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

Consolevania made a skit about the nu-skool in 2006 or so.
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But now, in [insert current year], Robert Florence is full on one of them. He believes Black lives matter, no human is illegal, love is love is love, women's rights are human rights, trans women are women, science is real, water is life, and injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere.

He fucking hates you and all other regular gamers.

Also, Limmy is a cunt.
 
Babe wake up, new South of Midnight difficulty option just dropped:
There’s so much exposition. I know that this is based on Southern-style storytelling but it just beats you over the head, especially when the mom starts talking next to important objects like it’s Hamilton. Even the music is full of exposition. If this game was made anymore for game journalists, it’d just be a walking sim movie.
 
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There’s so much exposition. I know that this is based on Southern-style storytelling but it just beats you over the head, especially when the mom starts talking next to important objects like it’s Hamilton. Even the music is full of exposition.
This feels like a theme with these type of games. I've never actually played it, but from what I saw of Forspoken it also seemed to be full of characters who never shut the fuck up.

I guess when you can't design a fun game, your next best bet is to pad it full of dialogue and hope nobody notices (they do).
 
This feels like a theme with these type of games. I've never actually played it, but from what I saw of Forspoken it also seemed to be full of characters who never shut the fuck up.

I guess when you can't design a fun game, your next best bet is to pad it full of dialogue and hope nobody notices (they do).
Forspoken was so bad, that the devs made it so that you can turn the "banter" down in settings. To be fair, Hazel's dialogue is more earnest than Frey's. Hazel steals shit too, but she's not a total cunt like Frey was. But, but what annoys me about Hazel is that while Frey throws down these quips, Hazel would say things that the catfish just said. Like, a second ago. Or, she'd try to coach herself by telling her things like "watch for the eyes (in a boss fight.)" Combine that with the soundtrack lyrics doing even more expositing ("Two-Toed Tom's got nothin' inside him") most of the time, it's way too much in a videogame. Theater kid syndrome, the game. It's just obnoxious, like shut the fuck up.

If you want to write musicals so badly, write musicals. I don't need people talking in three/four different directions, at length, while I'm trying to fight a boss.
 
Hazel would say things that the catfish just said. Like, a second ago.
I wonder if this is a symptom of the wider problem with media designed for zoomers where it's made on the assumption they will be unable to pay attention and retain information unless constantly reminded of it.

I watched The Crow remake last night (spoiler: it's fucking shit) and I couldn't believe how often the movie would edit in flashbacks to scenes we'd just saw, as if it was a TV series reminding you what happened several episodes ago.
 
I wonder if this is a symptom of the wider problem with media designed for zoomers where it's made on the assumption they will be unable to pay attention and retain information unless constantly reminded of it.

I watched The Crow remake last night (spoiler: it's fucking shit) and I couldn't believe how often the movie would edit in flashbacks to scenes we'd just saw, as if it was a TV series reminding you what happened several episodes ago.
I wouldn't doubt it.
 
MasteroftheTDS reacting to the entire Sweet Baby Inc panel at GDC 2025.

Smash JT and MasteroftheTDS reacting to the Sweet Baby Inc panel at GDC 2025.
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MasteroftheTDS is calling out Sweet Baby Inc supporters and refusing to bend the knee.
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Honestly, I wouldn't be that assblasted about going back to reading text over voice acting, since the lot of English VAs seem to be entitled little shits. Might help the collective reading comprehension of the gaming community go up a few points as a consequence.
Reject modernity and return to the tradition of character voices being represented by a single sound repeated while they talk, like old Rare games.

Another benefit of text-only games is you can decide for yourself how characters sound.
 
Lords of the Fallen 2.0 Update is out. Supposedly the game has been basically completely overhauled since the original release.

A big element as it relates to this thread is the walking back of DEI. Specifically allowing "more attractive and more feminine female body options" being promoted in the trailer. I've yet to see the actual character creation options.

People are expecting push back, but I've not seen any yet.
 
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