Is Gaming... Healing?

[Oyster Sauce]

Post examples of game companies/series trying to rehabilitate their image. It doesn't have to be 100% guaranteed, just a feeling you've got



Battlefield in 2021

2042 - at 58, joins the Exodus as one of its most experienced soldiers.

Battlefield in 2025



https://insider-gaming.com/latest-battl ... ple-skins/


Mafia in 2016





Mafia in 2025




Runescape in 2024



https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/2024_Pride_event

Runescape in 2025

https://gamerant.com/runescape-cancelli ... -backlash/

[Finarfin]

I get the same feeling when it comes to BF6, though I am biased. They did however show a snippet of the campaign and it was of one black woman and a black man.

[Oyster Sauce]

They did however show a snippet of the campaign and it was of one black woman and a black man.

Show me...

[A Chinese opium den]

Its getting less gay but everything is still markedly more gay than it was even ~10 years ago. Feels like the classic take a mile give back half and everyone's happy you gave them half a mile.

[DecadeRiptide]

None of them will heal. They just try and bait you back in before pulling their next trick.

It takes new studios to make 'normal' games. Naturally they'll be sold off to the bigger companies anyway.

[DecadeRiptide]

Battlefield 6 looks the same as Modern Warfare 3 or Battlefield 4. It's been over 15 years and they can't come up with anything new.

[Envuen]

The shift towards sanity is in the air but not quite fully manifested yet. Perhaps next year we'll see some braver steps.

[Trickster]

[Finarfin]

They did however show a snippet of the campaign and it was of one black woman and a black man.

Show me...

Sorry, didn't see this. Lemme find it.

[swbgtoc]

That new Mafia game is looking great. I love mafia movies, especially the pre-war aesthetics, and 1900s Sicily looks like an awesome setting.

[Oyster Sauce]

They did however show a snippet of the campaign and it was of one black woman and a black man.

Show me...

Sorry, didn't see this. Lemme find it.

That's just Shepard with a different skin tone

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I still find overall zero appeal in the Western games industry.

[Oyster Sauce]

I still find overall zero appeal in the Western games industry.

Japanese games continue their freefall descent into DEI trannynigger worship without a single sign of course correction

[Segata]

I still find overall zero appeal in the games industry.

[J1M]

At best we are at the deception stage. Where the game's decisions and focus will be the same, but the marketing will be changed to try to appeal to the real audience. If you buy any of this stuff you are in for a bait and switch.

See: TV and movies for plenty of examples.

[Oyster Sauce]

At best we are at the deception stage. Where the game's decisions and focus will be the same, but the marketing will be changed to try to appeal to the real audience. If you buy any of this stuff you are in for a bait and switch.

See: TV and movies for plenty of examples.

But what if we're not..

[Tangerine]

At best we are at the deception stage. Where the game's decisions and focus will be the same, but the marketing will be changed to try to appeal to the real audience. If you buy any of this stuff you are in for a bait and switch.

See: TV and movies for plenty of examples.

But what if we're not..

Pre-order just to be sure.

[Irenaeus]

I think people here aren't ready to accept how fast gaming is healing.

[J1M]

At best we are at the deception stage. Where the game's decisions and focus will be the same, but the marketing will be changed to try to appeal to the real audience. If you buy any of this stuff you are in for a bait and switch.

See: TV and movies for plenty of examples.

But what if we're not..

It takes 7 years to make a AAA game. The only thing they had time to change since the recent flops was the marketing.

GTA VI might have seen some real changes in the critical path, because they know there is literally a billion dollars on the line, and it saw a massive delay. But I'd be willing to bet the side quests remain as intended by the staff.

[KOS-MOS]

At best we are at the deception stage. Where the game's decisions and focus will be the same, but the marketing will be changed to try to appeal to the real audience. If you buy any of this stuff you are in for a bait and switch.

See: TV and movies for plenty of examples.

Isn't that what they tried to do with KCD2?

[Tangerine]

At best we are at the deception stage. Where the game's decisions and focus will be the same, but the marketing will be changed to try to appeal to the real audience. If you buy any of this stuff you are in for a bait and switch.

See: TV and movies for plenty of examples.

Isn't that what they tried to do with KCD2?

Tried implies they didn't succeed.

[KOS-MOS]

At best we are at the deception stage. Where the game's decisions and focus will be the same, but the marketing will be changed to try to appeal to the real audience. If you buy any of this stuff you are in for a bait and switch.

See: TV and movies for plenty of examples.

But what if we're not..

It takes 7 years to make a AAA game. The only thing they had time to change since the recent flops was the marketing.

GTA VI might have seen some real changes in the critical path, because they know there is literally a billion dollars on the line, and it saw a massive delay. But I'd be willing to bet the side quests remain as intended by the staff.

This game will be a total mess on release. I'm betting for at least a dozen of massive patches before it's playable.

[Tinky Winky]

Non-woke soulless AAA slop is still slop and I'll never touch them. I mean AAA slop 10 years ago was at least fun if you shut your brain down, but even this isn't the case anymore, all post-2020 AAA slop I've played so far (Elex 2, Elden Ring, Stalker 2) are overly bloated tedious mess.

At best we are at the deception stage. Where the game's decisions and focus will be the same, but the marketing will be changed to try to appeal to the real audience. If you buy any of this stuff you are in for a bait and switch.

See: TV and movies for plenty of examples.

Isn't that what they tried to do with KCD2?

Tried implies they didn't succeed.

They did succeed with Kangdom Cum 2 though.

[Tangerine]

They did succeed with Kangdom Cum 2 though.

That's what I implied, yes.

[Norfleet]

Pre-order just to be sure.

What's the point of "pre-ordering"? How does this even mean anything in an environment where there is no marginal cost of production?

[Mikeal]

(((They))) slowdown globohomo in order to trick white men to fight (((their))) sensless war. Don't fall for that.

[gerey]

That's what I implied, yes.

I don't think KCD2 was as successful as they claim.

For one thing, they didn't say anything about 2 million sales since the announcement of selling a million copies during the launch period. Nobody is even talking about the game anymore, not even the developers.

There's also very strong evidence that the game's stats on Steam were heavily doctored by using Chinese bots, the keys to which were likely sold at a steep, steep discount.

Finally, the recent-ish release of the first DLC failed to move the playcount in any significant way, meaning that very few people actually bought it. And much like with the base game, there were no announcements that I saw of the success of the DLC.

We can safely assume that Warhorse played their trump card, but that their ploy failed, and now both their, and Varva's, reputations are forever tainted.

a billion dollars

That's lowballing it - the project so far is rumored to have cost over two billion dollars, and that's just the development costs, sans the marketing.

Rockstar delaying the game over and over again is a good indicator of their mounting panic. They never gave a flying **** about the polish of their products before, the launch of multiple GTA titles and the sorry state of their online components are proof enough of that, so the only reason they'd delay the game this much is either because it's an utterly broken and buggy piece of ****, or because they're doing major rewrites to the plot.

Also, and maybe this is my own bias, but I noticed a shift in the marketing away from the ugly **** *****, with more emphasis now going towards the male protagonist.

They need this thing to be the single most successful entertainment product in the history of the human race, and they also need it to entice people away from GTA: Online. And let's not forget that the game will be exclusive for the PS5 for a period of time, and the PS5 isn't doing all that well right now, with flatlining numbers of consoles sold.

[TKVNC]

That's what I implied, yes.

I don't think KCD2 was as successful as they claim.

For one thing, they didn't say anything about 2 million sales since the announcement of selling a million copies during the launch period. Nobody is even talking about the game anymore, not even the developers.

There's also very strong evidence that the game's stats on Steam were heavily doctored by using Chinese bots, the keys to which were likely sold at a steep, steep discount.

Finally, the recent-ish release of the first DLC failed to move the playcount in any significant way, meaning that very few people actually bought it. And much like with the base game, there were no announcements that I saw of the success of the DLC.

We can safely assume that Warhorse played their trump card, but that their ploy failed, and now both their, and Varva's, reputations are forever tainted.

a billion dollars

That's lowballing it - the project so far is rumored to have cost over two billion dollars, and that's just the development costs, sans the marketing.

Rockstar delaying the game over and over again is a good indicator of their mounting panic. They never gave a flying **** about the polish of their products before, the launch of multiple GTA titles and the sorry state of their online components are proof enough of that, so the only reason they'd delay the game this much is either because it's an utterly broken and buggy piece of ****, or because they're doing major rewrites to the plot.

Also, and maybe this is my own bias, but I noticed a shift in the marketing away from the ugly **** *****, with more emphasis now going towards the male protagonist.

They need this thing to be the single most successful entertainment product in the history of the human race, and they also need it to entice people away from GTA: Online. And let's not forget that the game will be exclusive for the PS5 for a period of time, and the PS5 isn't doing all that well right now, with flatlining numbers of consoles sold.

The **** ***** was chosen 100% to line up with Kabbalah Whoris's expected presidency win.

They had better add plastic surgery like Saints Row 3.

[Tangerine]

I don't think KCD2 was as successful as they claim.

I'm coming at it from the angle of "is the game more successful by having been dishonest about its content than if it had been forthright about Henry now being a ***, containing lectures about how Whites are backwards compared to wakandans, getting ****** by girlbosses, and protecting **** who never do anything wrong." By that metric, they succeeded.

[Oyster Sauce]

Lmao nevermind