drekly

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[–] drekly 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Saying something wasn't broken when it was, is whitewashing.

The statistics are that the majority of people were disappointed in the release.

[–] drekly 2 points 1 year ago

Wow there's a piss video with relaxing music too

[–] drekly 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sounds good! I'm going to start now.

Unfortunately not anymore. I joined the course in the hope that I could get a career in 3D modelling and sculpting.

They didn't really talk about 3d until the second year when they hired a new tutor, and that tutor was just no help at all. I remember asking him all year to help me model a car, I really wanted to make a Nissan GTR and a Lamborghini Gallardo in 3D, and showed him my progress and what I was stuck on. His only advice was 'do it in NURBS', and nothing else. The cars never got finished.

Then in the 3rd year, I was promised a work placement and even a student exchange program in Japan. Instead, I got the email address of a busy 3D modeller who didn't reply to me once.

The university didn't care about me or my goals or my education, they just wanted my money. It really killed my dream and my passion for the job. I still keep tabs on all the cool things people are doing in the industry, but the prospect of joining them died with that course.

[–] drekly 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Again, no it wasn't perfectly fine. Of course, I had it on an M2 drive. No amount of whitewashing can cover up the fact it was broken and unfinished on launch, and that's why there was such a well deserved backlash.

They promised things that simply weren't in the game. There were clear unfinished parts of the world, the story, and the gameplay.

Starfield is Skyrim in space. If you like that formula, great, you got Skyrim in space.

[–] drekly 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Holy shit that is long. I'll give it a watch while I'm working. I looked at the similarities at university studying animation 17 years ago, so I'd be interested to see what been dug up!

[–] drekly 8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

It was not the only true sin of cyberpunk. I played on release on a 3090 and it was bland, felt rushed, full of bugs, and the city felt hollow with things spawning in and out breaking immersion. It just wasn't a fun game unless you stuck to the rails, and even then it felt half-assed. The intro where I'm rushed into the city and then they just skip over all the character introductions with a cutscene really left a sour taste in my mouth.

They hyped it up to be this living breathing city with ultimate freedom and they simply didn't deliver.

Starfield, however, everyone knew they were using the same old engine, with the same old game design, it was just going to be Skyrim in space. And it was.

[–] drekly 130 points 1 year ago (43 children)

Almost as if they spent 163 million dollars on marketing. That's why there's so much astroturfing and constant press releases. They're paying big money to turn the reputation around.

[–] drekly 7 points 1 year ago

The UN deleted the tweet and deny that it actually happened. Yet these news articles ignore that. But that doesn't match with your extremely biased view. Genocide apologist?

[–] drekly 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Like kimba the white lion?

[–] drekly 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gpt4 already gets it

[–] drekly 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hi! I work with google ads every day, it's my job, and I have a business running ads for other small businesses.

Guess what, I use an ad blocker!

If all ads were innocent businesses trying to sell things I'm interested in, and they all had their targeting set up correctly, it'd be great. Unfortunately, all my ads are "you are male and under 60" and that's as sophisticated as the targeting has been set to, so they're totally irrelevant, terrible ads.

Also, my other issue is that some advertising platforms have really low standards for what you're allowed to show. Google at least has some standards and is sometimes overzealous with its automated disapprovals, which hopefully makes its platform a little better. But I don't get to choose which platform ads I see when I visit someone's site (and Google pays very little when compared to other platforms)

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