@Tanner Glass And the semi-exclusive game Sony has in 2024 they completely lucked into by giving a middle size developer of a small niche game carte blanche to do what ever they wanted.
If you mean Steller Blade, given that it's been melting the brains of the games press, I'm still expecting a FF7 style censorship patch in a month or two.
A good offensive or just petty?
I don't see the problem with it. The devs going insane over SBI are often no-names with small followings but big connections.
We've got the WIP
KF Guide to Woke Games thread and there are a few other recommended games threads floating around but we could absolutely use an updated one.
I made an indie game suggestion thread a while ago. It's more of a general list of games that look interesting, but I can create a fresh thread if you want. I don't know what would be different though.
I have no faith in "a lot of people" making a difference after shit like that. Especially when the GTA VI trailer has....184 Million Views?
There seems to be confusion over this by various people throughout the thread. So I'll get to the point me, and I assume
@Bog-standard Poster and others are trying to get at.
You have basically three groups.
- Informed gamers
- Uninformation gamers and non gaming political nuts
- Uninformed normies.
3 is the largest group, 1 is the smallest but most active.
Group 1 (informed gamers, ie. Most in this thread) are going to avoid GTA6. But as a group they are too small to make much of a difference.
Group 3 is going to buy the game no matter what. It's going to take until GTA7 or maybe even GTA8 for them to turn on it. We saw this in everything from Bud Lite, to Star Wars.
Group 2 are the only group that might have enough numbers and information to tip the scales. This is why people are expecting a Cyberpunk or Last of Us 2 situation. They are going to buy it anyway, either unironically or to "hate play" it, but if the game turns out to be shit, it's going to have a steep drop off.
The game is going to be a huge success, there's going to headlines about it being "the fastest selling game ever!" or "Biggest opening week sales" or some other Hollywood accounting bullshit, the left are going to point to it as an example of a woke game succeeding. This much is almost certain.
However, only time will tell if we see headlines like "GTA6 a 'disappointment' says publisher" or "publisher says growth failed to meet expectations, blames some unrelated bs". I also expect to see a sharp drop off in players, followed by a lot of cope. We saw this Palworld vs Suicide Squad.
