• Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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    21 天前

    Whaaah, the dev took away my ability to exploit a bug and balanced a boss, worse game ever, -100/10

    • those children
    • Zahille7@lemmy.world
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      21 天前

      People review bomb games that add or take away things that didn’t even affect gameplay in the slightest.

      For Lunacid, there was an update that allowed you to choose your character’s pronouns when you started a game; this has literally nothing to do with how you play the game, how NPCs interact with you, or literally anything other than just some flavor text. If you go into the steam forums and read reviews for the game you’ll see so many idiots harping on and on about how the game “used to be” great until they added pronouns, and now it’s literally unplayable.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        20 天前

        Yeah, this is basically any kind of media these days. It’s rampant on Rotten Tomatoes. To the point where I’ll watch a decent show, and as soon as I see someone who might be nonbinary, I know the user reviews on RT are going to be artificially low and filled with “would have been good if it didn’t have identity politics in it, 0 stars” reviews. And I’m right every time.

        Because a nonbinary person simply existing is enough to ruin the experience for them. Fucking losers.

        • Zahille7@lemmy.world
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          20 天前

          I haven’t seen reviews for that show Will Trent (my mom loves it, she’s watched it all), but I just know there will be plenty of arbitrary negative ones because of a certain character who constantly walks around with a tiny chihuahua.

    • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.ml
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      19 天前

      Look any change, no matter how you feel about it, is going to make someone upset

      https://xkcd.com/1172/

      The correct way is to not treat review score like a sports team score. READ the reviews and decide for yourself whether those points would make you not enjoy the game or not.

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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      20 天前

      To be fair, its a single player game. If the player wishes to exploit bugs to play the game that way, then the player should be able to.

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        19 天前

        Sure, but if the dev wants to patch out unintended behavior or mechanics, they can do that as well. If the player wants to play with broken mechanics, install mods like the rest of us.

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              20 天前

              I see. Then in this case, its only fair to remove exploits. I always thought this game is offline single player only (never played the previous game, despite being in my library… oh boy the pile of shame). In this case I agree with you fully and there should be no reason for “review bomb”.

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                20 天前

                The multiplayer turned out great for me. It ended up being a big draw. My wife and best friend plays, and we have played together.

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                19 天前

                The first game was single-player only, and I was pleasantly surprised when the new one had multiplay. It’s why I got back into it: jump onto a voice call and hang out with my friends in a game we’re all playing.

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              20 天前

              I would still call that single player. Comparing scores doesn’t make it multi-player.

  • moonburster@lemmy.world
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    20 天前

    I hope they make it an option to use their placeholder art. The paint placeholders get me every time