I noticed it with Starfield. The game was obviously objectively shit, but there were still tons of people defending it online. Dig a little deeper and you quickly discover that most of them were just Xbox fanboys who were mindlessly shilling for their first big “next gen exclusive” over Sony.
Now I’m seeing the same thing with Astrobot. It is, by all indications, a solid platformer with very nice graphics. Look around the internet a bit and you find people calling it the best game of the generation, which is completely unhinged. But I guess that’s what happens when the console exclusives have been utter dogshit for almost an entire hardware cycle.
Seriously, this has been the worst condole generation of all time. They let the old systems anchor development like 3+ years too long, and what few big games they’ve developed for new hardware have been either woke trash or live service trash.
PC indie gaming is the only place to be.
Were they actually xbox fanboys or just Bethesda apologists? I remember seeing the same behavior in defense of Fallout 76 before Microsoft bought them. As far as I can tell, there aren't really console fanboys like there used to be. It is probably related to your second point, where there haven't been many exclusives to get that excited about.
As to it being the worst console generation, I would argue that is just a side effect of commies subverting the industry. AAA stuff is just as ass on PC, as are most of the indies. The entire industry is infected with cancer, and switching over to PC isn't enough to avoid it.
The plot of forbidden west, one of Sony’s biggest ps5 titles, is lesbian bullshit, seasoned with diversity throughout. Every possible diverse group is covered. There’s even an autism quest.
Gay shit ruins games.
...is that the sequel to depression quest?
...ill see myself out...
There were bethesda apologists mixed in there, too, but loads of anti-Sony X box shills as well.
I would say there are more Bethesda apologists than XBOX fanboys in terms of defenders for this game, considering that beyond the pronoun shit people have pretty much noticed how badly the game sucks.
I do think that there is way too much garbage in the industry at this point to say that it will get better, and it will likely stay that way for a long time.
the only console company to still be a fan of at this point is Nintendo, and even then the quality of their stuff has been lacking.
PC is the future, I just wish it was true PCs and not Windows rented machines.
I must be out of the loop because I don't know what you're referencing here.
Windows has been increasingly taking power away from the user in their operating system. the straw that broke the camel's back for me was learning that it is possible to have a file on on your hard drive that you cannot delete, even with admin rights. the only way to delete it is to go through Microsoft tech support.
combine this with the invasive nature of the operating system, and it's clear you don't own your own computer. it's theirs, they just let you use it.
Expect the walled garden any next big version update. They will force you to only use their store and people will lap it up like the good little puppies that they are. IMHO switching to something else now is giving you the skills when you don't fully need them before you are required to learn them. Have a dual boot setup, was nice for me as well in the beginning until I noticed I have not logged into windows for months. That was the point I finally gave windows the finger.
they tried the walled garden already with the windows store, an adoption was so poor that all of the games that were worth it were released to steam.
Apple has been doing the walled garden thing long before Microsoft, and unlike Microsoft they are actually decent at quality control. the users who prefer that kind of environment already use apple, trying to compete with it using a team of Indian consultants is a fool's endeavor.
I've been planning on fleeing to another Operating system, preferably one that is relatively a lot like windows 10. ReactOS is one option, but I have not had a serious look at it in a long time.
SteamOS works great on the steam deck, and has been an excellent baby's first Linux machine for me. for how weak the steam machine is, it runs games incredibly well. I know you can download this operating system on your own hardware as well, but your mileage may vary.
You can just run proton on a normal steam install on Linux
Doesn't have proper Nvidia support yet, which is the only reason I have not installed it on my gaming rig yet.
I’ve had quite a nice Linux experience with the exception of Microsoft games and things with kernel anti cheat. I’d suggest most any steam-heavy user give it a try they’ve done such a good job making it feel seamless
with a nod to GOG for keeping old games playable (and most stuff runs just fine under linux as well, at the very least, I haven't run into any problems personally... heck, I even got a star trek: armada mod to run without any issues.
If you're going to go that route I don't know why you wouldn't just find an old Volume License copy of XP-64
I can't even run Windows Update on my laptop anymore. It tries to run the update, then rolls it back and gives me some cryptic error code every time. When I search the web for that code, the first dozen results are either Microsoft forums where the "MVPs" tell you to reinstall Windows, or shady websites that list five different things you can try; that is if you can find them behind all the ads.
Screw Microsoft. I'm not wasting one more minute of my time trying to solve a problem they created. But the problem isn't going away because Windows will be like "OMG you haven't run an update you're going to get viruses and your computer will die!!! Here, let me forcefully try to run updates for you until you enter an infinite loop you can't escape."
Just run Linux. I've moved to Linux to try gaming on it with a 3060 gpu and with the latest proton releases I don't have an issue playing games that I like
I had win11 on this computer for three days, THREE FUCKING DAYS, planning to put linux on when the weekend came around and I had a little more time.
Nope, third day, I finally got fed up trying to install vlc and I put fedora 35(37? can't remember) on in the parking lot of my job on lunch break...
That's ironic because the PC indie scene is the biggest hivemind of hyping up mediocre games. So many walking simulators and generic platformers get hyped out the wazoo.
And yet most of the good games of the last 5+ years have been indies. There’s no barrier to entry, so of course it’s a sea of mediocrity. Thankfully you don’t have to play bad games.
The "overhyping" seems to be a problem with any sort of entertainment, be it games or media.
One of the upsides with that is normies are growing less and less trusting of media outlets and big name influencers when it comes to their recommendations.
There are fanboys still? I might be on the more normie streams as it seems more a growing RESENTMENT of the main studios.
Like there weren't that many Sony fanboys rallying to the call when they fucked with Helldivers 2 and Stellar Blade, Xbox fanboys are non existent with how the only exclusive recently of Halo was sort of left to rot than get the support required and when it comes to fanboys of major franchises, they're more saying just graphically update past games because you lack the creativity to make a new installment.
Maybe there's more 'hard-core gamer ' forums where fanboys exist but the mood I'm sensing is more 'these companies are run by idiots' than any fanboy admiration.
I bought 4 xboxes on the strength of halo.
The mythical "modern audience" makes me laugh. They honestly thought their customer loyalty was a given/worthless.
When I think of how much business from me and those like me that they've lost forever.
Most "console wars" and "x fanboy" stuff is people screaming at the air until it seems like they must exist, then it literally memes itself into reality with contrarians and trolls.
Of course every type of retard exists somewhere, but the amount of people talking about "SEETHING SNOYS" and making thread after thread dabbing on them outnumbers whatever actual Sony Fanboy 100:1.
The only one that seems to have a real presence is Nintendo fanboys.
But you have to remember, astronauts that visited the moon were not bored, so you can't be bored in our space simulation game okay?
The absolute fucking hubris over there at Bethesda. If I wasn't turned off from the exceptionally shallow and rigid experience of the game, (Go to X, play Superman 64 through some rings, shoot a guy, repeat for every single power [perk points from Fallout 4])
That irritated me to no end. I don't care what their future projects are. You're not getting a nickel from me.
Daggerfall was great but relied too much on random generation dungeons. Morrowind was great but felt lesser due to Daggerfall's absolutely enourmous (but soemtimes very empty overworld map), Oblivion was okay, but obviously toned down, still capable of having fun. The side quests were neat, the creatures were varied and almost Morrowind-like in their unusualness. Skyrim was fine but also very toned down in terms of what you could do. Combat improved marginally from Oblivion as they removed stamina from everything but sprinting, but at the cost of entire spell schools having to die off or consolidate into trees. You couldn't even make mage staves anymore.
Now this game Starfield promises thousands of planets and it's just copy pasted 4 different buildings planted at random on a randomly seeded map, with 2 flavors of each building. You got deserted mining station with cave, deserted tech station sometimes with cave, deserted medical bay looking place, and deserted pirate station. I think once, and only once did I get a hodgepodge of two stations that overlapped. I distinctly remembered the pirate station with the outdoor area that led to a medical bay interior that I had been in many times, but the exit was the entrance so I walked through it in reverse order.
Their one and only new thing was the ship builder. Which was basically a single building you could build in Fallout 4/76 with spaceship parts, so I can't even give them points there.
Whatever talent they had that made those games great are long since gone, and Todd just already checked out, clearly. He has this mantra going on that reminds me of some of the 60+ year olds at work that have this "I'm going to retire here, so I have to keep this up for just a little longer, but I've clearly already checked out mentally, so who cares." attitude.
There's only one decent console this generation and it's the switch. The Xbox is dead and the ps5 has barely anything
I remember how I used to be adamantly against the Xbox 360 and Wii to a lesser extent during the 7th generation.
I thought that the PS3 looked like the best console that gen because it already had exclusives like Ratchet & Clank Future, Killzone, LittleBigPlanet, and MGS4 among others. I was also hyped for GT5; it looked like that was going to be a dream racing game.
I was very young and far too committed to being "cool", so I thought that if you liked one thing, you had to be against everything else like it. There was no in between, you picked a side and stuck to it; closing yourself off to the others.
I look back upon that time now and realize how short-sighted and silly that way of thinking was. Now that I own many consoles, I have learned to appreciate each manufacturer's strengths and like all of them for different reasons. I now know that there is nothing wrong with say, liking Nintendo for Mario, Zelda, etc; Microsoft for Forza and Halo; and Sony for their respective franchises.
I realized that you can enjoy all the consoles equally and that there is nothing wrong with that. That alone has made this gaming medium so much more exciting and compelling for me.
Point is, I think the idea of a console war is pointless and stupid. I think people that devoted to taking sides like that are missing out on many great experiences that could really connect with them.
It shocks me to realize how long they have been out now. I remember thinking the same for the PS4. It wasn't memorable and I doubt the game companies viewed msoft or Sony as different either. A false dichotomy for fake fans and paid commenters.
At this point I want Bloodborne on Switch 2. I have a large backlog to play so I am good. Bakuro is awesome.
They lack a certain Knack I guess...
I read the title as "Console femboys", had a good chuckle, realized my misreading, then decided femboys was still accurate.
Any appeal that consoles used to have is now lost to PC as console "exclusives" are either ported or emulated eventually.
Even some mediocre games can be fun, while still acknowledging how mediocre they are, for the right price.
Like Crime Boss: Rockay City.
There are 100x as many woke trash indie garbage games. No place is safe right now.
yeah.. im a content maker and have thousands of hours on skyrim and thousands of hours on FO4. people got mad at me when i said starfield was shit. they say "nuh uh, its just not for you". lol
fallout 4 has more players than starfield. skyrim SE has 2x players of starfield. even fallout 76 has more players than starfield.
Astro Bot looks like a very compelling thowback to the glory days of 3D platforming. From what I've seen, it looks like a breath of fresh air in a gaming landscape dominated by live services and microtransactions.
Correct me if I'm wrong; but I haven't seen any woke stuff in it, either. Maybe it's a sign Sony is finally heading in the right direction.
Were the console ever somewhere to be, haha But yes all market forces on console are going towards crap and the usefulness of a console is dying out. The problem with Indie is that the few that turns good have good chance of being corrupted later in their dev due to the standard being live service or the corpos buying them out... which would be fine if we were not playing against people cheating with money. Do you know of any indie dev comunities/publisher that is trying to stick to their principles of making good games?
I think the revived Microprose looks promising
Consoles hah! System of the peasantry. Catering to consoles is like catering to fat people and trannies. We shouldn't have to lower our standards just to meet the lowest common denominator.
From what I have seen Astro bot is like a mario game and pretty good for its genre. But certainly not worth buying a console for. And it will probably hit PC anyway in a few years and if not not much of a loss anyway. Doubt many adults play these games.
The internet is overrun with bots and shills. Even if you know about this phenomenon, the propaganda still works. It is very hard to shake even this false consensus.
Platformers peaked with Banjo Kazooie, change my mind. Anything after is just not innovating the genre anymore so Astrobot kinda looked exactly like any other platformerer.
I started on consoles. they were just more approachable back in the day. keyboard and mouse has always been a bit clunky, and in those days, it was harder to find games i wanted to play with gamepad/joystick support
These days, I'm wondering how many generations of consoles we actually have left...
except maybe nintendo... those fuckers know how to survive in the long haul. They make mistakes now and again, but they make good games consistently, and they push the envelope on interface.