The 7th Guest posted:

whenever the shrek reboot comes out i'm sure there'll be a licensed game that has lots of ogre battling

Chev posted:

You even get the feeling he's still in a different game, since he's being all grim and you only ever see him on a screen.

That being said the worst part of Watch Dogs 2 for me was the whole plot and characterization. Like, the main character's unjustly profiled by the system as a criminal hacker and potential terrorist because of his ethnicity and social environment, and decides to fight that by... becoming a criminal hacker and terrorist, as predicted by his profile? There's that big mid-game scene where Evil GAFA Hipster traps you and takes advantage of his unfair control of the system to, well, to rigthfully accuse you of all the crimes you've been committing since the beginning of the game. Then to get out of that you recruit a worse hacker terrorist who drives Dedsec further on the war path and I almost thought they were doing a thing because there's that scene where the girl calls him out on further radicalizing them, but they never continue that embryo of plotline.

The game spent a lot of time successfully selling me on the odd-but-sympathetic goofy-Anonymous-meets-Big-Bang-Theory ragtag bunch of oddballs I didn't like at first, like yeah, they're just a nice bunch fighting for the rights of everyone, but then you get a mission where you've got to straight up kill four people to avenge the death of one of your friends, who by the way is of course the team's token black guy. He didn't even die a meaningful death, just got randomly killed by a gang (also then I checked the game's promo art and holy heck, that team member's not even in the team shots. They put the funny robot instead. It even has a more meaningful death scene!). And then of course that bit where you get to kill a whole bunch of security guards and blow up a data center with a grenade launcher and explosives because, they tell you, it's time to let loose. In the name of freedom!

And I'm not even mentioning a mission before that which I did stealthily and the final trigger straight up didn't activate unless I went back and got into a fight so there could be an actiony cutscene.

And I guess it may have seemed like they could retroactively address Dedsec's radicalization from a hacker collective into a terrorist organization in Legion, only now it's been revealed you're not actually fighting the oppression in Legion, you're seeking to clear Dedsec's name because more evil terrorist pinned a bombing on you.

Also, that whole bit where they actually explain to you the 2009 financial crisis was due to foreign hackers and not to the failure of the financial system is in poor taste, and the mission where you destroy a totally-not-Trump presidential candidate's career by releasing records of him saying mean things to the public is, retrospectively, a hilarious bit of optimistic science fiction.

Infinitum posted:

Nah I'm gonna buy it and support Paul Robertson, an Aussie.

tithin posted:

How do I dislike a post and put a curse on a poster

haveblue posted:

If it's anything like the other watchdogs, the leaning and offense are both pulled from a big table and not all anarchists pirate video games and vice versa

Pwnstar posted:

I feel like if I boycott a game for moral reasons the people most hosed over will be the exploited underclass of developers I support while the shitlords light cigars with 100 dollar bills as they fire them.

homeless snail posted:

believing that individual purchasing decisions have any kind of meaningful impact whatsoever, is the ultimate myth of capitalism

SeXReX posted:

That phrase isn't supposed to end with "so that means don't ever try to do anything about it"

ShallNoiseUpon posted:

exquisite tea posted:

I think the ultimate myth of capitalism is the idea that society would suffer in any way for not having the corporate class around or that we would really miss them if they disappeared off the face of the earth tomorrow.

SeXReX posted:

That phrase isn't supposed to end with "so that means don't ever try to do anything about it"

Help Im Alive posted:

I don't care about Assassin's Creed or Watchdogs but what will I do if they make a new Rayman........

Jay Rust posted:

gently caress it’s kinda tiny ...

SeXReX posted:

That phrase isn't supposed to end with "so that means don't ever try to do anything about it"

Jay Rust posted:

I wonder how much the “Free Hong Kong” thing and the resulting bad press cost Blizzard in the end.

RBA Starblade posted:

It was always the implication

ONE YEAR LATER posted:

Voting with your wallet actually does work, it just requires more than a handful of people doing it. But being extra cynical and saying that nothing matters, now that's how the world really becomes a better place!

ONE YEAR LATER posted:

Voting with your wallet actually does work, it just requires more than a handful of people doing it.

Stux posted:

it isnt, its pointing out that "voting with your wallet" is an artificial concept that allows people to do nothing about it, because they feel theyve already done something about it by doing nothing. if consumption changed habit then all the vegans and vegetarians of the world wouldve stopped the meat industry, or at least created some noticeable impact on it. yet in reality the entire sum of the dollar power wielded by people who refuse to buy meat has done nothing as the industry grows ever larger, and there are certainly more people refusing to buy meat because of the abject cruelty of the meat industry than there are people who would abstain from buying a game.

if you want to actually do something about it then you have to be more involved than simply buying or not buying things. if you want to not buy a game because the dev or publisher sucks thats completely understandable, but dont trick yourself into thinking that alone is any form of action. the only way purchasing can affect something is a significant and wide ranging boycott, not the buying habits of unassociated individuals.