this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2024
226 points (90.9% liked)

Games

32945 readers
2583 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] dumpsterlid 34 points 10 months ago (37 children)

Gotta be honest, rockpapershotgun’s coverage of this game hasn’t gotten me very interested in this being anything other than a hyped flash in the pan but we’ll see

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Katharine's review today steps back from that flash-in-the-pan take (and it wasn't a good one).

No doubt there's some empty calories here, though.

[–] dumpsterlid 5 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Idk I guess I still didn’t get the vibe it was anywhere as special as the hype train is treating it. It honestly feels weirdly artificial for a hype train too.

[–] TwilightVulpine 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I doubt a no name company would be pulling all this attention out of marketing alone. If it was this easy everyone would do it.

In all fairness, this is not a great game. It's a very derivative game whose only appeal is that it combines things in a way that hasn't been done much. Like many other hype trains of questionable quality, it just happened to scratch the right itch for the right people at the right time.

[–] Sheeple 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Kind of how Fortnite was a rehash of stolen ideas (originally) of PUBG

The reason people originally hated Fortnite was because not only did they blatantly plagiarise PUBG, Sony also intentionally screwed over PUBG to make Fortnite more popular

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I haven't heard of the Sony-PUBG shenannigans, would you care to tell me more about it?

[–] Sheeple 2 points 10 months ago

It's been quite a long time but iirc there was originally a deal going on between them that got last second tossed out for Fortnite instead. Sadly I don't fully remember

load more comments (8 replies)
load more comments (8 replies)
load more comments (33 replies)