we are all screeching autistically. So what
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Norns posted:It's okay to have healthy emotional investments in your hobbies. You're broken if you don't feel? Is it normal to be so invested in the game that you send death threats and cupcakes with red, blue, and green frosting to their offices?
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Mar 13, 2017 20:53
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It's pretty weird if you do both at once tbh. edit: wait, red blue green. I get it now.
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Mar 13, 2017 20:53
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SgtSteel91 posted:Is it normal to be so invested in the game that you send death threats and cupcakes with red, blue, and green frosting to their offices? No. I already said that.
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Serf posted:I mean Bioware has this problem apparently. Remember when Jennifer Hepler had to quit the company after the shitstorm that came her way when she said she'd like for games to have an option to skip the combat like you can skip the dialogue? Death threats were from Dragon Age 2, she went on to work another few years doing Dragon Age Jimquisition, so it's hardly related - but it may have been icing. She literally wanted to do other things like write books and make other types of games. Not disagreeing that gaming is a toxic community, but holy gently caress the gaming companies don't know how to control poo poo. Keep your employees from communicating directly with the fans, for one loving thing. Use the press, and if a designer needs to do an interview, prep them with PR and legal beforehand. "why does this rabid dog keep biting me? I just want to pet it, I'm just trying to pet it."
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epenthesis posted:Bioware asked us to put a lot of hours into that trilogy Video games are not work.
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Mar 13, 2017 20:55
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Drifter posted:I really can't think of any worse subset of fans than an entrenched Nintendo only product. If Witcher 4 or Fallout: Obsidian 2 came out and someone gave either of them a 7/10 half the posters
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Mar 13, 2017 20:56
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Drifter posted:Death threats were from Dragon Age 2, she went on to work another few years doing Dragon Age Jimquisition, so it's hardly related - but it may have been icing. She literally wanted to do other things like write books and make other types of games. I mean you can't stop people from having social media accounts. Unless you want to take their names off the games or something people will find them and say whatever they want. If I worked in games I wouldn't have a social media account for just such a reason, but I ain't everybody.
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Mar 13, 2017 20:57
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Lt. Danger posted:Video games are not work. Most of the poo poo you do in daily life isn't. What's your point?
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GRINDCORE MEGGIDO posted:I thought they were shallow self insert wankery, to be honest. Sapkowskys later stuff is. Stick to like the first 3 or 4
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Mar 13, 2017 20:57
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Lt. Danger posted:Video games are not work. I think a more accurate term would be buyer's remorse $60 per game and about $15 for each of the the dlc can come to a big disappointment when it all ends in a way you don't like
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Mar 13, 2017 21:00
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Serf posted:Fatneck Catman is the worst, and his whole species is a trash design. This is both some unappealing and uninspired poo poo. I also do not want to gently caress them
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Mar 13, 2017 21:01
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Funky See Funky Do posted:When you guys say "it went too far" did people get killed over the ME3 ending or do you just mean they complained about it on the internet? I firmly believe the ending of Mass Effect 3 being bad set off a chain of events that ended with Donald Trump being elected president of the United States.
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Mar 13, 2017 21:03
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Norns posted:Hell I agree with her. Plenty of cool videogame stories my wife would love. But she doesn't like anything with more complexity than Chrono Trigger. Exactly this. My wife likes seeing some of the more interesting stories out there, but couldn't give two shits about the combat/game portion. Except for Champions of Norrath and Champions 2: Return to Arms. We have put an unhealthy amount of hours into those PS2 "Classics"
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Mar 13, 2017 21:04
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Norns posted:Most of the poo poo you do in daily life isn't. What's your point? epenthesis is implying that playing the Mass Effect video games is onerous in some way - investing hours into the series is an act of deferred gratification that pays off when you get a Good and Fun Ending, which Bioware didn't deliver. I think this approach is just asking for disappointment. SgtSteel91 posted:I think a more accurate term would be buyer's remorse Maybe, but the ending can only 'poison the well' if you let it. Lt. Danger fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Mar 13, 2017 |
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Mar 13, 2017 21:06
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Drifter posted:Death threats were from Dragon Age 2, she went on to work another few years doing Dragon Age Jimquisition, so it's hardly related - but it may have been icing. She literally wanted to do other things like write books and make other types of games.
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Mar 13, 2017 21:06
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SgtSteel91 posted:I think a more accurate term would be buyer's remorse This is why I can't ever truly hate the ending of ME3, because to me Citadel is the ending. And that was the most fun I've had on any of Bioware's DLC. Fittingly, it was only beaten out when the Blood and Wine DLC came out.
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Mar 13, 2017 21:10
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Bioware keeps hiring fans to write for them which is prolly why all their stories are poo poo and most of their characters are too
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Mar 13, 2017 21:13
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precision posted:If Witcher 4 or Fallout: Obsidian 2 came out and someone gave either of them a 7/10 half the posters I have since forgotten it, but there was a pretty solid review about why the reviewer didn't like WItcher 3. It was fair. They acknowledged the good points, and went on to explain what parts they didn't enjoy - and it's cool. I will say, Witcher 3 extended auto combat flourishes are fuckin' retarded. That has led to more deaths than anything for me. I could understand why someone would be put off by the combat. I think I have a mod that fixes that, though. And for my money, Obsidian lost my confidence when they release the world's most boringest rpg aka Pillars of Eternity. Tyranny was a step back up, but that was from their B-division. I haven't even started inXile's Torment, I'm not sure I can stand another text-heavy poo poo rpg. I'll have to check out some reviews.
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Mar 13, 2017 21:14
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Mar 13, 2017 21:19
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Yeah, I was waiting for that shot to come up in this thread. Maybe they'll add M-8 Avengers to their hands in the Day-One Patch
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Mar 13, 2017 21:21
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definitely one of the weirder xcom 2 soldier replacement mods i've seen
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Mar 13, 2017 21:22
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Did...did you just take my action figures out of the box!
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Mar 13, 2017 21:23
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Phi230 posted:Bioware keeps hiring fans to write for them which is prolly why all their stories are poo poo and most of their characters are too yeah I firmly believe that fans should never write for the stuff they grew up with. One of the (many) reasons that current Simpsons is the shambling hell beast it is today
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Mar 13, 2017 21:24
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Invisible weapons. Trully next gen alien technology. Maybe they should fix their weird legs.
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Mar 13, 2017 21:24
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Zelder posted:yeah I firmly believe that fans should never write for the stuff they grew up with. One of the (many) reasons that current Simpsons is the shambling hell beast it is today Or basically any comic book property ever.
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Mar 13, 2017 21:25
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marshmallow creep posted:Did...did you just take my action figures out of the box! Is this Small Soldiers but real
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Mar 13, 2017 21:26
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Also the return of Futurama. Which wasn't out and out bad, but it was essentially the tv show equivalent of a tepid glass of water
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Mar 13, 2017 21:26
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That screenshot looks like that movie Toy Soldiers. Like, it just looks bad. Ein Sexmonster posted:It's interesting that you start victim blaming, given your previous comments in this thread about women. What are my previous comments? If they were about alien women, it was likely about having sex with them. I think my last legit comment about women was that Cora seemed like an okay character and her hair didn't deserve the flak it was getting? It's also not victim blaming, it's called mitigation and management of an otherwise toxic as gently caress environment. When you have employees getting uncontrollably chummy with strangers who have zero filter online you're laying the ground for unhealthy interactions. You're never going to stop poo poo like that, basically the medium itself needs to get older to get less hosed. In previous jobs I have trained and coached employees on how to safely engage with customers and de-escalate certain scenarios, and not once have I ever said after a confrontation "Hey, this was your fault" to a coworker even if they didn't stick to training. An rear end in a top hat's an rear end in a top hat and gonna do what an rear end in a top hat does, and there is no 100% surety in prevention methods. If your business has an ad budget of at least a quarter of your production budget (or you're working in tens of millions) you need to behave differently when communicating with your buyers. Full stop. Drifter fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Mar 13, 2017 |
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Mar 13, 2017 21:27
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Obviously the Andromeda Galaxy developed along the path of stop-motion claymation
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Drifter posted:That screenshot looks like that movie Toy Soldiers. Like, it just looks bad. No, that's still victim blaming. That kind of victim blaming is the reason victim blaming still exists. You're not wrong about reasonable precautions, but you're still putting the emphasis on the people who were hurt by someone else.
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Mar 13, 2017 21:34
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Drifter posted:That screenshot looks like that movie Toy Soldiers. Like, it just looks bad. My apologies, I got confused with another poster with a dog avatar who got probated in here. I do understand your point, but I think the point she made was perfectly fine in context, and there's not an easy way to avoid toxic, insane fans taking anything and runnimg with it. Saying that the answer is to basically prevent employees from having any public interaction is probably not right though.
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Mar 13, 2017 21:34
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That's a BEAR DAMMIT
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Mar 13, 2017 21:35
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marshmallow creep posted:Honestly the scan mechanic in Andromeda looks preferable to me because I didn't like how Witcher Sense looked.
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Zelder posted:Also the return of Futurama. Which wasn't out and out bad, but it was essentially the tv show equivalent of a tepid glass of water Futurama was good. Now I want a licensed Futurama game that plays like a wacky Mass Effect game.
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Mar 13, 2017 21:36
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I thought this tweet chain was interesting: quote:Dave Schreurs @daveschreurs First I'd heard that Vanguard can steal shields.
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Mar 13, 2017 21:42
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OctaMurk posted:Is this Small Soldiers but real No this is a video game
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Mar 13, 2017 21:43
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marshmallow creep posted:I thought this tweet chain was interesting: The idea of being a vanguard with a melee weapon gives me a semi
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Mar 13, 2017 21:44
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Drifter posted:It's what it sounds like. We'll see what they actually implemented, though. The Hinterlands was also the first location I believe, which maybe means they've just kept all the same poo poo, but spread it out more evenly over the game. Bioware said they had intended for the game to be sort of a buffet where people would pick and choose what type quests they wanted to complete. However, players would try to be completionist and get burned out on content they didn't like. The other issue is that Inquisition had it's roots in being an online service game which carried over into the final product, such as timers and MMO style quests. Their game still won the most GoTY awards in 2014 so who knows how they'll incorporate feedback.
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Was Inquisition really supposed to be a MMO? This keeps being brought up but is there evidence or just conjecture from the MMO style gameplay?
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