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THIS is going to be very weird and eclectic.
Most years there's like one or maybe two games that make you want to give every single dev involved a good solid cock punch, but 2024, fuck, bad. Anyway, two categories, first is just mostly hostility toward the player base, second is telling your long-time fans to fuck themselves. These are going to be entirely way too long my bad.
Undisputed - console release had Wilder meta as just completely broken. You see him in online you can be sure it's just power hooks over and over. 15, 20 in a row with no stamina drain, and it also ate through block very clearly, there was no way to counter this trash other than if you were god as Ali dancing and not getting hit (I saw one of these dudes playing as Holmes, it was... weird. Dude like a ghost). The fact that Wilder's punches nuked block was the problem.
So, what did Steel City do? They tuned absolutely everything to burn stamina at about 10x. Wilder can't wing hooks anymore and so can't anyone else. A jab-jab-straight, uppercut combo takes all of your stamina now. Two rounds of that is 60% max stamina going forward. It's sort of fun playing against someone who has no clue as to the new meta if you bait the hooks, but it feels like utter fucking shit overall.
Their online presence is so utterly fucking sad. Oh, hey, also the Saudi government helped finance this. Fuck Steel City so hard.
Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown - Kylotonn is trash. Not gonna go much further than that. First bug was early buyers couldn't play it (luckily not me), second was if you buy a car it says purchase failed then just kidding it was now you have no $ (very much me, three of the same shit car), third was, well, the game is just shit. Fuck KT and fuck Nacon for publishing this shit in this state. KT "tried" to compensate the early-access purchasers but did jack shit for the many people that got fucked by the ghost purchase bug. Watching KT's shit MXGP game drown in terrible user reviews is oddly enjoyable though.
AND THEN THE FUCK YOU FOR EVER LIKING OUR GAMES category:
Life is Strange Double Exposure - yeah, I killed everyone in Arcadia Bay to let Chloe live 10 years ago. And... yeah, hand-waving that into a note that you can pick up in a game that has otherwise shit gameplay and story in 2024 is going to annoy me. Fuck Deck Nine. The game is utterly shit to play even given, whatever. Fuck Deck Nine.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard - fuck me. Seriously. 'K. Solas, who is the ender of worlds that spent 120 hours infiltrating your party and gameplay experience, the Dread Wolf, pretty nasty dude at the end of something or other, now is trapped behind a screen and asks you politely to kill the demons he just may or may have accidentally let out. And you have no choice but to give him a really mean glare or a grin while you agree with him and partake on a game that is so fucking far from Dragon's Age that it's just silly.
It's really bad God of War with shit storytelling. It feels like a little bit of God of War, mixed with a lot of Kill the Justice League, and then a bit of Anthem. So it's just Bioware aka shit. I was kinda just blasting through it with zero attention and then I started Indiana Jones and The Great Circle and went fuck I guess I don't have to completely waste my time.
I feel like there was a Dragon Age: Dread Wolf somewhere along the way that would have been so much better.
Most years there's like one or maybe two games that make you want to give every single dev involved a good solid cock punch, but 2024, fuck, bad. Anyway, two categories, first is just mostly hostility toward the player base, second is telling your long-time fans to fuck themselves. These are going to be entirely way too long my bad.
Undisputed - console release had Wilder meta as just completely broken. You see him in online you can be sure it's just power hooks over and over. 15, 20 in a row with no stamina drain, and it also ate through block very clearly, there was no way to counter this trash other than if you were god as Ali dancing and not getting hit (I saw one of these dudes playing as Holmes, it was... weird. Dude like a ghost). The fact that Wilder's punches nuked block was the problem.
So, what did Steel City do? They tuned absolutely everything to burn stamina at about 10x. Wilder can't wing hooks anymore and so can't anyone else. A jab-jab-straight, uppercut combo takes all of your stamina now. Two rounds of that is 60% max stamina going forward. It's sort of fun playing against someone who has no clue as to the new meta if you bait the hooks, but it feels like utter fucking shit overall.
Their online presence is so utterly fucking sad. Oh, hey, also the Saudi government helped finance this. Fuck Steel City so hard.
Test Drive Unlimited: Solar Crown - Kylotonn is trash. Not gonna go much further than that. First bug was early buyers couldn't play it (luckily not me), second was if you buy a car it says purchase failed then just kidding it was now you have no $ (very much me, three of the same shit car), third was, well, the game is just shit. Fuck KT and fuck Nacon for publishing this shit in this state. KT "tried" to compensate the early-access purchasers but did jack shit for the many people that got fucked by the ghost purchase bug. Watching KT's shit MXGP game drown in terrible user reviews is oddly enjoyable though.
AND THEN THE FUCK YOU FOR EVER LIKING OUR GAMES category:
Life is Strange Double Exposure - yeah, I killed everyone in Arcadia Bay to let Chloe live 10 years ago. And... yeah, hand-waving that into a note that you can pick up in a game that has otherwise shit gameplay and story in 2024 is going to annoy me. Fuck Deck Nine. The game is utterly shit to play even given, whatever. Fuck Deck Nine.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard - fuck me. Seriously. 'K. Solas, who is the ender of worlds that spent 120 hours infiltrating your party and gameplay experience, the Dread Wolf, pretty nasty dude at the end of something or other, now is trapped behind a screen and asks you politely to kill the demons he just may or may have accidentally let out. And you have no choice but to give him a really mean glare or a grin while you agree with him and partake on a game that is so fucking far from Dragon's Age that it's just silly.
It's really bad God of War with shit storytelling. It feels like a little bit of God of War, mixed with a lot of Kill the Justice League, and then a bit of Anthem. So it's just Bioware aka shit. I was kinda just blasting through it with zero attention and then I started Indiana Jones and The Great Circle and went fuck I guess I don't have to completely waste my time.
I feel like there was a Dragon Age: Dread Wolf somewhere along the way that would have been so much better.
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