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Palum
what Suineg set it to
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Except they won. So I guess the effort to take 30 seconds to review bomb was worth it? It's almost like organizing and exercising power works.
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pysek
It Didn't Happen, It Should've, and It Will.
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Kirun
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Mist
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The biggest unforced error I've ever seen in gaming. The Unity devs thing was close, but there were actual economic incentives to do it. Real names on Battletags is the closest thing I can think of. Oh yeah and maybe WotC and their attempt to un-open-source the D20 system.
Phazael
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And the timing could not be worse for them, so close on the heels of the Stellar Blade censorship drama. Amazing what Sony has become in such a short time.
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Phazael
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People who are NPCs and/or otherwise incapable of independent thought do. I mean I have a couple critics I tend to trust, but even those I aggregate with this board and by looking for actual specifics on their rationale for their opinions. Basically, I mostly take what Critical Drinker and Yahtzee have to say, knowing their personal biases, then figure the truth is likely in the middle. Then I lurk a thread here to fill in the gaps. But I also almost never pre-order and have not for years (has to be a FROM game or similar rep) ever since Planescape Numeria happened.
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Hateyou
Not Great, Not Terrible
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I do, depending on the themes of the reviews. You can generally tell pretty quickly if the negatives are something you actually care about.
A recent example for me is Triangle Strategy. It’s a well reviewed game, but in the reviews I saw a lot of negatives due to “way too much dialogue, not enough gameplay”. In the positives I saw people praising how much dialogue there is. I could see both sides saying that it is a very dialogue heavy game, which is not something I’m interested in.
Sometimes negative reviews are things I enjoy in games, sometimes they’re bullshit that don’t even have anything to do with the game but they got review bombed due to devs political views or whatever. Sometimes a game with great reviews makes a drastic change to the game which made it suck.
Usually I can tell if I’d like a game or not based on threads on this board, but there are thousands of games that just aren’t discussed here, our threads typically stick to RPGs or the highly anticipated/marketed releases. For everything else, Steam reviews have their place.
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who gives af about someone from cambodia not being able to play; game is still fun. for the ~10% that get screwed, fuck em lol why so many defenders??? they'll end up just VPNing once to create the account... not like these 3rd worlders dont know how to use 1
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Mist
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No, I'm pretty sure this is what Sony always was. Remember that Sony and SoE were never the same company.
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pysek
It Didn't Happen, It Should've, and It Will.
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Furry
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I take recent reviews into account tbh. Negative reviews have definitely gotten me to pass on a game I was already tucoing on. On the flip side, they've also gotten me to buy games I'll never play just cause I like the idea and /might/ play it some day, when reviews are generally positive. That's how I ended up with hundreds upon hudreds of games in my steam library I've never played lol.
regret nothing.
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