moakley

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age veteran says scrapped Anthem Next "could have been" up there with No Man's Sky's legendary turnaround⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some were, some weren’t. I was thrilled.

  And then the hate grew to the point where it was a meme, where everyone “knew” that Anthem was bad, even people who hadn’t played it. Then it was over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age veteran says scrapped Anthem Next "could have been" up there with No Man's Sky's legendary turnaround⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I played it at launch. It worked fine for me.

  But yeah, some players had technical issues that were quickly patched. That’s how launches work nowadays. The reaction seems justified in a vacuum, but if you compare it to how glitches affect the scores of other games, it’s weird.

  Cyberpunk 2077 still got good scores despite major technical issues that took a lot longer than a week or two to fix.

  I can go buy the re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-release of Skyrim and still encounter the same game-breaking bugs that I encountered fifteen years ago.

  So I still feel like Anthem got treated unfairly here. If it was some bland, unimaginative game that didn’t do anything else well, sure, I get why they wouldn’t pull their punches. But again, the gameplay was immaculate. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a better game treated worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age veteran says scrapped Anthem Next "could have been" up there with No Man's Sky's legendary turnaround⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly Anthem was so fucking good. It’s a victim of the internet hate machine.

  My hobby is video games, but some people’s hobby is hating things, and those people decided that Anthem was the next thing to hate. The hate was insanely disproportionate to the actual problems that Anthem had.

  The endgame grind needed some work, but that’s always the case with a live service game. Comparing it to Destiny, which had been out for five years at that point, there wasn’t a lot of content. Comparing it to video games in general, it was fine. Easily worth the cost of a new game.

  Graphics-wise? Top notch, triple-A.

  And as far as gameplay, the actual most important part of a game? Anthem was a fucking masterpiece. The combat was fun and varied. Classes were distinct.

  And the traversal was the best I’ve ever played. Soaring through the air like Iron Man and dipping into a waterfall so my suit doesn’t overheat is one of the video game highlights of my life.

  But the internet ruined it. The same outrage machine that was built to respond to things like “a sense of pride and accomplishment” was turned on Anthem, not because it was that bad, but because there wasn’t anything else particularly hate-worthy that week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright, I’ll make more content. Give me a month or two. I’m slow at drawing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right. It’s provocative because incel shit is widely disliked. We’re saying the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you explain the joke?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The forbidden fourth leche⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To be even more specific, it’s a Mexican dessert made of sponge cake, soaked in a mixture of three milks. Wet cake may not sound appetizing, but it’s absolutely delicious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are you defending incel shit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t take my comment so seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  • Pervasive sense of victimhood.

  • Criticizing women. Not that women should be free from criticism, but take this exact same meme without the “what hypocrisy” at the end. Is it less funny? Is that adding anything other than pathos for incels reading it?

  There’s also the comment section. At the time I commented, two of the ten top level comments were saying to insult the woman’s vagina, and they were both upvoted. That kind of masturbatory five-minutes-of-hate directed at a hypothetical woman is pure incel shit.

  She’s not real. This didn’t happen. That means whatever emotional reaction they’re having was just inside them waiting to come out. Incel shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh. Ugh to this post, and ugh to the comment section.

  I thought we left this incel shit behind on reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly frozen can be fine. My kids love frozen broccoli and cauliflower. You still have to prepare it right though.

  But I’m pretty sure even the frozen veggies are better now than they were back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the 80s my family still got most of our vegetables from cans. It was bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But one of the things Russian troll farms are paid to do is spread general anti-American sentiment. I’m not trying to explain away the comments; I’m describing a real thing that happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate your perspective.

  I’ll do you one better and say that a lot of times it comes from chronically online Americans who got their opinion from said Europeans. And at least some of the time it’s from third world bots whose marching orders are to spread any and every kind of anti-American sentiment.

  Lately I just prefer to put the opposing idea out into the aether rather than try to dig into a whole online argument… thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are large sections of the US that don’t have consistent access to great food, so crappy fast food is what they get.

  Then there are other parts of the US where the fast food is amazing. Also the other food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s ok to just not be that into gaming anymore. But if you are looking for a game to get into, they’re out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty positive you’re just not seeing it, because 2025 has been awesome.

  Hades 2. Silksong. Split Fiction.

  If a Donkey Kong or a Mario Kart had come out in 1998, it’d be in this picture.

  And then I didn’t play Death Stranding 2, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, or Blue Prince, but the word of mouth is excellent.

  Also Outer Worlds 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough. Still not exactly a masterpiece.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite part about 2007 for video games was how close it was to 2008, the actual best year in gaming.

  That’s when indie games started getting a foothold on consoles, including Braid and Castle Crashers. Plus Rock Band 2, Guitar Hero: World Tour, and the Wii hitting its stride with Wii Fit, Mario Kart, and a Smash Bros. Not to mention mainstream fare like CoD: World at War, MGS 4, and GTA 4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends what you mean by “greatest”. Most revolutionary? Biggest leaps forward? Possibly.

  But most of those games don’t hold up today.

  We’re also getting a strong cheerleader effect on this picture. Mario Party 3? Turok?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your gaming highlights of 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I fully understand what you mean. I got turned on to UFO 50 the exact same way, from a stranger’s recommendation online. They referred to it as “a master class in game design”, and I was like, that’s exactly what I was just saying about Split Fiction!

  I think how we say things is important to how we connect.

  Anyway, Split Fiction requires two players. The whole game is in split screen, even if you play online. But you only need one copy of the game to play online - I think your partner can just download a special version of the game for free. But if you have someone to play with in the same room, I recommend that.

  A bit more about UFO 50 if you haven’t already looked it up: it’s a faux-retro game collection from a fictional, defunct 80s game developer called UFOSoft.

  Fifty is an insane number of games, and it’s got so much damn content. There are space shooters, side scrollers, a wild west Final-Fantasy-style RPG, a roguelike, a soccer game inspired by Bubble Bobble, at least three golf games, and then whatever the hell Mooncat is. There’s also a dark meta-narrative hidden between the games that describes why the company went under.

  So UFO 50 is a deep dive. You may want to start there first, because it’s something you’ll likely bounce off of and come back to. Luckily you have literally 50 games to switch between if you get frustrated.

  When it does get frustrating, it’s so rewarding if you power through it. Several of the games are in the style of those ridiculously punishing 80’s arcade games, except it mostly is just a style. If you keep an open mind and look for what the game is trying to show you, you start to see that there are modern design conventions underpinning everything that make the games more fair than they appear. (Except Caramel Caramel. That game is bullshit.)

  That’s part of what I meant when I said it changed how I approach games. I realized I can spend so much time on my own expectations that I don’t see what’s in front of me. Learning to approach these games with an open mind has been a defining moment for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your gaming highlights of 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  2025 was such a good year for gaming.

  Games worth mentioning for me personally:

  • Ravenswatch came out at the end of last year, but it’s an incredibly satisfying multiplayer roguelike. Really scratches that asymmetrical gameplay itch.

  • Split Fiction is a master class in game design. It creates these awesome storytelling moments that could only be created in this exact way.

  • UFO 50: holy shit this one came out of nowhere for me. It’s like digging through a retro collection for diamonds in the rough, but there’s more diamond than rough. It has honestly changed the way I approach video games and gaming in general. Also, Party House is so good.

  • Hades 2 is pretty much exactly what I was hoping it would be. No notes.

  I also played Clair Obscur, DK Bananza, Mario Kart World, and Silksong. Those are all good games, but none of them hooked me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do you hate AI?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played Magic against him a couple times. Great dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 1 of posting real shitposts, till people and the mods understand the purpose of the community⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: when birds have sex it’s called a cloacal kiss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Something like ten years ago I got into a console vs PC argument on reddit, and everyone unanimously told me that starting up a PC with a controller was such an easy feature to add that it wasn’t even a consideration. I stuck with consoles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get that, but it seems disproportionate. I mean we’re still talking about it seven years later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I never really understood the backlash on that one. I actually would love to play Diablo on my phone. But like a good Diablo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Bananza more than BotW, but I didn’t think BotW was that good. I didn’t play TotK for that same reason.

  I don’t think Bananza’s length is a mark against it. It has more than 18 hours of content, so the time to beat it is irrelevant. Cost is also irrelevant to the quality of the game.

  Look at it this way: remember when large portions of the internet community were all up in arms about the cost of games and predicted that the Switch 2 was definitely going to fail?

  If your perspective on games this year aligns with those communities, then you only need to look at the runaway success of the Switch 2 for proof that you’re missing a big part of the picture.

  It’s a good game. People like it. I don’t even like it that much, but I can still see why it’s a successful and popular game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand why you’re mentioning Zelda? There was one Zelda game this year, released a couple weeks ago, but it’s actually a Warriors game.

  I’m sure Bananza is getting a boost from the Switch 2 hype, just like E33 is getting a boost because of its indie roots. None of this happens in a vacuum. But the hype wouldn’t do anything if either of these were bad games.