catfishing is KILLING gaming | Dragon Age Veilguard Roast
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Too true unfortunately. Modern Western games are nothing but syphilitic, mentally ill nostalgia whores.
Yeah, you can't follow dev studios anymore, but instead people.
If you like their work, watch where they go (unless they retire of course) and see what they're making in some new place.
<<insert astronaut meme>>
That's why I bought Bakeru. It's made by the same director as Ganbare Goemon for the N64.
It's cat-fishing because there's no one of any significance making these games. The puzzles are too easy because that's the hardest level of difficulty they can muster. The writing sounds like they've never had friends, because these people don't have friends, they just virtue signal to "allies". The constant self-affirmation nonsense exists, because that is what they do in their lives.
I want you to understand that this is how these demons live their lives in real life. Imagine having to live like this.
Now, calling them demons is harsh... but it's deserved. Cat-fishing is too generous of a term. It's skin-suiting. They wear the skin of our loved ones, having already murdered them, and demand to be loved. But we do not love them, and we never will.
What the fuck. Catfishing is when someone pretends to be a hot girl to lure in (usually stupid YouTube personalities) desperate victims and extort them.
Sounds like it applies to me. The studios are pretending to still be the people that made that one game to lure in (usually stupid youtube personalities) desperate victims and extort them with MTX.
That's bait and switch. The bait is them selling it on expectation that it's the competent game devs that made it and is actually good, the switch is that it's made by retards.
Catfishing is literally a bait and switch though. The bait is the "hot chick" being presented and the switch is that its a completely different person baiting you in.
But "hot chick" isn't what they're advertising. These games are advertising mannish freaks.
Apparently the term is from a movie with an at least reasonably attractive catfish.
The "hot chick" in this scenario is the awesome game company you remember, with the fake picture being their Company Logo. Whereas in reality that is a complete bait to do a switch on you with their current company who is using that logo to hide reality.
Its using the term in a metaphorical way to show that the action is similar, using an example that people already know and resent.
So metaphorically it's a specific kind of bait and switch, with a catfish, except without the fish.
We used to call it the Gypsy switch. Hence the phrase "What a gyp!"
Every time they pump out a new Halo game, or a new Battlefield, or whatever CDPR puts out next, what do you think they are doing?
They are using the prestige of the brand's past (i.e., the hot girl) to lure people in who are desperate for good entertainment (i.e., the victims) to part from them their cash and infuse them with the woke mind virus.
It's the same concept, and we see it apply time and time and time over again. A really good example is Grand Theft Auto 6. Countless people will tell you that they cannot wait to play it, and that "Rockstar is anti-woke and only makes good games", though unbeknownst to the normies, almost all of the core Rockstar developers and producers who made all of the big sellers have either left the company or have been fired. It's a shell of its former self, yet people are convinced GTA 6 will be "peak Rockstar". It will not. They will be proverbially catfished into a woke game that may be mechanically competent.
The real question is: how many people lured into the trap will accept the woke mind virus and how many people will reject it?
While certainly what most are going to go with for the concept it's being used here regarding luring in unwitting customers.
How it truly has changed as this video showed.
Before you did everything you could to save EVERY character in your game, I remember just reading some guides on ME2 just so I could save the npc crew too.
But now, I'll get popcorn and watch them all die if I had to play this shit.
Yea, I still remember that I stopped playing Mass Effect 2 2/3rds through the game when I read that everyone dies at the end of ME3. Never touched any of the Mass Effect games again.
Veilguard, on the other hand, I would only start if I could kill those characters myself the minute I meet them.
I didn't know it was possible to save Shadow in FF6.
Ruined my play experience when I found out and didn't have a backup save because I'd already progressed way past that point.
First time I played I didn't even notice the bunch of pixels on the screen was supposed to be a character and went ahead without even recruiting Shadow before the ghost train part.
To me it looked like a burnt tree.
And I didn't think about waiting at the very last second for Shadow to save him either before using a walkthrough either.
Great game. But definetly ''keep the walkthrough open as you play'', at least for your second playthrough, to see all the content and characters you missed.
The one thing I am abivalent about with ''save / recruit everyone'' is Celes saving Cid ( a rather tricky task ) after the Apocalypse, as if you don't save Cid, it's a deeply sad and very well made tragedy.
I usually use save-states to help me heal him, but I'm glad I didn't know about that the first time I played.
In modern divershitty games though, either mod-away the divershitty, or let me get rid of all the woke trash I don't want in my party.
Just feed him fast-moving fish.
Yes... and since I'm clumsy I have to save-scum because there is an invisible timer leeching Cid's health down.
Does anyone have a clever, better neologism than cat-fishing for this?
Something like skinsuit-wearing, to emphasis how decietful it is to wear a successfull, beloved franchise as a costume to shove their Intersectional Race Marxism political agenda in there.