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[gobbogobb]

If I recall correctly, Gone Home also dropped before Steam instituted their refund policy. It wouldn't surprise me if GH's blatant false advertising was one more thing pushing Valve to adopt refunds.

You can blame Arkham City for that. if you'll recall it just didn't run at all on quite a few PCs.

 

[Jaimas]

You can blame Arkham City for that. if you'll recall it just didn't run at all on quite a few PCs.

This. A lot of WB games haven't run too much better.

 

[Back me up!]

If I recall correctly, Gone Home also dropped before Steam instituted their refund policy. It wouldn't surprise me if GH's blatant false advertising was one more thing pushing Valve to adopt refunds.

One of the best laughs I had in a while was after the Steam refund policy started a bunch of small indie developers where melting down that people where refunding their arthouse "game" in record numbers since all the content could be experience in less then 2 hours.

 

[AnOminous]

One of the best laughs I had in a while was after the Steam refund policy started a bunch of small indie developers where melting down that people where refunding their arthouse "game" in record numbers since all the content could be experience in less then 2 hours.

The refund policy is the best thing Steam has done since it came into existence.

 

[Jaimas]

One of the best laughs I had in a while was after the Steam refund policy started a bunch of small indie developers where melting down that people where refunding their arthouse "game" in record numbers since all the content could be experience in less then 2 hours.

We still see the aftershocks of that to this day, with Jim Sterling whining that Steam is a terrible place for his indie buddies because they have to share a platform with the Steam Direct/Greenlight shit that their indie hipster douche crap is no better than.

 

[DickRidersWelcome]

One of the best laughs I had in a while was after the Steam refund policy started a bunch of small indie developers where melting down that people where refunding their arthouse "game" in record numbers since all the content could be experience in less then 2 hours.

I've asked for refunds on a total of 4 games. 1 was a game that wouldn't run for shit on my set up and the other 3 were indie games that I either finished or got bored of after an hour.

 

[Jub-Jub]

You can blame Arkham City for that. if you'll recall it just didn't run at all on quite a few PCs.

While these games and their pissed customers likely helped in forming the refund policy, the biggest push was probably due to Valve being in Australian consumer rights court and getting its shit pushed in on issues such as the no refunds policy. I believe many other Commonwealth and EU countries with similar laws saw how the case was unfolding and were starting to eyeball Valve for a great big fucking.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Yup. I got taken in by Gone Home as well, my friend. You're not alone.

Pissed me off too. I was expecting a creepy adventure/puzzle game, and got a lesbian love story walking simulator. The nicest thing I could say about it was that it was neat being able to interact with damn near every object in the house, but still...

I didn't know anything about Gone Home because I didn't have internet at the time, just saw that it had a high score on Metacritic and something about scary/creepy/whatever. So I downloaded it, stood on the porch, found the key/note and walked in. That's when it clicked and I saw through the whole thing, this wasn't a horror game and there would be nothing like that in it. I also found the note from the electrician so I turned the lights off when leaving rooms, so there were no creaking and lights shutting off and not for a split second did I believe the red bathtub had blood in it and so on.

The reason I knew those things was because I quickly got a sense of the technical limitations of the people making the game, their skill level, so it was easy to figure out what wouldn't/couldn't be in the game and that narrowed things down to what the game and developers would be able to pull off well enough to get good reviews. So I knew that the sister would be gone, you wouldn't find her alive or dead and no other character would be encountered, because this isn't a game with tricky things like character models and animation or CG movies(just like Fire Watch etc) so when the sister turned out to be gone(or when you never saw/met Delilah in Firewatch)... It was expected.

I still liked the game, I like rummaging around in other people's stuff, but I mostly enjoyed predicting their tricks, twists and attempt at sleight of hand through game design 101 before it happened.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

I personally enjoyed the part where the goblin king challenges you to a 1v1 rocket launcher duel after that your lesbo sister got murdered by his robot guardian.



Hate to break it to ya bitches, but reading amature stories about gays doing dumb shit has been around from the very first livejournal post and internet fanfic.

 

[Haramburger]

I personally enjoyed the part where the goblin king challenges you to a 1v1 rocket launcher duel after that your lesbo sister got murdered by his robot guardian.

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Hate to break it to ya bitches, but reading amature stories about gays doing dumb shit has been around from the very first livejournal post and internet fanfic.

A short summary of this Milkshake lover's Marvel work as writer:

spin-offs, one-shots, basically picking up the scraps other writers were leaving on the jungle floor.

I'm rather disgusted by the back-patting and circle-jerking these two are doing right now. It somehow churns my stomach worse than the incestuous game jobs and credits folks were giving each other in 2013. Maybe because it's now monthly instead of one piece of shit per year?

 

[Rekkington]

"The Totally Awesome Hulk"

fucking kill me

 

[Tanner Glass]

fucking kill me

"The Totally Awesome Hulk" has a different name than "The Incredible Hulk" because this hulk is not Bruce Banner, but instead a young super genius (they literally suggest he is smarter than some in-universe gods) Korean named Amadeus Cho. I never read much of it but the wiki page makes it sound like pure fanfiction-tier garbage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_Cho

 

[Haramburger]

"The Totally Awesome Hulk" has a different name than "The Incredible Hulk" because this hulk is not Bruce Banner, but instead a young super genius (they literally suggest he is smarter than some in-universe gods) Korean named Amadeus Cho. I never read much of it but the wiki page makes it sound like pure fanfiction-tier garbage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_Cho

Here, have some cancer:

Spoiler

 

[Rekkington]

Here, have some cancer:

Spoiler

AUTISM INCOMING:

This makes me unreasonably annoyed. The whole fucking point about the Hulk is he is uncontrollable and invincible rage who has the unhinged capability of harming friends and enemies alike. Him being used as a weapon is either a weakness in Banner's emotional state, or him looking for unreasonable revenge (character flaw.) So now he is just a giant invincible genius who can talk in math and never has to change back?

This is what bugs me about all the new MCU stuff: none of them really have any flaws and none of them have rigidly defined powers. When you watch the movies they seem to be all vaguely powerful, they all are super strong and can almost fly and some can shoot generic lasers. Thor, Scarlett Witch, Dr. Strange, Iron Man, pretty much all of these fight scenes are interchangeable and involve beams of energy. And in the last Thor movie Hulk is just a guy you can talk to and hang out with.
Tony Stark being an erratic alcoholic could have been a great character study and character flaw, but fuck that. We need banter. We need How I Met Your Mother quips. They're not cute enough. We're appealing to women, we need someone to pause and go "um... did he JUST say that?"

 

[Tanner Glass]

AUTISM INCOMING:

This makes me unreasonably annoyed. The whole fucking point about the Hulk is he is uncontrollable and invincible rage who has the unhinged capability of harming friends and enemies alike. Him being used as a weapon is either a weakness in Banner's emotional state, or him looking for unreasonable revenge (character flaw.) So now he is just a giant invincible genius who can talk in math and never has to change back?

This is what bugs me about all the new MCU stuff: none of them really have any flaws and none of them have rigidly defined powers. When you watch the movies they seem to be all vaguely powerful, they all are super strong and can almost fly and some can shoot generic lasers. Thor, Scarlett Witch, Dr. Strange, Iron Man, pretty much all of these fight scenes are interchangeable and involve beams of energy. And in the last Thor movie Hulk is just a guy you can talk to and hang out with.
Tony Stark being an erratic alcoholic could have been a great character study and character flaw, but fuck that. We need banter. We need How I Met Your Mother quips. They're not cute enough. We're appealing to women, we need someone to pause and go "um... did he JUST say that?"

Well, if you're wondering why comic readership has been on a sharp decline - there you go.

If you want more cancer that black chick is the "new" Iron Man, a super genius girl from Chicago who is even smarter than Tony Stark and is able to build her own Iron Man suit at age 15. I believe she's billed as "The Invincible Ironheart".

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

The worst part about the new crop of super-duper geniuses is...

...They're all fucking retards. Sure, they might rip off Tony Stark's Iron Man suit, but they don't invent shit of their own, can't solve puzzles, can't solve world problems, can't wrestle with ideological or philisophical problems.

All they can do is pat themselves on the back and talk about how smart they are. Their so called super-intelligence is little more than another shiny button for them to show off to their friends.

 

[MediocreMilt]

But let nature take its course and let starving artists starve. They are starving for a reason. The reason quite simply is their "art" is shit.

I mean, I agree the government shouldn't be picking winners, but if you want to go there, the quintessential example of "starving artist unappreciated in his own time" is Vincent van Gogh. Which makes it even funnier when that macro goes around on social media about how "van Gogh didn't start doing art until his 30s. It's never too late!"

Here, have some cancer:

Spoiler

Karma police
Arrest this man
He talks in maths...

 

[Hatoful Dandy]

Well, if you're wondering why comic readership has been on a sharp decline - there you go.

If you want more cancer that black chick is the "new" Iron Man, a super genius girl from Chicago who is even smarter than Tony Stark and is able to build her own Iron Man suit at age 15. I believe she's billed as "The Invincible Ironheart".

Nd how did she build that suit? By stealing the parts from all over the university she was in.

 

[Judge Dredd]

At least Uwe Boll displays and produced some real compelling art!

(I refer of course to his creative accounting. Which is like a Byzantine Tapestry in it's intricacy and subtle shadings. The movies, those are crap! But his ledgers and tax filings? Bravisimo!)

Uwe Boll managed to get some big stars in his films too. Not sure how he did that, but he did.

This is what bugs me about all the new MCU stuff: none of them really have any flaws and none of them have rigidly defined powers.

Iron Man was invented by taking someone unlikable (an industrialist capitalist) and making him sympathetic, hence the heart injury. These hack writers wouldn't do something like that, but if they wanted to they wouldn't be able to. The Galbursh paradox exists for a reason and it's entirely because of this representation nonsense.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

AUTISM INCOMING:
This makes me unreasonably annoyed. The whole fucking point about the Hulk is he is uncontrollable and invincible rage who has the unhinged capability of harming friends and enemies alike. Him being used as a weapon is either a weakness in Banner's emotional state, or him looking for unreasonable revenge (character flaw.) So now he is just a giant invincible genius who can talk in math and never has to change back?

I think initially it was drawn by Frank Cho(enemy of the state(of comics)) and before that the character, before he became a Hulk, was smart but that led to hubris - Loki wasn't as smart but he was clever and I think something happened there but I don't remember what.

If you want more cancer that black chick is the "new" Iron Man, a super genius girl from Chicago who is even smarter than Tony Stark and is able to build her own Iron Man suit at age 15. I believe she's billed as "The Invincible Ironheart".

That was done well in an Iron Man story before, during "The Initiative", where a super-smart young girl made a facsimile of the Iron Man suit and registered as a superhero and got killed. Tony Stark then got consumed with guilt and started digging into it and it was part of larger conspiracy. It wasn't a good story because a young girl died, it was good because it was engaging and had deep roots in prior events.

edit:
That's different from a scene that just establishes someone as The Best. Like this:
Woman: Hey Yolanda, come look at this, this little girl just solved E=MC2 on the sidewalk
picture: math shit