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Putting 'politics' before gameplay.

Bland, caricature characters that exist solely to represent a certain group of people or the creator's self-insert.

Uninspired, derivative 'slop' gameplay that's been done better in a thousand other games.

Ugly art style with unappealing characters (unless it's AI generated, but still even then sometimes).

Dreadful, uninteresting, writing. Cringey, preachy dialogue. Painfully unfunny jokes.

And, of course, they always flop HARD and/or aren't remembered and/or talked about post launch

Chuds can't create. Only co-opt, plagiarise, and destroy.

People just put up unhelpful dumb reviews with no verification of if they played either game and then it just gets to affect the score.

Steam definitely has its share of "anti-woke" rants and culture war nonsense, but at least there's some kind of bar to clear. If someone’s dropping a review after 7+ hours, even if it's unhinged, you can at least say they engaged with the game beyond the title screen or Character Creation

Plus, Steam shows:

Hours played (which helps you separate kneejerk takes from people who gave the game a shot)

Whether the review is marked helpful by others,

Whether the game was purchased or received for free,

It’s a way more transparent system than Metacritic’s “0/10 because woke” with no explanation and no way to know if the person even launched the game.

hell, almost all of BioWare's games on Steam are "Mostly positive" except for Dragon Age 2 and Veilguard which are both "Mixed"

Or maybe, juuust maybe it could be due to all the anti-consumer shit you guys have pulled recently

Usually whenever Nintendo does something stupid or Anti-Consumer, they like to announce something to distract people from it. But now, it's just been a constant stream of bad news and it's sticking.

Just this last month alone:

Anti-consumer policies and aggressive EULAs (they stated that they can and WILL brick your console if you do anything they don't like.

BTW, Nintendo didn't "ASK" us to waive our rights, My switch has lost access to online capabilities, my library, my cloud saves and the store if I don't sign away my rights. That's not asking. That's taking my shit I paid for away until I do)

Backlash from the Palworld drama and heavy-handed legal actions

Restrictive hardware ecosystems

Lackluster online services—still!

Pricing practices that insult loyalty (e.g., $80 for a port of an 8 year old Wii U game that doesn't include the DLC)

It's baffling how they had the opportunity to make a slam dunk on this generation with the sequel to one of the most popular consoles, especially compared to their past sequel consoles, but once again they fail to learn their lesson.

The only "major update" they have made to" Skate 4" since I playtested the game in September 2023 and March 2024 was the addition of microtransactions (for an unreleased game)

The game's graphics are nearly the same as those of the blockmesh build I played two years ago

Makes low budget f2p release of a beloved sequel that captures nothing of the original It makes no money Cancel it because it wasn't profitable enough

"well, guess the audience for Skate just wasn't there" Proceeds to cancel all future plans regarding Skate

which kinda sucks because They could've easily just REMASTERED THE ORGINIAL SKATE TRILOGY!

It's been over a decade all the games are on old gen, bring it to modern consoles & pcs with better graphics. Not only would that bring old players back to relive it with better graphics, it would also bring new people into the series. It would probably been way cheaper, test the waters for a new Skate game, and most importantly not pissed off so many people.

with how much they've been fucking up, it's no wonder so many veterans abandoned ship

The only major name left of the original founders is Atsushi Inaba and all the pre-Platinum games he produced were directed by either Shinji Mikami or Hideki Kamya.

Their last major game was Bayonetta 3 - which took way too long to come out, had shit marketing and a story that fans hated: it underperformed in sales and was also panned by fans, being deemed the worst of the Bayonetta games.

Their last game at all was a Bayonetta side story game that was so off of anything in the series that almost no one was really interested in playing it.

Along with having a niche audience, they also limited themselves to only one platform since 2019. and Their last multiplatform game was Nier Automata, in 2017.

That's of course not counting Babylon's Fall - a game that buried itself with its own initial public previews where placeholder armor and weapon models from Final Fantasy 14 were used in its promo materials

Now, their only chance of surviving seems to be Ninja Gaiden 4 and the new Okami game - and unless they pull off something as well animated and fun to play as Nier Automata, they probably won't be around much longer.

hell, I don't see them surviving another 5 years unless they sell themselves to Nintendo or Sony

Talented developers leave Ubisoft, make Stray, massive success. Talented developers leave Ubisoft, make Expedition 33, massive success.

as someone who doesn't take grifters seriously, I think it's funny to see them infighting over if this game is "woke" or not because of Black people being in the game and also that it's doing well

(Early 1900s Paris had lots of black people since Slavery was ended in Europe long before the Americas. Black people were still discriminated against, but they had actual rights)

Every time there is a new game coming out. I go into Social media and what I see is "this game is woke because two dudes are kissing and there is a black protagonists, delete and refund" There are so many people that seem to care about it that I start to wonder if I am the insane one?

like Do these people genuinely believe that artists will stop being political and talk about their beliefs just because you said you don't like it? or that games will stop being "woke" because like, 3 games flopped for reasons OTHER THAN it was "woke"

Let's ignore the story quality, graphical fidelity, optimization, gameplay quality, etc.. Oh, no! The only reason why this succeeded is because that character has a fat ass! The reason for why that game has failed is because this character said they were non-binary!

like, Just how are people are not tired of this shit? This debate is about as deep as a puddle, has no consequence on real life, and the roots of this debate is based on ignorance and assumptions.

Hell, I got told that the Oblivion remaster was great and "not woke" because it sold more on Steam than AC Shadows Shadows and Dragon Age Veilguard

But also that Oblivion is "woke" for removing male and female and replacing it with Body Type 1/2

In the same reddit thread

Oblivion was The first AAA game to have microtransactions and now Oblivion Remastered could possibly be the last AAA game to be priced at $50-60 dollars.

with the Switch 2 being a success, we could see a rise in prices for all AAA Games. to 80-90 dollars

WHEN games do inevitably become 80-100 dollars, I'll definitely be buying more Indie games

they redid all the assetes (it's not just a simple upscale), has all the orginal DLC. Not just Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine, but also all the smaller home dlc too.

they're also not spammed the second you leave the tutorial. and are a part of the world now, and NPCs have rumors discussing them

They also gifted the game to everyone working on Skyblivion instead of sending them a C&D like Nintendo did to the people who worked on AM2R

if Body Type 1/2 is where you draw the line, then Elder Scrolls probably isn’t the game series for you. LGBT characters are very common in this series

bigots get more triggered at customization than the "liberal snowflakes" they constantly cry about.

like, the only gripe I have with the customization is that there's no customizable genitals

then again, Veilguard and Avowed didn't have those either

They’ve got pockets up the ass and the HIGHEST SELLING IP IN THE WORLD, and they use it to cosplay as an indie dev team to release games with so many bugs Bethesda would get jealous and now they want a monopoly on a genre they didn’t even invent in the first place.

(MegaTen came out in 1987, nearly a decade before Pokemon Red and Blue came out)

how Sparking Zero is being handled after release should be a study of how hard a company can fumble a game

• no new maps

• no outfits

• no new costumes

• no color/outfit customization

• no new Single Player content or new DLC Story packs

-8 characters with 4 of them being Vegeta and 1 of them not even being a fighter (I haven't watched Daima so, I'm not too sure if Pansy fights anyone)

• 1 outfit change that isn’t even a outfit change, just a moveset change

Spike Chunsoft/Bamco gotta realize that maps, outfits, character customization and Single Player content is what’s lacking not characters.