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.
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."