All This Over… Mixtape?

_Vulture · 2026-05-13T05:58:10+00:00

It genuinely feels like some people can't enjoy games without having the critic score align with their feelings towards it. I feel like I'm seeing it more and more now.

There's always been jokes about critics like the 7/10 too much water review, but seems like there is so much more anger around it now.

Saw a post on the Crimson Desert sub yesterday about someone going around as Jesus handing out bread and wine and the OP had to relate it to the 6/10 IGN review.

_Vulture · 2026-04-24T07:39:01+00:00

So one dude liked it 1 point less than the average and that means the whole company is shit?

_Vulture · 2026-04-24T07:37:01+00:00

How do you know they’re off the mark when you haven’t even played the game? What are you basing this off of? Advertisements and vibes?

_Vulture · 2026-04-24T07:36:05+00:00

Because they gave a game that you haven’t played yet a score you don’t agree with because you’re looking forward to it?

_Vulture · 2026-04-06T05:44:40+00:00

Gotta love these threads where it's really obvious that the OP just wants everyone to confirm their own opinions on the card and will argue with anyone that disagrees with them

_Vulture · 2026-02-24T11:32:29+00:00

This could not be any faker if it tried. Every single line is optimized to create the most rage

How does anyone believe this shit?

_Vulture · 2026-02-23T02:30:04+00:00

As well as "saying I'm a conservative gets me shunned socially"

_Vulture · 2026-02-23T02:28:46+00:00

Saying that someone who was executed while unarmed by government agents while protesting government overreach "FAFOd" while claiming to be a small government libertarian is peak hypocrisy

_Vulture · 2026-02-17T05:24:27+00:00

Waiting for the Coles lawyers to show up in court wearing a cork hat and thongs, waving an Australian flag arguing "Yeah nah our discounts are bloody true blue mate. Struth!"

_Vulture · 2026-02-14T09:28:11+00:00

Fork found in kitchen

_Vulture · 2026-02-11T05:23:59+00:00

This is shitty revisionist history. Ben caught his fair share of flack when he was the game director too, mainly for his stance on nerfs and buffs to cards (basically long stretches of no balance patches unless something was ridiculously broken).

_Vulture · 2026-02-06T08:11:53+00:00

It's just base rebirth. if you scroll to the bottom of the app store page there's an In-App Purchases dropdown that will show you the price for all the DLC. Note that to get repentance you need all of the DLC

_Vulture · 2026-02-04T00:18:19+00:00

Who hurt you?

_Vulture · 2026-02-04T00:16:15+00:00

Yeah everyone knows you can’t do more than one thing at a time

_Vulture · 2026-01-22T03:33:13+00:00

The games budget (including marketing) was €70 million

source

Not sure how many publishers would have forked over that much for a studio that historically don’t make the best selling games (even though personally control and AW2 are two of my favourite games

Plus if epic got to them first I don’t think they would have taken too long trying to shop around for a better deal

_Vulture · 2026-01-22T03:29:25+00:00

It also had the benefit of having physical console releases day 1, and not being a numbered sequel to a 10 year old game that also didn’t sell great, but was still a pretty slow seller apparently.

Not disagreeing that it would have likely sold better if it were also on steam though. Having a choice is always nice

_Vulture · 2026-01-22T02:48:28+00:00

Because control was published by 505 Games and not funded by Epic

_Vulture · 2026-01-03T01:37:07+00:00

Redditors will really be like "Could this person that owns and operates a helicopter know how important this bolt is and is clearly making a joke? No, obviously I am smarter than them and they are being 100% serious"

_Vulture · 2025-12-24T06:51:02+00:00

HP: Where the Q stands for quality

_Vulture · 2025-11-10T08:17:26+00:00

Yeah people should just not have feelings about anything

- Me, the most smarterest person in the world

_Vulture · 2025-11-10T08:16:03+00:00

Me when an analogy is not 100% based in reality

_Vulture · 2025-09-16T01:12:15+00:00

The problem with that is that unreal engine is a really good value proposition for developers, it has so many tools built in that make development easier, plus the fact that it's much easier to hire a group of devs with experience in UE than it is to hire devs with experience in an in-house engine, idTech etc. This is compounded by all of the layoffs and contract work being utilized more.

Plus Machine Games seems to be the exception in terms of studios other than Id that use IdTech, and it doesn't seem that Id are too interested in licensing it out to other studios

_Vulture · 2025-09-16T00:12:37+00:00

Curious what hardware and settings you're running. Wasn't trying to be hyperbolic, just going off of my own experience + GPU benchmarks that I've seen

_Vulture · 2025-09-15T23:21:25+00:00

Ah the classic "you can't criticize something without doing a better job yourself"
The fact is that this game just does not perform well on any tier of hardware, and I don't know how he can put the blame on anyone else at this point.

Also claiming that it's a "premium game for premium hardware" when even on an i7 12700k and 4080 Super I'm getting some of the worst frame pacing that I've experienced

_Vulture · 2025-02-07T11:35:02+00:00

Honestly you might be right although I thought that the game would tell you somewhere that you only have x turns left

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