Sweet Baby Inc. and the Steam Curator Group Conspiracy - The company that is responsible for the diarrheic video game writing.

[Oliver Onions]

I was just coming to post about the Suicide Squad conclusion too. Here's the final cutscene for anyone who cares:

I wonder if the clones twist was the plan all along or if they just had to pull something out their ass to tie everything up before they axe the game.

It's a shame Concord took so much of the attention last year, because I think Kill The Justice League is the far more interesting disaster, given the pedigree of the studio who shat it out. They don't even have the Bioware excuse of all the former talent being long gone: this game was lead by the studio founders who oversaw the Arkham games and they still completely fucked it up.

Those guys have left now though, so be interesting to see how the next Rock Steady project turns out, (assuming they aren't relegated to supporting other studios after this monumental fuck up).

 

[regalterry]

They don't even have the Bioware excuse of all the former talent being long gone

The founders of Rocksteady bailed around 2022 and took a large chunk of the employees with them.

I wish people would learn that organizations, much like countries, are not sacred clay - they're made up of people, and once the talented, hardworking and creative employees are gone, the quality of the product drops significantly. It's why shit like "From the creators of New Vegas" means fuckall when the actual people making the game are dangerhairs, and the has-been homosexual tasked with tradwrangling them.

Those guys have left now though, so be interesting to see how the next Rock Steady project turns out, (assuming they aren't relegated to supporting other studios after this monumental fuck up).

I don't know where you're getting your information from, but as I said at the beginning of my post, the founders and most of the talent left long ago. As for the next Rocksteady game, it will be just as shit as Suicide Squad, retreading much of the same narrative ground, because leftists are not learning animals.

WB would do a favor to everyone, even themselves, if they shut the studio down and blacklisted everyone involved in creating Suicide Squad.

 

[Oliver Onions]

The founders of Rocksteady bailed around 2022 and took a large chunk of the employees with them.

By which point the game had already been in development for at least 2 years as it was first announced in 2020 (it had presumably been in pre-production much, much longer). Point being they were still there in the beginning to steer the course: whatever the competence of the remaining staff at Rock Steady, they inherited a poisoned chalice and were expected to spin straw into gold.

I don't think the old Rock Steady people were responsible for any DEI stuff in Suicide Squad, but I also don't think the DEI stuff is why the game bombed so hard.

 

[regalterry]

By which point the game had already been in development for at least 2 years as it was first announced in 2020 (it had presumably been in pre-production much, much longer).

The game got restarted a number of times during development, to the point they pushed the launch back for a whole year a few months before release due to the negative reception it go, and it's been hinted that the reason why the founders left was frustration over being forced to develop a live service game.

whatever the competence of the remaining staff at Rock Steady, they inherited a poisoned chalice and were expected to spin straw into gold

That's fair, but the usual leftist malice laced through the narrative is obvious and deliberate. All things being equal the title would have been much more positively received if the whole story wasn't about pissing (in the most literal sense) on beloved characters.

 

[Oliver Onions]

The game got restarted a number of times during development, to the point they pushed the launch back for a whole year a few months before release due to the negative reception it go, and it's been hinted that the reason why the founders left was frustration over being forced to develop a live service game.

I don't doubt that's why they left, but I'm not convinced the game would have been good even before it was a live service then the bizarre not-quite-live-service-but-still-always-online homunculus that finally released.

The game was a flawed concept from the start, and while I had faith in Rock Steady given their track record, I wasn't ever particularly hype for the game because even from the teaser trailer it reeked of many of the worst AAA trends at the time (this only got worse when gameplay was revealed).

That's fair, but the usual leftist malice laced through the narrative is obvious and deliberate. All things being equal the title would have been much more positively received if the whole story wasn't about pissing (in the most literal sense) on beloved characters.

I don't fully agree. Again, the writing and the handling of the characters definitely didn't help, but even if it had been peak I still think the game would have bombed because the gameplay was repetitive, uninspired and did absolutely nothing to distinguish itself from the glut of similar games that had came before it.

Its only USP was coming from one of the few remaining AAA devs with a good reputation and that it featured comic book characters which are generally well received. Obviously we'll never know now but I'm confident the game would have flopped no matter what, although it certainly would have performed better without the twink Joker, gender-swapped Mr Freeze and conversation about Captain Boomerang's massive dick.

 

[Pumpkin Girl IRL]

There was information about the League being clones floating around ever since the game became available. While the extent they could use it obviously fell through due to the fuck up of a release it was, it was always going to be revealed that we'd been killing clones or alternate versions. IIRC the first data mined stuff about it was dialogue between Flash and Waller, where he questions why they were "brought back" if she hated them.

 

[Hermiöne Granger]

Another Sweet Baby inc failure. Hyper Light Breaker has launched with 5k concurrent players and mostly negative reviews.

"This game isn't for you, chud"

"Why aren't you buying the game, filthy chud?"

 

[Oliver Onions]

While the extent they could use it obviously fell through due to the fuck up of a release it was, it was always going to be revealed that we'd been killing clones or alternate versions.

I should have expected as much from anything involving a multiverse. Honestly think it all being a daydream Harley had in her padded cell would have been a better ending.

Another Sweet Baby inc failure. Hyper Light Breaker has launched with 5k concurrent players and mostly negative reviews.

Worth pointing out it is currently still in Early Access, and it's already performing marginally better than Hyper Light Drifter's peak on Steam:

 

[The Token Ethnic]

As for Gary, I respect him going sober after many years of drugs and imprisonment, but his channel is unwatchable for me nowadays. I can only watch the same video so many times telling me Disney/Lucasfilm sucks now. Trust me, I'm very well aware that they suck now and have destroyed Star Wars, and I'm baffled people can watch what is essentially the same video over and over again. Also throwing money at a weekly show which is just a bunch of people yelling over each other, going around the table with their extremely predictable takes on everything. Waste of money.

A lot of these channels exist to solely complain about woke content in their mainstream capeshit, comics, fantasy or sci-fi franchises. Yet they don't really offer much insight other than what's already been said. Nerdrotic's condensed videos are better than Friday Night Tights or his other live videos. They don't even offer recommendations for their audience, which would be way more helpful. "Sick of what Star Wars has turned into? Check out an Italian rip-off from the 70s that's cheesy and entertaining!" His deliberate ball busting and edgy jokes amongst friends alienate people that didn't grow up in that sort of environment.

As for the Drinker praising GOW Ragnarok, it could be brand bias. Fans will defend or overlook any obvious flaws or narratives being pushed if they like the end product. Just how people praised Mad Max: Fury Road and Furiosa... despite the plot holes and Fury Road making Max a secondary character.

 

[Hermiöne Granger]

As for the Drinker praising GOW Ragnarok, it could be brand bias. Fans will defend or overlook any obvious flaws or narratives being pushed if they like the end product. Just how people praised Mad Max: Fury Road and Furiosa... despite the plot holes and Fury Road making Max a secondary character.

The drinker is a shill, as long he can see it earn him some money, he will butt kiss the product. I followed that guy for years and i learned it the hard way. So the drinker can go fuck himself!

 

[Sharpeteer]

I wish people would learn that organizations, much like countries, are not sacred clay - they're made up of people, and once the talented, hardworking and creative employees are gone, the quality of the product drops significantly. It's why shit like "From the creators of New Vegas" means fuckall when the actual people making the game are dangerhairs, and the has-been homosexual tasked with tradwrangling them.

When Naughty Dog presented their terrible new upcoming game with the androgynous bald chick, their marketing was disgusting - "THE STUDIO THAT BROUGHT YOU CRASH BANDICOOT! JAK & DAXTER!"

It's like fuck you, all those people are gone, and you hacks couldn't even come close to holding a candle to those people and what they created, yet for some reason, it works. Granted that trailer was massively ratioed, but it apparently works on a large number of people.

A lot of these channels exist to solely complain about woke content in their mainstream capeshit, comics, fantasy or sci-fi franchises. Yet they don't really offer much insight other than what's already been said. Nerdrotic's condensed videos are better than Friday Night Tights or his other live videos. They don't even offer recommendations for their audience, which would be way more helpful. "Sick of what Star Wars has turned into? Check out an Italian rip-off from the 70s that's cheesy and entertaining!" His deliberate ball busting and edgy jokes amongst friends alienate people that didn't grow up in that sort of environment.

As for the Drinker praising GOW Ragnarok, it could be brand bias. Fans will defend or overlook any obvious flaws or narratives being pushed if they like the end product. Just how people praised Mad Max: Fury Road and Furiosa... despite the plot holes and Fury Road making Max a secondary character.

You know what I wish these channels did? Do what the likes of Crowbcat do - make one mega video on the topic, then it's done. You can refer to that video anytime to get the gist of what you need to know because it's well done. He made one mega video telling the whole story of the Cyberpunk 2077 disaster without even saying anything, same with how 343i ruined Halo, everything you need to know about Todd Howard, etc. All it took was one well made video to get the point across. Now imagine if he made a new one with much less effort every week. There's a reason why he so rarely releases a video, but when he does, it's like an event for his subscribers.

There's clearly a market for this, but at some point I just had to jump off, like enough is enough. But I do agree that his solo streams where he just talks are way better than the ones where he has a bunch of people on. The stories of when he ran the store, his prison stories, recovery stories, etc, I enjoyed those a lot.

The drinker is a shill, as long he can see it earn him some money, he will butt kiss the product. I followed that guy for years and i learned it the hard way. So the drinker can go fuck himself!

It's one thing for him to like the game, I couldn't care less. It's another thing for him to review other games/films badly because of DEI/"The Message" while giving certain other ones a pass for having the same things.

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

They don't even offer recommendations for their audience, which would be way more helpful. "Sick of what Star Wars has turned into? Check out an Italian rip-off from the 70s that's cheesy and entertaining!"

That would require them to have watched anything but capeshit and mainstream sci-fi/fantasy, which they haven't and probably never will.

 

[chuddha_maxxer]

The drinker is a shill, as long he can see it earn him some money, he will butt kiss the product. I followed that guy for years and i learned it the hard way. So the drinker can go fuck himself!

that incident, and the fallout show incident where he shilled the show while everyone else in his stream were shitting on the show while he could not defend the show told me everything about the drinker. as of now i don't care for any of them, but it was an entertaining watching everyone fry the fallout show while drinker couldnt say shit about it.

 

[AnOminous]

Another Sweet Baby inc failure. Hyper Light Breaker has launched with 5k concurrent players and mostly negative reviews.

This dumbass company followed up a highly regarded indie title by hiring not only SBI but also Zoe Quinn. Apparently she "wrote" the "narrative," that is to say, sucked a bunch of dicks to get other people to write it for her.

Naturally, it's a total disaster, which was blindingly obvious the moment it came out they'd done something that fuckass stupid.

 

[Peguin Sandwich]

A lot of these channels exist to solely complain about woke content in their mainstream capeshit, comics, fantasy or sci-fi franchises. Yet they don't really offer much insight other than what's already been said.

A literal who video essayist JimmyMcgee said something similar. Paraphrasing, it was something along the lines of "Those types of channels don't want to see the franchises they criticize to improve. It's criticism more motivated by hate than love. They just want to knock things over. It's business and profitable, but they don't want to admit that's what they do it for."
Pretty much a long-winded way of saying their content's low quality slop.

This dumbass company followed up a highly regarded indie title by hiring not only SBI but also Zoe Quinn. Apparently she "wrote" the "narrative", that is to say, sucked a bunch of dicks to get other people to write it for her.

I've seen others claim she wrote the game, but is there any proof she had a hand in Breaker's development, let alone getting SBI involved? Not that it makes a difference, it just comes off to me as a misnomer from others who want to dunk/shitpost on an already disappointing game just for the sake of it, because it's hip atm with Breaker. As far as I know she's only credited for Solar Ash's writing and a Special Thanks in Drifter.

 

[AnOminous]

I've seen others claim she wrote the game, but is there any proof she had a hand in Breaker's development, let alone getting SBI involved? Not that it makes a difference, it just comes off to me as a misnomer from others who want to dunk/shitpost on an already disappointing game just for the sake of it, because it's hip atm with Breaker. As far as I know she's only credited for Solar Ash's writing and a Special Thanks in Drifter.

She's been with HeartMachine for a couple years as a "narrative designer." I'm not actually finding anything specific about Breaker, but she actually got a "thank you" credit along with Sarkeesian in Drifter, and she was definitely closely involved in Solar Ash.

So I might be wrong about actually writing Breaker, but she was definitely involved in the related Solar Ash game.

That's her credit from Alx Preston who has boasted about her involvement in HeartMachine. So when some autist inevitably posts a playthrough with credits I guess we'll know.

 

[SpookyObserver]

So was SBI or other grifting "consultants" involved in the massacre of Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2? I remember yeeeeears back them axing a playable bloodline for "schizophrenia" sensitivity and now the game looks uglier and more retarded every passing update from the devs. It is a complete and total loss and it isnt even out yet.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

Oh, I will absolutely point out that coomers are cancer in any given opportunity. They already ruined 4chan and more recently 8chan(moe) entirely and will ruin your community as well if you let them. As you said, they will latch onto any given community, movement or media but they will never do anything but make it look bad, give the opposing side a reason to call everyone within a bunch of porn addicts without any good retort on your side. One of the reasons Gamergate 1.0 failed is, guess what, because these same goddless creatures latched on to it and made everyone there look like porn addicts/lolicons, or in more mainstream circles, muh soggy knees who all hate women because they only see them as sex objects.

Can confirm a TTRPG game design startup I was part of well not really startup like five guys getting together and designing stuff was completely destroyed by this very degenerate weirdo.
Basically drove about 3 of the original guys out of the company got me kicked out and then got out of it as a sex pest specifically he was in the cub stuff.
Sure listen to that weirdo Pagan I'm friends with he was right

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

I don't know if it was mentioned here, but Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance, a game with confirmed SBI influence (Specifically, Kim Belair & Ariadne Macgillivray are credited as Game Writers) is shutting down. It still costs 30$ so you can get the base game & all DLC to play in offline single player.

Mind you, for those who have no idea. The game is shit just from gameplay perspective alone. Hell, just look at the announcement trailer.

Even apart from this, the game is pure Kusoge. So you can't tell the SBI/DEI influence cause the game is almost unplayable anyway.

 

[Judge Dredd]

As for Gary, I respect him going sober after many years of drugs and imprisonment, but his channel is unwatchable for me nowadays. I can only watch the same video so many times telling me Disney/Lucasfilm sucks now. Trust me, I'm very well aware that they suck now and have destroyed Star Wars, and I'm baffled people can watch what is essentially the same video over and over again.

There should be a term for this as it happens a lot. In Tabletop, there are people who hate Games Workshop, but keep buying warhammer and then making videos about how much it sucks. There are people that hate Wizard of the Coast for what they've done to Dungeons and Dragons, but refuse to play any other RPG. I'd lump Nintendo fans in here but that's a completely different problem.

Consoomers would be the most obvious, but I don't think that really fits because the consoomer eats corporate slop with glee.

I wish people would learn that organizations, much like countries, are not sacred clay - they're made up of people, and once the talented, hardworking and creative employees are gone, the quality of the product drops significantly.

Ding ding ding. 100% correct. All the agree stickers.

Sorry for the cringe there, but this really needs to be drilled into the heads of a lot of people. Especially corporations who think if you just slap a brand logo on it it'll sell. That might have been true in the past, but not any more. Star Wars and Star Trek are so dead that even the good stuff isn't selling. Audience apathy is far worse than anger, because anger implies they still care on some level.

I've mentioned in a few threads how the US comic industry is so dead, that they had to put out a fart fetish comic (complete with scratch and sniff) to try and attract rage bait because making a character black or gay isn't enough to get social media engagement any more.

It's like fuck you, all those people are gone, and you hacks couldn't even come close to holding a candle to those people and what they created, yet for some reason, it works. Granted that trailer was massively ratioed, but it apparently works on a large number of people.

Outside of a few celebrity creators, no one really knows their favourite developers by name.