I’ve been seeing a bunch of videos in my feed about how IGN is REFUSING to review the Lollipop Chainsaw remaster because they HATE Juliet Starling for being too SEXY

I got curious and tried to see if IGN had actually officially come out and declared they would not review Lollipop Chainsaw Repop because they had no problem reviewing the original in 2012. Nope, they had in fact been covering the remaster ever since it had been announced, though there is no review as of now at least.

All the other results in my Google search were predictably outrage slop videos and links to posts on the Asmongold visible-disgust and Critical Drinker kombucha-disgust subreddits. I clicked on one of the posts and among the hivemind of the most room temperature IQ chud redditors you can imagine abuzz about how horrible and woke IGN was being was one lone commenter asking if IGN had actually officially stated they would not review the game.

A guy responded that while it can’t be proven IGN hasn’t reviewed the game yet because they object to its content, it’s probably the most likely reason morshupls

I fucking hate all of these people, the cynical right-wing agitators making up shit for views and the stupid gamer morons who lap it up because of vibes

  • Gorb [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    42·
    2 months ago

    They’re all extremely miserable people. In the time they complain about problems they made up I’ve completed a few stellar indie titles.

    I will always be winning they will always be losing

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      23·
      2 months ago

      That’s why I like retro games sometimes. The only people talking about some obscure game I got running on a Windows 3.1 emulator on top of DOSBOX are other oldies like me that are like “hell yeah that game was fun.”

      The outrage pornographers are such miserable creatures, slouching from one rant to the next on a never ending journey of being unhappy about a hobby. like take up whittling or something, goddamn.

      • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        13·
        2 months ago

        That’s why I like retro games sometimes.

        fuck yes, i love retro games since there’s no hype cycle to affect my thoughts, and they come on discs or carts so i can hold them, and my poor little PSX whines every time it spins the CD (also it hates burned games lol for some reason, despite my buying it from the retro games shop with a modchip in it that they “found accidentally”)

        • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          10·
          2 months ago

          Exactly! It’s not part of the hype cycle. You said it perfectly. It’s on my time and at my discretion. Exactly the way I want to spend my leisure time.

            • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
              5·
              2 months ago

              Been playing an old Roguelite called Castle of the Winds from 1989, it’s got many of the classic Roguelike features you might expect but it’s a bit more casual friendly with mouse support, a save/reload feature and tile based graphics instead of ASCII. It’s a lot of fun.

              • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
                4·
                2 months ago

                I LOVE THAY GAME OMG

                I spent so many dumb hours in that game when I was tiny, the tiles were pretty great. I can still remember the layout of the first floor with the single dumb kobold lol.

                I think I was finally about to beat it at one point and nicked the second game but I dont remember that as much.

                I remember being endlessly fascinated with the textures of the money and all the different armours, and I love paper doll games because of this game. The colours were magnificent too lol, that shade of cyan for the floors is burned into my brain.

                Edit: I never did figure out how the church spells worked in the town

                • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  3·
                  2 months ago

                  Me too! So many hours as a kid spent exploring the dungeons using the light spell to turn everything cyan. It’s been a trip playing it as an adult. I actually know which stats to boost on character creation instead of “maximum strength because I am a big tough guy and I don’t know what dexterity means.”

      • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        They’ve become everything they mocked tumblr for: angry, holier-than-thou Karens addicted to their own feelings of moral superiority…and proud of all of it!

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    28·
    2 months ago

    pronouns Everything must be generically cishet male-gaze horny at all times and nonpolitical us-foreign-policy to the point of it looking like the suburbs right outside the freeze-gamer 's window except with more swords or else DEI is literally destroying western civilization pronouns

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      23·
      2 months ago

      Yeah but even when a game they should like gets released they’re not fucking happy about it unless they can imagine a scenario where someone with they/them pronouns shakes their fist in impotent rage at the thought of these guys having fun

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        20·
        2 months ago

        True; there’s often videos about how this epic beacon of nonpolitical basedness is TRIGGERING FEMINISTS (insert that one picture here, you know the one) so-true

  • 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    23·
    2 months ago

    The capital G Gamers problem is that they want their medium to be viewed as respectable art, which I don’t even object to, I think games are art, but at the same time, they want all and every coverage, ever, to be product review akin to a car. It is simoultaneously high respectable art and a commodity to be used up - see here also the weird dollars per hour fun calculation that I’ve never seen with books or movies despite those being expensive.

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      I want to agree with that, and honestly it’s probably true. but I used to know this guy. we both played video games maybe 20 years ago, but moved apart, lost touch etc.

      I only hear scattered things about his situation which, honestly, sounds like a total clusterfuck deluxe. almost all of it self inflicted naturally, but a shit show of epic proportions.

      anyway, he complains about video games being too woke too. and buys like those $80 AAA games still, despite not being able to afford them. of course I want to be, “dude you need to stop worrying about this dumb shit and get your life right” but I never really talk to him directly anymore.

      anyway, that said, I think there’s a demographic of these “anti-woke” types that have an unhealthy boundary with the escapist aspect of games, and they obsess over shit like this to distract them from their real life problems.

      • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        9·
        2 months ago

        It’s everywhere. People getting weirdly obsessed over some form of consumption. It’s also movie buffs, obscure music fans and record collectors, cosplay, trains, fucking Funko Pops…

        And all of it boils down to people getting very angry over a product. It’s not enough to enjoy the treats, everyone else must enjoy the treats YOUR way and you gotta have ALL the treats, the rarest treats, etc. to be the super special person. I swear this shit is messing up our brains the way lead messed with boomers…

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      Shadows of the Damned is the superior mid Suda game from the 2010s big-cool

      I think Suda fans were just happy to have the game available again, though with the port apparently being shit you’re probably better off emulating

      Edit: Apparently the new port runs worse on Steam Deck than the PS3 version with RPCS3 michael-laugh