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Post by GamerL on Jun 28, 2016 6:15:25 GMT -5
Seconded.
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Post by tbb on Jul 6, 2016 13:28:58 GMT -5
The discourse is kind of poisoned by the misogynist asshats. You need to realize that when you bring those sorts of subjects up. I have no idea what the numbers are, but they're the loudest voices, and a lot of people who suddenly found out about this game and started complaining about it rarely did it with actual personal thoughts or criticisms, but parroted points from lunatics. That's basically big topic nerd discourse 101 at this point. I've been genuinely impressed by a lot of the talk here because it's worlds more mature than the angry shouting I've seen elsewhere. I think enough time has past that the crazies have gone onto another target (thank god). Ghostbusters is still a new thing, so it's waaaaaaaay more difficult to talk about even-handedly because the loonies are still screaming up a storm. I brought it up earlier. First bigots get mad, then they convince non-bigots to be mad via poorly made arguments meant to smokescreen the homophobia. I am seeing actual arguments and thoughts on this thread, at least. Critics saying their opinion isn't what caused this, it was the gaming community being giant babies about opinions, as it usually is. Still kind of amazed by that Uncharted 4 storm. No, people really were that mad and crazy over what was ultimately nothing. The addition of that reveal in this game got the bigots riled up, and that combined with normally mild discontent with these sorts of games made it blow up because bigots are really, really good at making people even angrier than they actually are. And I never said it was the first, just that this was the game that popularized the idea of a "walking simulator" for the general public and not just smaller crowds. A single bad review was on Metacritic because a guy didn't like it and everyone proceeded to lose their shit, even leading to transphobic asshole voice actor Troy Baker urging people to sign a petition to take down the review. See, when I'm mad at "gamers," I have reasons, like dumb shit like this. Are you even capable of talking about people that disagree with you without spewing insults at them? You have no arguments, just attacks. Maybe people think the game is garbage even without the big old gay twist, but no they're just bigoted asshats. Maybe people think Ghostbusters 2016 looks to be the bottom of the barrel shitty remake with no respect for the beloved original regardless of the casting but no they're just misogynist assholes. Maybe you could make your points without petty namecalling, but no you just can't.
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Post by Discoalucard on Jul 6, 2016 14:01:57 GMT -5
He's just talking about the criticism of the game in general, and while there have been numerous legitimate complaints, he's correct that this game was the target of a lot of people who had, shall we say, an agenda.
Also, did you really need to bump this? He wasn't criticizing you nor anyone even in this thread.
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Post by grandstra on Oct 14, 2016 20:39:56 GMT -5
And this, children, is the reason we need GamerGate.
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Post by Weasel on Oct 14, 2016 23:40:30 GMT -5
We do? I mean, you only have two posts on this forum and both of them are in this thread, complaining about this article. Also, congratulations on bumping the thread again over that.
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Post by grandstra on Oct 15, 2016 16:08:30 GMT -5
We do? I mean, you only have two posts on this forum and both of them are in this thread, complaining about this article. Also, congratulations on bumping the thread again over that.
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Post by Weasel on Oct 15, 2016 18:00:01 GMT -5
....I'm confused as to your motivation.
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Post by Gendo Ikari on Nov 12, 2016 1:18:27 GMT -5
gonehome.itch.io/gonehomeThe DRM-free version of the game can be downloaded for free over the weekend (should go back to regular pricing on Monday).
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