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I've been watching him for a while now for his Souls-like playlists. He doesn't really like playing Assassin's Creed type games but he'll do it out of popularity. Funny that this is the game he's going viral for.
soon as you said soulslike I knew it would be cowboy before I clicked the article lol.
Cowboy is the GOAT. He is pretty much the only streamer I watch occasionally. He even had an overall positive opinion on Veilguard and it matches my experience fairly well.
Yeah he's one of the few that's around my age and doesn't cater to a younger audience.
I feel like a huge portion of corporate America has adopted the following strategy:
- Half ass a product despite a comically large budget, resulting in a product that ranges in quality from mediocre to downright terrible
- Stick some culture war shit somewhere in the product
- Expect reviewers to give you overwhelmingly positive reviews based off political virtue signaling
- Put a magnifying glass on the vocal minority of genuinely toxic fans, so that you can claim everyone who doesn't like the mediocre product is toxic
- bullshit about sales numbers
- Obfuscate individual success/failures on earnings reports, and blame overall underperformance on "macroeconomic conditions"
Like at this point it's on me for engaging with these posts I guess.
Bad take. You started from the assumption that normal people care about this shit. They categorically do not.
Watch cowboys video that /u/Noxy@pawb.social posted in this thread. He explains far better than i can that if there's a grift, it's from the people who make money manufacturing outrage.
PS i never knew cowboy was fucking jacked holy shit lol
It couldn't possibly be that making video games at that level is immensely complex and that normal people don't care about your "culture war".
Nope. Never. It's all a giant scam just to make racists angry.
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"Normal" people mindlessly buy AC whenever they release a new one, despite most of them being the same mediocrity each time. One or two get mentioned as people's favorite and the only games they can even recommend in the series, again, despite there being numerous games. People also shouldn't be upset when an objective mediocrity is noted. A small release window between games is one such factor. But this is what people want. So, enjoy!
I mean, yeah, apparently it is what people want. It isn't what I want, and so I just go and do something else. What I don't do is go off and get mad at Assassin's Creed, or at the very concept of Assassin's Creed. Just let people like what they like, I dunno, sounds good to me
read the article before you type out a comment under it maybe. hint: you missed the point entirely.
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A lot of the hate was also from trailers showing off completely fucked bugs. Floating and/or frozen characters, unloaded assets, etc technical disasters
Yeah its an ubisoft copy-paste game. It is a bad game cause they don't make any good games.
But american conservatives are mad that some shitty ass sci fi slop game from a terrible developer is not 100% historically accurate since they want an samurai to be white texan instead of black.
Also I'm pretty sure that the black samurai in the game is an actual real, historical figure. Or at least based on one.
Which makes it all so much stupider. It's not even about race swapping, it's literally people upset that the main character of a video game is black.
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This is the only way to combat that sort of thing. To keep it from happening in your communities, to call out the people who do it and shame them, and to make it clear that this is stupid online bullshit that no one should care about. Good on him.
Until Ubisoft, normal people didn’t have to worry about their game libraries being ‘updated’ into obscurity.
Now? If there is an opportunity to attack Ubisoft I take it. Until they die or change course to being pro gamer I will not stop for they have assaulted what I love, gaming, in the name of greed and control.
How does this relate to the article, or the situation with the streamer? Sure, dunk on Ubisoft, but maybe not about a black historical figure being black.
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I’m guessing by “normal people” you exclusively mean white cis dudes.
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