gcheliotis
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- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 Is Being Review Bombed By Chinese Gamers After The Game Awards 5 days ago:
So I checked and could not find any review bombing. If there was one, it was tiny and not worth talking about.
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" 5 days ago:
They review-bombed BG3? For shame. Why?
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" 5 days ago:
I wasn’t aware, but basically this confirms my suspicion above regarding how this is playing out in the Chinese psyche so to speak.
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" 5 days ago:
While he comes off as a jerk, and possibly is one, I can understand the sentiment, having spent a few years of my life among ethnically Chinese people in Asia. There is this drive and aspiration to be recognized by leading brands in the West as equals, perhaps even betters. Due to a history of subservience and shame and a strong nationalistic current seeking to undo that.
This game is one of the last ambitious and accomplished to come out of China and they’re hungering for that king of recognition. So it is likely that fans of the game feel it was ‘stolen’ from them and he seems to be responding to that sentiment. To us it looks petty, but to some of the game’s most ardent Chinese fans this may have been an appropriate response. Not sure how this was received in China though, just speculating.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima seems to be testing Death Stranding 2, but it's not going well: "I fell asleep twice while on a delivery and ran the vehicle into a cliff" 1 week ago:
Ah and for a moment there I thought it would have been so cool if a developer were to publicly admit they fell asleep during gameplay…
- Comment on What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games? 3 weeks ago:
That is odd that nobody could tell this wouldn’t be for you @SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE@lemm.ee
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 3 weeks ago:
Dude! How on earth… maybe pick up writing, the last sentence was fire.
- Comment on Found this while going through old stuff. I'm terrible at chess, but I would play expecting to lose just to watch the animations. 4 weeks ago:
Why don’t we have a modern version of that? I’d love a modern well-animated fancy chess game.
- Comment on Greatest video game ever played? 4 weeks ago:
I’d say Baldur’s Gate 3.
With Demons’ Souls a close second. For those of us who got to play that game before Dark Souls came out, when we knew next to nothing about what to expect, it was an almost revelatory experience.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 4 weeks ago:
No one should undertake hobbies because they are attractive to someone else. Unless you want to join groups where you can meet people you’re attracted to, then the activity is just an excuse to mingle. But you are more likely to find a hobby rewarding if you are genuinely interested in it, no matter what others think.
- Comment on Remedy Has Recouped 'Most' of the Development and Marketing Expenses for Alan Wake 2 1 month ago:
Hey thanks, both AW1 and Control are games I might pick up again. Didn’t hate them, they just didn’t really hook me.
- Comment on Remedy Has Recouped 'Most' of the Development and Marketing Expenses for Alan Wake 2 1 month ago:
I found the pacing of the first few chapters in the first Alan Wake sublime, in terms of storytelling. The gameplay frustrated me on the other hand, became quickly monotonous and tedious for me. So I only played like a third of the game, much as I liked the story and was curious to see where it went. Then Control I was left completely unmoved by. So I’ve been hesitating to take up the second Alan Wake, basically because I didn’t much like the first iteration, or Control, which I’ve heard is somehow connected. Maybe I’m missing out. Or maybe these games appeal only to a certain audience.
- Comment on PS5's 'Resume Activity' Feature Apparently Gone for Good - PlayStation LifeStyle 1 month ago:
Never used this. Never cared for it 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 trailer reveals Andy Serkis, Ben Starr, Charlie Cox, and more 2 months ago:
Much of this looks good. But some of it looks painfully mid/generic. Might still be fun.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 2 months ago:
Well with an average in the eighties on metacritic one would assume it’s a very decent game. But user reviews tend to be a lot harsher indeed.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 2 months ago:
Thanks for the review. Disappointing to be sure. I was hoping to play it at some point and that it wouldn’t suck as much as people say it does.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 2 months ago:
Sometimes I wonder whether Starfield truly deserves all the bad publicity or whether people are also still upset because it became an Xbox exclusive and that is clouding their judgement. I know it does affect me for one. I got a ps5 for gaming and I’m automatically much less interested in anything that isn’t on the platform. And I was of course very disappointed when Microsoft outright bought all these huge IPs and made them exclusive to Xbox.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 2 months ago:
I’m waiting for the ultimate edition that will include everything here
- Comment on Anon shares his dating preferences 2 months ago:
Hmm I am not sure I understand what you’re saying or that you understood anything I said. Maybe we are talking past each other. Nevermind, let’s forget about incels. Main point is whatever your preferences, framing them positively helps.
- Comment on Anon shares his dating preferences 2 months ago:
Preferences are fine. It still matters how you express them. In the current zeitgeist, with inceldom being a thing, the way these preferences were expressed smacked of that. The fact that you want to defend this specific trifecta of otherwise completely unrelated preferences, claiming they lead to a better life, makes me think you might be an incel yourself, or maybe just a conservative who’s consumed a few too many such videos promoting “family values” and purporting that these are threatened by a woman’s weight, or her having to raise a child on her own, or her seeking love and attention on dating apps. I do not think we should marginalize conservatives. But I do think we should marginalize misogyny.
- Comment on Anon shares his dating preferences 2 months ago:
Well first these are the frequent talking points of incels when they harp on what they consider “low value females”. If you find yourself constantly repeating such devaluing talking points, maybe a break from the internet would do you good. Secondly, and more generally, it is usually more attractive to talk about the things you love than the things you hate. Unless you have already established that you and the other person hate the same things, then you can bond over that too.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 2 months ago:
This thread is like a lesson in the importance of x and y axes range in time series plots
- Comment on My new company let me join the union on my first day, within their onboarding app 3 months ago:
No not really, if you read more about unions you will see that they aren’t always working in their members’ best interests and sometimes union leadership will ally with employers to secure their futures above those of union members. Not all unions are created equal. From what little I know and have read in the past about unions. Not that I have first hand experience.
- Comment on My new company let me join the union on my first day, within their onboarding app 3 months ago:
Huh, hadn’t seen that before. But does that necessarily mean it is a strong union? Couldn’t it also mean it’s an employer-controlled union that is not really going to do anything for you?
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong launches to almost 1.5 million concurrent players 3 months ago:
Yeah it is confusing. Anyway, I still prefer to judge a game on its merits primarily and not on whether some of the people behind it are jerks or hold views antithetical to my own.
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong launches to almost 1.5 million concurrent players 3 months ago:
This is possibly fake as noted on another thread.
- Comment on Infogrames (Atari) have acquired the Surgeon Simulator franchise 5 months ago:
I don’t think they’re infogrames either
- Comment on Hotly anticipated 'Black Myth: Wukong' is delayed on Xbox Series X|S — and now, Microsoft has responded 5 months ago:
Ah sure I was afraid I might have forgotten something. Though again a very different category and not the kind of game I’d play. It would be more accurate to say I guess that Black Myth is the first game out of China that seems like it could make it big in the full price AAA single player action market. I can’t recall another Chinese game of this type that has held similar promise.
- Comment on Hotly anticipated 'Black Myth: Wukong' is delayed on Xbox Series X|S — and now, Microsoft has responded 5 months ago:
It’s the most impressive video game to come out of china, the first that seems poised to generate significant buzz internationally. Whether it will be any good I do not know, but early demos had been very impressive. So I’d say it is hotly anticipated, you were just late to the party. It may not be that original in gameplay but how many AAA productions are strikingly original nowadays? None that I can remember.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 7 months ago:
Yeah I always thought ‘quiet quitters’ referred to people checking out of their jobs emotionally and doing just barely enough to not get fired, so actually underperforming, not because they couldn’t do better but because they stopped caring at some point. In that sense they have already quit, quietly. But now it seems that anyone who doesn’t go above and beyond can be a ‘quiet quitter’? Doesn’t make much sense to me.