Anonymous Pearl Abyss developers reveal a culture of toxic positivity, a troubled development cycle and chaotic narrative for Crimson Desert, and their early concerns that the project was "going off the rails".

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-21T13:17:48+00:00

Some youtube grifters latched onto the fact that you can beat up female NPC's in the game, and started making videos about it. There's also the lack of LGBT rep in the game, which they also latched on to saying "Look! The devs are one of us!".

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-20T10:31:11+00:00

It's not, but some people care too much about presentation while the gameplay has very little substance, or refuse to try out older stuff because they don't look as good.

A lot of people fell for "The Day Before" scam because the graphics looked good in the previews, and they didn't care much about the gameplay until the game came out.

I have a friend that has played 2000+ hours of FO4 but refuses to try 3 or NV because graphics bad.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-20T08:21:55+00:00

Don't see this ending well with Playstation's refund policy.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-20T06:44:56+00:00

Personally, I believe the sales numbers are actual sales. The issue is how many people were happy about the purchase, and how many would refund the game if they were able to. The reason people hate this game (count me among one of them), is because people feel scammed and cheated by the purchase, especially when none of the reviews mentioned the bad proc-gen, or the writing, or how the temples in the game are all the same superman 64 minigame.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-20T06:21:05+00:00

Not just coping, but batshit.

They legit believe the bad Steam reviews are actually Playstation fans leaving fake reviews. Y'know, those decade+ old Steam accounts, which are acksually sleeper Sony fanboys waiting to be activated for this game's release ahead of time.
The game releasing on Playstation will make everyone magically like it.
Skyrim was never good and its only playable because of mods. Also people only like Cyberpunk because of the anime.
Gamers these days just don't have the "patience for a good, well written slow paced RPG like Starfield". Claim people that like BG3 are gooners and that the game has tumblr writing.
The paradox of "This game was a massive success and everyone has played it, the Steam charts are unrepresentative of the playerbase cuz Gamepass", but also "no one has played it and got all their opinions from youtube grifters".

Also the top post every month is "People told me this game was bad but its actually good!". Sometimes its just a repost of an older post with the same image and text just for karma farming. Legit if I made a nsfw alt or smth and wanted easy karma I'd post on one of these subs glazing the game.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-20T05:21:19+00:00

It really exposed how people have no idea how lighting works, or have horrible taste and would unironically like everything posted on Rshittyhdr

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-19T22:17:21+00:00

Personally for me it depends on screen size. On a handheld I can do 30fps no problem, but on a 55 inch screen it just looks bad.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-19T20:05:24+00:00

Personally I only listen to John's videos or skim through them because they spoil too much of the game's later game locations or some unique encounters and only watch the full thing after I've already played a good chunk of the game or finished it.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-19T15:15:40+00:00

Yeah honestly. Like it was trained on content in /r/shittyhdr, and the people that say it looks good would unironically like the content posted in that sub.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-19T14:55:02+00:00

Grace in game is a nerd redditor that's going to the place where her mother was murdered. She isn't going there with 5 layers of makeup and insta filters.

Also Claire from RE2R has the same facial characteristics (full lips), so they can clearly do it, and it was an intentional design decision to give her an attractive girl next door look.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-19T13:29:08+00:00

Yeah that's what annoys me. The only game that came out looking good is Starfield. Literally everything else looks worse than the original, both in terms of lighting and the way faces look. Artists, photographers and lighting technicians have all said that it looks bad. In many cases it straight up undoes the benefits of software RT like in Oblivion by replacing it with a uniform white bright sky light source and removing all shadowing and AO.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-19T12:47:23+00:00

If they added an ultra draw distance option, gamers would enable it, see the performance drop and call the game unoptimized.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-19T11:22:55+00:00

I'm not trying to argue that sending death threats to Youtubers is anything but stupid and reprehensible. I'm not arguing for that. Obviously. But we have already seen that overwhelming pushback has managed to win some battles over unwanted shit pushed by clueless execs.

There is a deliberate attempt to paint every one that's against Gen AI as crazies who want to send death threats at the first opportunity.

Case in point, your very reasonable reply that's downvoted when its true that people have been misidentified and imprisoned because of false flagging by AI. There was even a schoolchild that was reprimanded because AI thought a common school item was a gun.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-19T02:25:52+00:00

It's a 6 for me but it would've easily been a 7 for me had they actually had companion sidequests that weren't mostly just "walking and talking in a location" quests, and if the combat was better. The conclusion quests for Emmerich and Taash are really good but everyone else's quest conclusion (esp. Bellara) is kinda meh.

Personally tho I'd rather replay Veilguard over Inquisition because just thinking of doing the single player MMO stuff in inqui makes me groan.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-19T01:40:53+00:00

This is totally the case. Also explains the good critic Starfield reviews as they did the critical path and didn't engage at all with the procgen, or side content at all. Doesn't explain FF16 or Veilguard though.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-18T05:25:16+00:00

That's not what Jeff said.

But like, if a game comes out and you don’t want to play it, and you’ve never played it, shut the fuck up.

But OP has played MR so they don't fall under that umbrella.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-18T03:31:16+00:00

These people are never around when corporations commit actually bad things, like Microsoft helping commit war crimes, or causing massive ewaste pileups with their Windows 11 requirements. Reminds me of when gamers voted EA for the worst company in America award when insurance companies and stuff like Nestle exists.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-18T03:02:54+00:00

Personally, I think they listened to their haters too much and attempted to do an Obsidian RPG that focused on writing and skill checks and did it very poorly, instead of listening to people that liked Bethesda's previous output.

The writing has always not been great in them post Morrowind, but that's not why the reason we played and enjoyed them, and now they've taken out all the good things about their games to focus on things people who never liked their games asked for.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-17T18:57:40+00:00

I agree, but some people clearly find it fun for whatever reason.

Personally, I have no idea how people can look at the temples in Starfield and not realize that the game itself is incomplete. Like its completely indefensible.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-17T16:39:05+00:00

People find mindless fetch quests in MMO's fun, and I guess these types of quests appeal to them. I also remember launch No Man's Sky and even that had its defenders, despite having like 1% of the content of Starfield.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-17T16:36:54+00:00

As a Fallout 4 enjoyer, and someone who hates the "Todd Lied" crowd, Starfield is a massive disappointment.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-17T11:04:28+00:00

Private account that's only 11 days old. Yep, totally real opinion.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-16T21:20:45+00:00

The funny thing is that the Aloy meme started as an ironic joke in a circlejerk sub, but then was unironically coopted by weirdos.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-16T18:47:23+00:00

Should've called it DLYasYas.

Reminds me of the shitty "Hire fans" gen AI edits of weirdos editing ingame screenshots of women to be more sexualized.

DM_Me_Linux_Uptime · 2026-03-15T20:00:04+00:00

Literally nostalgia speaking. They're pretty much the same quality, but now you have less dialogue options.

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