What's the biggest indicator a game will be shit?
>xbox game studios presents
>dev says ANYTHING except a concise description of the game>likewise, trailer 2+ shows anything but direct gameplay>anything from the big 3>spammed on /v/>spammed by gooners
it's made in the west
>>730565324release year: 20xx
>>730565324Fromsoft
>>730565324Deliberately ugly character modelsModern Californian lexiconThey/them selector front and centerMobile game style UIConstant hints/suggestions from the characters on what next to doWalk in Talk sectionsUE5
>>730565429Oh yeah? Name some games.
>>730565324>a Hideo Kojima game
>>730565429this but also china
Cozy
>>730565546this guy gets it
Type A or Type B
>a return to form>made for old and new fans alike>from the people that brought you GAME>returning to our rootsAny kind of disclaimer like this is damage control speak for, "We are about to rape the thing you liked up the ass with no lube please don't get mad".
>>730565324overuse of the color pink and purple.
game starts with a quote
>>730565324Developed by From Software
The game expects you to give a shit about its plot
>>730565373>xbox game studios presents
>marketting hypes up game uses words like>cinematic>emotional>lifechanging>brave>look at game>gone home 2: dildo's adventure
Cooldown shooterUgly woman characterGeneric fantasy artstyle
I don't like it
>>730565810Now look at the release dates for those games and realize how long it's been since then.
>>730565324"You don't need to play the previous games to enjoy part 3!"
>>730565810Anon, we're 2 decades past the good times. Now it's the bad times, possibly worse times to come.
>>730565324>from the creators of ____>inspired by ____>a mix of ____ and ____
>>730565810/v/ contrarians hate these games
anything directed by a failed movie director
>modern audience
>>730565324Just show me the type of person that likes the game and I'll know if it's good or bad instantly
>from the studio that brought you "shitty IP was popular 15 years ago one summer"
>>730565324it is a sequel
>>730566115>FROM THE STUDIO WHO BROUGHT YOU [GAME]>literally nobody from the original team is still there
>>730565324Any form of snark or sarcasm from a "helper" character or anyone within the first hour of the game
>>730565810what's it like living in the past?
>>730566187Everything is in the past retard
Insipred by Chrono Trigger
>>730566285except your virginity
>>730565324Who is this zesty-looking nigga and why do I see him posted all the time?
>>730565324/v/ likes it
>>730566187compared to the current?probably really good ;_;
>>730566439>white>clearly doesnt know what "zesty" means >still uses it all of the time
>>730566187>what's it like living in the past?Incredible, honestlyGames released 15+ years ago are much better on average, and most of them can be played for cheap or even free. Human life isn't even long enough to play every good game released before 2012
>>730566426he was a virgin in the past too tho
>>730565324I don't know, it being shit according to preview gameplay.
>>730565810It’s funny because Xbox still makes some random good games and Sony makes hot liquid shit and always has. Nigger theft simulator is all they have and it’s a trash game
>>730565324It has pronoun options
>>730566426based he got laid
>>730565810now show current year lmao
>>730566426You’re saying I was never a virgin?
>inspired by
>>730565810how to depress xbox fans (boths former and coping) in one picture
>>730565324>from the studio that ruined your favorite game series
>>730566549Yes, but normies are the majority of video game consumers now and for some reason they're only interested in Nintendo or if they're sportsball fans, Sony (for some reason sportsball players are more loyal to Sony than MS)
>daily login rewardsmonster hunter fuckin worlds
>trailer shows the protagonist commenting on every single fucking thing that happens around him
>main character idly stares at things around him to hint the player of the solution FUCK WIND WAKER FUCING BABY GAME
>>730567250>"Okaaaay?! So that just happened!">"Woah! I can do THIS now?!"
There's a thread on /v/ about it three months before it comes out and long before anyone has had a chance to play it.
>>730565324>$othergame killera surefire indicator you're going to get a tepid rehash of the other, more popular game
>developed by CDProjektRed / Blizzard>>730567496this too
>>730566549>Nigger theft simulator is all they have and it’s a trash gameI guess I'm not schizophrenic enough to understand what game this could possibly be referring to
>>730567496/v/'s taste is way better for games that haven't come out yet, because at that point contrarians don't know if they are supposed to hate or pretend to like a game.
>>730565324Describes itself as Metroidvania, indie platformer or RPG.
>>730565324>Open world>Every checkpoint or point of interest enables fast travel>more than 30-60 devs>Online component is not easily community hosted and relies on matchmakingPick one, they're basically all the same anyway.
>>730565324less than 10 developers or more than 100
>>730565324Made in Japan
>>730565324Developer hiring Indians to shill the game on 4chan.
bad music
>>730565324The game is in the Science Adventure series (yes including Steins;Gate)
>Square-Enix remake
>>730565324pick 1 of 3 rewardsrandomly generated levelsshitty graphics settings enabled by default (chromatic trash, bloom, fake CRT lines, etc.)
>>730565324I'm a leftist but when the main advertising of a game is "look, we have the minorities(world wide majorities) and we care about the gays(and their money)!" only to then proceed to show me some of the ugliest bastards on the planet, I know it's gonna be shit.
>>730569823More like especially Steins Gate, and that goes extra now if it's a spinoff they're trying to release to milk more money again.
>>730565324Open World.
>>730565324"return to form" ugly character models type A/B bodies, pronouns, etc. devs with blue hair, nose rings, etc. sandbox WEGs
>Released exclusively on Epic Games Store>Early Access (release date: several years ago)>DLC for a game in Early Access>DLC in general>A launcher opens after you launch the game>I've heard of none of the sites they harvested press blurbs from on the store page>Review embargo: days after release or on release
>>730565324>battlepass>microtransactions>seasons>unreal engine>focus m>content creator refrence>forced diversity instead of normal diversity
>>730565324body type A and B
>>730565324>Game Freak presents
>>730565324>Virtuesignaling
>>730565324Female MCBonus if it's a strong, independent Black/Mexican/Disabled woman
>>730565810I'm just hopping in the riots britches, don't mind my (you)
>>730565324You just know. You look at it, and you simply know.
>>730565324Trailer is shot like movieslop>"The world......... has.... changed">BWWOOOOOOM>Bunch of disorienting half second clips of action that grant no insight into the gameplay>DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DA DA DA DA—>Title is some shit like "Raiders Reignited" or "Heroborn">Over the shoulder slop is bad like 90% of the time also
>>730565324its made by a western company after 2014
>>730565324I imagine no one said "Besthesda game" first because it is as obvious as breathing.
>>730565324>character begins talking>player forced into slow walk
>>730565324>What's the biggest indicator a game will be shit?When it get a thread on /v/ no one even bother trolling it.
>>730566549I just got a series X, what recent stuff would you recommend? I've heard good things about Hi-Fi Rush and Psychonauts 2. Nothing else has caught my eye so far, but I'm not super aware of their stuff.
>>730565324Whenever a preview shows the developers to tell you how "passionate" they are the game but never show any gameplay
when the devs claim to know and love trashy woman but there is not a single Yolandi archetype to be had
Dev's social media account has pronous.
>>730574716>Hi-Fi Rush and Psychonauts 2Uhh aren't those on peeshee? There's not really any exclusives anymore, dude, just play what you like.
>>730565429>>730565632these plus japan
The reviews come out and they all use the same phrase. "Return to form" "dark souls of X" "Citizen Kane"Means either they're writing reviews to whatever the publisher says or they're just copying each other after not having anything to say about it because we know they use mailing lists.But also, and this is the best indicator, "We want to appeal to a broader audience" translation: we will wipe it of everything that makes it unique and appeal to only people who will probably ignore the game for the next flavour of the month.
>>730565324>is a Final Fantasy post-X>is an FPS by a "famed" studio>anything with a Blizzard logo on it>anything by EA or Ubisoft
>>730565324It's a AAA production post 2010.
>>730565324not the biggest indicator, but the game having woke colors is one i use
>former devs who worked on [OLD GAME EVERYBODY LIKES] left the original studio and formed a new one so they can make a spiritual successor to itSad, but these end up being shit 9/10 times
>>730565324If people only talk about the girls and there's never any discussion about the gameplay then 99% of the time it's shit.
>100 posts>No one has come upon the most basic flagYou're all retarded niggers.
>>730575938/v/ does that with everything
multiplayer games that focus way too much on story and characters
>>730565324Non-shooter game made in Unreal Engine.>>730573868But FeMC is a good thing in eroge.
>>730565324The game is available on consoles.
>>730565324Ugly main character
Unreal Engine
>live service>discord required>developed by Xbox, Fromsoft, Blizzard, Activision, or Ubisoft>women are ugly>Body Types>Epic Games store exclusive >Millennial writing>Chink developed or shilled>gacha
>>730565324>open world
>>730565324anime art style
>>730565324the game has an overly long tutorial where it teaches you to move, jump, crouch, look around, and every other thing that literally every single player already knows about
>>730565324>dlc announced before the game is out>season pass>microtransactionsand above all else>we wanted to reach out to wider audience
Streamers who only ever stream one game is sponsored to play it
>>730565694Genuinely nuts how the majority of leddit game ads are like "IF YOU LIKE X GAME YOU WILL LOVE THIS". Imagine putting time into developing a game and the only selling point you can come up with is "it's like this other thing"
>>730565324it's a game by game basis I think. Sometimes it's as easy as >made by ubisoft, blizzard betthesda etc etcbut other times it'll be showing off a generic open world setting with checklist objectives and whatnot
>>730565950spiritual successor>"At xyz studios, we LOVE <old title>"
>>730565324an EGS exclusivity deal of any length of time. at best it shows that the devs are greedy and will take a deal that does not benefit customers and at worst it shows that the devs don't have faith in their product to be able to sell as many units to compare to the money from the exclusivity deal.
>>730565324>"MODERN AUDIENCE."
>>730565324>Nintendo
>>730565324MMO quests.
>>730565324niggers and women overrepresented
>>730576457indie games that advertise themselves in such a manner are a blinding red flag. gives the impression that the developer is not confident enough in their project being able to stand on its own merits
>open world>trailer is very cinematic and there's barely any gameplay shown>Fromsoft, Ubisoft, or Bethesda developed it>Battle pass>DLC required to unlock more content into an incomplete game>Paying for skins>Gameplay is jank and has too many problems and dev purposely never improves it with each patch. >Very little npcs or too many who say a whole lot of nothing
open world survival with crafting
>>730565324The three days to a week early pay extra to play early bullshit.
>>730565429This but the planet earth
>>730565324anime waifus
>>730565324>game has lolis>sequel doesn't
>>730565324I think vidya are just straight up subjective like all art, and as much as people pretend to be objective when rating stuff in reality it's everyone just indulging themselves and their pseud outlooks. Redflags for me as a young straight european man are mostly>Preset brown haired, blue eyed, middle aged man protagAlways cringe boomer coded stuff that is always the fucking same, I don't find it relatable or interesting at all. It's slop.>Forced female protagNot interested in playing as a woman, it's either a fem MC that's female gazed and will talk about themes that aren't interesting/relatable like feminism or female suffrage, or it'll be a game where the fem MC is just meant to be a bimbo prostitute for pent up lonely old men.>BIPOC protagSimilar reasons as above, I don't relate to their struggles or cultures, nor am I interested in learning.>No cute waifuVidya are indulgent power fantasies, if there's no cute girls (as NPCs, not as MC), I'm not playing. And I'm only into white girls with light colored eyes, so I don't care for stuff like CP2077 that's only got Panam etc.>No PC SupportNot playing. Simple as>Combat/spreadsheet autismIf the devs are only talking about autistic gameplay with no real discussion of lore/worldbuilding/characters/c&c I just zone out and yawn. There's never been a single interesting or challenging single player game in existance, if I wanted to play a game for combat I'd play CS/DOTA/Starcraft, etc. Something where you'll actually have to git gud playing against NEETs who spend 10k hours mastering that shit.>East asian gameThese dudes just cannot write a story.
>>730565324no clear story
>>730565324
>>730565324when the first character you see in the trailer is a woman. I'd wager this is actually a pretty accurate measurement
This place liking it
Can't believe nobody said>make your own fun
>trailer starts>some medieval fantasy whatever>drama music>prerendered cutscene>THE OATH... HAS BEEN SHATTERED>some magic bullshit>release date in flaming text
>>730565324>woman and non white man on the front
>>730565324>What's the biggest indicator a game will be shit?Made in USA, especially california is BIGGEST red flag
>>730565324>made in Japanprobably jrpgslop/soulsslop/animeslop/bingbingwahooslop and not worth playing
>>730579901Sounds like you hate video games
>>730572109>type A/B bodies, pronouns, etc.This
>>730565324>mainstream adverts>normies repeat advert lines>no one has anything organic about the game to say
>>730565324>the biggest indicator a game will be shit
>>730565324If it's a western game:>Has an eastern settingIf it's an eastern game:>Has a western setting
My criteria is as follows --"body-type A or B" rather than "male or female"? game will be shitgay characters? game will be shittranny characters? game will be shitpronouns other than he/she? game will be shitsex talk every few minutes? game will be shitcut scenes every few minutes? game will be shitblack protagonist? game will be shitblack central NPC? game will be shitmore than 12% of the NPCs are black? game will be shitdev studio is jew owned? game will be shitlead dev is a jew? game will be shitdev team is mostly jews? game will be shitanti-Christian themes, messaging, or imagery? game will be shitanti-White themes, messaging, or imagery? game will be shitanti-male themes, messaging, or imagery? game will be shitanti-Nazi themes, messaging, or imagery? game will be shitpro-communist themes, messaging, or imagery? game will be shit
Shilled on /v/AlsoHated by /v/Essentially, anything talked about on this board other than the occasional meme thread
>>730572646>>730580448>Forced Diversity / DEI
All games, especially indie, will be derivative. Cope, romantic originalists.
>>730565324>check out game on Steam>7 videos on its store page>not one shows gameplay/ shows gameplay in extremely brief limited momentsThere are exceptions to this but yeah if your game is good just show it instead of having your dickhead art director talk over footage of concept art and cut scenes.
>>730580140Also
>>730565950>made by the producers who watched Shrek
>>730576576I was interested in Phoenix Point, Metro Exodus and Hades; but i haven't bought a single game that was on EGS' exclusivity list at all ro this day Instead i pirated Exodus and went back to 90s shooters.If Timmy had already paid them, why should i pay them as well lol
>>730565324>made in the west>unreal engine sloppa>chink souls like made in unreal engine sloppa
>>730565950>>730575927"From the creators of..." is the biggest red flag. I can't think of a single 'spiritual successor' that came out better than whatever inspired it.
>>730565668Why do they all have that face? Is autism like downs?
>>730565324Its made by a major studio.
>>730580674lol 9000 triggerings incoming
>>730565324unskipable tutorials on the sequel, treating the player like were new for half the game.
>made from Japan post 2010 (old Japanese games are elder god tier great tho)>made in China (nothing of value)>anything made in the west besides Eastern Europe and French speaking countries (Canacucks don't count at all)
>>730565324no little girls in the trailer
>x goes open world!>trailer is nothing but cutscenes>we wanted a strong narrative focus>suspicious lack of marketing a few months before release >day 1 season pass>we’re gonna take the feedback and apply it on the day one patch>most of the developers are contractors>we’re going back to the roots with this one
>>730565324>it's announced at least a year in advance but you don't see gameplay until 6 weeks or less before release>the extemee opposite of the above too, where it's supposed to be a flagship game but its announcement-to-release pipeline is mere months>open world, especially if it's a new entry in an existing series (or a spiritual successor in cases like Elden Ring) that wasn't open world previously>overly sandboxy design where you're expected to make your own fun and artificially limit yourself significantly to experience any appreciable variety and challenge>devs pulling nebulous comparisons out of their asses to try claiming that the new, bold reboot/soft-reboot game in the series is ACKCHYUALLY a throwback to the very first game in the series, to give the new game fraudulent precedence/seniority over previous games as a dishonest "gotcha" against the longer-time fans of them whom the devs know they're about to piss off>Playstation Studios>Xbox Game Studios>Kensuke Tanabe as producer
>>730565324Took the bribe to exclusively launch of EGS.An instant "no faith in product" alarm. That and denuvo but to a lesser extent.
>>730565324EA involved in any capacity.
>Return to form>Fromslop ever and rollslop derivatives from other studios>DEI trash>Gacha>Season pass at all>DLC announced at release of the the official game>Ubisoft, EA, or Bethesda making it>Eceleb shilling>You must pay jewcoin to unlock whole maps, areas, or characters
>>730565668>pay the court a fine or serve your sentence>your stolen goods are now forfeit>
>>730572109>>sandbox WEGsWhat do you mean? Don't you love having to check 7 random places to find wherever the next scene is?
Fromsoft is behind it
>>730565324/v/ recommending it
>>730565324>a Ubisoft original>EA logo>woman side bald haircut>"woman">VIDEO GAMES ARE ART
>>730565324Astroturfing. Especially the shitty 2/4 campaigns -- two weeks before release, for weeks after, signalling with "2million sales"). I am certain that shit like KCD2, Asscancer:Shilldom, Borderlands etc have all been marketed by the same agency. The next worst trash is marketed with "leaks" and controversyfagging. In some cases all of these practices are combined. If you game (or really any product) requires marketing beyond a simple announcement listing:>title>release date>price>function (in the case of media:genre)it's not worth the time and money you're asking for and you're effectively paying PR grenlins to lie to and advertise their services. Marketing doesn't sell bad products, bad products sell marketing and funnel people from one engagement mill to another.
>>730565324wokism
>>730582787>four weeks*Bleh. Battlefield 6 is a great example, too. Exactly four weeks after launch the shilling stopped and the general died.
>>730565324Ugly females
>>730565324Black female on the cover with neon purple background.
>>730582812That's up there, but what truly elevates it to the biggest indicator of shit is if the full gamut of defense forcing shows up to pounce on the first random moderate-to-small accounts they see calling out wokeism (journalists, game review youtubers, Twitter funnymen, etc). THAT'S when you know with 100% certainty that the game is pure pigshit (without them all, it's still at like 92% certainty).
>>730565324>it gets good x hours in
>>730565324Checking out the steam discussions page and seeing>Thread locked>Thread locked>OP banned>OP banned>Thread locked
>>730565324>JRPG>RPG>Grinding>Random Encounters>Percent-chance-to-hit>Fetch Quests>Crafting>Open World>Long tutorials>Constant story interruptions
>>730565668jesus christ.Letting women have children at 35 should be a crime.
>>730565324woman or brown on the cover
>>730565810>nu/v/ likes gaylo and gowlmao
nice
>>730565324FUCK ME, MORGAN
>>730566549>Sony makes hot liquid shit and always has.Imagine consooming so much estrogen to the point of brainwashing yourself into believing that Studio JAPAN games were "shit".Go play Redfall if you like microshit so much.
>>730565810It was on a downward trend even then.
>>730566549>>730584732and just so famitsu circlejerkers don't get the wrong idea, Nintendo is falling off hard as well recently
>>730565324Released after 2015
>game box has a black man or woman on the cover
>>730566078
>>730566549>Nigger theft simulatorThis is Rockstar and our game is available on all platforms except maybe the switch
>>730567175Ori is an indie game that they just bought and stuck their logo on, doesn't count >>730575927some of these are okay
Frontloading
>>730576576>>730580847Phoenix point is actually really good now. They just put out a big update for like the 5 year anniversary or something. There's also a great mod called voices of the void or something. Terror from the void? Anyway it basically makes the game way better and a bit closer to xcom long war.Definitely worth a pirate
>>730576576MechWarrior 5 couldn't have gotten made without this though
>>730565324Before the game is even out there is a season passMade in AmericaAnime art styleAlways onlineJuxtaposed/Out of place music in the trailer"From the developers that made X game you liked, but were not going to mention that they made a bunch of other stuff since then you didnt care for"Clearly trying to replicate another game "but different"Brown features prominently in the trailersModern militaryHas that pseudo sci fi fantasy aesthetic that looks so indistinct that it could be from a mobile game ad
>>730565324ManJaws on female characters
>>730565324Nintendo First Party>sterile nothing story for babies>shitty hackneyed gameplay shat out by interns>criminally short for the disgusting mark-up price>subpar visualsTotK was the last straw. I'm never getting a Swtich 2, I'm never buying another Nintendo game. They think they know what the series should be better than the fans who were with them for over 25 years? That's cool, I'll go play Fromsoft hack-and-slash adventures instead.
Niggers tongue my anus
>>730565324If the intro before gameplay takes more than 10 minutes, it's pretty much shit.
>>730565485This.
>we set out to capture a wider audience
>>730565810those games are atrociously badLOL
>>730565324>survival>open world>craftingadd "early access" and you've got a full bingo
>>730565668>mom is proud of her autistic son literally what is wrong with this? seems based to me
>>730565324Bisexual lighting
>>730565324>Trailers with no gameplay>Review embargo>EA or Ubisoft is the publisher
>>730565324- Type 1 / 2 / A / B- Recent Xbox studios- 1 or 2 audio dubbing max- Ugly protagonists especially if she is a woman- Recent north American studios- Woke in the game
crafting and early access
>>730581496Underrated
>>730565324Weapon/armor durability
>>730565668>do work>reward yourself for itGood for him
>>730565324Its free to play you know its gonna have some gacha fucking bullshit
>>730589231Epstein ass company
>>730565324Essentially anything in the Steins;Gate or broader universe is disappointing garbage.
A cinematic that lasts longer than 60 seconds. Instant install.
>>730589231>I don't like any of these developersinteresting
>>730589742Anything created by Mages is guaranteed shit
