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I’m so fucking tired of the tribalism around games. (hexbear.net)

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I keep seeing the same thing with the GTA VI extended look, and I saw it with Wolverine too.

If you’re not posting “this is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen,” you get treated like you personally attacked someone. Skeptical = hater. “I’m not convinced yet” = conspiracy. Wanting more than a cinematic highlight reel after 13 years, 2 billion dollars spent and charging $80 is “spoiled.”

You can be hyped for a game or think it looks good and still not like parts of i, but somehow being Skeptical gets treated like a personal attack or a conspiracy. As if raising an eyebrow after 13 years, 2 billion dollars spent, 2 delays and charging $80-$100 is “spoiled.”

It’s gotten to the point where you have to be either fully riding or you’re the enemy

Yes, social media is full of ragebait. Yes, some people were going to hate it no matter what. That doesn’t make every opinion fake. High expectations after this long and this much money are not “being spoiled.”

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[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Still haven't looked at any of the promotional material, there's no point in watching the ultra polished curated content that isn't really representative of the grand majority of gameplay. I'll wait until it gets into the hands of actual people instead of reviewers before I even start to form an opinion.

I'm sure it'll be fine for a AAA game but nothing special, if I can pirate it to try out the single player I will but I can already tell online is going to be monetized even more so than GTA V online

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

Still haven't looked at any of the promotional material, there's no point in watching the ultra polished curated content that isn't really representative of the grand majority of gameplay.

Eh, it showed off mission setpiece stuff that's just another iterative improvement over the same things in GTAV and RDR2, gunplay that's still mid but looks a bit better than GTAV's, driving that's another iterative improvement over GTAV, and cutscenes that are a bit more modern. It's nothing unexpected or unrealistic, and would have been solid but still not groundbreaking even if they'd managed to have it ready a couple of years ago like they'd initially planned.

I hate that rockstar still almost exclusively targets the console market even as "wot if you had a shitty, locked down PC that you had to pay to use online" is dying as a concept because the manufacturers aren't willing to make them heavily subsidized loss-leaders to trap people in their ecosystem anymore, because it looks like it'll be pretty good.

It's also a shame they're not doing physical releases because everyone should only steal it.