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Amgard
Dec 28, 2006

Paladinus posted:

Anita actually cited some games she liked. To the Moon, Dear Esther, Gone Home, Papo & Yo... Oh, and Mirror's Edge,

To the Moon and Mirror's Edge are loving legit 9999/10

But you can fall off buildings in ME and break your legs/die horribly and that fetishizes defenestration of women and clearly this is someone's kink

To the Moon just fetishizes Animorphs

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Amgard
Dec 28, 2006

Paladinus posted:

Lol, indeed.

What's her dev credits? Is saying 10 words into a microphone the mark of a progressive indie dev?

SUPER

HEXAGON :woot:

Amgard
Dec 28, 2006

macnbc posted:

Internet Investigative Super Squad

Make it happen

Amgard
Dec 28, 2006

Jesto posted:

I literally don't get why they don't just make or fund their own videogames instead of trying to change everyone else's videogames. If their vision for the future of games is correct then surely they'll be profitable. Other developers will follow by example if the outcome is good.

You'd think with how many patreons everyone in that community backs they would be cool for kickstarting games in line with their vision. Right? :confused: Why demand others adapt to you instead of making what you want?

To The Moon did a wonderful job with that, nothing ever felt preachy or hamfisted even though one of the characters was autistic. The writing was actually good, too, which is more than I can say for Depression Quest.

Because it's a subculture that's been propped up with self-congratulatory back-patting between mutual friends who have managed to game(:v:) their way into the scene despite a critical lack of any kind of vision, foresight, technical aptitude, self-management, resources, critical thinking, design theory, planning, development skills, basic social skills, professional integrity, life skills, or emotional maturity.

This whole poo poo leads to some kind of anti-gaming guerrilla development philosophy that meets halfway between Werner Herzog's fever dreams and Dogme 95 if the proponents stuck to their principles rigidly and completely failed to make sense of the industry. They don't want to make games, they want to make "anti-games" so they can, in one fell stroke, challenge every established assumption about games.

And in a lot of ways, this is an important thing to do. You see games like To The Moon, Papers Please, and so on making waves in small ways by merging story and gameplay to tell stories that aren't typical in the industry.

But poo poo like Depression Quest or other low effort games are just that: low-effort. They're crass attempts to exploit a market for personal gain by delivering lovely products backed by an institution so in love with its own perceived legitimacy. If you inject this crap into the market and use the PR clout (which is manufactured), it can seem pretty easy to twist the narrative of where gaming is headed without being correct nor relevant.

Oops, that was a serious post. let me try again

i'm gay

Amgard
Dec 28, 2006

reavor posted:

seems that's kind of what started this whole thing. some indie game developers/journalists recieved (perhaps partly unfounded) criticism regarding their contacts/dealings with other developers/journalists and blocking of game-funding initiatives, and they responded by starting a crusade against their attackers, then expanding it to the gaming community as a whole.

If you reframe the argument and go on the offensive, people will eventually forget you're a lazy do-nothing piece of poo poo who can't code, draw, compose, plan, organize, or develop anything of value that any human would ever want to spend money on.

Amgard
Dec 28, 2006


Rock Band got an MMORPG? :stare:

Amgard
Dec 28, 2006

Lifepuzzler posted:


edit: finally home I hope I didn't miss the gif train

You bandwagon like old people gently caress

Amgard
Dec 28, 2006

Proteus4994 posted:

you fuckers beat this madden thing into the ground like you were ray rice in a casino

I'm triggering irl

Amgard
Dec 28, 2006

Al Borland posted:

wow hes pretty autistic.

He rattles off his particular brand of humor with speed and precision that would make even the most spergy of 11 year olds wet with envy.

When and why did he decide to abort the thin veneer of his credibility by showing his busted half torched bald face to the public for the shame of our glorious internet nation?

Phone edit: gently caress phones

Non-phone edit: and what's the deal with kids lol

Amgard
Dec 28, 2006

EA Sports posted:

zoe just tweeted that the worst thing that ever happened to her just happened idk maybe she got assualted? ill be refreshing worldstar.

Why do they keep saying that they're done yet still won't die

Real legit internet question

Amgard
Dec 28, 2006

Maxwell Adams posted:

Not only that, they actually gave a factual account of how Zoe and Maya triggered a DDOS attack against TFYC. Every other article about TFYC so far has danced around that subject.

Did Wolf ever expand on what he said, or was he shouted into obscurity by the Fish?

Amgard
Dec 28, 2006

Sephiroth_IRA posted:

That still makes me laugh. I don't know who Wolf Wozniak is but I have no clue why anyone would be intimidated by Fish.

Because he puffs up when angry to scary away predators

also quebecois

Amgard
Dec 28, 2006


Maybe the funniest thing to come out of this whole thing

Amgard
Dec 28, 2006

doomisland posted:

imagine if zoe gets swatted

when I was 10 years old they were filming a movie in my hometown and a bunch of cast and crew got together for some mutual hugging/touching and my dad explained to me what a clusterfuck was.

in his defense he was drinking at the time

Amgard
Dec 28, 2006

big duck equals goose posted:

no, he got famous and hosed a bunch of hot chicks and made some cool indie games like Tales of Maj'Eyal and Rogue Legacy.

For real, he's the God that damns the inferiority of all men

Amgard
Dec 28, 2006

FreakerByTheSpeaker posted:

No way I'm reading this whole thread, but what's going on? why is it so long, and why has the word cuck invaded every thread I've been reading?

fat girl hosed some weenies so her lovely html site would make her 2000 a month

turns out that this is normal

nerds freak out because theyre all frustrated virgins

everything we know has suddenly and violently been twisted, rended, and flayed in the theatre of public discourse

Z-list twitter star turn this into roundtable comedy

Amgard
Dec 28, 2006

Scrub-Niggurath posted:

You do know that that was a joke right? Especially in the context of that particular thread

Jesus poo poo dude calm the gently caress down and stop being so obviously defensive

Amgard
Dec 28, 2006

Falsum posted:

She robbed them of their pride and sense of self-worth when she got them to give awards and positive critique to her game isn't that enough?

e: whatever pride & self-worth there were left from being game journos

lmao

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Amgard
Dec 28, 2006


I quoted the part of your post that was funny

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