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YokuNama said:
Phil complaining about Returnal being a rougelike.

He didn't do any research. Nobody asked him to buy the game.

If tips are low he's definately dropping it.

Playing a rougelike and complaining about it being true to its genre is like buying homosexual porn and complaining about it being gay.
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Few things about Phil genuinely make me angry, but oddly this is one of them. I don't even particularly enjoy roguelikes, and there are only a few I've sunk time into (like BoI). But everything about this is just a showcase of his absolute arrogance and ignorance.

He refuses to reconsider his playstyle to accommodate the game's mechanics. He's so blindly fixated on the notion of 'progress' and can't grasp the idea of 'runs' and it's really not that complicated. I agree with your example, but to put it in gaming context, this would be like getting angry at CoD multiplayer or SF for all the matches being 'one-offs' and there being no 'progress'. That is just fundamentally not how the game is designed, and he can grasp that. But this, he just refuses.

Then he shits on the whole genre and the roguelike mechanics as being 'bad'. They're not 'bad', it's a genre. He gets angry when people shit on JRPGs for being 'boring' because he enjoys the genre and in those moments, understands that people have different tastes that other genres cater to. His whole argument here seems to be that every game needs to have some structure of progress so that he feels like he can make progress during his streams and consider it a success. But, again, what are CoD and SF streams then? No critical thought and refusing to connect the dots.

Phil is fundamentally unable to separate what he doesn't like, and things that don't fit his experience from the notion that they are 'bad', but expects other people to be able to when discussing things he likes.

He's complaining about RNG and 'runs' as I write this. Yes, Phil, sometimes you get shit runs with bad drops. That's when you have to accept defeat, or you're fighting Satan with regular tears and learning how to make Isaac dodge like Neo. Sometimes it's Mario World difficulty, sometimes it's Lost Levels difficulty. This really isn't difficult to understand.

This escalated into a rant about how the games need to give him the tools to be entertaining. He can't make the game entertaining by himself. First of all, roguelike streams do fairly well on Twitch - there are successful streamers that play that genre exclusively. Second of all... doesn't that technically make Phil useless? So why does he deserve $200 if he is just a vessel for the game's entertainment...? Returnal is my vote for game of the year because it bodies Phil in ways even Dark Souls couldn't hope to achieve.
 
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PieceofShet said:
People who play roguelikes, play it for the gameplay... FOR FUN. DSP hates gaming, he just wants to get through so he can see the credits. Thats why he hates them.

I used to watch Northernlion who plays Isaac, has like a million episodes of it and still gets good views.
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Must be like Groundhog Day for phil.
Imagine you wake up tomorrow and all the work you did at the job you hate is fucking gone and you have to do it again. It would drive me up the wall as well.
 
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Surly Muppet said:
Phil is fundamentally unable to separate what he doesn't like, and things that don't fit his experience from the notion that they are 'bad', but expects other people to be able to when discussing things he likes.
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And this comes from the last 10 years of being able to block, ban, or move across the country from people who disagree with him. He live sin his own world and if you don't agree with him. Fuck you. He gave himself the incredible ability to surround him self with "yes children."

The consequences of that? As Thanos once said: Everything.


BTW stumbled on this video looking for a clip. It was uploaded yesterday after the marathon


Which whale is this?
 
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Phil falls off a cliff 3 times.
Bad RNG.
The game is trash.

Now we're backpeddaling. This is all because he is a variety streamer. Phil hasn't had time to really learn the mechanics because he is playing other games he enjoys, so now his skill at this game has suffered. It's not just because he sucks or anything. He also flatly admitted he tries to speed through to 'conserve time'. You cannot play most roguelikes this way.
 
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Love his excuse of rng is the reason why he's dying all the time and not the fault of his style of rushing through stages, skipping enemies, and his spatial awarness of a blind person. I loving his '''rage'' against this fun looking game :story:
 
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PieceofShet said:
People who play roguelikes, play it for the gameplay... FOR FUN. DSP hates gaming, he just wants to get through so he can see the credits. Thats why he hates them.

I used to watch Northernlion who plays Isaac, has like a million episodes of it and still gets good views.
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The fact that he absolutely can NOT grasp how people could like this entire (very popular) genre of games is what's most telling to me that he doesn't like playing games just to play games. It's 100% a job

What's most annoying is he just keeps on repeating that this game can't be played by "content creators" as if there aren't thousands of """"variety streamers"""" (I don't think I've ever watched anyone that doesn't play different games) that play rougelikes alongside the most A to B games
 
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One person tipped to say that this is a bad roguelike. Phil is now running with this - it's his first taste of a roguelike since BoI and it sucks that his first experience would be with a bad example of the genre.

Expect this one person's tip to eventually become what 'everyone' said about the game as it provides a very convenient narrative.
 
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Salubrious said:
LOL. DSP just blamed the devs because the game " isn't suited for a content creator like me."

Yep, that's the game's fault.
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Everyone should bow down and kiss his gout.
Remember the 50 minutes toxic rant because the PS5 automatically shuts off the TV audio when headphones are connected? a feature that I, along with 99.99% of console owners wish was in the last gen?
Well it hurts content creators like Phil so Sony are a bunch of dumbasses that are only books smart but not street smart
 
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