only because when Postal 2 came out they were literally in their 20s
now they're 40-somethings trying to hang onto their youth to sell crappy sequels to a game people liked 20 years ago
Glance at his twitter on any given day. Also him rereleasing his older works that were part of game jam bundle things as individual products for 5 dollars a pop is cringe. I mean for fricks sake, the Pony Factory?
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>rereleasing his older works that were part of game jam bundle things as individual products for 5 dollars a pop is cringe.
Of course you don't want for a person to profit from their own work, fricker
I was behind the kid in line, he was with his grandma and had brought the game to the counter, the guy basically told him if he'd watched streamers play it he'd seen the whole game. Kid decided to come back another day amd buy another game when he decided what he wanted.
Apparently you can beat the games in like 5 minutes too.
I really never knew anyone that gave a shit about this franchise like they do about fnaf, or even poppy's and frankly even banban.
It was just something for the horror milkers to play inbetween.
How did anyone ever think this shit would be a thing? It felt like they were pushing so hard for this to become a mainstay and mainstream IP but it was just too boring.
>anyone ever think this shit would be a thing
They sold a frickton of merch, two sequels, a series of books and a cartoon series. All of this while still on early access
They knew that they had to sell out FAST before people realized that the final version of the game was garbage
It had an interesting premise in it's alpha as a distubia video game. Unfortunately, the game got worse as development dragged on and the devs lost sight of the initial vision. They also lied about their "groundbreaking" neural AI so yeah.
There was probably a point early on where they were genuinely trying to make an adaptive AI horror game, but they clearly found it too hard and just shifted gears to making a hecking DEEP LORE horror game instead.
It's funny due to Hello Neighbour 2 leaning into the AI shit and proclaiming that it'd learn from the player, only to be fricking broken and non-existent come release.
It's a streamerbait puzzle-action game that makes no sense but that's okay because all the "game theory" parasites on Youtube will figure it out for them.
This shit right here, this is just fricking next level. This is Dobson levels of cringe, a might fricking impressive feat. Absolutely legendary cringe forever written in the history books.
>Matpat actually made fun of this in one of his videos and called the devs out for changing things when theorists were following the clearly laid clues they set up
The homosexual even said he did it in his own apology video.
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He is not gay and don't use homophobic slurs.
You're taking his statements out of context, he was quoting the faked discord screenshots which had been widely spread over the internet.
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homosexual
4 months ago
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I think an actual woman or teenage girl made this post.
4 months ago
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more like a terminally online twitter homosexual
4 months ago
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tautology
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The word homosexual and the suffix -gay are both integral parts of Gankers history and I will not have them smeared.
4 months ago
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nta but how did using -gay and homosexual start?
4 months ago
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Well, unfortunately >picks up a wheel gun and shits in your mouth
4 months ago
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only eight years old and he's already talking about DRIVE-BYS
"Social media manager" is a dream job where you do nothing and get paid a lot unless you majorly frick up, like forgetting to switch accounts when you go on an unhinged rant or otherwise embarrass your employer.
I had to go back and search this but in early 2017 the official Twitter account replied to Trump with "@realDonaldTrump you are actually a disgusting excuse of a President and we would love to have @BarackObama back, also you have tiny hands," and the company claimed their account was "hacked".
It's because he's an homunculus created by satanists. It's also why he looks bloated and has this weird orange shade, the spell holding it all together are barely keeping it from exploding. They did their best to make it look human but there's small details like the hands they overlooked.
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he's a natural ectomorph who got fat in old age, he had a lanklet build in his youth
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>man frick these snowflake libcuck soibois, you should be allowed to make fun of anything >NOOO DON'T MAKE FUN OF MY GOD EMPEROR THAT'S NOT ALLOWED
It literally happens right now every other week or so with that useless moronic Black person woman who can barely form coherent sentences that was installed as the white house press secretary. She has on multiple occasions forgot to sign out of "Joe Biden's" twitter account and wrote dumb shit on there, then quickly deletes it and reposts it under her account.
>Hello Neighbor drowns in obscurity after spending so much money expanding the series and trying to get Matpat's attention >Bendy is doing fine and is planned to get a movie after just two games, a few spinoffs, and some animated shorts on Youtube
How did one succeed while the other failed?
Was it because Bendy wasn't trying to be the next FNAF?
I never played bendy or know much about it but i would assume the game is at least playable. Hello neighbor is just straight up bad they also kept trying to make the game have deep dark lore for some reason
>Was it because Bendy wasn't trying to be the next FNAF?
Bendy was absolutely trying to be the next FNAF, it spent just as much time gorging its advertising budget and not enough polishing its shit games, and it had its fair share of controversies and flops.
The difference is you're stupid enough to fall for one snake oil salesman but not the other.
>Bendy was absolutely trying to be the next FNAF, it spent just as much time gorging its advertising budget and not enough polishing its shit games,
Are you sure they spent their budget on advertising and not because you expected the games to be as polished as AAA games? >and it had its fair share of controversies and flops
what did flop?
Anon their later games in the original episodic series were full of game breaking bugs. It was really fricking bad. >what did flop?
Showdown Bandit for starters. But there was also the massive layoffs and other shit I'm probably forgetting.
Bendy is and always was shit regardless, zoomzoom.
Okay, it did try to be FNAF in the past, but to say they're the same as Hello Neighbor is wrong
I mean as the other anon said, Hello Neighbor is forgetten, nobody cares about them anymore, but Bendy is still a thing
Bendy fricking failed bro. Insanely high production values, yet ask anybody off the street and they have no clue what it is. Garten of Banban is more recognizable, which is laughable. Fricking Choo Choo Charlie got more attention.
Bendy had a sense of of direction and identity. Hello Neighbor even in Early Alphas felt like the devs went "yea we'll figure out what the hell this is all about later." Looked and felt like someone threw random unity assets together
The bigger question is why does it look like something somebody made on fricking GoAnimate?
I checked the original pilot once, apparently they could not used anything from the original "hidden lore" of the game because it is full of satanic edgy pseudo surrealist "open to interpretation" nonsense, so the plot is just about a bunch of kids who keep invading their neighbor's house over and over again for no reason at all and making jokes about how moronic the game mechanics are like "isn't it weeeeird how the neighborhood just stops chasing us when we cross the street? It's like a game or sumthing"
>"isn't it weeeeird how the neighborhood just stops chasing us when we cross the street? It's like a game or sumthing"
Something broke in me reading that
>mediocre game that was shilled beyond all belief >tried to turn it into a massive franchise >social media pleb making a whole bunch of posts to e-celeb cancer that amount to "please notice me senpai"
While Blizzard pulls it super often, EA gets the initial credit of the "gay-shield" when they ran a pride-based campaign to hide the news of their Always-Online Sim City that just did not work because the servers were just overloaded.
I'll always remember that one dev having a social media spergout over people not understanding how the game just HAS to be always online, and then like day one of release the game was cracked because they online component was just an online check that could be disabled with a bit flip.
It's still amazing to me that pandemic died almost at the height of their popularity >Mercs 1 was a huge hit out of nowhere >Saboteur outsold all expectations >battlefront 1 and 2 were genre-defining and sold like bread >DaH was a well established series >development of Battlefront 3 well underway, promising to push existing technology to the absolute edge again >EA takes over >pushes Mercs 2 out half finished >guts the company and cans everyone >battlefront 3 was like 90% done >Mercs 3 was also in development
Knowing the trail of corpses companies like EA, Activision and UbiSoft leave behind, I simply don't get why small time devs keep making contracts with them just to inevitably getting screwed over by them.
I remember EA terrorising TF2 youtube content with copyright strikes, because they thought developing the Playstation version of the game gives them the power to do so or something.
But then again, the tried to frick with Disney and thought they could get away with it as usual. Hubris.
A lot of smaller companies enter a sort of quasi-mortgage loans with various banks that treat them as an investment which often results in whoever is at the head of the company to have to have daily meetings with their "investors" etc. Especially in studios that start small, this head often is a programmer, artist etc. and talking to suits all day isn't his life's dream. Being part of a corporation like EA may still involve talking to suits, but a lot less. All the day to day hurdles of having to run the business go away they can focus on managing their team and having some development related function.
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As a middle manager in a massive financial company I would love to do that. I'm not very good at programming at all, but can talk for hours about accounting risks and financials. But my current job has me doing that for insurance companies. I'd give a lot just to do the same type of shit for a video game studio.
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Be the change you want to see. Go find some small but highly promising indie Dev that's looking to take the next step and offer your services. Or even just leave them your details and say "if you ever need a guy who can deal with suits call me" or whatever. Do it to several companies until you get hired.
The one thing is though I can almost guarantee you make 10x more in your current job than you would working for a small independent game studio.
>Being part of a corporation like EA may still involve talking to suits, but a lot less. All the day to day hurdles of having to run the business go away they can focus on managing their team and having some development related function.
So how does a company like EA always inevitably get its claws in and force these companies to start making games they're ill-suited for? At what point does the worm turn?
Big publishers start off allowing mostly free reign to the devs, and make all kinds of huge promises like "we'll guarantee your control of the games you make" and "we'll allow you to express your artistic vision" or whatever the frick, but then they slowly start adding in small demands about content or especially marketing. Then it will turn into bigger things like including a season pass or always online or whatever. The final step is the publisher replacing the top people with their own Yes Men suits to run shit and they will force whatever the marketing research and investment people want down the devs throats. All of this is done under threat of legal action and loss of funding if the devs don't comply.
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>make all kinds of huge promises like "we'll guarantee your control of the games you make" and "we'll allow you to express your artistic vision" or whatever the frick, but then they slowly start adding in small demands about content or especially marketing
Same playbook skeevy guys use to groom teen girls, huh
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>All of this is done under threat of legal action and loss of funding if the devs don't comply.
Extra detail
Often times, these deals will entail the covering of operational costs, which means a studio may expand beyond their ability to actually pay for themselves to be independent off of a success, which they use to do the seemingly smart thing of investing in themselves, without seeing the added operating costs of doing so. Breaking away means having to deal with these costs all at once.
Something like, inheriting a mansion and being bankrupted by the property tax, because you don't make the money associated with a mansion usually.
There's definitely ways to dodge it if you're savvy about it. One of the more interesting examples along this line is Fromsoft when Sony stepped in to back Bloodborne, to give them something pretty to launch with. Fromsoft used the support to create tons upon tons of assets that would end up inevitably cut from Bloodborne, and used these assets extensively for the creation of DS3, Sekiro, and Elden Ring. While this wasn't as predatory as a lot of these deals are to start with, Sony really just needed something exclusive to push console sales, it's still an example of how to avoid this proverbial turning worm. Invest in things you don't have to pay to keep, not things you'll have to pay for later.
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>Being part of a corporation like EA may still involve talking to suits, but a lot less. All the day to day hurdles of having to run the business go away they can focus on managing their team and having some development related function.
So how does a company like EA always inevitably get its claws in and force these companies to start making games they're ill-suited for? At what point does the worm turn?
The amusing part was someone found the actual package holiday details and it did sound like a pretty good vacation, top hotel, bunch of expensive activities, restaurants etc.
I have a friend group that used to play PSO2 before New Genesis and it's sad looking back at the game and seeing the state that it's in right now.
It's also extremely telling that the majority of positive reviews are from before the NGS launch, and the new reviews all say to ignore the NGS content and play PSO2 Classic instead.
I honestly don't know what the frick they're trying to do with that game. Everything new they do with it seems specifically designed to run contrary to something they did last month and/or render it invalid and useless in the future.
It's like they got advice from another company to "make a treadmill", and then made the treadmill's path curve and twist all over the place like an escher drawing. I played NGS from start to last october before finally getting out, and it's honestly the fricking stupidestly-designed online game I've ever played. And that includes generic as frick korean MMOs from the early 2000s.
The director is the same moron that nearly killed PSO2 with EP5's stupid bullshit. NGS literally exists only to recoup some of the money Sega lost on the failed Sakura Wars gacha.
Fun fact: The studio who actually made the game was already dead months before this marketing campaign was out
>Fun fact: The studio who actually made the game was already dead months before this marketing campaign was out
thats not true
embracer expecting a flop put it under gearbox expecting that the studio after the game comes out will be helping gearbox make games rather than make their own, but nobody was fired yet
but with how awful the game was embracer decided to just fired everybody on the spot, embracer ceo probably got a stroke when he saw the sale numbers
>embracer ceo probably got a stroke when he saw the sale numbers
But our consultants said this would make hundreds of millions and that we should make the game even more progressive. HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN
still hurts these saints row devs got the new timesplitters and deus ex cancelled because of how much money they wasted on development and marketing along with the game being a complete flop
pic rel, was 2 years in development but got shut down just like timesplitters did
EG cancelled the deus ex game and fired 97 employees so far from Eidos' 481 they had in 2022, Eidos confirmed the cancel themselves too
It's 100% over for deus ex, articles started going up around the end of last month
All because EG's business plan was to purchase a bunch of studios and IPs with money they didn't even have yet and they were banking on the $2bn deal with Saudis and EG also lost over $100mil on the Saints Row flop because only the development costs are counted for that $100mil and not marketing/advertising which always gets a big budget too
>saints row was such a shitshow it destroyed deus ex and timesplitters
and you just know those former volition devs will go on to shit up other IPs at other studios
why are morons ignoring this?
OP is literally one of the social media homosexuals at RWS
Did it ever OCCUR TO YOU NIMRODS THAT'S AN OLD SCREENSHOT SHE GOT PRIOR AND SAVED IT BECAUSE IT'S EFFING HILARIOUS YOU'RE NOT IMPORTANT ENOUGH FOR MARKERTERS TO PANDERRFEJOIWSSSI
I remember wishlisting postal3 before it released, and I never bothered to remove it, so from time to time I will get emails about it going on sale and a small part of my just laughs
It's interesting how RWS's writing changed through each game. Postal 2 had low brow humor but it never felt like it was trying too much. Usually the silliest jokes (poop jokes) were environmental gags. You never had the characters talking about poop. Sure it's referential humor is outdated but it's still charming in a way.
Then for Postal 3 they felt like they were the kings of comedy, amped everything up to 11 and ended up with writing that's extremely cringe inducing, on top of being in a bad game.
Then for Paradise Lost they actually recaptured Postal 2's humor and tone.
And then for Postal 4 they once again tried too hard and became extremely cringe.
Weird how they got Paradise Lost right in between cringe games.
You see their social media and you can tell why their current writing is as bad as it is. (Hint: I blame Mike J).
They did the writing, but left everything else to that company.
Or actually wasn't it another company at first but that one shutdown so they had to go with the russian one?
they like to push that because it makes it seem as if they weren’t involved at all, but the reality is that all of the writing, casting, and directing was handled by RWS. so yeah, they might not be responsible for the gameplay being complete shit, but they were a lot more involved than they like to let on.
Not 100% on Postal 3 and Paradise Lost, but Postal 4 is his baby for sure. Every time he sees someone saying that Postal 4 isn't funny he'll have the most butthurt reaction. He's the main guy responsible for most of the writing.
2 compared to 4 is a great example of why less is more.
the absurdity of 2 is created by the player doing dumb shit with what the game provides, not the game itself. What's mandated by the game is limited to one bit of absurdity per mission, and even then you can bypass it by just being normal.
Being able to just buy the milk makes it funny that you'd go on a killing spree to save $20
Al Qaeda casually hanging out in the sewers, where you find them solely through exploration, is funnier than being railroaded into a fight.
Having a normal level while being aware you're dressed as a gimp is funny, but the Dude's sole reaction being >shit, I need to change clothes
is what elevates it further.
it also helps that Postal 2 understands that it's an FPS, so most of the game revolves around shooting people in different contexts. Postal 4 tried to diversify, so most tasks are based around gimmicks that get old really quick. Not to mention that when there is actual shooting it's also shit because of the horrible level design.
This is why Dead Rising steadily got worse too. One was genius because they played the story and characters straight and left it to the player to discover all the crazy shit you can do in the gameplay. Everyone loved the crazy shit and the new leaf devs thought they were supposed to shove it at the player.
2 compared to 4 is a great example of why less is more.
the absurdity of 2 is created by the player doing dumb shit with what the game provides, not the game itself. What's mandated by the game is limited to one bit of absurdity per mission, and even then you can bypass it by just being normal.
Being able to just buy the milk makes it funny that you'd go on a killing spree to save $20
Al Qaeda casually hanging out in the sewers, where you find them solely through exploration, is funnier than being railroaded into a fight.
Having a normal level while being aware you're dressed as a gimp is funny, but the Dude's sole reaction being >shit, I need to change clothes
is what elevates it further.
Really hate how RWS tries so hard to be "WOAH SO RELATABLE WE ACTUALLY LISTEN TO THE FANS WE CAN ADMIT THAT 3 WAS TRASH" then the moment anyone brings up how shit Postal 4 is they go completely corpo silent. Feels fricking slimey.
I still can't believe they made an unreal engine 4 game that runs like dog shit even on good hardware with no high poly or real life effects and the fricking game has loading screens
>game is bad >game has some guy with no formal education is public relations being forced to market the game on twitter >Ganker: see they created another tortanic because they offended gamers with their cringe marketing
Low iq schizo sure are frustrating to hang around with
>marketed itself as an Overwatch competitor >it was actually a coop hero based campaign with character levelling and progression >the PvP was more like Monday Night Combat >character designs both visually and gameplay wise were all extremely unique, beyond anything Overwatch ever did
The game was comfy and fun, it's sure is a huge shame it came out at the same time as Overwatch and the marketing team decided to shoot the rest of the company in the foot.
Bro, battleborn was one of the ugliest, jankiest games made in that timeframe. Comparing it to MNC is like comparing Mozart to a white middleschool rap battle. Battleborns visuals weren't unique, they were trash. Maybe in the concept phase there was something not eyebleedingly bad but beyond maybe oscar mike, the most generic of all characters, everyone in that game was like a hot sauce enema for the eyes. Thank god battleborn is dead and buried.
I don't think they really wanted to market as an Overwatch competitor. People just kept making the comparison and they were launching the same month, so they had to.
>marketed itself as an Overwatch competitor >it was actually a coop hero based campaign with character levelling and progression >the PvP was more like Monday Night Combat >character designs both visually and gameplay wise were all extremely unique, beyond anything Overwatch ever did
The game was comfy and fun, it's sure is a huge shame it came out at the same time as Overwatch and the marketing team decided to shoot the rest of the company in the foot.
Battleborn never stood a chance because it released at the wrong time and nobody was asking for a game like it
At the time of it's release, Gearbox was still having lots of popularity with Borderlands 2 and everyone had eyes for Borderlands 3 and then Gearbox tease a new game which gets everyone hyped but then it's Battleborn and it killed interest completely
All Gearbox had to do was make BL3 release first then make Battleborn later
battleborne would've had a chance if anyone but randy was at the top. they could've made it a nice f2p alternative but randy had to be a homosexual and label it as "free trial" even tho it was the full pvp game and you could"ve bought the campaign.
a formula which overwatch is using now, ironically enough
Nowadays companies just use a few VN's and a captcha solver to make these online and botted twitter accounts to screencap the threads and whine about them
>tfw you will never be a diversity hire getting big bucks for zero work and literally infinite job security
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If it helps, they can and will get fired once someone with a higher diversity power level turns up, and these places tend to located where there's either absurd costs of living or a soul crushing b***h of a commute
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Shouldn't've googled "Dinosaur with 500 teeth", Peter
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>and literally infinite job security
lolno
covid proved that when things get tough, these kinds of do-nothing IT/HR/Marketing/Officebawd jobs are the first to go.
if you want infinite job security you go into a skilled trade because they're dying out and zoomers would rather twerk on tiktok than learn a useful marketable skill that makes $110/hr
Not a good one when they decided to only go to patch .2, which previously only happened in their two expansions that explicitly were a disaster in development and got cut short, for no particular reason.
Remember the fad of faux-gamers being douchebags with faux-hawks and white polos, this reads like that. A douchey butthole trying to passively sell something to me while insulting me.
>Dragon "flaming" a human for being flightless, soft-skinned and a "little one" >Instant loss 2koma of the Dragon getting mating pressed, moaning like a bawd
I guess the Dracthyr have a purpose after all.
It's more like the "they" is just some social media marketing peon just making ads trying to vaguely ape what they can discern as popular formats for videos.
>Hello Neighbor in general, between all the streamerbait shit and the sheer amount of absolute MONEY the company put into trying to make it a "franchise", including the one and only time I ever went to PAX, where about 10% of the entire convention hall was dedicated to a floor-to-ceiling, walled-in display for one of their games >BG3/Larian with the constant swarm of "oh noooo why u straight white man frick all of you bigotssss!!1!" I'm also convinced a lot of TikTok videos about dates going awry due to playing too much BG3 were made via their marketing department since a lot were really artificial-feeling >Starfield constantly throwing around awards they've won, and "players" that maybe-bought it, and pretending everything is okay despite the game being a total travesty by everyone with an IQ above 10 >Saint's Row in general. It started a bit after 3 came out, but it was okay until the reboot. Hoo boy that marketing. That damn reboot's marketing and PR was so awful that I'm entirely convinced that an entire marketing board unanimously agreed that the marketing was good and approved it and that it wasn't just one guy on Twitter >Blizzard slowly making all their heroes LGBTQIA and talking about diversity and whatever while simultaneously having slimeball higher-ups, and keeping them straight in China anyway
This. Holy frick, those ads turned my usual "I wonder if WoW is good yet" thoughts into a total void. I legitimately hope that whoever came up with that marketing strategy attempts seppuku but they have DNR papers, but misplaced them so the whole time they keep getting revived while suffering intense pain, begging and screaming for them to stop being brought back until finally they're made completely stable, and spend the next year recovering at the hospital.
Did he just not link to it?
He did. Whoever took that screencap edited it out.
Judging by how few people were in that subr*ddit, there's a VERY high chance he made it himself, too.
From what I've seen of Postal 4 they've regressed from being actually edgy to just "blood and veganas" edgy, which is edgy for a ten-year-old.
The fact is they needed to amp up the offensiveness if they wanted to carve out a niche in the 2020's, but they were too old and too worried about their livelihood to push the envelope. They didn't, so this is just a cash grab and Civvie 11 cross-promotional stunt.
Ganker posts stuff daily that is far edgier than anything RWS could pump out so either up the ante or fold.
Nah releasing it on hitlers birthday is far more based, redditors think its the magic weed number.
So like is postal 4 getting DLC or something?? teh game is really barebones its basically a beta. Its been what 2 years now..... I get it was a cashgrab but come on at least finish the game.
>Postal 4 was rushed
It wasn't even rushed. They just claimed whatever they had made as "the release".
It was funny seeing Zeron coping how "it wasn't actually a marketing stunt!!"
>WAAAHH BAD BAD CAN ONLY TALK ABOUT BAD
frick this gay ass thread post great publicity stunts like THQ single handedly polluting the san fran bay with plastic for homefront
The most amazing thing is that the parents did this to get a life-time of free Bethesda games. >Fallout 4 >Fallout 76 >Starfield
They literally got $ 180,00 out of it in over a decade.
THQ also once did an AMA on fricking 4+Ganker of all places and predictably it was riddled with e-girl porn. I wasn't convinced it was real but they actually tweeted an apology which confirmed it was real.
I'm still seething about that, >announce they were doing stuff with Destroy All Humans and like 2-3 other ips >Timesplitters gets asked >Give a some of vague "wait and see ;)" posts
WHERE THE FRICK IS IT THQ, EVEN A HD COLLECTION IS ENOUGH FOR ME.
>Timesplitters
Been under a rock anon? Timesplitters is dead again >Destroy All Humans
Also dead despite how good the 2 remakes are
You can thank Embracer Group for both
THQ is honestly one of the only publishers that isn't constantly destroying their reputation, and most of the shit they release is actually good.
I'm sure this will all change soon but I'm pleasantly surprised that they seem to actually make fricking decent games
THQ proper died in 2012, by that point it was Nordic using the name since they had thoroughly burned their reputation as Nordic by then.
Is THQ the one that got fricked when the Saudis pulled out of a money deal?
That's Nordic's parent company Embracer. They're the ones who have been killing off companies and projects left and right to try shaving 2 billion dollars worth of yearly spending to keep investors from liquidating their shit for them. That's why the Tomb Raider remakes are being pumped out and why 3D Realms has been spewing so much half baked shit out recently - they overbought companies and need money yesterday.
>That's why the Tomb Raider remakes are being pumped out and why 3D Realms has been spewing so much half baked shit out recently
those remakes confused the shit out of me because they spent like a decade talking about how OG Lara was "oversexualized" and nerfing her ass and breasts
>2 billion dollars worth of yearly spending to keep investors from liquidating their shit for them
Frick. How the hell did they get into that mess? >That's why the Tomb Raider remakes are being pumped out
There are remakes? >and why 3D Realms has been spewing so much half baked shit out recently - they overbought companies and need money yesterday.
I thought devolver owned 3d realms? Also what half baked shit?
>Frick. How the hell did they get into that mess?
They're Swedish and were getting a lot of government money to stay afloat. They have more than games too, they sit on a bunch of European real estate stuff, but when interest rates went up a while ago that stopped being enough to pay for all the acquisitions they had been making and the government money slowed while at the same time their hands off approach to their new studios meant nothing was prepped for launch except Biomutant. It didn't help that the CEO has a habit of being too honest during earnings reports; every time a deal fell through or something was going overbudget he'd say it without mincing words and the stock would tumble. >There are remakes?
1, 2 and 3 are getting an HD remake collection like next week yeah >I thought devolver owned 3d realms? Also what half baked shit?
I have a vague memory of Devolver putting in a bid for 3D Realms at one point but they're owned by Embracer now. Graven was clearly not ready for full release and Phantom Fury seems to be getting kicked out of the door pretty soon despite not seeming to be ready at all.
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>They're Swedish and were getting a lot of government money to stay afloat.
Gov money always builds up too much confidence. So Embracer was a real estate company that got into gaming and now since their government money is gone they are FRICKED/in debt? And they were shit at managing game projects?
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>Frick. How the hell did they get into that mess?
They're Swedish and were getting a lot of government money to stay afloat. They have more than games too, they sit on a bunch of European real estate stuff, but when interest rates went up a while ago that stopped being enough to pay for all the acquisitions they had been making and the government money slowed while at the same time their hands off approach to their new studios meant nothing was prepped for launch except Biomutant. It didn't help that the CEO has a habit of being too honest during earnings reports; every time a deal fell through or something was going overbudget he'd say it without mincing words and the stock would tumble. >There are remakes?
1, 2 and 3 are getting an HD remake collection like next week yeah >I thought devolver owned 3d realms? Also what half baked shit?
I have a vague memory of Devolver putting in a bid for 3D Realms at one point but they're owned by Embracer now. Graven was clearly not ready for full release and Phantom Fury seems to be getting kicked out of the door pretty soon despite not seeming to be ready at all.
THQ proper died in 2012, by that point it was Nordic using the name since they had thoroughly burned their reputation as Nordic by then.
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That's Nordic's parent company Embracer. They're the ones who have been killing off companies and projects left and right to try shaving 2 billion dollars worth of yearly spending to keep investors from liquidating their shit for them. That's why the Tomb Raider remakes are being pumped out and why 3D Realms has been spewing so much half baked shit out recently - they overbought companies and need money yesterday.
I may have limited info but weren't Embracer basically buying up every studio possible with the intent of fluffing up their value in anticipation of the Saudi Arabian government making a big sale or investment into the company? Then that whole thing fell apart so they basically have an unsustainably huge company that's just going to bleed massive amounts of money?
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>So Embracer was a real estate company?
It was Nordic Games GmbH, a small publisher who snapped up what was left of THQ after the uDraw bankrupted them.
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Graven is totally fine for a release product in terms of polish, it just has a ton of baffling and unfun design decisions that make it a subpar game.
>e-girl porn
lol like there isn't any on Ganker right now.
The thread was perfectly fine. they only apologized because twitter "people" complained about somewhere they've never been.
They had a board that was just janny actions and cp got bans. Funny thing was after the media started saying it was a haven for pedos the cp ban actions increased.
I'm pretty sure being a company's social media manager is just getting a position as a paid shitposter, and some people are a lot better at it than others.
It's more awful when you know the whole story is they paid for those funerals which is likely why most OK'd it was they couldn't afford the costs
>grandpa died >can't afford a proper burial >see an add that some game company offers to cover costs >but only if you agree for them to put an add for their game on the tombstone for at least 16 months
This is some cyberpunk dystopia shit and it happen over 25 years ago.
>To promote the game in the UK, Acclaim wanted to have advertisements for it in bus shelters which would spill fake blood, which they dubbed as "Bloodvertising" >The advertisements would've remained for a week spilling the blood onto the pavement and streets with cleaners hired to clear it up after the run.
ALL of the fricking coke
There was an episode in season 3 of The Apprentice where the challenge was to make an effective graffiti ad for the PSP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apprentice_(American_season_3)#Week_6:_The_Writing_on_the_Wall
Philly has been searching for reasons to be a city with an actual tragedy for decades. The worst thing the Tsarnaevs did was give them something to moan and complain about rather than the murders.
As someone who is hopelessly mazed to this godawful game; 80 trillion combinations or some shit, and they all look like shit. Every single one. Too lazy to map armor to the weird dragon form, locked to the two worst models in the game, and even with all the fricking skin colours, not a single one matches any of the actual colours of the dragonflights.
I genuinely hope that whatever artist or artists made them are blacklisted from the industry.
Remind me why we didn't just get Drakonids? Yeah they're huge but just make them a little smaller. They're already long in the game and part of the Dragonflights.
So why did RWS get Jon St. John to voice the dude in 4? Cory Cruise does a good job and I think his voice works better in 4 than Jon. Hell he was the main dude in brain damaged(Rick was the evil dude in that game too). Feels weird since Cory was probably available when Rick wasn't during 4's production.
Oh frick, forgot about that. Now THAT was a shitshow, I still can't believe how many reviewers swore up and down on a secret pact to deflect 100% of criticism as being about the hair.
I HATE it when people do that hivemind thing in media, it makes me wonder who would have the power to influence that many reviewers and why. Why is it THAT important to prop DmC up that much?
Same kind of thing happened with a lot of recent Disney flops, and with COV*D, freaks me out man.
The opposite kind of thing happened with Baldur's Gate 3, where it came out and literally every AAA dev suddenly shook in their boots openly, even the companies that usually maintain the faceless corporate entity visage.
>Hello Neighbor in general, between all the streamerbait shit and the sheer amount of absolute MONEY the company put into trying to make it a "franchise", including the one and only time I ever went to PAX, where about 10% of the entire convention hall was dedicated to a floor-to-ceiling, walled-in display for one of their games >BG3/Larian with the constant swarm of "oh noooo why u straight white man frick all of you bigotssss!!1!" I'm also convinced a lot of TikTok videos about dates going awry due to playing too much BG3 were made via their marketing department since a lot were really artificial-feeling >Starfield constantly throwing around awards they've won, and "players" that maybe-bought it, and pretending everything is okay despite the game being a total travesty by everyone with an IQ above 10 >Saint's Row in general. It started a bit after 3 came out, but it was okay until the reboot. Hoo boy that marketing. That damn reboot's marketing and PR was so awful that I'm entirely convinced that an entire marketing board unanimously agreed that the marketing was good and approved it and that it wasn't just one guy on Twitter >Blizzard slowly making all their heroes LGBTQIA and talking about diversity and whatever while simultaneously having slimeball higher-ups, and keeping them straight in China anyway
This. Holy frick, those ads turned my usual "I wonder if WoW is good yet" thoughts into a total void. I legitimately hope that whoever came up with that marketing strategy attempts seppuku but they have DNR papers, but misplaced them so the whole time they keep getting revived while suffering intense pain, begging and screaming for them to stop being brought back until finally they're made completely stable, and spend the next year recovering at the hospital.
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He did. Whoever took that screencap edited it out. [...]
Judging by how few people were in that subr*ddit, there's a VERY high chance he made it himself, too.
(me)
Bonus points for Saint's Row: the IdolNinja thing. >IdolNinja spends years working on a super mod to fix the shit port of SR2 >does a pretty decent job, but is limited by what code he has access to. >Volition sees this guy and straight-up hires him to work on a total remaster of SR2, gives him a team and everything (dunno if he actually RAN the team, but whatever) >remaster will either be a complete remaster from scratch, or just SR2 ported to a newer engine >fans love everything, can't wait, hype growing >guy works on it literally until he dies, after which there's no evidence anyone's working on the remaster >lots of radio silence and half-hearted "we're still working on it" shit, while Embracer Group buys the company >still more radio silence after that, no evidence they're working on it >reboot comes out and it's so bad the entire company collapses like a house of cards made of sand >company gone, SR franchise is likely 100% dead for good >still no info on the SR2 remaster >very likely that after IdolNinja died, they tossed his code out and moved his team to work on the SR reboot
>I still can't believe how many reviewers swore up and down on a secret pact to deflect 100% of criticism as being about the hair.
Well that's cause they're homosexuals. >it makes me wonder who would have the power to influence that many reviewers and why. Why is it THAT important to prop DmC up that much?
Total global vidya westernization and crapcom paying off reviewers. If you get really drunk and think about it DmC was a precursor to all the anti fan/shitting on the source material&past shit we see now. Also frick why the frick did DmC not have a lock on or taunts? >The opposite kind of thing happened with Baldur's Gate 3, where it came out and literally every AAA dev suddenly shook in their boots openly, even the companies that usually maintain the faceless corporate entity visage.
Why did that happen again? I didn't really pay attention to BG3.
>Why did that happen again? I didn't really pay attention to BG3.
Dunno, as soon as BG3 became an open beta on Steam and started getting a ton of sales, literally 100% of all AAA and AA game devs came out of nowhere and made posts about how it's "not fair" that BG3 is "so good" and that they can't compete, that it's unrealistic for AAA/AA devs to be able to make a game that good.
I don't even know what it was that had them scared, BG3's only unique factors over Divinity OS 1/2 was that the game has more "oops, you killed [NPC 5], let's replace them with [NPC 5a] and tweak two lines to acknowledge you killed them" moments, more voice acting, and a shitload more options for LGBTQIAA2P during sex.
The weirdest part that makes it the most sus is that quite a few of the AA/AAA devs throwing jealous babyfits about the game were devs that normally take the "faceless corporate entity" route and say nothing bad about anything. It's like if suddenly those British Royal Guard guys with the zero emotions suddenly reacted to a Youtuber that ran up and said BOO, and one pisses himself, the other screams, followed by both running away.
So the industry was upset that a devs of BG3 made a polished game and a successful top down turn based game? Frick this industry is full of morons and hacks. Honestly all I know is that some of the BG3 devs got layoff cause of hasbro being homosexuals.
pretty much, they were afraid gamers might grow some standards. same happened when elden ring released, people were realizing their "engaging" game design was bad
I swear I remember one dev trying to say "well Hasbro gave them tons of money" only for one of the Larian Devs to come in saying "The frick are you talking about, we had to pay them just to be able to make it."
The other thing I remember a bit like that was some Horizon dev criticising Elden Rings UI design leading to pic related.
bg3 is no more expensive than the average tripleA game, nor did it take that much longer to release. it had a very long early access pjase but that was it.
it was 100% the industry being afraid people may start demanding good games and not busywork threadmills
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The long early access meaning they developed the game more publicly than usual is not the reason the game is absurdly detailed on a level other AAAs are not even approaching, otherwise every early access game would be great. It's all excuses.
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exactly, i was pointing out how little of a leg """devs""" had against it
>literally 100% of all AAA and AA game devs came out of nowhere and made posts about how it's "not fair" that BG3 is "so good" and that they can't compete, that it's unrealistic for AAA/AA devs to be able to make a game that good.
this did not happen, what happened was an indie dev (guy who worked on shit like hypnospace outlaw and other games like that) said something to the effect of 'please dont expect bg3 levels of polish and shit from other cprgs, especially the small studios because no one makes them to begin with and then gave reasons why like larian having several similar games under their belts with cash flow and feedback from the EA period, and a couple of AAA devs agreed and brought up examples of other big CRPGs that were only possible because of a bunch of factors leading up to that game and werent just shat out by small studios.
Basically, its someone saying why you cant use rockstar's games as a model for small studios and going "why dont they just make their game as good as RDR2? are they dumb or something?"
then afterwards, because people on the internet are mentally moronic, an article was written about how "AAA devs are shaking in their boots and are mad at gamers for expecting more from all AAA games" which isnt what happened but thats the story it became
you forget that scientist still try to figure how Nintendo made TOTK.
Rumors say Nintendo has exclusive access to the only recently found chambers in the Giza pyramid
>it makes me wonder who would have the power to influence that many reviewers and why
A ton of youtubers are all part of the same talent agency. Something beginning with night, I forgot. Anyone got a screencap? It's owned by ~~*them*~~, ofc.
>I still can't believe how many reviewers swore up and down on a secret pact to deflect 100% of criticism as being about the hair
Crazy how this still applies today, like the "defense" of Suicide Squad boiling down to "HURRR ARE YOU MAD THAT YOU KILL THE JUSTICE LEAGUE IN A GAME CALLED KILL THE JUSTICE LEAGUE?????"
>Why is it THAT important to prop DmC up that much?
What amazes me so much about this is that even so much later you still occasional have gaming journalists dig that game and its "controversial reception" up to write articles about how the mean gamers were unfair to it. I don't know any other game that gets this treatment, like they set themselves reminders for every 2-3 years in the feature to still defend that game. Maybe it's their nostalgia, because it was one the first games I remember that made it's their entire marketing shitting on the popular franchise and its fans despite only existing because of them, which is now the norm.
Funny thing for me was like 5 years ago or something I actually almost fell for it, and thought that maybe I was too harsh on the game because I like DMC3/4 a lot and so I tried to give DmC the benefit of the doubt in so far that I watched someone else play it again and my reaction to the entire game was >This isn't as bad as remember, this is way worse, how is this even possible?
Probably when some b***h on the development team of this PoS made up a story about how the guy who made the music for the game raped her and then he killed himself over it and then she made an entire career out of it
Zoe Quinn, who fricked the kotaku journalist gamergate should have been about if gamergate weren't moronic, didn't work on night in the woods but the NitW sound guy was dumb enough to date her and she did a somewhat vague #metoo about him and he had been ostracized by everyone he knew and an heroed within 3 days.
Unless almost the same thing happened twice it sounds like you are remembering completely wrong the details of Alec Holowka's suicide.
He was the director/creator of the game, pretty much the face of it to the public.
Zoe Quinn had nothing to do with the game, but is a "big name" in the industry
They fricked and then she(?) said he raped her
He killed himself over it, and then his family and company essentially pissed on his grave by siding with Zoe Quinn.
He probably killed himself because he may have actually did it. I got falsely #metoo'd and I didn't kms. Maybe wanted to at first, but when you didn't do anything wrong, nothing to feel bad about.
maybe but it depends on the consequences of getting metoo'd. getting shitslung at you for a few weeks sucks sure, but if you lose everything i could see why someone would take their own life even if they didn't do. even if they proved they didn't do shit what would you even have left.
Yeah, mostly those false accusations are made to socially frick someone. That' s what happened to me, people can be really shitty sometimes dude. It's such a bummer.
maybe but it depends on the consequences of getting metoo'd. getting shitslung at you for a few weeks sucks sure, but if you lose everything i could see why someone would take their own life even if they didn't do. even if they proved they didn't do shit what would you even have left.
If I got falsly metooed and actually lost everything, you better motherfricking believe i'm taking that b***h with me.
>he may have actually did it
Anon she said he had her spread legs, face down, moving her around the house as if she were a wheelbarrow with her hands as the wheels. You need two people both working towards the same goal to achieve that.
>and then she made an entire career out of it
she was already famous before it happened
The funny thing is, I knew her from Something Awful, where she had an exclusive subforum, which she ran like a cult. She was very nasty even by SA standards. Now the media playing her as some fricking martyr is so fricking rich. She fricked many people over with that act.
Bottom line: Never stick your dick in crazy, never trust what the media and the Pee arR opagandists are telling you.
Dragon Age: Inquisition had some atrocious quotes in promo material.
>The funny thing is, I knew her from Something Awful, where she had an exclusive subforum, which she ran like a cult. She was very nasty even by SA standards.
Bro, that's just plain false. She was a nobody there.
Dragon Age: Origins also had some atrociously lame marketing where they tried to make the game seem COOL and VIOLENT and ADULT and EXTREME because it was an isometric RPG throwback to the Infinity Engine games so they had to compensate by showing trailers cut to Marilyn Manson's This is the New Shit showing action cutscenes with blood splatter everywhere including the title logo.
Zoe Quinn never claimed she was raped or even physically abused. She accused the guy of being too clingy of a boyfriend, all the way back in 2012
And that resulted in a bunch of backlash, the company fired him, and he killed himself 3 days later.
I still remember his FB post about his mental health issues. Zoe fully expected him to kill himself, it wasn't an accident, she had given a TED talk and wrote a book about how online harassment nearly drove her to suicide
>hey you play video games look at this pp!
that is the creepiest shit I ever heard. Children play GTA, the only adult fanbase are the children there were waiting for GTA 6.
And I don't play that trash because it glorifies the worst parts of America.
RWS has become so gay. They stealth-remove features from all of their games that make the violence too visceral, they virtue-signal on Twitter shaming fans who liked the edgy humor of Postal 2 and being snarky towards them for liking an old game more than a new one. The more they try to act down-to-Earth, the more apparent it is how Reddit they are.
it was a somethingawful thing from the mid-2000s, all the coolest guys with the thickest neckbeards stopped using capitalization to make themselves stand above the newbies. at some point SA culture and tumblr culture became almost one and the same and i think it really took off from there
Hijacking this thread to say that the best publicity stunt of all time is Criterion literally telling people to break the law so they can hype up Burnout and then offering to pay off any tickets they received
I don't know why this one reeks when they might have done it for any of their other recent Battlefield games too or another military shooter. Maybe it's that WW1 was a real conflict and a particularly horrible one. It would be cringy posting that for any military game but for a WW1 or WW2 game it's really braindead, it's not a "cool" conflict to be flippant about.
It's worse because the game tries to virtue signal about muh war is bad and that everyone is human. All that shit is immediately ignored in the campaign and MP. The Germans are inhuman bad guys and there's melodramatic music/speeches to show how epic and badass you are.
It's probably because even in simplified pop culture, WW1 is recognized as a shitty, grey conflict between messy alliances that was more or less a ton of people being killed in stalemate battles for no reason for four years, whereas pop culture has a more clear and easy "good guys vs bad guys" conflict in WW2. So trivializing it with a cornball how do you do fellow kids tweet is a bad look.
WW1 was all the world's empires destroying themselves over nothing and the vast majority of the next 100 years of human events are the consequence of the sudden collapse and destruction of those former unimaginably powerful empires.
man noone remembers the massive shill campaign for Brink on Ganker and so many of those morons here falling for that shit
it was hilarious, they got warned but wouldn't listen
I tried watching that for curiosity since I knew the VA did both voices and considered how that was going to go. The amount of silence between all three for the first half hour was deafening so I just closed the stream.
Runescape poll to bring back the Wilderness and free trade just to drum up publicity when they were 100% just going to do it anyway. >It completely worked
That's practically positive, Jagex has done worse, eg. >should we let you kill the MTX mascot goblin in a new quest? >players vote yes, quest comes out and you kill him >previous MTX gets replaced by something even more predatory/p2w, goblin is replaced by cleavage woman
Obviously nobody expected them to actually delete MTX from the game, but using a personification of their own greed as a martyr was cringe.
Im so fricking sick of RWS postal 4 is already horribly dated and is painfully boring app-store game quality fricking garbage
Same goes for brain damaged
Everything about Battleborn
I actually kinda liked the PvE when I got to test out the beta/demo whatever it was for free
PvP was a clusterfrick and obvious DoA
But the marketing was embarassing. They made one trailer to show how "badass" their characters are by using that ALT-J's song about a prostitute being raped with a broom for some reason, the lyric's aren't even subtle about it
What happened to companies just remaining professional and not diving into this whole moronic internet / meme culture witty banter shit?
Make a good game that's able to stand on it's own with an interesting enough premise that you can use as your sole marketing campaign. You would only have to showcase trailers and gameplay footage then and it will be enough to get other people to market that shit to you via various other stuff like rage bait marketing or infighting or whatnot like it happened with Hogwarts Legacy.
I really hate these guys, they're the embodiment of pic related
They used to be funnier
Also Digital devolver
Also New Blood
devolver should have never went public
they've started laying off devs now
How the hell did this happen?
must have been the ukraine war
It wouldn't be as cringe if postal 4 wasn't absolutely atrocious.
only because when Postal 2 came out they were literally in their 20s
now they're 40-somethings trying to hang onto their youth to sell crappy sequels to a game people liked 20 years ago
we have the unfunniest 20 year olds now so they might as well try
the guy who made dusk
why?
hes a midwit redditor who tries way too hard to be just like me fr fr
when? I never seen him doing anything like that
Glance at his twitter on any given day. Also him rereleasing his older works that were part of game jam bundle things as individual products for 5 dollars a pop is cringe. I mean for fricks sake, the Pony Factory?
>rereleasing his older works that were part of game jam bundle things as individual products for 5 dollars a pop is cringe.
Of course you don't want for a person to profit from their own work, fricker
Did they do it?
You're an idiot.
It's more mediocre than anything.
Found the dimensia ridden old frick.
anon should give us a (you)!
I wonder how much money has been burned making this whole series. I have never met a single soul who has so much as played any of them for a minute.
First one was prime streamerbait but that is about it.
Only the first early access version, by the time it actually released it was an abomination
I was at a local game store once (actually decent independent one) and the owner actually talked some kid out of buying it, was based.
Did you have the game in stock?
I was behind the kid in line, he was with his grandma and had brought the game to the counter, the guy basically told him if he'd watched streamers play it he'd seen the whole game. Kid decided to come back another day amd buy another game when he decided what he wanted.
MEET N FRICK KINGDOM, STEVE
MEET N WHUH?
Apparently you can beat the games in like 5 minutes too.
I really never knew anyone that gave a shit about this franchise like they do about fnaf, or even poppy's and frankly even banban.
It was just something for the horror milkers to play inbetween.
I've never even heard of it before this thread and still have no idea what it is.
Zoom zoom
I have a vague memory of one of the streamers trying it in early access like six or seven years ago but I never heard of it since, until just now.
How did anyone ever think this shit would be a thing? It felt like they were pushing so hard for this to become a mainstay and mainstream IP but it was just too boring.
>anyone ever think this shit would be a thing
They sold a frickton of merch, two sequels, a series of books and a cartoon series. All of this while still on early access
They knew that they had to sell out FAST before people realized that the final version of the game was garbage
theyve made like 6 games now
It had an interesting premise in it's alpha as a distubia video game. Unfortunately, the game got worse as development dragged on and the devs lost sight of the initial vision. They also lied about their "groundbreaking" neural AI so yeah.
from what I seen they nerfed the neighbor with each update with hello neighbor 2 making him litterally brain dead
He was always moronic. It never worked and was all bullshit hype.
There was probably a point early on where they were genuinely trying to make an adaptive AI horror game, but they clearly found it too hard and just shifted gears to making a hecking DEEP LORE horror game instead.
It's funny due to Hello Neighbour 2 leaning into the AI shit and proclaiming that it'd learn from the player, only to be fricking broken and non-existent come release.
They deleted the parts about AI learning like a day before the game's release.
like "literally" literally or literally literally literally?
isn't this game about the neighborperson being like a rapist and pedophile or something?
It's a streamerbait puzzle-action game that makes no sense but that's okay because all the "game theory" parasites on Youtube will figure it out for them.
This one is still my favorite. I get second hand embarrassment every time I see it.
This shit right here, this is just fricking next level. This is Dobson levels of cringe, a might fricking impressive feat. Absolutely legendary cringe forever written in the history books.
>Matpat actually made fun of this in one of his videos and called the devs out for changing things when theorists were following the clearly laid clues they set up
He is still making fun of this. He'll often say things like "And I went through it frame by frame, which I enjoyed very much"
Whenever I randomly remember an embarassing moment from my past, I look at this to calm me down.
I wish Bagheera was my daddy
Tinybuild is a cancer
Yandev dodged a bullet
I regret buying no time to explain when it was their only game knowing they are like this now
>Yandev dodged a bullet
yeah and fell right onto dynamite and became an insane lolcow.
He won, seethe.
>he won
yeah he won the 1st child predator apology video of 2024
The allegations were debunked though.
The homosexual even said he did it in his own apology video.
He is not gay and don't use homophobic slurs.
You're taking his statements out of context, he was quoting the faked discord screenshots which had been widely spread over the internet.
homosexual
I think an actual woman or teenage girl made this post.
more like a terminally online twitter homosexual
tautology
The word homosexual and the suffix -gay are both integral parts of Gankers history and I will not have them smeared.
nta but how did using -gay and homosexual start?
Well, unfortunately
>picks up a wheel gun and shits in your mouth
only eight years old and he's already talking about DRIVE-BYS
Apparently the guy who was handling the twitter; it was his first day on the job.
Subsequently also his last.
>Get hired
>Know frick all what to do
>Irreversibly damage a game company's biggest brand forever
>Get fired
Honestly, kind of based.
"Social media manager" is a dream job where you do nothing and get paid a lot unless you majorly frick up, like forgetting to switch accounts when you go on an unhinged rant or otherwise embarrass your employer.
>like forgetting to switch accounts when you go on an unhinged rant or otherwise embarrass your employer.
did this happen?
I had to go back and search this but in early 2017 the official Twitter account replied to Trump with "@realDonaldTrump you are actually a disgusting excuse of a President and we would love to have @BarackObama back, also you have tiny hands," and the company claimed their account was "hacked".
>war pushing criminals GOOD, drumpf BAD because media man said so
Why are leftroons like that? When you remind them of how much blood was spilled under Biden and Obama they go mental and block you too.
His hands are pretty tiny.
It's because he's an homunculus created by satanists. It's also why he looks bloated and has this weird orange shade, the spell holding it all together are barely keeping it from exploding. They did their best to make it look human but there's small details like the hands they overlooked.
he's a natural ectomorph who got fat in old age, he had a lanklet build in his youth
>man frick these snowflake libcuck soibois, you should be allowed to make fun of anything
>NOOO DON'T MAKE FUN OF MY GOD EMPEROR THAT'S NOT ALLOWED
Prove it, homosexual
why does twitter have a twitter account, surely they can just update the site itself if they have a message to show
Happens quite often. Like that one time Ted Cruz's twitter account liked a milf porn gif
It literally happens right now every other week or so with that useless moronic Black person woman who can barely form coherent sentences that was installed as the white house press secretary. She has on multiple occasions forgot to sign out of "Joe Biden's" twitter account and wrote dumb shit on there, then quickly deletes it and reposts it under her account.
>Subsequently also his last.
god i hope
>Hello Neighbor drowns in obscurity after spending so much money expanding the series and trying to get Matpat's attention
>Bendy is doing fine and is planned to get a movie after just two games, a few spinoffs, and some animated shorts on Youtube
How did one succeed while the other failed?
Was it because Bendy wasn't trying to be the next FNAF?
>Needing two games to get a movie
Were they made by the same devs?
I never played bendy or know much about it but i would assume the game is at least playable. Hello neighbor is just straight up bad they also kept trying to make the game have deep dark lore for some reason
>Was it because Bendy wasn't trying to be the next FNAF?
Bendy was absolutely trying to be the next FNAF, it spent just as much time gorging its advertising budget and not enough polishing its shit games, and it had its fair share of controversies and flops.
The difference is you're stupid enough to fall for one snake oil salesman but not the other.
>Bendy was absolutely trying to be the next FNAF, it spent just as much time gorging its advertising budget and not enough polishing its shit games,
Are you sure they spent their budget on advertising and not because you expected the games to be as polished as AAA games?
>and it had its fair share of controversies and flops
what did flop?
Anon their later games in the original episodic series were full of game breaking bugs. It was really fricking bad.
>what did flop?
Showdown Bandit for starters. But there was also the massive layoffs and other shit I'm probably forgetting.
Bendy is and always was shit regardless, zoomzoom.
Okay, it did try to be FNAF in the past, but to say they're the same as Hello Neighbor is wrong
I mean as the other anon said, Hello Neighbor is forgetten, nobody cares about them anymore, but Bendy is still a thing
No, anon. We're not starting a fricking flamewar over two garbo series, no matter how many videos you watched back in middle school.
>We're not starting a fricking flamewar over two garbo series
but we had a lot of palword and pokemen flamewar threads
Bendy fricking failed bro. Insanely high production values, yet ask anybody off the street and they have no clue what it is. Garten of Banban is more recognizable, which is laughable. Fricking Choo Choo Charlie got more attention.
>Insanely high production values
That's a great joke. It's just some shitty 3D game with filters.
>Garten of Banban is more recognizable
frick is that
Bendy had a sense of of direction and identity. Hello Neighbor even in Early Alphas felt like the devs went "yea we'll figure out what the hell this is all about later." Looked and felt like someone threw random unity assets together
This game got an animated series? Why??
The bigger question is why does it look like something somebody made on fricking GoAnimate?
The basic components of the game is a fine idea, it's just it had such execution that it fell into immediate obscurity.
I checked the original pilot once, apparently they could not used anything from the original "hidden lore" of the game because it is full of satanic edgy pseudo surrealist "open to interpretation" nonsense, so the plot is just about a bunch of kids who keep invading their neighbor's house over and over again for no reason at all and making jokes about how moronic the game mechanics are like "isn't it weeeeird how the neighborhood just stops chasing us when we cross the street? It's like a game or sumthing"
Oh wow. Frick that.
>"isn't it weeeeird how the neighborhood just stops chasing us when we cross the street? It's like a game or sumthing"
Something broke in me reading that
chasing kid demographic for that sweet FNAF audience
moron here. What's the issue?
>Desperately trying to get a guy on Youtube who's famous for making fan theory videos to make a video about their shitty cartoon
>mediocre game that was shilled beyond all belief
>tried to turn it into a massive franchise
>social media pleb making a whole bunch of posts to e-celeb cancer that amount to "please notice me senpai"
>mediocre game
it's not even mediocre. It's straight garbage
"Please clap." -Jeb Bush
>please respond
He posted at a notable youtuber three times, trying to get his attention.
Are these reviews from bots or literal children?
I was gonna say bots but the usernames do suggest actual kids. Nicholas is probably a happy 4-year-old.
Yeah, 4 yo kids write fhleyfjdkwidjekdjdks.com anon, thats what every kid does
He did not write .com.
Why would a bot just keysmash?
While Blizzard pulls it super often, EA gets the initial credit of the "gay-shield" when they ran a pride-based campaign to hide the news of their Always-Online Sim City that just did not work because the servers were just overloaded.
I'll always remember that one dev having a social media spergout over people not understanding how the game just HAS to be always online, and then like day one of release the game was cracked because they online component was just an online check that could be disabled with a bit flip.
Sim City 4?
Worse thing about getting old is seeing all those game studios from your childhood/teenage years go extinct. Or worse.
>Sim City 4
SimCity (2013).
Has it really been that long? The whole big shitshow is coming back to me and I wasn't even invested in the series
It feels like yesterday that I was laughing at a very appropriate bug that caused maps to be literally filled with shit
Damn tragedy and caused people to flee for an even shittier company and product
Damb, Visceral died over 10 years ago already?
It's still amazing to me that pandemic died almost at the height of their popularity
>Mercs 1 was a huge hit out of nowhere
>Saboteur outsold all expectations
>battlefront 1 and 2 were genre-defining and sold like bread
>DaH was a well established series
>development of Battlefront 3 well underway, promising to push existing technology to the absolute edge again
>EA takes over
>pushes Mercs 2 out half finished
>guts the company and cans everyone
>battlefront 3 was like 90% done
>Mercs 3 was also in development
Knowing the trail of corpses companies like EA, Activision and UbiSoft leave behind, I simply don't get why small time devs keep making contracts with them just to inevitably getting screwed over by them.
I remember EA terrorising TF2 youtube content with copyright strikes, because they thought developing the Playstation version of the game gives them the power to do so or something.
But then again, the tried to frick with Disney and thought they could get away with it as usual. Hubris.
A lot of smaller companies enter a sort of quasi-mortgage loans with various banks that treat them as an investment which often results in whoever is at the head of the company to have to have daily meetings with their "investors" etc. Especially in studios that start small, this head often is a programmer, artist etc. and talking to suits all day isn't his life's dream. Being part of a corporation like EA may still involve talking to suits, but a lot less. All the day to day hurdles of having to run the business go away they can focus on managing their team and having some development related function.
As a middle manager in a massive financial company I would love to do that. I'm not very good at programming at all, but can talk for hours about accounting risks and financials. But my current job has me doing that for insurance companies. I'd give a lot just to do the same type of shit for a video game studio.
Be the change you want to see. Go find some small but highly promising indie Dev that's looking to take the next step and offer your services. Or even just leave them your details and say "if you ever need a guy who can deal with suits call me" or whatever. Do it to several companies until you get hired.
The one thing is though I can almost guarantee you make 10x more in your current job than you would working for a small independent game studio.
Big publishers start off allowing mostly free reign to the devs, and make all kinds of huge promises like "we'll guarantee your control of the games you make" and "we'll allow you to express your artistic vision" or whatever the frick, but then they slowly start adding in small demands about content or especially marketing. Then it will turn into bigger things like including a season pass or always online or whatever. The final step is the publisher replacing the top people with their own Yes Men suits to run shit and they will force whatever the marketing research and investment people want down the devs throats. All of this is done under threat of legal action and loss of funding if the devs don't comply.
>make all kinds of huge promises like "we'll guarantee your control of the games you make" and "we'll allow you to express your artistic vision" or whatever the frick, but then they slowly start adding in small demands about content or especially marketing
Same playbook skeevy guys use to groom teen girls, huh
>All of this is done under threat of legal action and loss of funding if the devs don't comply.
Extra detail
Often times, these deals will entail the covering of operational costs, which means a studio may expand beyond their ability to actually pay for themselves to be independent off of a success, which they use to do the seemingly smart thing of investing in themselves, without seeing the added operating costs of doing so. Breaking away means having to deal with these costs all at once.
Something like, inheriting a mansion and being bankrupted by the property tax, because you don't make the money associated with a mansion usually.
There's definitely ways to dodge it if you're savvy about it. One of the more interesting examples along this line is Fromsoft when Sony stepped in to back Bloodborne, to give them something pretty to launch with. Fromsoft used the support to create tons upon tons of assets that would end up inevitably cut from Bloodborne, and used these assets extensively for the creation of DS3, Sekiro, and Elden Ring. While this wasn't as predatory as a lot of these deals are to start with, Sony really just needed something exclusive to push console sales, it's still an example of how to avoid this proverbial turning worm. Invest in things you don't have to pay to keep, not things you'll have to pay for later.
>Being part of a corporation like EA may still involve talking to suits, but a lot less. All the day to day hurdles of having to run the business go away they can focus on managing their team and having some development related function.
So how does a company like EA always inevitably get its claws in and force these companies to start making games they're ill-suited for? At what point does the worm turn?
Action-packed trip to Detroit might not be the worst but it's the most memorable for me
We's right snoggered now, ain't we mum
Someone post it
The amusing part was someone found the actual package holiday details and it did sound like a pretty good vacation, top hotel, bunch of expensive activities, restaurants etc.
No one wants to see a tiny clit of an edgy whiteboy, unless it's in aflat cage.
pretty much everything Acclaim ever did
Remind me, it was Acclaim who wanted to use a dead man's grave as an advertisement for their game right?
i love this one
>ratio
SaintsRow won
But in terms of a posts to likes and ratios the original guy still wins
>SaintsRow won
>he doesn't know
>ratio
yeah im not going to bother figuring out what all your homosexual twatter terminology means, but yeah they sure won
this is what sega is going through with pso2 right now if you wonder why the game has like 1000 players now.
I have a friend group that used to play PSO2 before New Genesis and it's sad looking back at the game and seeing the state that it's in right now.
It's also extremely telling that the majority of positive reviews are from before the NGS launch, and the new reviews all say to ignore the NGS content and play PSO2 Classic instead.
I honestly don't know what the frick they're trying to do with that game. Everything new they do with it seems specifically designed to run contrary to something they did last month and/or render it invalid and useless in the future.
It's like they got advice from another company to "make a treadmill", and then made the treadmill's path curve and twist all over the place like an escher drawing. I played NGS from start to last october before finally getting out, and it's honestly the fricking stupidestly-designed online game I've ever played. And that includes generic as frick korean MMOs from the early 2000s.
The director is the same moron that nearly killed PSO2 with EP5's stupid bullshit. NGS literally exists only to recoup some of the money Sega lost on the failed Sakura Wars gacha.
HUZZAH!
WOKIES
GO
BROKIES
Fun fact: The studio who actually made the game was already dead months before this marketing campaign was out
>Fun fact: The studio who actually made the game was already dead months before this marketing campaign was out
thats not true
embracer expecting a flop put it under gearbox expecting that the studio after the game comes out will be helping gearbox make games rather than make their own, but nobody was fired yet
but with how awful the game was embracer decided to just fired everybody on the spot, embracer ceo probably got a stroke when he saw the sale numbers
>embracer ceo probably got a stroke when he saw the sale numbers
But our consultants said this would make hundreds of millions and that we should make the game even more progressive. HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN
still hurts these saints row devs got the new timesplitters and deus ex cancelled because of how much money they wasted on development and marketing along with the game being a complete flop
>a new deus ex game got cancelled
Fricking WHAT
>captcha 4AAGAT
pic rel, was 2 years in development but got shut down just like timesplitters did
EG cancelled the deus ex game and fired 97 employees so far from Eidos' 481 they had in 2022, Eidos confirmed the cancel themselves too
It's 100% over for deus ex, articles started going up around the end of last month
All because EG's business plan was to purchase a bunch of studios and IPs with money they didn't even have yet and they were banking on the $2bn deal with Saudis and EG also lost over $100mil on the Saints Row flop because only the development costs are counted for that $100mil and not marketing/advertising which always gets a big budget too
>saints row was such a shitshow it destroyed deus ex and timesplitters
and you just know those former volition devs will go on to shit up other IPs at other studios
Saints row 1 and 2 had such a good team on them. Too bad rockstar sniped all the talent then left the gutted fish to rot with sr3.
>Notice me, Epic-senpai
Isn't this the game that teaches children to become woke cultists?
no, it's the game that gives children scat fetish
What's the difference between being a leftist and a scat fetishist?
Whatever it is I'm sure it's negligible.
Scat fetishists can sometimes be good people.
>What's the difference between being a leftist and a scat fetishist?
>Whatever it is I'm sure it's negligible.
The wrestling community are leftists?
>3 seconds ago
did they take this screenshot themselves?h28xw0
why are morons ignoring this?
OP is literally one of the social media homosexuals at RWS
Did it ever OCCUR TO YOU NIMRODS THAT'S AN OLD SCREENSHOT SHE GOT PRIOR AND SAVED IT BECAUSE IT'S EFFING HILARIOUS YOU'RE NOT IMPORTANT ENOUGH FOR MARKERTERS TO PANDERRFEJOIWSSSI
Postal 4 is terribly bad after all these years.
I remember wishlisting postal3 before it released, and I never bothered to remove it, so from time to time I will get emails about it going on sale and a small part of my just laughs
not really their fault, but it was funny when among us stole the steam from fallguys
>3s
Listen if you want to advertise on this site buy an ad
I read the thread before posting this, thanks for being there for me brother
It's interesting how RWS's writing changed through each game. Postal 2 had low brow humor but it never felt like it was trying too much. Usually the silliest jokes (poop jokes) were environmental gags. You never had the characters talking about poop. Sure it's referential humor is outdated but it's still charming in a way.
Then for Postal 3 they felt like they were the kings of comedy, amped everything up to 11 and ended up with writing that's extremely cringe inducing, on top of being in a bad game.
Then for Paradise Lost they actually recaptured Postal 2's humor and tone.
And then for Postal 4 they once again tried too hard and became extremely cringe.
Weird how they got Paradise Lost right in between cringe games.
You see their social media and you can tell why their current writing is as bad as it is. (Hint: I blame Mike J).
Yeah, when I played Paradise Los I honestly thought that RWS was back. Then Postal 4 came out and it was like it was made by a different studio.
I thought 3 wasn't made by RWS? They just licensed out the IP to some Russian company?
They did the writing, but left everything else to that company.
Or actually wasn't it another company at first but that one shutdown so they had to go with the russian one?
RWS worked on the writing and creative direction and some russians developed the actual game. RWS are 100% responsible for the shit writing.
they like to push that because it makes it seem as if they weren’t involved at all, but the reality is that all of the writing, casting, and directing was handled by RWS. so yeah, they might not be responsible for the gameplay being complete shit, but they were a lot more involved than they like to let on.
>(Hint: I blame Mike J).
Weird seeing how his character was the funniest part of the 2 duology.
Not 100% on Postal 3 and Paradise Lost, but Postal 4 is his baby for sure. Every time he sees someone saying that Postal 4 isn't funny he'll have the most butthurt reaction. He's the main guy responsible for most of the writing.
2 compared to 4 is a great example of why less is more.
the absurdity of 2 is created by the player doing dumb shit with what the game provides, not the game itself. What's mandated by the game is limited to one bit of absurdity per mission, and even then you can bypass it by just being normal.
Being able to just buy the milk makes it funny that you'd go on a killing spree to save $20
Al Qaeda casually hanging out in the sewers, where you find them solely through exploration, is funnier than being railroaded into a fight.
Having a normal level while being aware you're dressed as a gimp is funny, but the Dude's sole reaction being
>shit, I need to change clothes
is what elevates it further.
it also helps that Postal 2 understands that it's an FPS, so most of the game revolves around shooting people in different contexts. Postal 4 tried to diversify, so most tasks are based around gimmicks that get old really quick. Not to mention that when there is actual shooting it's also shit because of the horrible level design.
This is why Dead Rising steadily got worse too. One was genius because they played the story and characters straight and left it to the player to discover all the crazy shit you can do in the gameplay. Everyone loved the crazy shit and the new leaf devs thought they were supposed to shove it at the player.
I like to call that "Saints Row 3 Syndrome"
I'm so glad capcom shut down that shitty canadacom studio but also extremely sad they got to kill 2 series before they brought the axe down.
Really hate how RWS tries so hard to be "WOAH SO RELATABLE WE ACTUALLY LISTEN TO THE FANS WE CAN ADMIT THAT 3 WAS TRASH" then the moment anyone brings up how shit Postal 4 is they go completely corpo silent. Feels fricking slimey.
I still can't believe they made an unreal engine 4 game that runs like dog shit even on good hardware with no high poly or real life effects and the fricking game has loading screens
>I still can't believe they made an unreal engine 4 game that runs like dog shit
Really? UE4 is notorious for these sort of games
so, did they actually post it?
This was official.
i really wish darksiders 3 was good
>game is bad
>game has some guy with no formal education is public relations being forced to market the game on twitter
>Ganker: see they created another tortanic because they offended gamers with their cringe marketing
Low iq schizo sure are frustrating to hang around with
EA hiring protestors to pretend to be fundamentalist christians to promote Dante's Inferno, their God of War ripoff.
Postal 2 was the only good one
>this was eight years ago
man, time is my enemy
>marketed itself as an Overwatch competitor
>it was actually a coop hero based campaign with character levelling and progression
>the PvP was more like Monday Night Combat
>character designs both visually and gameplay wise were all extremely unique, beyond anything Overwatch ever did
The game was comfy and fun, it's sure is a huge shame it came out at the same time as Overwatch and the marketing team decided to shoot the rest of the company in the foot.
Yea, I always felt bad about Battleborn. It wsa a lot more fun for me than Overwatch ever was.
Bro, battleborn was one of the ugliest, jankiest games made in that timeframe. Comparing it to MNC is like comparing Mozart to a white middleschool rap battle. Battleborns visuals weren't unique, they were trash. Maybe in the concept phase there was something not eyebleedingly bad but beyond maybe oscar mike, the most generic of all characters, everyone in that game was like a hot sauce enema for the eyes. Thank god battleborn is dead and buried.
>MNC gameplay
>pick one of however many unique classes
>push robots in to enemy base
>win
>Battleborn gameplay
>pick one of however many unique classes
>push robots in to enemy base
>win
They are alike, whether you want that to be the case or not.
The visuals were crunchy but the gameplay was solid.
That wasn't MNC that was SMNC, dumbass
Did you really forget that original MNC has you pushing lanes of robots into the enemy's moneyball?
I don't think they really wanted to market as an Overwatch competitor. People just kept making the comparison and they were launching the same month, so they had to.
>"Feminism is awesome"
They dug their own grave
The character who says this, says it after killing a female character
You are fricking moronic, this is said in a sarcastic way
God fricking damn I miss MNC
aaaa
I miss the months post release when Ganker banded together to shit on this game. this and someBODY posting had me in tears
It's too bad Randy Pitchford actually learned to stop putting himself out there as much
He was a very fun punching bag
in a decade we will remember the man as a secret comedic genius
Never forget.
Has Randy ever recovered from Battleborn? He seems like he's barely holding on since.
>He seems like he's barely holding on since.
>implying he was ever sane in the first place
Battleborn never stood a chance because it released at the wrong time and nobody was asking for a game like it
At the time of it's release, Gearbox was still having lots of popularity with Borderlands 2 and everyone had eyes for Borderlands 3 and then Gearbox tease a new game which gets everyone hyped but then it's Battleborn and it killed interest completely
All Gearbox had to do was make BL3 release first then make Battleborn later
It feels like it was karma for what they did to Sega with Aliens.
Nearly forgot about that, what a scummy move that was
Randy's done so much scummy shit in general
battleborne would've had a chance if anyone but randy was at the top. they could've made it a nice f2p alternative but randy had to be a homosexual and label it as "free trial" even tho it was the full pvp game and you could"ve bought the campaign.
a formula which overwatch is using now, ironically enough
I played both at release. Battleborn was actually the better game. But at least its failure started the true downfall of Randy. Worth it i guess.
EA falseflagging a WBC-styled protest for Dante's Inferno
Nowadays companies just use a few VN's and a captcha solver to make these online and botted twitter accounts to screencap the threads and whine about them
People were calling them out for that cringe during that "protest" EA is masterful at pulling bad stunts
Guy in the black dress looks kinda cute though.
have a nice day
I regret to inform that that is a w*man.
Does anyone have those WOW Dragonflight ads where they respond to criticism with
>no u, foolish human :))
That shit was mad funny
I saved that shit. No need to thank me. .webm Dump incoming
Never fails to make me cringe
the funniest thing is that they made up the most mild mannered negative comment possible for this
I NEVER KNEW THEY MADE MORE THAN
AHAHAHA
IIRC there was a fourth one yet I cannot find it on my hard drives. The videos were a facebook fan page special or something lmao
She has big credentials.
I can think of two reasons.
>tfw you will never be a diversity hire getting big bucks for zero work and literally infinite job security
If it helps, they can and will get fired once someone with a higher diversity power level turns up, and these places tend to located where there's either absurd costs of living or a soul crushing b***h of a commute
Shouldn't've googled "Dinosaur with 500 teeth", Peter
>and literally infinite job security
lolno
covid proved that when things get tough, these kinds of do-nothing IT/HR/Marketing/Officebawd jobs are the first to go.
if you want infinite job security you go into a skilled trade because they're dying out and zoomers would rather twerk on tiktok than learn a useful marketable skill that makes $110/hr
>Goldsmith
>hidethepain.png
>Blizzard finds this insightful
The more you look at it, the funnies it gets
Honestly compared to the 'Bergs' and 'Steins' that's a fine Merchant-y name.
So how did she get the job?
Her Khazar milkers will provide the breastmilk Blizzard needs.
>dream job at a gaming company
>ZERO gaming experience
huh?
her dream job is breastfeeding men
her dream job is ruining a hobby she has no interest in
aka: she likely expected that she would get to sit around and just play video games all day
not even kidding
I FOUND IT
Lmao. The absolute state of modern blizzard
Reminder that people pay a subscription for the privilege of playing this game
The best part is she's still at blizzard after like a dozen waves of layoffs
>tfw no blizzard big tiddy israelite gf
>ZERO gaming experience
>dream job is working at a gaming company
????
morale was low with the breast milk fridge empty for so many months after the incident
nursinghandjob
MIRA ESOS MAGUMBOS!
>that smile
Every time
>goldsmith
>no connections
Suuuuuure
This is like those fake game ads you used to see on the right when playing flash games
Not a good one when they decided to only go to patch .2, which previously only happened in their two expansions that explicitly were a disaster in development and got cut short, for no particular reason.
>just mindlessly consume
This reminds me of that hyper active Diablo 4 twitter account. Replied to literally everyone with some cringe hell reference for weeks
Remember the fad of faux-gamers being douchebags with faux-hawks and white polos, this reads like that. A douchey butthole trying to passively sell something to me while insulting me.
every goddamn time.
What the frick were they thinking?
>we want the cultist audience
I feel this could have worked if they actually had something amazing in their back pocket.
But with the reality being what it is, it's just unaware and weird.
>idk man, these Dragons look kinda gay.
>RAWR >:3 how dare you question the might of STRONG and POWERFUL Dragons like us, MORTAL!
I feel disgust looking at that orc.
Built for BHC (big human wiener)
>Dragon "flaming" a human for being flightless, soft-skinned and a "little one"
>Instant loss 2koma of the Dragon getting mating pressed, moaning like a bawd
I guess the Dracthyr have a purpose after all.
Why does this picture look like it was drawn by and for literal male homosexuals?
this just looks like world of warcraft to me honestly
>team human men
holy cringe kino. i dont think any other studio has fallen like blizzard
>dismiss negative comment without addressing the point
>check out THIS
>an ugly polygonal model doing a fire animation with 2000s fire particles
what did they mean by this?
high on their own supply, they didn't understand what they could be compared too.
It's more like the "they" is just some social media marketing peon just making ads trying to vaguely ape what they can discern as popular formats for videos.
>twink dragons who are clearly some scalehomosexuals selfinsert
>No option to play as the bara dragons
Hard pass
>Hello Neighbor in general, between all the streamerbait shit and the sheer amount of absolute MONEY the company put into trying to make it a "franchise", including the one and only time I ever went to PAX, where about 10% of the entire convention hall was dedicated to a floor-to-ceiling, walled-in display for one of their games
>BG3/Larian with the constant swarm of "oh noooo why u straight white man frick all of you bigotssss!!1!" I'm also convinced a lot of TikTok videos about dates going awry due to playing too much BG3 were made via their marketing department since a lot were really artificial-feeling
>Starfield constantly throwing around awards they've won, and "players" that maybe-bought it, and pretending everything is okay despite the game being a total travesty by everyone with an IQ above 10
>Saint's Row in general. It started a bit after 3 came out, but it was okay until the reboot. Hoo boy that marketing. That damn reboot's marketing and PR was so awful that I'm entirely convinced that an entire marketing board unanimously agreed that the marketing was good and approved it and that it wasn't just one guy on Twitter
>Blizzard slowly making all their heroes LGBTQIA and talking about diversity and whatever while simultaneously having slimeball higher-ups, and keeping them straight in China anyway
This. Holy frick, those ads turned my usual "I wonder if WoW is good yet" thoughts into a total void. I legitimately hope that whoever came up with that marketing strategy attempts seppuku but they have DNR papers, but misplaced them so the whole time they keep getting revived while suffering intense pain, begging and screaming for them to stop being brought back until finally they're made completely stable, and spend the next year recovering at the hospital.
He did. Whoever took that screencap edited it out.
Judging by how few people were in that subr*ddit, there's a VERY high chance he made it himself, too.
>r/BattleBornRule34 817 members, a community for 7 years
>r/MVR34 944 members, a community for 1 year
Lol less members than the multiversus porn sub.
wendy's has done irreversible damage to western marketing divisions
It wasn't even Wendy's that started this; it was Denny's.
Why didn't they just put the ring in Frodo's hobbit hole?
From what I've seen of Postal 4 they've regressed from being actually edgy to just "blood and veganas" edgy, which is edgy for a ten-year-old.
The fact is they needed to amp up the offensiveness if they wanted to carve out a niche in the 2020's, but they were too old and too worried about their livelihood to push the envelope. They didn't, so this is just a cash grab and Civvie 11 cross-promotional stunt.
Ganker posts stuff daily that is far edgier than anything RWS could pump out so either up the ante or fold.
>Postal 4 was rushed to be released on 4/20
Old RWS would've released it on 9/11
Nah releasing it on hitlers birthday is far more based, redditors think its the magic weed number.
So like is postal 4 getting DLC or something?? teh game is really barebones its basically a beta. Its been what 2 years now..... I get it was a cashgrab but come on at least finish the game.
No they 100% did it for the silly weed number, idiot
>Postal 4 was rushed
It wasn't even rushed. They just claimed whatever they had made as "the release".
It was funny seeing Zeron coping how "it wasn't actually a marketing stunt!!"
>3s
OP is a very fast homosexual, you see.
>3s
so you know this stuff is shit you post it anyway and make fun of yourself? i dont understand this marketing strategy at all.
>WAAAHH BAD BAD CAN ONLY TALK ABOUT BAD
frick this gay ass thread post great publicity stunts like THQ single handedly polluting the san fran bay with plastic for homefront
>Class we have a new student today, go on and tell us your name
>I
>AM TUROK
Dovahkiin and turok finna link up
fricker is more red every time i see
The most amazing thing is that the parents did this to get a life-time of free Bethesda games.
>Fallout 4
>Fallout 76
>Starfield
They literally got $ 180,00 out of it in over a decade.
Free CONSOLE versions of the games as well and in an interview they said the father plays on PC lol
Lads, would you do it? Brand your firstborn son with a mark of shame for the rest of his life for the prize of 3 full price games?
Yeah, I'd totally humiliate my child for life just to play shit games for free, because piracy doesn't exist apparently.
>too stupid for sarcasm
that boy's 12 now
Why so red? Is it the vaxxx?
He's building up to the biggest fus ro dah in the history of speaking
they should have named him ragnar
don't forget about sephiroth
They should do some shit in a nerdcom
Joseph?
THQ also once did an AMA on fricking 4+Ganker of all places and predictably it was riddled with e-girl porn. I wasn't convinced it was real but they actually tweeted an apology which confirmed it was real.
sauce?
I don't remember the porn, but I remember the outrage by wokies because 2^3chan was linked with sexist racist gg-ers
resetera is still seething about that one
I'm still seething about that,
>announce they were doing stuff with Destroy All Humans and like 2-3 other ips
>Timesplitters gets asked
>Give a some of vague "wait and see ;)" posts
WHERE THE FRICK IS IT THQ, EVEN A HD COLLECTION IS ENOUGH FOR ME.
I don't even want an HD collection. Just a PC port would be nice.
JUST GIVE ME MERCENARIES WHILE PETER IS STILL WORKING YOU FRICKERS
>Embracer bought out the gays that did the remakes for Destroy All Humans 1 & 2
>just gutted the studio a week ago
Grim
>Timesplitters
Been under a rock anon? Timesplitters is dead again
>Destroy All Humans
Also dead despite how good the 2 remakes are
You can thank Embracer Group for both
THQ is now THQ Nordic is now Embracer
which just cancelled all projects that aren't soon to finish
THQ is honestly one of the only publishers that isn't constantly destroying their reputation, and most of the shit they release is actually good.
I'm sure this will all change soon but I'm pleasantly surprised that they seem to actually make fricking decent games
Is THQ the one that got fricked when the Saudis pulled out of a money deal?
THQ died when they went all in on uDraw which was basically a WiiU before the WiiU and failed exactly as the WiiU did
That THQ died, the current "THQ"nordic has nothing to do with the old one.
Really? DaH 2 remaster came out like 2 years ago
I think you're just being a drama queen.
THQ proper died in 2012, by that point it was Nordic using the name since they had thoroughly burned their reputation as Nordic by then.
That's Nordic's parent company Embracer. They're the ones who have been killing off companies and projects left and right to try shaving 2 billion dollars worth of yearly spending to keep investors from liquidating their shit for them. That's why the Tomb Raider remakes are being pumped out and why 3D Realms has been spewing so much half baked shit out recently - they overbought companies and need money yesterday.
>That's why the Tomb Raider remakes are being pumped out and why 3D Realms has been spewing so much half baked shit out recently
those remakes confused the shit out of me because they spent like a decade talking about how OG Lara was "oversexualized" and nerfing her ass and breasts
now it all makes sense
>2 billion dollars worth of yearly spending to keep investors from liquidating their shit for them
Frick. How the hell did they get into that mess?
>That's why the Tomb Raider remakes are being pumped out
There are remakes?
>and why 3D Realms has been spewing so much half baked shit out recently - they overbought companies and need money yesterday.
I thought devolver owned 3d realms? Also what half baked shit?
>Frick. How the hell did they get into that mess?
They're Swedish and were getting a lot of government money to stay afloat. They have more than games too, they sit on a bunch of European real estate stuff, but when interest rates went up a while ago that stopped being enough to pay for all the acquisitions they had been making and the government money slowed while at the same time their hands off approach to their new studios meant nothing was prepped for launch except Biomutant. It didn't help that the CEO has a habit of being too honest during earnings reports; every time a deal fell through or something was going overbudget he'd say it without mincing words and the stock would tumble.
>There are remakes?
1, 2 and 3 are getting an HD remake collection like next week yeah
>I thought devolver owned 3d realms? Also what half baked shit?
I have a vague memory of Devolver putting in a bid for 3D Realms at one point but they're owned by Embracer now. Graven was clearly not ready for full release and Phantom Fury seems to be getting kicked out of the door pretty soon despite not seeming to be ready at all.
>They're Swedish and were getting a lot of government money to stay afloat.
Gov money always builds up too much confidence. So Embracer was a real estate company that got into gaming and now since their government money is gone they are FRICKED/in debt? And they were shit at managing game projects?
I may have limited info but weren't Embracer basically buying up every studio possible with the intent of fluffing up their value in anticipation of the Saudi Arabian government making a big sale or investment into the company? Then that whole thing fell apart so they basically have an unsustainably huge company that's just going to bleed massive amounts of money?
>So Embracer was a real estate company?
It was Nordic Games GmbH, a small publisher who snapped up what was left of THQ after the uDraw bankrupted them.
Graven is totally fine for a release product in terms of polish, it just has a ton of baffling and unfun design decisions that make it a subpar game.
>There are remakes?
There's a tomb raider 1-3 remaster collection coming out on the 14th. Got my fingers crossed it'll work well.
They're gonna slowly fire all their studios and just run a skeleton crew to manage the company and license all the ips they bought to others
What I find funny is in the 90's just how panned THQ was, all their games on the snes was fricking garbage.
I missed that but I came in a short while after thinking everyone was full of shit till I saw the tweet.
>e-girl porn
lol like there isn't any on Ganker right now.
The thread was perfectly fine. they only apologized because twitter "people" complained about somewhere they've never been.
Infinity chan had a cp board for Christ's sake.
and you'd know because?
They had a board that was just janny actions and cp got bans. Funny thing was after the media started saying it was a haven for pedos the cp ban actions increased.
they confused this place for reddit, can't blame them
reminder that we have a limited amount of helium on earth. every balloon is helium we will never get back
I'm pretty sure being a company's social media manager is just getting a position as a paid shitposter, and some people are a lot better at it than others.
for me, its paying a family to put a giant shadowman ad over their tombstone to promote their game
wew lad
That might genuinely be the most moronic marketing strategy. Literally no one in that scenario comes out looking good.
Shadowman was a great game too
It was, but that was for the second game on the PS2.
It's more awful when you know the whole story is they paid for those funerals which is likely why most OK'd it was they couldn't afford the costs
Lmao that's horrible
>grandpa died
>can't afford a proper burial
>see an add that some game company offers to cover costs
>but only if you agree for them to put an add for their game on the tombstone for at least 16 months
This is some cyberpunk dystopia shit and it happen over 25 years ago.
Corporations really are the fricking devil, huh?
>we'll cover your speeding fines if you get caught while driving to buy our game
How much coke were they on?
>To promote the game in the UK, Acclaim wanted to have advertisements for it in bus shelters which would spill fake blood, which they dubbed as "Bloodvertising"
>The advertisements would've remained for a week spilling the blood onto the pavement and streets with cleaners hired to clear it up after the run.
ALL of the fricking coke
The severed body parts for dead island I think?
remember when sony got fined for graffiti ads that they put up around cities like philidelphia and san francisco?
WAIT
HE WAS PLAYING NUT-OUTSIDE?!?!?
i loved nut. it made no sense at all.
Looks sick. Did they not ask for permission?
People forget how much bullshit Sony did for the PlayStation Portable. From embarrassing...
...to stuff that was edgy and offensive in 2006 but that they'd get crucified for now.
TAKE ME BACK
this was a EU ad right?
I need to invent a time machine
Yeah, it was only in Europe. Still wouldn't fly today.
There was an episode in season 3 of The Apprentice where the challenge was to make an effective graffiti ad for the PSP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apprentice_(American_season_3)#Week_6:_The_Writing_on_the_Wall
The graffitti could be a nice idea if they put Kat of Gravity Rush.
>fined
Could be worse
I just realized that this happened almost 20 years ago. How time flies
Imagine it takes you 3 FRICKING WEEKS.
What if it was an actual bomb?
Actually, scratch, I wished it was an actual bomb
Philly has been searching for reasons to be a city with an actual tragedy for decades. The worst thing the Tsarnaevs did was give them something to moan and complain about rather than the murders.
Remember that time a marketing stunt ruined cartoons forever?
goddamn i hate postal and its dev so much
>b-b-but 2 was good!!!
no it wasnt, it was lazy school shooter core trash
1 was good
I have even more lmao
As someone who is hopelessly mazed to this godawful game; 80 trillion combinations or some shit, and they all look like shit. Every single one. Too lazy to map armor to the weird dragon form, locked to the two worst models in the game, and even with all the fricking skin colours, not a single one matches any of the actual colours of the dragonflights.
I genuinely hope that whatever artist or artists made them are blacklisted from the industry.
Remind me why we didn't just get Drakonids? Yeah they're huge but just make them a little smaller. They're already long in the game and part of the Dragonflights.
Nothing can top this
Pretty sure he created it himself
Did he just not link to it?
>the virgin Ken Levine
>please don't fap to my daughterfu
>THE CHAD PITCHFORK
he almost certainly did, the dirty fricker
Even if GG was a total clusterfrick, Phil Fish being eternally asshurt makes for great silver lining
The postal games after the first one have always been reddit tier shit. I'm pretty sure two has like 5 achievements referencing the damn site.
Reddit used to be a lot saucier than it is today. That site was fricking neutered.
RIP r/jailbait
Not dev, but that one time gog pretended to shut down. Then came back like a week later and put out this awful apology video.
So why did RWS get Jon St. John to voice the dude in 4? Cory Cruise does a good job and I think his voice works better in 4 than Jon. Hell he was the main dude in brain damaged(Rick was the evil dude in that game too). Feels weird since Cory was probably available when Rick wasn't during 4's production.
he didnt want to do VA work at first or something
DmC existing
Oh frick, forgot about that. Now THAT was a shitshow, I still can't believe how many reviewers swore up and down on a secret pact to deflect 100% of criticism as being about the hair.
I HATE it when people do that hivemind thing in media, it makes me wonder who would have the power to influence that many reviewers and why. Why is it THAT important to prop DmC up that much?
Same kind of thing happened with a lot of recent Disney flops, and with COV*D, freaks me out man.
The opposite kind of thing happened with Baldur's Gate 3, where it came out and literally every AAA dev suddenly shook in their boots openly, even the companies that usually maintain the faceless corporate entity visage.
(me)
Bonus points for Saint's Row: the IdolNinja thing.
>IdolNinja spends years working on a super mod to fix the shit port of SR2
>does a pretty decent job, but is limited by what code he has access to.
>Volition sees this guy and straight-up hires him to work on a total remaster of SR2, gives him a team and everything (dunno if he actually RAN the team, but whatever)
>remaster will either be a complete remaster from scratch, or just SR2 ported to a newer engine
>fans love everything, can't wait, hype growing
>guy works on it literally until he dies, after which there's no evidence anyone's working on the remaster
>lots of radio silence and half-hearted "we're still working on it" shit, while Embracer Group buys the company
>still more radio silence after that, no evidence they're working on it
>reboot comes out and it's so bad the entire company collapses like a house of cards made of sand
>company gone, SR franchise is likely 100% dead for good
>still no info on the SR2 remaster
>very likely that after IdolNinja died, they tossed his code out and moved his team to work on the SR reboot
>I still can't believe how many reviewers swore up and down on a secret pact to deflect 100% of criticism as being about the hair.
Well that's cause they're homosexuals.
>it makes me wonder who would have the power to influence that many reviewers and why. Why is it THAT important to prop DmC up that much?
Total global vidya westernization and crapcom paying off reviewers. If you get really drunk and think about it DmC was a precursor to all the anti fan/shitting on the source material&past shit we see now. Also frick why the frick did DmC not have a lock on or taunts?
>The opposite kind of thing happened with Baldur's Gate 3, where it came out and literally every AAA dev suddenly shook in their boots openly, even the companies that usually maintain the faceless corporate entity visage.
Why did that happen again? I didn't really pay attention to BG3.
>Why did that happen again? I didn't really pay attention to BG3.
Dunno, as soon as BG3 became an open beta on Steam and started getting a ton of sales, literally 100% of all AAA and AA game devs came out of nowhere and made posts about how it's "not fair" that BG3 is "so good" and that they can't compete, that it's unrealistic for AAA/AA devs to be able to make a game that good.
I don't even know what it was that had them scared, BG3's only unique factors over Divinity OS 1/2 was that the game has more "oops, you killed [NPC 5], let's replace them with [NPC 5a] and tweak two lines to acknowledge you killed them" moments, more voice acting, and a shitload more options for LGBTQIAA2P during sex.
The weirdest part that makes it the most sus is that quite a few of the AA/AAA devs throwing jealous babyfits about the game were devs that normally take the "faceless corporate entity" route and say nothing bad about anything. It's like if suddenly those British Royal Guard guys with the zero emotions suddenly reacted to a Youtuber that ran up and said BOO, and one pisses himself, the other screams, followed by both running away.
So the industry was upset that a devs of BG3 made a polished game and a successful top down turn based game? Frick this industry is full of morons and hacks. Honestly all I know is that some of the BG3 devs got layoff cause of hasbro being homosexuals.
pretty much, they were afraid gamers might grow some standards. same happened when elden ring released, people were realizing their "engaging" game design was bad
I swear I remember one dev trying to say "well Hasbro gave them tons of money" only for one of the Larian Devs to come in saying "The frick are you talking about, we had to pay them just to be able to make it."
The other thing I remember a bit like that was some Horizon dev criticising Elden Rings UI design leading to pic related.
bg3 is no more expensive than the average tripleA game, nor did it take that much longer to release. it had a very long early access pjase but that was it.
it was 100% the industry being afraid people may start demanding good games and not busywork threadmills
The long early access meaning they developed the game more publicly than usual is not the reason the game is absurdly detailed on a level other AAAs are not even approaching, otherwise every early access game would be great. It's all excuses.
exactly, i was pointing out how little of a leg """devs""" had against it
>literally 100% of all AAA and AA game devs came out of nowhere and made posts about how it's "not fair" that BG3 is "so good" and that they can't compete, that it's unrealistic for AAA/AA devs to be able to make a game that good.
this did not happen, what happened was an indie dev (guy who worked on shit like hypnospace outlaw and other games like that) said something to the effect of 'please dont expect bg3 levels of polish and shit from other cprgs, especially the small studios because no one makes them to begin with and then gave reasons why like larian having several similar games under their belts with cash flow and feedback from the EA period, and a couple of AAA devs agreed and brought up examples of other big CRPGs that were only possible because of a bunch of factors leading up to that game and werent just shat out by small studios.
Basically, its someone saying why you cant use rockstar's games as a model for small studios and going "why dont they just make their game as good as RDR2? are they dumb or something?"
then afterwards, because people on the internet are mentally moronic, an article was written about how "AAA devs are shaking in their boots and are mad at gamers for expecting more from all AAA games" which isnt what happened but thats the story it became
you forget that scientist still try to figure how Nintendo made TOTK.
Rumors say Nintendo has exclusive access to the only recently found chambers in the Giza pyramid
>it makes me wonder who would have the power to influence that many reviewers and why
A ton of youtubers are all part of the same talent agency. Something beginning with night, I forgot. Anyone got a screencap? It's owned by ~~*them*~~, ofc.
Night Media
It had a bunch of twitch streamers as well but they broke off to make their own agency
>I still can't believe how many reviewers swore up and down on a secret pact to deflect 100% of criticism as being about the hair
Crazy how this still applies today, like the "defense" of Suicide Squad boiling down to "HURRR ARE YOU MAD THAT YOU KILL THE JUSTICE LEAGUE IN A GAME CALLED KILL THE JUSTICE LEAGUE?????"
>Why is it THAT important to prop DmC up that much?
What amazes me so much about this is that even so much later you still occasional have gaming journalists dig that game and its "controversial reception" up to write articles about how the mean gamers were unfair to it. I don't know any other game that gets this treatment, like they set themselves reminders for every 2-3 years in the feature to still defend that game. Maybe it's their nostalgia, because it was one the first games I remember that made it's their entire marketing shitting on the popular franchise and its fans despite only existing because of them, which is now the norm.
Funny thing for me was like 5 years ago or something I actually almost fell for it, and thought that maybe I was too harsh on the game because I like DMC3/4 a lot and so I tried to give DmC the benefit of the doubt in so far that I watched someone else play it again and my reaction to the entire game was
>This isn't as bad as remember, this is way worse, how is this even possible?
Probably when some b***h on the development team of this PoS made up a story about how the guy who made the music for the game raped her and then he killed himself over it and then she made an entire career out of it
What? That sounds fricked up. QRD?
That is the QRD. The name of the person who alleged the rape against the musician might sound familiar to you, however... Her name was Zoë Quinn.
Zoe Quinn, who fricked the kotaku journalist gamergate should have been about if gamergate weren't moronic, didn't work on night in the woods but the NitW sound guy was dumb enough to date her and she did a somewhat vague #metoo about him and he had been ostracized by everyone he knew and an heroed within 3 days.
Unless almost the same thing happened twice it sounds like you are remembering completely wrong the details of Alec Holowka's suicide.
He was the director/creator of the game, pretty much the face of it to the public.
Zoe Quinn had nothing to do with the game, but is a "big name" in the industry
They fricked and then she(?) said he raped her
He killed himself over it, and then his family and company essentially pissed on his grave by siding with Zoe Quinn.
Oh, well yeah okay I guess I forgot she had nothing to do with the game then. It's been a hot minute but that's about it. Still fricked up.
>his family sided with Zoe Quinn
bro... imagine being shafted by your own family. that's fricked.
He probably killed himself because he may have actually did it. I got falsely #metoo'd and I didn't kms. Maybe wanted to at first, but when you didn't do anything wrong, nothing to feel bad about.
I fricking hate you still Eliza.
maybe but it depends on the consequences of getting metoo'd. getting shitslung at you for a few weeks sucks sure, but if you lose everything i could see why someone would take their own life even if they didn't do. even if they proved they didn't do shit what would you even have left.
Yeah, mostly those false accusations are made to socially frick someone. That' s what happened to me, people can be really shitty sometimes dude. It's such a bummer.
If I got falsly metooed and actually lost everything, you better motherfricking believe i'm taking that b***h with me.
Sorry about that
>he may have actually did it
Anon she said he had her spread legs, face down, moving her around the house as if she were a wheelbarrow with her hands as the wheels. You need two people both working towards the same goal to achieve that.
>and then she made an entire career out of it
she was already famous before it happened
The funny thing is, I knew her from Something Awful, where she had an exclusive subforum, which she ran like a cult. She was very nasty even by SA standards. Now the media playing her as some fricking martyr is so fricking rich. She fricked many people over with that act.
Bottom line: Never stick your dick in crazy, never trust what the media and the Pee arR opagandists are telling you.
Dragon Age: Inquisition had some atrocious quotes in promo material.
>The funny thing is, I knew her from Something Awful, where she had an exclusive subforum, which she ran like a cult. She was very nasty even by SA standards.
Bro, that's just plain false. She was a nobody there.
Those quotes gave us this thread though.
Speaking of Dragon Age.
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Hits harder when no one knew what to expect from Dragon Age and didn't know it was going to be a very classic style RPG.
Wait, wrong one
Dragon Age: Origins also had some atrociously lame marketing where they tried to make the game seem COOL and VIOLENT and ADULT and EXTREME because it was an isometric RPG throwback to the Infinity Engine games so they had to compensate by showing trailers cut to Marilyn Manson's This is the New Shit showing action cutscenes with blood splatter everywhere including the title logo.
I am absolutely not surprised that Quinn comes from SomethingAwful, those Black folk are like the Freemasons of the internet
>he says posting on a something aweful spin off board
To be fair the guy was already crazy so he wouldn't have the sense not to stick it into more crazy.
Zoe Quinn never claimed she was raped or even physically abused. She accused the guy of being too clingy of a boyfriend, all the way back in 2012
And that resulted in a bunch of backlash, the company fired him, and he killed himself 3 days later.
I still remember his FB post about his mental health issues. Zoe fully expected him to kill himself, it wasn't an accident, she had given a TED talk and wrote a book about how online harassment nearly drove her to suicide
Why would anyone care when there's already plenty of fanart of Postal dude getting fricked by Duke Nukem?
Does someone have a troony saying something along the line of "I am the type of person your parents warned you about"?
I was going to point to YOUR MOM HATES DEAD SPACE 2 but at what point does something become so corny it transmutates into kino?
>hey you play video games look at this pp!
that is the creepiest shit I ever heard. Children play GTA, the only adult fanbase are the children there were waiting for GTA 6.
And I don't play that trash because it glorifies the worst parts of America.
Are you stupid?
RWS has become so gay. They stealth-remove features from all of their games that make the violence too visceral, they virtue-signal on Twitter shaming fans who liked the edgy humor of Postal 2 and being snarky towards them for liking an old game more than a new one. The more they try to act down-to-Earth, the more apparent it is how Reddit they are.
What'd they remove, anon? Haven't heard of it
le wacky piss man with cat rifle
this series has always been cringe, don't know why Gankerirgins propped it up for so long
>
Not game devs, but I fricking hate Opera GX Twitter PR posts with the force of a thousand suns.
I despise how people think corpos are their friends.
They'll never stop trying to push their shitty mascot, won't they?
It kills me that Aura is such a nice looking design.
She didn't deserve to be made for that company.
Why did lowercase text format become so standardized on social media, anyway? Where did that come from? Why did people start doing it?
cause capitalization is for corporate emails sent by uptight sober wads, man! thats not very casual fr fr no cap Black persontalk of you
it was a somethingawful thing from the mid-2000s, all the coolest guys with the thickest neckbeards stopped using capitalization to make themselves stand above the newbies. at some point SA culture and tumblr culture became almost one and the same and i think it really took off from there
Weird Twitter and its consequences.
I first saw it here after meme arrows.
Ooh, mommy
Hijacking this thread to say that the best publicity stunt of all time is Criterion literally telling people to break the law so they can hype up Burnout and then offering to pay off any tickets they received
>moronic gameplay and a screaming sheboon, this will sell our old school platformer to tiktok zoomers
She's not even playing the game
What's the fricking point
I refuse to believe this is is real and I will not look at any proof that it is
The Rick & Morty + Ninja FO76 stream.
I forgot that happened
Now I'm thinking of the Chuck E Cheese stream
That gave us this, so it was all worth it.
>that perfectly timed whimper
Over the years there have been things that have made me shake my head more but Bob's Game is still worth a mention for the sheer absurdity of it.
He could've been working at Nintendo if he wasn't insane.
Bullyhunters?
gotta be the worst in this thread
I think the tombstone one is worse but it's close:
given that WWI was propably the most cruel, war crime ridden conflict in history its just insane how bad these jokes read
That is incredibly tasteless.
I don't know why this one reeks when they might have done it for any of their other recent Battlefield games too or another military shooter. Maybe it's that WW1 was a real conflict and a particularly horrible one. It would be cringy posting that for any military game but for a WW1 or WW2 game it's really braindead, it's not a "cool" conflict to be flippant about.
It's worse because the game tries to virtue signal about muh war is bad and that everyone is human. All that shit is immediately ignored in the campaign and MP. The Germans are inhuman bad guys and there's melodramatic music/speeches to show how epic and badass you are.
It's probably because even in simplified pop culture, WW1 is recognized as a shitty, grey conflict between messy alliances that was more or less a ton of people being killed in stalemate battles for no reason for four years, whereas pop culture has a more clear and easy "good guys vs bad guys" conflict in WW2. So trivializing it with a cornball how do you do fellow kids tweet is a bad look.
>A war that would have been a damn sight simpler if we had just stayed in England and shot fifty thousand of our men a week.
WW1 was all the world's empires destroying themselves over nothing and the vast majority of the next 100 years of human events are the consequence of the sudden collapse and destruction of those former unimaginably powerful empires.
Bu-but austro-hungary!
#trenchfoot
That's just some autist pretending to be a viral marketer. Learn to spot the difference.
man noone remembers the massive shill campaign for Brink on Ganker and so many of those morons here falling for that shit
it was hilarious, they got warned but wouldn't listen
I was one of those morons. I did enjoy the game for what it was.
Hitman absolution death threats messages with 47 in facebook
I tried watching that for curiosity since I knew the VA did both voices and considered how that was going to go. The amount of silence between all three for the first half hour was deafening so I just closed the stream.
Runescape poll to bring back the Wilderness and free trade just to drum up publicity when they were 100% just going to do it anyway.
>It completely worked
That's practically positive, Jagex has done worse, eg.
>should we let you kill the MTX mascot goblin in a new quest?
>players vote yes, quest comes out and you kill him
>previous MTX gets replaced by something even more predatory/p2w, goblin is replaced by cleavage woman
Obviously nobody expected them to actually delete MTX from the game, but using a personification of their own greed as a martyr was cringe.
this will never get old. gut wrenching cringe before you even start to think how bad the game itself was
Basically anything regarding PD3
Oh and also hiring a litteral furry bara Vtuber for game balancing
who also agrees with every bad decision that PD3 has
Dev strike team hard at work
troon pfp
could not expect anything less
Im so fricking sick of RWS postal 4 is already horribly dated and is painfully boring app-store game quality fricking garbage
Same goes for brain damaged
Zero Punctuation claimed that Akklaim painted the Virtua Tennis logo onto pigeons
>3 seconds
Hi , RWS!
everything related to picrel
A classic
I'd call the situation sad if the devs weren't a bunch of liars and hypocrites
The God of War dead goat stunt
Everything about Battleborn
I actually kinda liked the PvE when I got to test out the beta/demo whatever it was for free
PvP was a clusterfrick and obvious DoA
But the marketing was embarassing. They made one trailer to show how "badass" their characters are by using that ALT-J's song about a prostitute being raped with a broom for some reason, the lyric's aren't even subtle about it
What happened to companies just remaining professional and not diving into this whole moronic internet / meme culture witty banter shit?
Make a good game that's able to stand on it's own with an interesting enough premise that you can use as your sole marketing campaign. You would only have to showcase trailers and gameplay footage then and it will be enough to get other people to market that shit to you via various other stuff like rage bait marketing or infighting or whatnot like it happened with Hogwarts Legacy.
Is no one going to post the picture of Genital Jousting where Jim Sterling jizzed on his own face? I don't think it gets any worse than that.
That's not really a corporate publicity stunt. Individual people do insanely stupid things all the time.