Then you underestimate normie gamers/geeks and their inability to resist FOMO. AC games have been copy/pasted garbage for going on two decades, yet they keep selling. The Rise of Palpatine still made over a billion dollars after TLJ killed the franchise.
And as far as hating the woke shit, I distinctly remember a lot of posts on this forum complaining about the woke shit in BG3, by people who are supposedly not normie gamers, who then went and bought it anyway.
The title is right on the money. Lowest common denominator slop is the future of gaming, because gamers refuse to stop paying for complete shit. We deserve everything we are getting because we keep voting for it with our dollars. I have said it before that I am ashamed to call myself a gamer these days, because gamers are fucking idiots.
You are unfortunately spot on. A coworker at my previous job was the embodiment of what I call “Current Game Syndrome.” He had a PS5 and would mentioned it often. Whenever a new game would come out he would talk about it and claim it was “GOATed.” If you asked him about that game 6 months later he was say “yeah it was great but new current game is GOATed.” I would talk to him about what I was playing from my backlog and he would say “that’s cool but you really need to buy a PS5, and get with the times.”
It’s unabashed consumerism. It reminds me of Comic readers who will buy shit comics for years because they have bought every X-Men comic since #372 and maybe it will get good and they don’t want a gap in their collection.
After Crysis pushed the graphics envelope forward in 2007, other aspects of artistic/design progress have plateaued. Or, at least those that excited enthusiasts, such as more sophisticated AI (non machine learning variety), more creative procedural generation, mechanical depth, emergent potential. Only control responsiveness and feedback has improved, and that ties to presentation and first impression. Because of Spolsky's Iceberg Principle, all the modern audience (excl. phones) want is presentation along with MBA spearheaded busy work.
A random YouTube positive AC: Mirage retrospective review's found the lack of mocap in cutscenes worse than janky parkour or other shortcomings! (I didn't play Mirage). I hate that the summer movie audience have eternal septembered the 80s/90s geeks. This is the audience partaking in the keeping up with the Jones/zeitgeist shit you described.
Then you underestimate normie gamers/geeks and their inability to resist FOMO.
It's not just "normies". People here consider themselves "non-normie" yet the majority of talk in the last several days here has been about what? A non-normie game(s) that aligns with their values? Or is it this normie game that is woke?
But we need to talk about it to fight against this company doing evil things! (paraphrased)
Sure. It's necessary for most of the posts here to be about it. Great strategy, making sure everyone who participates constantly has this "normie" woke game on their minds because of the sheer volume of talk about it. "There is no such thing as bad publicity" might not be an absolute truism, but it has some truth to it.
Hint: If you want people to avoid playing this woke "normie" game, perhaps the best thing the "non-normie" gamers here could do would be to talk about "non-normie" games that aren't woke? i.e. actually offer them an alternative.
I think the best way to measure this is simply to gauge retail stores
When Ghost of Tsushima came in 2020 there was like 3 copies left in the entire store when i came to buy (day after release too)
But you know what i noticed? Literally stacks upon stacks of unsold Last of trannies 2 copies
I think this """game"""" will share the same fate despite the fake hype surrounding it
Esp when they put a Niggurai on the fucking COVER ART of the game
I also wonder if it doesn't simply represent the dedicated AC whales, rather than normie gamers. Most people wouldn't buy the $110 version even if it was a good anticipated game.
I think the Japanese equivalent of Amazon is Rakuten. Looking at Amazon for Japanese sales data is horribly misguided. It would be like looking for US sales data by going to JD.com. Americans aren’t going to a Chinese commerce site to buy games, even if the Chinese site sells shit in America.
I was wondering if it could be a pr firm doing this and then cancelling the pre orders before they release
Then you underestimate normie gamers/geeks and their inability to resist FOMO. AC games have been copy/pasted garbage for going on two decades, yet they keep selling. The Rise of Palpatine still made over a billion dollars after TLJ killed the franchise.
And as far as hating the woke shit, I distinctly remember a lot of posts on this forum complaining about the woke shit in BG3, by people who are supposedly not normie gamers, who then went and bought it anyway.
The title is right on the money. Lowest common denominator slop is the future of gaming, because gamers refuse to stop paying for complete shit. We deserve everything we are getting because we keep voting for it with our dollars. I have said it before that I am ashamed to call myself a gamer these days, because gamers are fucking idiots.
I feel you 100% on BG3. They show cases fucking a bear to sell the fucking game. What do they have to do for people here to not buy it?
You are unfortunately spot on. A coworker at my previous job was the embodiment of what I call “Current Game Syndrome.” He had a PS5 and would mentioned it often. Whenever a new game would come out he would talk about it and claim it was “GOATed.” If you asked him about that game 6 months later he was say “yeah it was great but new current game is GOATed.” I would talk to him about what I was playing from my backlog and he would say “that’s cool but you really need to buy a PS5, and get with the times.”
It’s unabashed consumerism. It reminds me of Comic readers who will buy shit comics for years because they have bought every X-Men comic since #372 and maybe it will get good and they don’t want a gap in their collection.
After Crysis pushed the graphics envelope forward in 2007, other aspects of artistic/design progress have plateaued. Or, at least those that excited enthusiasts, such as more sophisticated AI (non machine learning variety), more creative procedural generation, mechanical depth, emergent potential. Only control responsiveness and feedback has improved, and that ties to presentation and first impression. Because of Spolsky's Iceberg Principle, all the modern audience (excl. phones) want is presentation along with MBA spearheaded busy work.
A random YouTube positive AC: Mirage retrospective review's found the lack of mocap in cutscenes worse than janky parkour or other shortcomings! (I didn't play Mirage). I hate that the summer movie audience have eternal septembered the 80s/90s geeks. This is the audience partaking in the keeping up with the Jones/zeitgeist shit you described.
It's not just "normies". People here consider themselves "non-normie" yet the majority of talk in the last several days here has been about what? A non-normie game(s) that aligns with their values? Or is it this normie game that is woke?
Sure. It's necessary for most of the posts here to be about it. Great strategy, making sure everyone who participates constantly has this "normie" woke game on their minds because of the sheer volume of talk about it. "There is no such thing as bad publicity" might not be an absolute truism, but it has some truth to it.
Hint: If you want people to avoid playing this woke "normie" game, perhaps the best thing the "non-normie" gamers here could do would be to talk about "non-normie" games that aren't woke? i.e. actually offer them an alternative.
I think the best way to measure this is simply to gauge retail stores
When Ghost of Tsushima came in 2020 there was like 3 copies left in the entire store when i came to buy (day after release too) But you know what i noticed? Literally stacks upon stacks of unsold Last of trannies 2 copies
I think this """game"""" will share the same fate despite the fake hype surrounding it
Esp when they put a Niggurai on the fucking COVER ART of the game
Could be botted. But its apparently jp ps5 amazon sails. And ps5 isn't exactly a powerhouse in japan either.
I also wonder if it doesn't simply represent the dedicated AC whales, rather than normie gamers. Most people wouldn't buy the $110 version even if it was a good anticipated game.
I think the Japanese equivalent of Amazon is Rakuten. Looking at Amazon for Japanese sales data is horribly misguided. It would be like looking for US sales data by going to JD.com. Americans aren’t going to a Chinese commerce site to buy games, even if the Chinese site sells shit in America.
my thoughts exactly. there aren't really very many games for the ps5, and ass creed is the next big game for a customer base that is starved of games.