Mixtape - GOTY? IGN agrees!

[p1138]

I have to question why anyone who actually enjoys video games would give two fucks about any awards show, especially one by the Doritos Pope. For example, the idea of rating something like a two person fighting game and a turn based RPG in the same category is almost always fucking retarded.
The biggest thing that shocks me about the Mixtape controversy is that there are still people freaking out about what game propagandists say. It's been a decade since we learned about backwater chat groups where all of these coastal nepo baby faggots coordinate what they are going to write. At some point the problem becomes the fact that you still give them attention. Polygon, Kotaku, and whatever propaganda outlets could come out tomorrow and say that Mixtape and Depression Quest are the two best games ever created, and that Majora's Mask is dogshit, and I wouldn't give a single fuck.
Its kind of like how I view Boomers who hate the media but still watch the cable news. Your attention to these people feeds into propping them up as important voices. If someone who is a valuable member of an organization/community/discussion/etc does or says something retarded, it's reasonable that people call it out and make a controversy of it, because the person doing the retarded act might be capable of change and are otherwise worthwhile contributors. When a pink haired retard says something retarded, it's on you if you treat it as something controversial or worthy of your attention.

The problem is that all of their bullshit still influences game production and publication. If it didn't, then no one would give a shit other than to laugh. The studios and publishers continue to go out of their way to appease these faggots with the paid vacations, boxes of toys, and inevitably decisions about how they make games and what to include in them.

 

[JustKiwiPosting]

The problem is that all of their bullshit still influences game production and publication. If it didn't, then no one would give a shit other than to laugh. The studios and publishers continue to go out of their way to appease these faggots with the paid vacations, boxes of toys, and inevitably decisions about how they make games and what to include in them.

I think the reality is most gamers deserve the clown show state of modern gaming. The book has been out on Live Service slop for over a decade and yet people still engage in the latest garbage. There are enough retarded niggers who game now that most publishers don't have to worry about standards. I just want to know when there will be more attention paid to the minority of gamers who actually have quality standards. Despite being a minority it is still a huge market that is content starved and by and large willing to support work that is aimed at them. You would think eventually the major publishers would eventually realize that left wing commie faggots don't buy video games, and they could make even more profits by just making good games, but we all know selling games isn't the point, it's selling the propaganda and the brain rot.

 

[p1138]

I think the reality is most gamers deserve the clown show state of modern gaming. The book has been out on Live Service slop for over a decade and yet people still engage in the latest garbage. There are enough retarded niggers who game now that most publishers don't have to worry about standards. I just want to know when there will be more attention paid to the minority of gamers who actually have quality standards. Despite being a minority it is still a huge market that is content starved and by and large willing to support work that is aimed at them. You would think eventually the major publishers would eventually realize that left wing commie faggots don't buy video games, and they could make even more profits by just making good games, but we all know selling games isn't the point, it's selling the propaganda and the brain rot.

Oh absolutely. The average gamer is a fucking retard, and it's more than just the live service slop

Just look at all of the sports game players that constantly bitch annually about their games being copy/paste from the previous couple of years, and loaded up with gambling. I think it was EA that pulled the unskippable ad shit being an accident in 2 separate years and reverted it once there was enough backlash. But the consoomers keep buying the fucking games. FIFA was raking in a billion dollars a year for digital card packs for a fucking annual soccer game.

Then there's the MTX bullshit that people just cannot fucking help themselves from. Even if it isn't gambling and lootboxes, they'll still pay out hundreds for skins even in FPS games where they can't fucking see it. It's gotten so fucking ridiculous that you've got Ubisoft selling xp boosters and weapons with better stats in a purely single player assassins creed game. At least AC Shadows flopped, but they won't stop with the MTX shit because dumb consoomers can't stop throwing money at them.

But that's still separate from Anita Sarkeesian getting hired to consult for slay the spire 2, the sweet baby inc shit, and all of the retards embedded in the studios and publishers themselves that keep making retarded decisions for games. As dumb as the general public is with the gambling and MTX shit, the average joe doesn't want every female character in a game to be some amorphous gender blob.

There's 2 separate factors in play influencing the videogame industry in different ways. Dumb consoomers, and the shitty game journos and all of their faggot friends.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

“Hey Millennials, did you want to relive the moments of growing up in California and being a total asshole retard except everyone is also a gay nigger?” - Retard marketing to bigger retards.

 

[Jace on ice]

I actually do remember skipping school to drink and smoke with my asshole friends but it was behind an abandoned K Mart while our parents couldn't care less.

It wasn't a magical adventure full of whimsy while we agonized over what Ivy league college to attend.

Mixtape is a fantasy for people who grew up upper middle class or outright rich.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

I saw that Fitgirl got some people worked up by giving the game a pink paw award.

 

[Galeocerdo]

The fact both of your examples are over 12 years old proves my point more than anything.

I don't play vidya that much these days, those are the last ones that I remember enjoying.

Neither of you is necessarily wrong or right here.

The indie space is still, for now, the last bastion of good video game titles and when it's a homegrown, passion project with people who aren't in it for the money and do it for the art (Which many still do, I work with such a group rn) then we get good titles. The problem is that Indie games are being 'Infiltrated' and astro-turfed a lot, with Game Journos (Much live movie critics tbh) being so out of touch they slam good projects and praise pieces of shit a lot of the time. Will this stop? Probably not, but it can't realistically get too much worse due to, even if they keep pushing POS games into the Indie space there's enough slavs in the world building jank in their basements.

Yahtzee lightly criticizing Selaco got him brigaded so bad he was forced to apologize.

I saw Second Wind did a podcast and seemed to talk about Mixtape, I didn't want to watch it just on the off chance Yahtzee did side with the mainstream. It's a shame he backed down on Selaco and frankly, as a critic if you're honest to your job and your profession you should never apologise for what you say when giving your opinion on a piece of art UNLESS you say something completely erroneous.

I saw that Fitgirl got some people worked up by giving the game a pink paw award.

I hadn't looked at FGs site, did the troon seriously like it? Fucking figures.

 

[big pauper]

you don't need a nerd to make a game anymore. at any point in the last 20 years you still needed a nerd to code your game. YOU could be the nerd, you could just hire a nerd, whatever. But you needed a nerd. Now you don't. This mixtape game is a game that didn't have any nerds involved in the production to counterbalance the CliffyB "whoa dude what if we SMOKE CIGS behind the SAFEWAY while we talk about COLLEGE!" energy

 

[Jace on ice]

Indie game development has been colonized by rich troons and investment firms so heavily that the only real indie games are Japanese solo devs making porn games on DLsite.

I feel like 80% of the time I see a game with the indie tag on Steam it has the logo of a major publisher on it.