Dustborn - The Latest and Biggest DEI Flop to Date that No One Asked for!

[The Dude]

@MeltyTW I wasn't paying that close of attention in the videos I watched on this digital shit burrito, but I believe "Pacifica" is SoCal, which broke away from "The Republic" to become an independent entity while NorCal remained part of "The Republic". There is a map on the bus the characters are riding around in and each chapter of the game is represented by a thumb tack along the route that is drawn out on the map, and on the map Cali is broken up into two. I could be misremembering and it could be NorCal that is Pacifica and SoCal stayed with "The Republic".

But I agree this dystopian alternate history premise is hackneyed and tired. Your assessment is spot on. The whole thing reeks of talentless hacks who are convinced they're the smartest motherfuckers in the room, shamelessly ripping off concepts that were done far better to push their unoriginal ideas. They're such rip-off artists and concept thieves that they even stole assets from other video games, such as GTA, shamelessly slap a coat of paint on it, and try to pass it off as their own original work. Its like with the recent Borderlands movie where Eli Roth talks about how he wanted to do a movie that was a bit of Star Wars, a bit of Fifth Element, and all these other films he ripped off to make something "original" that felt nothing like Borderlands. They have to rip off shit that's more popular and established because they don't have the talent or creativity to make anything truly original that anyone would give a shit about.

 

[BlankSpaceBaby]

Wonder if people are pirating Dustborn instead of buying it off Steam...

Oh.

 

[Sneedfully and Peacefully]

Wonder if people are pirating Dustborn instead of buying it off Steam...

Oh.

People not even mildly curious to even crack jokes at it want to pirate it. The shame. No pornography, no pirates, no actual customers. That's the hat trick of "nobody wants or likes your piece of media."

 

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

If you're wondering, "Fred" is Winifred, a visibly disabled redhead with the build of an athlete (male)

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

Wonder if people are pirating Dustborn instead of buying it off Steam...

Oh.

Get that disinfo out of here, CHUD! That's 68 seeds and 192 total downloads from a large private tracker. There's more people seeding this game than are playing it on Steam. lol, lmao even.

 

[Gamepads]

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Get that disinfo out of here, CHUD! That's 68 seeds and 192 total downloads from a large private tracker. There's more people seeding this game than are playing it on Steam. lol, lmao even.

I'd normally say cause the ratio is more important than the game itself, but there's no leechers.

 

[JohnnyG]

They dropped the absolute banger of a soundtrack.

Only a true genius would rhyme the word "born(e)" three times with itself and also rhyme "newborn" with "new porn." Enjoy other songs like "Escaping the Gig Grind" and "Influence Apocalypse!" Are you feeling it, fellow kids!

Only caught this cause E;R's chat was saying "pay attention, they mean every word".

As funny as it is that 3 of the 4 line rhyme reuses "born", consider that the Spiteful Mutant troon anthem:
- declares that their "bug is airborne"
- calls themselves the "new porn"
- immediately rhymes "porn" with "newborn"

They literally want to spread their MonkeyGRIDS to your children...

 

[Deus Exica]

hope somebody makes a soy/right wing parody played straight,

You and a band of misfits must travel across the Woke United States of America. Starring, a hetero couple, a white teenager who just barely managed to escape his state mandated transition, and a Christian priest. Use the power of words to get an advantage over your enemies, like screaming Nigger to cause a bunch of Woke female cops to keel over and be stunned.

Your protagonist doesn't have super mutant strength, he just lifts weights occasionally.

They literally want to spread their MonkeyGRIDS to your children...

It's also literally a song about white replacement.

 

[PixarsTedKennedy]

I hope somebody makes a soy/right wing parody played straight, not just to show how ridiculous a concept like that is but also because I can guarantee you more people will play it.

Let's do it. Honestly a Kiwi games department would be pretty funny.

 

[Never Scored]

Only caught this cause E;R's chat was saying "pay attention, they mean every word".

As funny as it is that 3 of the 4 line rhyme reuses "born", consider that the Spiteful Mutant troon anthem:
- declares that their "bug is airborne"
- calls themselves the "new porn"
- immediately rhymes "porn" with "newborn"

They literally want to spread their MonkeyGRIDS to your children...

The way the songs keep repeating words in general is really weird.

"We chase the ghosts in the mean machine,
We are the ghosts of this machine"

"This town's in a ghost town state,
There are ghosts, out walking ?"

Why not like, "This town's in a haunted state?" Is it ghost town state referring to a state full of towns that are largely abandoned and have ghosts in them? Why not something like
"We're lost in a ghost town state,
We are plagued, by a haunted fate"

You can drag out that long a sound in plagued just like the o in ghost, and the meaning is the same without repeating town and ghost twice in a single rhyming couplet. I dunno, this is just me spitballing. I'm not saying it's genius or anything. The point is it's a bit weird nobody sat around and brainstormed lyrics with less repetition. Did they think using the same words in back to back lines was clever and wouldn't sound really weird? The whole thing is just odd for a production of this size.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

The way the songs keep repeating words in general is really weird.

"We chase the ghosts in the mean machine,
We are the ghosts of this machine"

"This town's in a ghost town state,
There are ghosts, out walking ?"

Why not like, "This town's in a haunted state?" Is it ghost town state referring to a state full of towns that are largely abandoned and have ghosts in them? Why not something like
"We're lost in a ghost town state,
We are plagued, by a haunted fate"

You can drag out that long a sound in plagued just like the o in ghost, and the meaning is the same without repeating town and ghost twice in a single rhyming couplet. I dunno, this is just me spitballing. I'm not saying it's genius or anything. The point is it's a bit weird nobody sat around and brainstormed lyrics with less repetition. Did they think using the same words in back to back lines was clever and wouldn't sound really weird? The whole thing is just odd for a production of this size.

Reminds me when the latest Disney film came out and people in the Disney thread laughed how the lyrics were shit. Imagine being such a nepo baby even writing average level lyrics is too much.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Wait, are they dustborn because they're gay and their vaginas are filled with dust from not having heterosexual relations?

 

[Kane Lives]

The point is it's a bit weird nobody sat around and brainstormed lyrics with less repetition. Did they think using the same words in back to back lines was clever and wouldn't sound really weird?

Given that the cohort grew up in an environment where shouting

TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS!
TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS!
TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS!
ad nauseam is apparently stunning and brave activism on par with striking miners being beaten by Pinkertons, well...

 

[ZMOT]

Dustborn is one of the few games that you could genuinely consider the next TORtanic

it's neither big enough nor notorious enough for anyone to give enough of a shit to consider it a tortanic. it's a bad game by shit devs, nothing more.

 

[Grant McClellan]

Let's do it. Honestly a Kiwi games department would be pretty funny.

Like the Kiwi Farms subhuman scum can even make a game!? Besides Steam and GOG would never allow a Kiwi Farms made game anyway. Your on the same level as the people who made Ethnic Cleansing

 

[MeltyTW]

I believe "Pacifica" is SoCal, which broke away from "The Republic" to become an independent entity while NorCal remained part of "The Republic".

So they just entirely cribbed cyberpunk 2020 and most California separatist wetdreams in general. Which actually could be fun plating as a rockerboy focusing more on the everyday or social aspects of that world or a derivative world.

Which is funny because that setting while still having cringe anti nazi shit in parts still did more to show the down sides of modernity and a multicultural fragmented society instead of blandly glorifying it, and the guy who created it is black iirc and not white

 

[Tinnitus]

Wait, are they dustborn because they're gay and their vaginas are filled with dust from not having heterosexual relations?

It's a reference to the Empire of Dust.

They got 150k & more from the US and all they've done with the money is make a *chirp* game that crumbled into dust right on release.

Reviewers being paid to rate the game well is just tiring. Youtube Commenters are atleast sane unlike them. *chirp*

 

[Obstacle]

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If you're wondering, "Fred" is Winifred, a visibly disabled redhead with the build of an athlete (male)

I might hazard a guess at the question in the screenie.
"Empathy" is usually thought of as unilaterally positive.
But understanding how other people feel, is just a form of knowledge.
And all forms of knowledge may be turned to destructive ends.
Empathy is also a vital tool in the array of the torturer.
After all, if you don't understand how somebody thinks, how can you truly hurt them?
Luckily, all most leftoids can do is project their own malicious intentions onto their enemies, so they just end up torturing themselves.

 

[Lesser Key is Lost]

Nooo! How dare you call us out on our propaganda!

https://x.com/RedThreadGames/status/1829503995192222020 (Archive)

 

[Deus Exica]

Nooo! How dare you call us out on our propaganda!
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What community?