• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I bought a friend Cassette Beasts and they stopped playing the minute it showed him pronouns. I called him a fucken bigot, convinced him to buy me the Elden Ring DLC, and I haven’t touched it.

    • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      The only games I’ve ever played with no pronouns were games that didn’t have any written story. Like Tetris. Super Mario has pronouns

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
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    4 months ago

    the cherry on top – you can’t leave reviews if you haven’t bought the game or played it through Steam (free to play, family share)

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      4 months ago

      Not necessary for curators, I believe. Those are not reviews in a normal sense, but are just lists with notes.

  • BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    It makes me so so sad to see that Alex effing Jones has a net positive rating on Steam. That POS really needs to fall off the planet.

    “Someone, someone… a sodomite… sent me a bucket of poop.”

    “It’s time to pray.”

  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    You avoid Sweet Baby because they are “woke”.

    I avoid Sweet Baby because every time they get involved the story becomes flatter than an open soda container forgotten in the fridge for a week.

    We are not the same.

  • heavy@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Here’s the problem, modern review systems have become some kind of stupid cultural football so I don’t know if something is genuinely good or not though the review system.

    I was looking at Homeworld 3 but the reviews are overwhelmingly negative, and they all read so wishy washy about it.

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      4 months ago

      generally, on either Steam or Amazon, I find the negative reviews more useful – not for the actual reviews themselves, but the overall tone – if all the negatives are just whiny conservative pearl-clutchers then the game is going to be just fine – if all the negatives are talking about bugs, broken gameplay, unfinished storylines, predatory microtransactions then it’s more EA shovelware