So far it's flopping and slopping, only sold around 75k copies
>>739840829It's ogre.Shouldn't have made yet another shitty soulslike clone with ugly 8-bit graphics. They are like a decade behind the trends
>>739840829It looks like total dogshit.
>>739840829you're judging the lifetime sales by the release date sales? 15% of your goal in one day is pretty good
>>739840829This game holds no appeal for non-furries.
>>739840829Why is it one of the best games this year? Cause the guy made Shovel Knight 20 years ago?I don't hate casuals and game journos enough.
>>739840829>redditera still seethingEvery fucking new release it's the same crap.
>>739840829Yeah, just on Steam. Thats not counting Nintendo + other platformers.
>>739841407Steam is probably at least 80%
>coomer slopI dont understand how media and society have simultaneously become prudish and addicted to porn at the same time. 99.999% of this game's audience are furries. No normal human will play this game.
>>739840829They should call up BLM and see if they can get a return on that investment.
>>739841238Possibly because the competitors are even worse.
>>739841463Imo seems like a nintendo kinda game, well have to see
>>73984082910m rupees or Turkish lira. What for???????????
>>739840943Didn’t he say back in January that he’d be fine with 200k?
>>739840829>sold nearly 1/5 the required sales in a few hours>slopping and flopping
Shovel Knight did sell a few million, but it took several years to get there.Indie games can sell slowly over time. If they needed money right now they're in trouble.
>>739840829Why would this pixel game of all things have that big of a budget? This is fucking ridiculous.
>>73984082910 million for that?A 2D Gameboy game?!?!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAWhy didn't they sell for 25-30 to make more money?Or are they banking on making it cheap to draw more people in to buy it?They are FUCKED lmao.
>>739841946>8k concurrent players means 100k sales in a daylol lmao, what is this cope?
>>739840943>They are like a decade behind the trendsHow long was it overdue to come out? A year? More? That likely hurt it too.
>>739841965Shovel knight was one of the first. None will remind in 2 weeks
>>739842136read the OP, retard-kun.
>>739840829You could be ragebaiting on Xitter for Elonbucks , but choose to do it for free here. What an Anon
>>739842219If we had any decent mods op would have gotten nuked for making a shitpost thread.
>>739842196>one of the first2014? That was already deep into the first wave of indies.
>>739840829Let's wait and see Switch numbers.Didn't Shovel Knight sell better on Nintendo platforms?
>$10 million for a 2D game with GBC graphicsI...how?What the fuck?
>>739840829>10M budgetIts a fucking pixel game. How???
magnet?
>>739842394>>739842404After the success of shovel Knight they bought a studio in LA and hired a bunch of their friends and family and blew the money. Basically lifestyle creep and bad business decisions.
>>739841043it probably sold way more than that since OP is only considering PC sales
>>739840829You're forgetting taxes and platform fees, it will need to sell closer to a million to truly break even.
>>739842404It just cant be true, OP is shitposting
>>739841238>Cause the guy made Shovel Knight 20 years ago?Maybe they just think it's a good game.
Why the fuck does a gameboy game need such a high budget? Pokemon and Zelda on the Gameboy probably didnt even have a 1 million dollar budget.
>>739842042and somehow Pixel made Cave Story for $0Mcrazy
>>739840829How the fuck did this have a $10m budget?
Why are there so many people on /v/ against this game? Isn't Shovel Knight basically universally praised, why would you not want the devs to do well?
>>739840829>one of this year's best gamesOk, this is the most astroturfed, industry plant slop ever made, sorry e33.
>>739842595>>7398426626 years of game dev time and the dev team living in California.
>>739842679I've come to realize that the western indie sphere has a lot of /co/ crossover, and I want that cancer to be locked out of any industry that is not cartoons.
>>739841946OK, you care right, whoa, thanks. Awesome picrel, too. Moushley somehow made 500bln through your post, finally!!
>>739840829If they hadn't bribed journos so much maybe their budget could have been $5 million, or even just $1 million instead.
>>739842404>>739842394They were pissing around for years which is the main factor. For reference, Shantae Advance had a budget of 1 million, which was split between finishing the game itself with a skeleton crew and then porting it to Unity. Now, move your studio to Santa Monica and fuck around for years on end with a larger team and it’s easy to see how the budget fucktuples in size.
>>739842767ENA is a video game too anon
>>739842679I don't knowthey took money from reize seatlan
>>739840829On steam, you dumb fuck. Many devs have said over and over, new games sell better on console.This is a pc fag>buys old game>posts review>no day one dlc, no mtx and no day one patch TAKE NOTE EA>after that buys early access open world crafting game in droves that for full price which will take 4 year before the devs are done patching it up>"eat shit mixtape/ign!"
>>739843009Yes, I'm aware.
>>739842679>Isn't The Game From 12 Fucking Years ago basically universally praisedyes>why would you not want the devs to do well?because they haven't made anything quality since 2017and deserve to get cock slapped back to reality
>>739842679They added trannies and pronouns to shovelware knight>ENA troon BBCreddit is two blocks down troonsis.
So this dev donated to Black Lives Matter and wants us to buy their game?
>>739840829This screams "a game you pirate and not buy."
>>739843164Shovel knights had multiple expansions and two spin offs the latest being from 2022.>>739843203why are you so obsessed
>>739842679>Isn't Shovel Knight basically universally praisedVanilla Shovel Knight was praised. That was before the bloated expansions that took ages to release. Before the updates that added pronoun shit. Before Shovel Knight was whored out to every indie crossover imaginable. Before the devs revealed what woke cucks they were.They deserve to be humbled.
>>739842136>8k concurrent players means 100k sales in a dayno, the calculation is 3x or 3.5x peak.
>>739843303>That was before the bloated expansions that took ages to releaseThe stuff they were obligated to make?>Before the updates that added pronoun shit. Before Shovel Knight was whored out to every indie crossover imaginableWho cares, how does any of that impact your enjoyment of either shovel knight or now this game
>>739843389They were only obligated to make them playable.
>>739842404Basedlatte is expensive in California
>Mina had around $10m budget>>739840995>It looks like total dogshit.crazy, where did all the money go? I hope they were funded on the backend like Relooted and Dustborn.From how desperate the dev sounds it's definitely ogre.
>>739843267>multiple expansions and two spin offs the latest being from 2022look, gAy.I. retard, I know that. everything after 2017 sucked. that's what I fucking said. commit sudoku.
UH OH SHILLS GONNA HAVE A MELTYHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Why is the 10 million dollar figure surprising?80-100k on average a year split between 20 people is going to add up pretty fast.
Even if this game sold 5 million copies, I don't see how Yacht games doesn't go under within the next 5 years. These guys work remotely why the actual fuck do they need to live in one of the most expensive areas in california??
>>739844141Just because you don't like it doesn't mean they weren't generally well received
>>739844220A game boy color pixel game doesn't need 20 devs living in California to be made possible.
>>739844453A gameboy game also didn't take 30 hours to complete.
>>739844220Why the fuck did this game need 20 people working on it?This is something a single dev could have made for a game jam considering it took several years to make. I would genuinely wager that this game could work as a single game in UFO 50.
>>739844659Are you retarded or just pretending to be?
>>73984461312% of players completed this game in first 3 hours
>>739844713Are you?
>>739840943The game itself isn't the problem. It is moving to California and getting new offices that cost out the wazoo for no other reason than ego.
>>739840829It’s number 1 on Nintendo eshop
>>739844723
>>739840829>$10m budget>needs 500k copies sold to break-evenI don't believe this even for a second.
>>739840829>$10,000,000On a NES game? Where did the money go?
>>739840829i wanted shovelknight 2. this game isnt even fun.
>>739842679Shovel knight was praised because it was released at the peak hipster era where nostalfaggotry was trendy and shovel knight didn't have much to compete againstnowadays people are already sick of pixelshit indie games, there are thousands of themnow yatch club is seething and wondering why can't they sell 7 million copies like silksong
>>739844383>my argument is the bandwagon fallacy!KEK nice job proving me right, idiot
>>739844934Oh so you're just a hipster, who like all hipsters hate hipsters
>donate thousands to terrorists>go bankrupt
>invest heavily into game >Give it lore, gameplay and other features >Forget to make it appealing I know nothing about this game. Shovel knight had a cute nostalgic art style and a fun world. I don't know shit beyond the mouse.Shovel Knight? Good design, he's a knight, he has a shovel. Mina the Hollower? What the fuck is a hollower
>>739845016hipsters don't exist anymorethey're all trannies now
>>739842679Because they showed their political colors are they were Commiefornia scum. Also because they are said Commiefornian scum they inflated their budget by 8 mill by choosing to work on one of the most expensive cities of the world.
>>739845091>What the fuck is a hollowerthey picked that word specifically so their game would show up on searches when people look for hollow knight
>>739845029>>739845123Genuine question, how do you go about your life having such hate and obsession in your life? Like I can understand your political leaning I use to lean more right too but this is just sad obsessive behavior, don't you have better things to do?
>>739843878>where did all the money go?
>>739845286I can ask you the exact same question
>>739845342You can't though
>>739844902Look at the name of the developer studio.
>>739844659>this game could work as a single game in UFO 50.
>>739841132>my opinions are facts
>>739845029>>739845296>nigger worshippersI wouldn't even play this slop for free.
>do nothing>thousands of devs across hundreds of studios face mass layoffs
>>739840829>pixelated shit>10 million dollarsHow the fuck is that even possible?? A few months back, some solo developer dude made a fully 3D-rendered Vampire Survivors clone for literally nothing.
>it's like an NES game but new and made by an indie studiothe novelty of that wore off years ago, now you find piles of games like that for $3
>>739845296I'd no sooner buy 007: wokelite than this.
>>739845296No way in hell am I going to pay for some shit game so I'm complicit in some BLM crook buying a new gold chain.
Can only find an estimate of the game's budget at 5 mil in the jewish article so I can only assume the 10 million figure is sourced directly from OP's ass and colon>jewish star in the captcha
>>739845750those $3 slops are nowhere close in quality and content is like dismissing the next souls game because all the slop copies
>>739845617they donated thousands to terrorists and blew up the rest of the budget on expensive luxury offices the budget that actually went into the game is much lower
>>739842404California
>>739845286I work on something that woke scum like you can't do to save your worthless lives. So they have to choose between letting me have my so called "hate speeches" whenever I see some abomination from HR that smells like a corpse or let a retard with neon colored hair kill 8 people because he tried to use their feelings to give maintenance to a machine.
>>739845837Terrible comparison because souls games are the originals, cheap copies don't affect thembut shovel knight is a megaman clone and mina is a zelda clone, they are the cheap copies like other hundreds of indie games
Does anyone here remember the name of that GBC game that was being made by two Brazilians? It looked pretty cool.
>>739845786They always complain about lack of opportunities and then every single time they're given money this is the shit they do
>>739846009Not quite, Shovel Knight had more in common with Ducktales than Megaman.
>>739846193okay that doesn't change anything
>>739840829>Mina had around $10m budget95% was marketing of course. Right?
>>739846264There's way more Megaman and Zelda clones than Ducktales clones. So that's a big change.
>>739846349still a nostalgia bait pixelshit indie
>>739842679It's because Yacht Club took way too damn long to release Mina the Hollower after Shovel Knight.Keep in mind Shovel knight came out in 2014. It is now 2026, 12 years later. Since then Hollow Knight 1 not only came out and became the new darling 2d indie game ip. But Hollow Knight 2: Silksong Electric Bogaloo came out and became the literal queen of metroidvanias and indie style bloodborne-likes. It also spooked the entire game industry so much with it's $20 price tag that professional game developers were crashing out telling team cherry it was unfair to charge so little for it.Even if Mina the Hollower is good. It now has to not only make up 12 years of lost ground but also go against fucking Silksong in indie space. Mind you Team Cherry announced the physical rerelease of Silksong yesterday, one day before Mina officially released.
>>739846189>jive ass wypipo thinkin they can tell a nigga how to spend his reparationsthis has been going on since reparations have begun. nigs whine about systemic racism keeping them down, some pathetic whites give in and actually give them money just because of the color of their skin, what do nigs do? immediately blow that money on material possessions and do nothing to try escape poverty, just so they can cry for more reparations later. reparations is and always will be a mistake.
>>739846490>it has pixels so it's nostalgiabaitkill yourself. I mean you're not doing anything with your life anyway.
>>739840829Weren't these faggots saying silksong was too cheap for how much content there was? Why does this shit get a pass?
>>739842394They rented an office in Santa Monica
The days of pixel art shit are over.When they first started coming out they were unique among modern games and grabbed people's nostalgia. Now it just means they are lazy or lack ability.
>>739844756They just HAD to be closer to their precious terrorist organization, you know? It's impossible to make games if you can't donate all your budget to them.
>>739840829Ngl I've heard enough food things about the game that I think I'll buy it just to keep Yacht Club alive.
>>739842042Colorgrave puts out a new gbc looking game every other year or so and theres no way it takes them anywhere near as much
>>739846671>admit it's a duck tales clone>hurr you just call it nostalgiabait because of the pixelsI really hope you're a yatch club dev, because shilling this hard for free would be extremely pathetic
maybe next time don't move to a big office in one of the most expensive cities on earth lol
>>739845617You think even a fraction of that budget actually went to making the game?
>>739840829How the fuck did this have a 10 million dollar budget? Game had no marketing. I'm starting to believe a lot of these budgets are just people skimming money.
woke indie games are money launderingthey spend most of the budget as a paid vacation, give some money to woke organizations to get praised and then improvise any cheap garbage game with a fraction of the budget
>>739840829Actually they need to sell around 715k copies to break even.They get $14 per sale since Steam and every console company take 30%.
>>739845029>noooo only rich people should afford bails!!!Those boots need to get licked, huh?
>>739845296>$20,000kWhere did the other $9,980,000 went anon.>>739846189They live in the US, that is unironically the culture of the US, you had a bunch of people throw millions for a fucking gold plated phone.
>>739845845>thousands>millions???
>>739847308The leaked records of the Trump phone orders suggests the real number of purchases was much lower.
>>739847179That's not what money laundering means. Holy shit everyone on /v/ is fucking braindead.
>>739847545ignorant replytry reading first, google is free
>>739847545He's brown, he has no idea how money works.
>>739842304It wasn’t if you’ve ever seen the steam releases by year chart
>>739847718Tell me what you think the term "money laundering" means.
>>739847812read the last 3 words of the post you're replying toyou can do it
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1375400/Ghosts_n_Goblins_Resurrection/>Cheaper than Mina>Harder than Mina
>>739840829sometimes I wonder if the writers of these articles even understand how much they sound like ads but they probably dont even care as long as they're paid its also weird how many steam reviews say its the best game ever and only have 1 hour playtime
>>739847858>saar you must do the google Please kill yourself. Double digit iq subhumans such as yourself make it difficult to have an actual real conversation on /v/.
>>739847909>tranny shill gets BTFO>immediately starts projecting suicide fantasieslol
>>739840829>one of this year's best games Can't be, as i didn't buy it. A game is only good if i buy it day one
>>739841946Videogame sales are incredibly front loaded. Games with legs are very rare.
>>739847879That’s not Wonder of Blue, a top-down game that’s actually comparable to the OP
>YOU DIDN'T MAKE BACK YOUR ENTIRE BUDGET IN 12 HOURS? LE FLOP/v/ is so desperate for tortanics, it's kind of pathetic
>>739842679Their favorite social media influencer told them to hate it.
It has 542 reviews on Steam. Although that's a good number for an indie game (over 30,000 sales, it apparently wasn't a great start for a game that needs to sell 1 million copies.
why did this game even need a kickstarter when they already made money from shovel knight
https://steamcommunity.com/games/219990/announcements/detail/687507011804332720>Cheaper than Mina>More content than Mina
>>739848650California and incompetent with money
>>739848692I thought you guys hated female protagonists.
>>739848449the majority of games make most of their sales on releasethis is specially important for yatch club games which explicitly said they need 1 million sales because they're going bankrupt they get nothing from making more sales months later when the game is $5 and all the devs are fired
>Pays for 80 whole journalists>Doesn’t pay for the Youtubers with 3 million subs???
>>739840829Is pixel fatigue setting in at last?
>>739848650>>739848719This but also crowdfunding turns customers into a marketing tool. People who have backed a project feel invested in its success and are more likely to shill the game to others.
>>739840829>ONLY $20>10 milly budget?????????????????????what the fuck are these people smoking?DO NOT LET THESE PEOPLE MAKE ANY MORE GAMES PLEASEjust let EA or Ubisoft or whatever absorb them and send them to the call of duty and FIFA mines
>>739849032>spend millions developing an unoptimized NES game>want to sell it at $40 at least to make a profit>make it the same price as silksong hoping to get a similar number of sales>the few retards who were going to buy your game anyway are spending only $20 on it and no one else is buying itOHOHOHOHO
>>739842679They repeatedly raise prices.
>>739848985Which is why I don't believe anybody is actually playing it and enjoying it right now, because it looks like fucking shit.
>>739849272>We have Oracle of Ages at home
>$10 million and 6 years to develop for a gameboy color style game
>>739849073>>make it the same price as silksong hoping to get a similar number of salesto be fair, $20 for silksong is at least justified due to all the unique backgrounds and assets and how handmade it isthere's no way a modern grid based pixel sprite game with a whole studio behind it should ever cost more than $10 at most
>>739849272The problem is that the resolution is too low. It's still acceptable in the webm, but I can’t imagine playing this game in full-screen.I don't doubt that they're using a resolution similar to the GBA's for the sake of authenticity. But the GBA had a 2-inch screen...
>>739848692>25€ base game>16€ and 18€ expansions>newest expansion price not even disclosedHow is any of this "cheaper" than the mouse game?And no, using sales price of a 10 year old game is not fair by any stretch of the imagination. If you gave this game that released, what, less than 24 hours ago? an 80% sale and 10 years time to release new content or update the old stuff, your comparison might be fair.Also, Grim Yawn is an incredibly fucking boring ARPG, I've tried to replay it at least 8 times each time with a new build and I quit every single time after killing Act 2 boss. One of the few games I've ever played where I've actually fallen asleep while playing. I've played every other game in the genre for hundreds and thousands of hours each, but this one is just an anomaly.
>>739849272I don't think it looks TERRIBLE, I wouldn't pay $20 for it now. But I could see myself buying it 10 years ago during my "desperate for anything to play on the WiiU" days.
>>739849272This in no way had a 10 million dollar budget. Whoever is spreading lies like that is a fucking retard
>pixelshit>$10m budgetleftists really love their overinflated studios filled with diversity hire money blackholes, huh?
>>739849353This is a dude isn't it?
>>739849531it's completely retarded they didn't make the camera more zoomed out for higher pixel densitythere's no reason to stick to limitations that are not present anymore
>>739849621It was delayed for years and they have a decent sized office and well payed employees in the middle of San Francisco, the costs add up quick.
>>739849562I'm not a fan of Diablo 2 clones in general (I actually think they're all terrible), but the average person would get more out of Grim Dawn than Mina.
>>739842679Misery loves company
It doesn't matter how long they worked on itIt doesn't matter how many "fans" it hasIt doesn't matter how improved the "quality" Potential=/=Actual, and you cannot run on the fumes of potential.
>>739849738But they're two entirely different games for two entirely different audiences and tastes?You don't recommend Pac Man to someone who wants Tetris
>>739840829>the only thing /v/ talks about is salesMan even concord had people making fun of the gameplay and character design.I really don't understand why people are so weirdly passionate about this game failing.
>>739842679>Why are there so many people on /v/ against this game?It's because of that news that the devs spent millions, since they're based in one of the most expensive places on the planet… and all that just to make an indie pixel art game that you could make anywhere in the world with a low-end laptop and someone to help you.Basically, /v/ is laughing at how stupid those guys were.
>>739843389Disregarded, Plague Knight was better than Shovel Knight
>>739849930A Tetris fan would be hard pressed to not like Championship Edition
>>739849931Pixelshit is getting a bullet to the head finally. Nobody wants that garbage. It was a technological limitation and it’s been long surpassed.
>>739842042They don't make 10mil kinos like they used to...
>>739849531This.They leaned so far into the retro aesthetic that it just looks like low res shit.
>>739849931>people talk about the sales of a game from a studio that openly said they'll shut down if they don't get enough sales
>>739850065If this game was released exactly the same but th3 developer was anyone else not a single person would care about it.No one here cares what kind of game it is or if it is even bad, everyone is just wanting "revenge" against the trannification of shovel knight
>>739850065>Why isn't every game hyper realistic for mature gamers like me
>>739850065The next fad is either going to be faux PS2 graphics or faux choppy framerate (Mixtape, Yoshi and the Mysterious Book).
>>739844792Nintendo doesn't count, even if that's where their target audience is.
>>739850038I like Tetris and Pac-Man is boring as fuck, faggot
LOL I JUST FUCKING PIRATED THE GAME
>>739841517>Game features cute little mouse>"Coomer slop"Lay off the e621 anon
>>739845872I know this is larp because as someone with a real job (believe me or not) you come to recognize that people's competencies vary wildly regardless of whatever political or racial affiliations you think they might have. Anyways, you are just to spread agitprop. Vidya games and all that.
>>739850298t. hasn't played CE
>>739850306It's not piracy, it's reparations
>>739850587rent free
>>739850114I know not everybody is a fan of Supergiant but both Hades and Hades 2 cost $15 million and were made in the Bay Area like Mina. I don't know how anybody can look at this game and think a $10 million budget was acceptable.
>>739850698rent prices are the last thing this studio on the verge of bankruptcy wants to hear about
>>739841043Industry standard is first three months however being a more independent developer his timeframe might be tighter then that. Still gotta pay the bills afterall.
>>739840829>2d rollslopDeserved
>>739850794that's why it's rent free you fucking retard
>>739840829/v/ is Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo country.
>>739845531>be me, nonfurry>have no interest in buying nor playing this game even of piratedIm not gonna doompost about it but anon isnt necessarily wrong. I get the secret of nimh vibes when i see the artwork for this game
>>739850829Indie games are much more cutthroat which is why indie devs cry every time a game has a surprise release.
>>739842679Modern gamers don't play games, but their favourite youtuber told them to hate this game because of woke
>>739840829Weren't these dickheads mad at Silksong being priced at 20 bucks?
I guess Black Lives Don't matter after all...
>>739841132Doesn't hold much appeal for the furries either, the game's literally the GBC screen res but widened.The thing that's fucking this game is that, plus that zero normalfags are gonna want to play a ~100p game on their 70" TV.If they could get the game to run on actual GBC hardware (or at least a GBC emulator), sales would be a lot higher. Instead the St*am Ch*rts graph is going horizontal already, and it's a low number. Plus SC includes anyone that got their copies for "free" via the Kickstarter.
>>739850907it's not rent free if they blew up 10 million dollars and went into debt trying to rent an office
>>739843752>BasedlatteFucking wojak spam making it literally impossible to talk about the actual product years later.
>>739840829Maybe I would have cared about it if it wasn't yet another 8bit shit game.I actually grew up in that era and I have never once thought to myself "oh man, do I miss those dogshit graphics! There should be more games that look like shit!"I'm sick of 8bit nostalgia.I also don't miss the disgusting wobbly polygons PS1 games had, stop adding this shit to new games you retarded indie devs.
>>739851262I want more games to look like Megaman X4/Symphony of the Night
>>739851246>it's not rent free
>>739851262I would say I'm sorry to hear about lack of soul, but I'm not
>>739851224This. Romhacks and retro style games that can't run on real hardware aren't appealing to me. I would probably buy this slop if it also released for the gameboy color.
>>739842512Shit will do gangbusters on Switch and Switch 2. I buy third party games on Steam but Gameboy art style wants me on that table top mode confiness.
>>739840829It's a tranny furfag game for people with a BLACKED fetish like the devs. Of course it's going to fail.
I'm not sure why either side is so interested in this game. I get that it was released by the same company that made Shovel Knight but it seems completely mid to the extent that I don't understand both the people trying to crown it GOTY or the people trying to shit on it. It seems like just a regular game.
>>739849931People who play and enjoy video games left /v/ a long time ago. This place is only for hating on every game no matter what.
This looks like shitwith 10 million dollars couldn't they hire a decent artist and at least make the game with snes graphics instead of nes
I bought the game on Steam so I can pirate it on my Switch Lite but DBI is telling me that I need to update my firmware. No Mina for me >>739849272I played the demo on my Switch Lite and I wondered why the visuals are criticised since they were fine on a small screen. I then realised that Yacht Club Games underestimated how many people play on huge 4k screens. Even the Steam Deck's screen would be too big for a game like this.
>>739851663That is exactly the /v/ audience though, according to this board.
>>739843303The vanilla SK campaign is really fucking basic, every other campaign is 10x better
>>739840829>$10m budgetON FUCKING WHAT?
>>739851973Yeah, but /v/ is the trailer of failure and we're the furfag BLACKfag hicks.
>>739842404Being a sponsor of domestic terrorism is expensive, please understand
>>739847308>Where did the other $9,980,000 went anon.Probably to get those 10/10s from everywhere, like Mixtape.
>>739851779It's not inspired by the NES, but by the Game Boy Color.The problem, in my view, is that the game's resolution is so low and the pixels so large that the illusion starts to break down.A lot of people like pixel art, especially the various techniques artists use to make the images look more detailed than the pixels allow, but when you start reducing the resolution too much, there's no longer room for the artist to really create much of an illusion, and you end up with things that are simply ugly and confusing.
>>739851715you included
>>739853731No, see, he is special, he spends all day crying about /v/ instead of crying about video games instead of playing video games.
I wonder what its going to sell the best on?
>>739847228Donating to bail to keep "innocent men" free because surely every black person who is arrested is actually innocent and could not possibly have done any wrong.
>>739840829I downloaded the GOG version for free because I didn’t like the politics of the creators. Glad to see that this game flopped and they’re likely going out of business as a result
>>739840943Imagine being so retarded that instead of being satisfied with what you've made as a piece of art and hoping people connect with it, you treat a game as a product that has to sell sell sell for you to be happy with it.
>>739853809That poor ukranian chick murdered on the bus was killed because of donations like that. That nigger was let out by a nigger judge after 14 convictions because the judge got a kickback from the local asylum.
>>739840829I mean, I don't know what they expected.
>>739851529Awesome
>>739851605Strangely this set of people grows. I like actual retro better.
>>739853980The asylum got him cash for releasing him? Cash for prisoners is a problem the us can't solve. AFAIK judges get heavy penalties if caught.
>$20>most critically acclaimed game of the year>filled with souls references and mechanics>”from the creators of shovel knight”And this is the best they could muster. Barely cracked 10k and peak concurrent is now plummeting. It’s fucking over. GG, Yacht Club Games. But ultimately it was your fault. Most people playing games today weren’t even gamers when the original Shovel Knight released all those years ago. And many people who would have purchased this game didn’t because of your donations to bail funds for black criminals.
>>739854201>filled with souls references and mechanicslike many other indieslop games released in the last decade
>>739854626That’s why we’d like the professional company who already released a smash hit to do a little better. You could make this game solo in 2 months at most.
>>739851605are you saying my computer isn't real
I dont really get why this needed to be a souls gameIt isnt even that hard compared to say...another top down action game like a crosscodeThis is at its best with the weird interactions and exploration
>>739854768It's not hardIt's not a souls game
>>739840829That’s about $45 per pixel.
>>739850306where
It's visually bland. Some of the scenes are barely two colors. >ICE Level is all whiteish blue >Fire level is RED>Brown level is BROWN>Blue and pink ape in blue and pink scene
>>739840829Why is this one getting glazed for being $20 but every other journos shit on Silksong for the same pricing?
>>739854905
>>739854906Silksong actually could have charged $40 easily. This gameboyslop shouldn't even be more than $10
>>739854906These devs are part of the leftist circlejerk and thus get favorable articles written
>>739854906Silksong didn't send out free copies for review.
>>739840829>Silksong>Mina>both $20b-brosit's over for small indies isn't it
>>739854906nah we hate silksong too
>>739855038If your game is more than 8bits I would gladly buy it before Mina. I like weebslop and weebslop genres like JRPGs and SRPGs
>>739855038Explain?
>>739854810They call it a soulslike
>>739840829Doesn't look like a $10m game
>>739840829>yacht club>can't afford yachtsoof
>>739854906>>739855036>>739855038Its not hard to get idiotsSilksong fucking crashed steam and was basically the elden ring if indies in terms of hypeThe original Hollow Knight ALREADY fucked indies with its 15 bucks pricingDevs wanted Silksong to at leasy raise the bar again to 30 bucks
>>739841946How many of those are the backers though
>>739853791special needs more like it lmao
>>739855318Learn to read a reply chain retard.
>>739855038The indie scene is now dominated by games with millionaire budgets
>>739854906urinalists didn't get review copies of Silksong early because the devs didn't want anyone else getting it before kikstarter backers, so they started up a smear campaign. Yes, these faggot ass niggers are in fact that petty.
>>739840829>>739849272>>739854952Which part of this dogshit required 10 million dollars? Also, it should cost 5 bucks at most with how fucking atrocious it looks.
/v/ says they want more of these types of games and yet you don't support them. Sad.
>739855845>Wahhwahhh notice me, wahhh
>>739855915No one asks for a GBC game in 2026
>>739856026see>>739856015
>>739856075Veni
Hey ladies, nice therapy group over the devs having left leaning practices, you triggered faggots LMAO
>>739840943>yet another shitty soulslike clone with ugly 8-bit graphicsi thought it looked cool then i hear everyone saying that its soulslikeeasy skip for me
>>739842575They think Mixtape is the game of the century.
>>739840829I'm really surprised how limp the response has been so far. Only 10k all-time peak concurrents so far.I thought more people were interested in the game than this. Palworld hit 2M, Silksong hit 587K, Slay the Spire 2 hit 574K, Dispatch hit 220K, even low effort slop like Megabonk hit 117K. You'd think with how much people post about Mina it wouldn't be less than a tenth of the smallest one of those. Maybe the GBC look really did turn away a lot of people?
IM TIRED OF EMOTIONALLY STUNTED MANCHILDREN DEVS THAT HAVE NEVER MOVED ON FROM THE NINTENDO SHIT THEY GREW UP WITH
>>739840829I just got done with my pirated GOG copy after an hour or so. what a fucking turd. more like>YUCK! Club Gaymsnow.
>>739840829>>739840943I find the journalistic and general gaming obsession with "SUPPORT INDIES!" disgustingly inauthentic, for the simple reason that by "indie games", they all mean:-Undertale-Shovel Knight-Hollow Knight-[INSERT FOTM HERE]It's rare for anyone to support indie games outside of the ones that are already very popular.Meanwhile nearly all of the incredibly fun and unique games by your fellow dev-thread anons and others elsewhere go unnoticed, even with grassroots marketing efforts.
I was interested in it at first, as both a furry and 2d zelda enjoy, but the inclusion of rogue-lite elements is a complete turn off for me.
>>739840829I was interested when I heard it was like Zelda, but I also hear people saying it's soulslop too? How does that even work in a Game Boy game?
>>739846164Are you talking about Möira? That game was a scam, they disappeared with the money.
>>739842679The only people for this game are furries, which believe it or not are just a vocal minority. And they are obnoxious and pissed the rest of us off by shilling it constantly for years. Now that it's finally out we can rub it in their furry faces.Yiff in hell furfags.
>>739856650yes and also two of the other indie successes like stardew valley and cruelty squa were originally 4chan projects so if anything i think more people should take risks on day 1 projects here just so they can having bragging rights that they had their boots on the ground first. even if they suck sometimes lol
>>739854952>backgrounds look great>actual screen objects look badhm
>>739840829How the hell did this cost 10mil?Looks pretty inexpensive.Sounds like a scam went down.
>739857185see>>739856015
>>739841478Oh its an election Boomer thread
>thread marketers using green replies to maintain their waiver of responsibilityMany such cases! I still shan't be playing thoughever
OH NO NO NO.............
>>739856771what roguelike features are you referring to? it's decidedly not a roguelike
>>739857656Still way better than concord and all the other snoy failures though :)
>>739857257I was genuinely asking, I like the aesthetic and liked Shovel Knight but I don't understand how this cost 10mil to make.
>>739849032$8M rent in california over 12 years
>>739848092Nah, this is a lie. The Witcher 3 sold 65 mil over the course of all these years. You see a similar story with other games like Skyrim, nier automata, stellar blade, etc. Their sales start looking much better after a couple of years.
>>739840829$10M on what? What the actual fuck? This looks like some shit a 2-man japanese team would've made in the 90s
>>739846539>but also go against fucking Silksong in indie space.Anyone who cared about Silksong already played it. I don't care for the game since I didn't enjoy Hollow Knight that much.
>>739858235Stellar Blade was artificially capped by timed Sony exclusivity and the controversy over outfits being censored after the director promised nothing would be censored like a month before release.
>>739858235I don't think you know what rare means.
>>739858372A few hundred HR busybodies and "community managers" in the state of California burns through a budget like no tomorrow.
>>739842005agreed. 10 million dollars to develop a pixel game? wtf?
>>739858372Rent in California
>>739856254I'm not saying they're right or wrong, just that they like it.
>>739858426*burndont double the pluralyes grammar mistakes irritate me
>>739856771>>739856781I was interested then uninterested than semi-interested and then unseminterested than seminally interested than cathartically intrigued then free seized and then uninterested then I heard that it was subliminally interesting? But I couldn't interest rate a rate of interested-un-kun-dumb-son. So my interest wavered but flavoured. Interest = Swapped
holy schizo thread
Where do you think that BLM money went? Like how did that woman who got it spend the money?
>>739858658I won't be buying <3
I really hope it's all just ragebaiting. It's sad to imagine there could be people so brainrotted they'd be shitting on this game so hard for literally any reason besides trolling
it's better than your favorite game
>>739849353The Kickstarter campaign was 4 years ago where the hell did you get 6 years from?
>>739858730She bought like three mansions for herself as I recall.
>>739858908I know this isn't the thread to be asking this but I've been on the fence about Pokopia, never played a Pokemon game before but it keeps popped up on my recommended and everyone seems to love it. Is it really that good?
>>739858778He's been doing this for at least a year the guy definitely has a few screws loose
>>739840829Looks like trash
>>739858778>>739859049Toxic positivity has no place on /v/.
Just saw this, it's literally a Game Boy game, how the fuck did this take a company of 15 5 years to make? Embarrassing
These gayming journos really don't want me to buy this game. Same with that Blue Prince game, when they started writing a shit ton of articles glazing it.
>>739859005If you love pokemon yeah
>>739840943How the fuck is it 10 mil budget? Looks like something from a YouTube godot tutorial series knocked up in 2 weekends
I just do not care for retro wannabe games where you can barely tell what the characters looks like.
>>739849272>THIS was so hard for normies they just HAD to add 200 different pussy mode modifiersGrim
>>739840829>Mina had around $10m budgetAt least half of which was spent renting out an office in Los Angeles for whatever reason.
>>739859296no, they have 15 employees and worked on the game for 5 years
>>739840829no wonder it flopped. KEK
>>739840829>rent a completely unnecessary office in one of the most expensive areas in the developed world>laze around in it>hire "workers" to laze around with you>pay everyone Los Angeles wages>now need your ugly androgynous scrimblo to sell 1M copies when this game should be in the black with 25k copies at mostDamn you capitalism! They should be allowed to laze around and produce shit for nobody for free!
hahahahahasink tortanic!!!! sink!!!!hahahaha! i am doing this! me! I am powerful and companies must kneel to me or I make them sinnk!!! haha!
>>739859376>attaching some random webm another anon recorded to samefag https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/image/ROW4EA8Zq1z-wn_VZ5-Mmg/
>>739848092This. Metaphor sold one million in a single day but it took it like 9 months to make another million
>>739859442You forgot,>Shit ended up being such a lost cause the lead marketer left a month before release. To work for Sonic Team.
>>739858778I think anyone that honestly hates Yacht Club for any of the reasons mentioned in these threads is literally somewhere on the spectrum, I wouldn't worry too much about it anon
>>739859657why are you replying to yourself
>>739858908Is this just more proof that journos are irrelevant these days?
>>739840829Ten million dollars on a fucking gameboy game
>>739840829Wow mina you get 6 threads! Cheesey peesey no reesey.
Does he write these repetitive posts by hand or is he using an LLM to do it?
>>739840829>10m budget for a gbc zelda romhack with a bloodborne feel or whatever the fuckThat can't be right. What'd they really spend the money on?
Does he toxically positive by stroke or is he using an onahole to do it?
>>739841946gem
>>739848768>the majority of games make most of their sales on release>source: dude trust me
>>739849353I really hate all the brown people that come to the board to post ugly 3d whores
>>739858372salaries cost a fuck ton in californi200k per person and multiply it by each year
>Mina is rollslop!>See a video of gameplay>Her 'roll' is basically like Link's Roc's Feather jump from the Oracle games which are near-universally beloved by 2D Zelda fansAm I missing something or do these people not know what the fuck they're talking about?
>>739860418The roll isn't the hop it's the digging after the hop.
>>739860478Is that something you unlock later or something?
>>739860418I read your entire reply in Viridi's voice.
Played for two hours and haven’t run into a single puzzle. What about this is zelda-like?
>>739860539Good.
>>739841946OP thinks every game sells 99% of their lifetime numbers during launch week, he doesn't comprehend evergreen titles like what Nintendo pumps out
>>739860536No you just hold the button. You have to do the short hop in order to dig. Which is one of the problems people have with it.
>>739842404They drank the koolaid and moved to California
>>739842679>Why are there so many people on /v/ against this game?It's not people, it's Amazon and paid shills trying to get people to buy 007 (which isn't a Hitman-style game despite being made by IOI) and Mina just happened to release during the same week.
This game is filtering casuals even harder than Silksong did at launch, /vee/ is going to fucking love it once the /pol/chuds find a new thing to seethe about
>>739840829I'm playing the game, it does a decent job at recreating the sprite feel of the Gameboy Zelda games and the music is nice too, but THERE'S NO WAY they spent 10M on this, where did the money go? what happened to all the millions that Shovel Knight made? they squeezed that cow as much as they could. Can someone explain?
>>739858778its one samefag crapping his diaper all day
>>739860845Read the fucking thread you illiterate dunderhead.
>>739840829>$10m budge$9m of which is used for marketing and shills from the looks of things.
>>739840829quick! spam more off model porn! that should surely get more of the 1200 people on /v/ to buy it!
>>739842679I don't give money to nigger lovers or people who hate me. In this case YCG is both and I will be extremely happy when they finally kick the bucket.
>>739860609its light on puzzles but there are some in there. Particularly in dungeons
>>739860418they are also talking about other mechanics like corpse run
>>739860823>20 whole modifiers for bad players>Long whip for bad players>These people are still getting filteredWhy???
>>739860679They also said that they were aiming for at least 200k copies and not 500k copies like he blatantly lied about, not to mention that he got that 75k copies sold number from God knows where
>>739861215Silksong had tight controls. Mina is the opposite of tight.
>$10M budget for a game that looks it's ported form MS DOSHaplogroup negroids, please...
>>739861337And now you understand why modern AAA games are basically not profitable anymore without excessive post-release DLC/MTX milking.
>>739840829If your game has ugly androgynous characters, I want it to fail. It's that simple.>She's a mouse.An anthropomorphic mouse that has clear human features. If you're going to do that, and you're going to call this character a "she", the character should be unambiguously female. We all know why she's not, even if some people will pretend otherwise.
>>739861313Precision only matters when you die in 3 hits like Hornet does. This really shouldn’t be an issue when modded Mina can tank 12 hits.
Is there even an actual source for how much the game allegedly cost? Surely he's not been sperging about a random number he came up with?
any game that forces you to choose a weapon instead of giving you a singular one is bad design and cannot be good you now have to balance your bosses around three weapons otherwise you cannot have good combat
>>739861396>1337That still doesn't reconcile how a 90s era handheld-looking game could possibly cost $10M to develop... not without applying the same MONEY LAUNDERING paradigm that all AAA slop exists to facilitate.
>>739860823/pol/ loses interest immediately.small dicks with tiktok brain
>>739861463Your mother should've gone easy on the Tylenol
>>739861463Why exactly do you expect the cutesy mouse mascot to have fat tits and a naked pussy? Like the only way I can imagine she's 'androgynous' is that she's not aggressively sexual, which is a retarded thing to want from this kind of game.
>>739861535Overpaying your own staff with the profits of your project from a decade ago.
>>739861535you still don't know what money laundering actually means
>>739840943Considering the new trend is no games being sold I doubt it would have helped
>>739840829>Mina had around $10m budgetSOURCE??
Why didn’t they make Shovel Knight II? That could have been a Metroidvania with the exact same sprites and twice as many sales.
>literally half the amount of employees>infinitely more appealing artwork>have released consistently (even got a terminator license recently) >backported their games to the sega genesis and neo geo for funI genuinely don't know what yacht club is doing here
>>739842679>why would you not want the devs to do well?They're retarded. Somehow wasted all the money they got from Shovel Knight just to beg on kickstarter for more. They honestly don't deserve to succeed.
>>739861897>backported their games to the sega genesis and neo geo for funI always enjoy seeing game programmers that like a challenge. Well, even though dev for retro consoles nowadays is easier than it was back then due to both better debug tooling, emulator access, and better documentation/tricks known about the hardware.
>>739845029aaaaaaand no buy
>>739859376it's a minimal detail you probably wion't even notice while playing but those boat wakes are dogshit compared to the level of detail of everything else
>>739840829How did a GameBoy Color ROM cost $10M in 2026?
>>739861645Did I say that she has to be hot? I said that she has to be visually identifiable as female, and we know why she's not. If you feel like there's something kinda offputting about this character but you can't put your finger on it, it's the fact that you're being told to shove the square peg that is a human male bone structure and demeanor into the round hole that is a female protagonist. The end result isn't charming.I agree that not every female character in everything needs to be hyper-sexualized, but I'll push back against how this bad faith line is essentially used to create an environment where just leaning into catering to a male audience without worrying about Karen's drama isn't allowed anywhere, and anyone who breaks this rule finds themselves besieged. Doesn't belong everywhere != belongs only in this low value, low status block that we've designated for you. It should be a standard option and the default for most retail-style games.
>500k Well that’s pretty easy to achieve for a $20 banger indie game
>>739862454Just to be clear that is Units shipped aka 10M not 500K made.
>>739860114>>739862354Wow two different anons had the same completely nonsensical thought that the game is a ROM
>>739861981>>739861897I plan backporting my game to the n3ds. Personally I would like to see my game with the 3D effect.
>>739862424>I said that she has to be visually identifiable as femaleShe has eyelashes man that's enough of an identifier
>>739861215Positive modifiers lock achievements so people are refusing to use them out of spite.Not sure why Yacht Club did that, even the Tunic devs figured that one out.
$10 million and they couldn't figure out their gaym is absolute garbagejk we all know it was paying off (((journalists))) for positive reviews
>>739862839I mean they did, but only in October and at that point it was too late to do anything other than half assed cheat modes.
>>739840829>$10m budget>For a NESlop looking piece of shit that could be vibecoded in a dayWhere did the money go?
>>739862830Not sure why you make it sound like it was a bad move on their part because that was 100% the right thing to do
>>739861897>infinitely more appealing artworkI've got zero interest in western military soldierman art desu.
>>739862641Yeah, people's eyelashes follow the curvature of their skulls rather than the tips of their eyelids.Oh wait, no, those are called eyebrows.
This phrase gets thrown around and misused a lot but this has to be an actual money laundering scheme. There's no way anyone spent 10 million dollars on this, this looks like an indie team of 3 people made it in a year.
Wild that the maids do not give a fuck at all about this aggressively oblivious samefagging, we do live in a post IP counter world I suppose.
>>739860104it's the kind of seethe that comes from the heart
>>739863270Maids? Are you lost? They're called jannies here.
>>739862424>a human male bone structureShe's a mouse dude, what fucking human bone structure?
>>739863270(Me)I'm fucking dumb and meant to type obvious, obviously
>>739863358that whole post is complete gobbledygook
>>739842679>>739842679Protagonist is bald = I shit on the game relentlessly.Not sorry.
>>739862830Locking achievements is a good thing. People should do an unmodded, second playthrough to get the 4 hour achievement.
>>739840829Is this that game that did the blm charity shit? Yeah eat shit and die
>>739840829KWABOTY?
this kind of game has legsthey'll be fine
>>739840829>>739840943Bro legit thinks it's 2013 where you doodle some shit in mspaint and zoomies shit their pants and praise your turd as an indie masterpiece that totally owns AAA
Don't fall for misinformation, Yacht Club Games actually spent close to 1 billion smackaroos on this game. I'm hearing they're heavily, heavily in debt to the Mexican cartel.
>>739863358>what fucking human bone structureShe's got my human male bone structure inside of her
>>739863594her head is completely covered in fur
>>739840829Not my problem. Anyways I've been playing and it's pretty good so far
>difficult game comes out>/v/ hates it vehementlyLol
>>739842679Because people here derive far more joy from the failures of games far they do actually playing video games.
>>739863972difficult don't mean goodboth dark souls and shovel knight are both boring as shit
>>739858908now I know where 9 of 10 million dollar budget went toit went to the journo circles8 of those will be paid back to the studio's inner circle as part of money laundering scheme
I don't know why it took 10 years and so much money just to make a shitty NES game for furfags.
>>739863972Finish this or fuck off.
>>739863972The schizo who made the thread and is also responsible for possibly 1/4 of the posts in it hasn't even played the game
>>739840829>soulslike>anthropomorphic mceasy pass
>>739860845>it does a decent job at recreating the sprite feel of the Gameboy Zelda gamesThat's what I've been thinking throughout this thread as well.
>>739863746Yeah but about 75% of that went to Fuck Wypipo Worldwide, so it's only $1B in a hollywood accounting sense
>>739842679I'm not against it. I generally don't care about the devs personal retardation if the game itself is free of it. But it egregious how financially irresponsibility these people are. I'll probably play it someday, but my backlog is a mile long and there is so much free shit, that is actually of a decent quality, given away.
>>739861529Ever heard of Monster Hunter?Seriously I lost brain cells reading your slop post.
>>739859376>only webm postedlooks like shit
>>739864679Did you forget about the mp4 you also posted? >>739849272
>>739854201>filled with souls references and mechanicsWhy? Why do developers continue to do this?
10 million dollars to look like some 8 bit sloppa ok Do people really? Not even worth a pirate. I've played plenty of retro games in my life.
>>739854906silksong said play it when it's out like everyone else, and journos got big mad, I'm not kidding. mina also has some built in cheat mods when silksong has hard as shit day one difficulty
>>739840829How preposterous, should've been 15.
