Jim Sterling (The Jimquisition)

Porn is basically the only thing keeping Overwatch remotely relevant.

Sure, let's pretend people were mad about Blizzard removing skimpy portraits and not because that was Blizzard's actual response to the massive sexual harassment scandal within the company. Which just hammered how little company leadership understood what the actual bloody problem was (which shouldn't be surprising, though, considering Kotick's a sex pest himself).

If you wanna make fun of horny gamers, sure, but let's not make shit up, shall we?

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on May 7th 2024 at 4:01:36 PM

Whatever it was a response for, it doesn't change that the majority of complaints were that the pixelated portrait of a half-naked woman was gone.

Citation needed on that. Because that seems like another instance of "some people were doing a thing on the internet, so clearly this was the majority response".

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on May 7th 2024 at 4:08:08 PM

I've seen the Wo W forums.

Okay, so it was literally just some people doing a thing on the internet. Got it.

"People on the WoW forums" has never been a convincing argument regarding anything.

If it's where the majority of the game's playing community aggregates.

x6 Considering the fact that all it took for their playerbase to forget about all of their abuses was to announce game releases versus how long it takes gamer goons to shut up about "censorship" whenever a game alters a digital woman's look it's not exactly far fetched to believe that gamer gooners care more about their digital cheesecake than the lives of the people responsible for their escapism.

Edited by CryoJNik on May 7th 2024 at 10:14:11 AM

I mean, it's not a binary.

People can be mad at Blizzard for being an abusive hellhole, and can be mad at Blizzard for removing portraits that have nothing to do with their issues while at the same time releasing press statements about how according to the guys Blizzard hired, Blizzard never did anything bad.

But ya know clearly the issue is only the cheesecake.

Oh hey, we likely have Steph's next video: Microsoft closes Arkane Austin (Redfall) Tango Gameworks (Hi-Fi Rush), and Alpha Dog games, with a fourth studio, Roundhouse Studios, being folded into Zenimax.

Reading comprehension has good down the tubes these days I see. I said that gamers "care more" about their fanservice being messed with than real life abuses based on how long it takes said group to move past each scandal. No one is dismissing the real problems, we're stating how the clearly less serious issue is often harped on for far longer than it really should be

Arkane Austin made prey which was a fucking masterpiece. The whole Redfall thing is a tragedy but of course the people responsible are never the ones paying the price.

It must be pointed out that the Arkane Austin that created Prey is completely different from the Arkane Austin that barfed out Redfall, with a vast majority of the folks who worked on Prey having departed by the time development on Redfall ended. Prey was considered a commercial failure, as fantastic a game it is, which was the reason for the pivot to Redfall in the first place; Zenimax panicked at the weak sales of Prey and demanded a game that had more mainstream appeal, as well as microtransactions out the wazoo.

I mean they are closing the Hi Fi Rush guys and they just released a sleeper hit that took everyone by surprise so clearly success aint guarantees of anything.

That again, furthers my point on how the people responsible for killing such a good team are not the ones being punished.

This is all shit.

Edited by Ghilz on May 7th 2024 at 12:10:23 PM

I'm honestly surprised they didn't go all "it's just one outfit" like the rest of the internet.

Also, keep in mind that the Helldivers drama is also in the running, because Sterling can take the piss out of Sony fanboys.

They can take the piss out of anything and it’s terrifying.

The Helldivers drama is over, isn't it? Sony backed away.

Sony fanboys are still malding because PC gamers bullied their master.

Today's episode is not about any recent controversy, but a personal complaint by James Stephanie about the glut of assymetrical multiplayer horror games that have been released in the wake of Dead by Daylight's success.

Also they got fucking wrecked during a wrestling match.

Edited by Resileafs on May 13th 2024 at 9:52:54 AM

Follow the Leader is a thing I know but its still annoying to see. Guess "1 vs 100 Bad guy vs scrubs" games are the new thing now that Call of Duty clones are out of fashion.

I find those games always run into the same problem: they are impossible to balance, because you need to account for both online randos mashing their heads against the keyboard and people that actually use chat. As soon as people learn to coordinate, the "one" has absolutely no shot at all.

Edited by Kayeka on May 13th 2024 at 8:22:46 AM

Aside from its ridiculous monetization scheme, that was also an issue Evolve—one of the earliest examples of modern asymmetrical multiplayers—ran into very early on and Turtle Rock never really figured out how to solve the problem before they ultimately abandoned the game. Either the Hunters were a bunch of random people wildly going off to do their own thing and the Monster could hunt them down no problem, or they were so coordinated the Monster couldn't even evolve past Stage 2 before they got taken down. It was really difficult finding a middle ground in all that.

Also once the licenses expire, it's one good ol case of YAR HAR FIDDLE DE DEE! given they won't be able to be on the store shelves.

At least Dragon Ball The Breakers tries to give its villains unique gimmicks, I guess.

Man, I waited years for Sterling to roast DBD but when they did it was more of an afterthought.