Video Game General 2: Definitive/Remastered Edition

@Mikey
As Kira put it, gamers have learn that patience is king in this industry, and that gamers are done with mediocrity.

What…uh…What’s with the artstyle in DA:Veilguard? Feels half-baked. Feels Indie in a bad way.

Half the stuff in the trailer can be made more appealing with clever lighting or texturing–that’s how the art team usually would go about faking depth and shadow, hence making the textures look less like clay and somehow hides their low-poly-ness.

Everything in DA:Veilguard looks so dull like WHY? Also the scars look painted on. DA:I has better scars vanilla, unmodded.

WHY? And why am I so nettled about this? I guess I excepted a much better representation of the concept art shown years ago. Ngl them concept art got me wildly hyped. And then in-game graphics just felt mid and uninspired.

@tehwatever
I think it’s because it’s a AAA studio and has been 10 years that it looking so meh is an issue.

Nintendo is taking down videos even covering emulation
Oh fuck you, Nintendo.

@Mikey
I’m sure they’d have no issue listening to gamers if 70% of them didn’t complain more about some imaginary boogeyman like “DEI” or “MuH wOkEiSm” than they did the actual problems that the game had.

It’s almost like there’s a reason why the word “gamer” has such a negative stigma behind it.

@Penguin Dragneel
This^

There are genuine reasons to call out studios like Ubisoft for both the state they release their games plus how bad the workplace actually is, but all the genuine problems get drowned out by people whining about “Wokeness”

If they AD made memorable and didn’t have a bad track records…wait did they even put ads out?

@Mikey
By gamers they actually mean investors, because no rational company would be making every single one of their a AAAA open world “experience” and expect that to be sustainable, and Ubisoft has proven to be anything but. In fact with how frequently they released them they might as well have AI generated them. I think it’s finally biting them in the ass.

If they actually go under, I just hope they either release a new Splinter Cell, Rayman or POP, or at least give them to devs who actually care about those titles

@Icicle Niceicle 1517
Dead-ass. The only time I EVER heard talk surrounding this game was when some dipshit was complaining about the main character’s face (cuz I guess every woman has to look like a goddamn supermodel to these pigs).

These grifters don’t actually want the game industry to get better. They just hate the fact that LGBTQ+ folks and PoC have a part in it.

@Penguin Dragneel
What part?

@phoenixacezero
The industry

@Penguin Dragneel
I mean, this industry did have Sony’s rep flirt with an employee on-stage for E3, so there is a reason for the old guard mentality (though not good enough to not change).

@Kiryu-Chan
And it’s now biting them. Hopefully this will be a wake-up call for the industry to do better.

@Kiryu-Chan
Again, What part?

@Icicle Niceicle 1517
@Penguin Dragneel
Well maybe-and hear me out now-maybe if companies had spent more time listening to what their actual customers want and less time wasting their employees’ paychecks on pandering to loudmouthed minority groups (who may or may not be misandrist and heterophobic) over the last decade, we wouldn’t be having such issues, now would we?

@DragonBoi471
I’m pretty sure that is far from what’s going on. 99% of failed games fail because they were rushed or in development Hell, not because of “woke” as you are claiming.

@DragonBoi471
Actually the bigger issue is that game budgets are simply too big these days, along with too many live service games competing for attention. It does not cost money to have inclusion. (Also the rushed development that Meanlucario just mentioned)
What, do you think characters cost $200 a gay or something?

@Mikey
Wow and just like that they’ve leaped to top 3 worst companies. Fuck you too Nintendo.

@TheFinite
No one told you about the gay barrier? You have to pay $60 for each gay guy, and $40 for each gay gal. But if you want a female main character, that’s a solid $120, $150 if they’re black. This money goes towards pleasing the anti-woke crowd and their influencers who wouldn’t talk about the game if they aren’t paid upfront.

Not many people understand because the Woke Mob^Tm doesn’t want you to know it, but the Gay Tax^©^ works like this.

True, but let’s not forget that the 2010’s was also when the Gamergate movement was mainstream, which just added more fuel to the fire.

Either way, both what you said and what I said left a massive stain in the video game industry; And it won’t come out no matter how hard we scrub it.

@DragonBoi471
Hey, hear me out. This might sound crazy, but minorities and trans folks have a right to express their feelings about how they’re represented in video games, and they have a right to demand for it to be better.

A game won’t suck because it has pronouns in it, it’ll suck because the executives in charge interfered and fucked things up in a desperate attempt to make as much money as possible.

Need I remind you that Baldur’s Gate 3 is one of the biggest successes of the last decade, and not only did the devs NOT have to contend with these greedy-ass execs makkng every decision for them, but it’s easily one of the most progressive games out there.

@DragonBoi471
But what you said was nonsense and misleading. At most it’s half-assed pandering, which changes next to nothing about games. And last I checked, Gamergate was moreso “woke” and “anti-woke” trying to blame all their problems on the other group.

@Penguin Dragneel
That’s unfair. How are AAA mega-corporations suppose to compete with a indie dev team that can budget their money? Don’t be unreasonable. Think of the poor AAA CEOs and them not having golden yachts in the triple digits.

@Penguin Dragneel
It doesn’t suck because that it has a person that is woman, it sucks because you let Andrew Tate write it…does that guy even know how to write?