I, for one, welcome Chinese devs doing less anime gacha shit and more good videogames.
RETVRN to traditional videogames
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2024
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Hogwarts Legacy: 15 million in three months
WHY?!
The power of brand recognition
Garbage, even garbage with brand recognition, doesn't always ensure sales. Plenty of licensed tie-ins of movies and books crash and burn because they suck. That game also sucks, but I suppose there was some sort of wagon-circling massed treat defense to own the wokes or whatever.
I still think the longterm effect of this event has negatively harmed the franchise and jk. You see people talk about it often, how they've put their books away, how they now find it difficult to enjoy the franchise and not think about those things whenever they hear about it.
The chuds might circle the wagons to do damage mitigation but they won't last, and the damage will play out. That little seed planted in the hearts of every lib grows over time.
I think it's more of a spore than a seed, but the point stands.
My personal tinfoil hat theory is that this game was meant as a way to test if the Harry Potter franchise was still commercially viable, like Shadows of the Empire was for the Star Wars franchise in the 90s (except that one has been confirmed, of course). It's speculation, of course, but considering how badly the second Fantastic Beasts movie did, it'd make sense for them to go after the millennial nostalgia market.
If "Ready Player One" was more successful as a movie, I think late Xer-early millennial nostalgia of the "remember this? Remember that?!" bazinga kind would have stuck around like a particularly stubborn wart even moreso than it is now.
I haven't seen the movie, but I've read parts of the book, and it's incredibly funny to me that they had to make the references more recent because the people who'd be nostalgic for 80s pop culture were too old when the movie came out.
I saw the book at the store and thought the cover looked neat, so I picked it up to skim a few pages. Holy fuck was the writing bad. I chuckled and threw it back on the shelf.
I was taken completely by surprise to later learn it was a bestseller and being made into a movie. "50 Shades of Grey" for 30-somethings.
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I saw Overwatch waifu shit in the trailers and my lack of interest somehow found even more lack of interest.
There's the weird chapter intro about masturbation or the one scene where they rehearse line-for-line a Monty python movie.
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Because I needed to know for sure if I belong in Huffledorf or Slitherpuff.
It's just as important as knowing where your power meter stands in relation to Glub Shitto in the Star War. 
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Dw I'm pretty sure it fell off :)
I wonder how many of those buyers were, ironically, "virtue signaling" their devotion and loyalty to their nostalgia treat.
as industry analyst Daniel Ahmad pointed out on X, "The Everything App,"
Does it even do any of the supposed anything app things?
As far as I know there's no added features since the musk takeover. Paying for a blue check doesn't count as a feature.
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Why the fuck was Palworld so big
Every middle schooler for the last 30 years has pitched "pokemon with guns" as a game idea, the first one to do it half-decently was bound to be popular
Pokemon with guns thing made it go viral and so people tried it. It got a LOT of free advertising. Apparently it is also a good game in and of itself too, I've never played it, but the impression I get is that while it's a bit rough around the edges it does accomplish some neat stuff that isn't in other games the same way
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Too many people bought in the fake "nintendo is taking down this game in any moment" hype
Survival crafting pokemon game
great shit post concept over the top of arks gameplay, which was already a pretty big splash. it's actually such a win considering the developers are a pretty small scale and humble team
Palworld is legit a great game. I've got a few hundred hours into it.
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Butbutbut get woke go broke! 
Woke with Chinese characteristics
This game is woke?
The original JTTW sure was. There was one chapter where 2 of the 4 male main characters drink water from a magic river, get pregnant, and they have to do a whole ass quest to get those two a magic abortion. It's beautiful.
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I'm sure white fashoid G*mers are seething at this.
Probably plenty of liberals too
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It apparently uses Denuvo and I have decided I will never purchase a Denuvo-DRMed game ever again. My last one was Doom Eternal.
This game looks great and I wanna play it but its $90 where I live, gonna have to wait a year or two for sale
I have two questions:
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- Does this game have souls-like multiplayer elements? (co-op and/or pvp invasions)
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- Does it have cool boss battles?
1 no, its just single player
2 yes, it has 91 bosses
It has the coolest boss battles
check DODI because fitgirl is a Zionist
First thing on the page is a picture of the cover
It's a link to the trailer
Remember it's devuno
Check the one person who can crack it right now
Cw empress)
Explanation Regard My Upcoming MMO Game Server Concept :
my goal from this is to make a powerful game server that can handle a lot of players, and customize it to fit our plans and needs. currently, it's all still work-in-progress. this is why the "NEW CULT" will soon open, as a "Bridge" to this game server plan. ————————————— this MMO is going to be our "FUTURE", because i am developing the server in a way that will make it your "LIFE" there. my vision is that as we progress into making the server ready, the telegram cult will serve more as a "base" in a general sense, while the game server will become our "main" way of our daily meetings & interactions.
firstly we will integrate most of my telegram activities inside the game, with even periodic "times" and "locations" for things like daily philosophies/live piano/stories/etc. PLUS, many fresh & exciting activities by making use of the game's mechanics, which will be revealed later.
secondly, i am planning to make "Ranking" system within the game universe, which also connects to your telegram roles.
rankings will be as follows :
- King/Queen
- Prince/Princess
- Duke/Duchess
- Admiral
- Captain
- Commander
- Elite [not final and changes to the list could occur later]
to earn higher rankings, it all depends on you and your capabilities. it goes from basic things such as "playtime", to "pvp battles", "dungeon mastery", or "special events scores", and much more.
Forget about DENUVO games, this will be your new long sticking addiction. not only because it will be the most realistic and engaging way of "interactions" between everyone, but also because you will finally get a "LEGIT" way to learn some REAL reverse engineering from me directly inside the game. i will be making periodic lessons from time to time available to those with "certain ranks" and pass certain "Conditions". so naturally only the "BEST" will get such honor, as it should be.
thirdly :
—want to be a BETA TESTER ?, sure. make sure to defeat some of my highest ranked guards in PVP, and you got it.
—want a HINT on the next release?, sure. maybe if you can defeat me personally in PVP i will tell you, and so on. the ideas never end.
*AND... since i fully developing the server myself and own it, the game universe will be uncensored haven for me, and we can easily say this will bring my "NFOs" to the NEXT LEVEL, which i am sure you all cannot wait for. AND especially because there are many removeds that i will be WIPING THE FLOOR WITH, soon enough.
Last but not least :
later onward, i actually may end up with a helping hand in the future for my work, and then we can strike a powerful partnership in destroying evil and doing greatness, all while conquering dungeons and bosses within the game as a side quest! 🔥
She's now developing a new scam game. Jesus Christ.
I heard that supposedly the fitgirl post was completely fabricated and she never posted anything saying that. Might wanna check that but I remember coming across a post saying it was fake. Although that could be fake. Maybe its all fake? Maybe hexbear is fake?
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This probably has more to do with timing than anything else. There's been a lull in the big flashy game department.
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