Fun fact: the voice cast includes the english VA for Rei Ayanami from Evangelion.Bob_McMillan said:
So Brianna Wu's Revolution 60 came out on Steam
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And someone gamers don't care about gets a lot of attention from gamers who don't care about them. This will never stop being funny.
About the game? Well, it looks better than the dross I see come out of Sterling's "Best of Steam Greenlight Trailers" series, so it meets some bare minimum standard at least.
About the game? Well, it looks better than the dross I see come out of Sterling's "Best of Steam Greenlight Trailers" series, so it meets some bare minimum standard at least.
I wish there were ways I could agree with this more. I'd also like to point out the rather irritating tendency of a certain particular subset of people and certainly not an entire audience to complain about how they're all being unfairly tarred by journos/pundits/bloggers whatever and then instantly turn around and say how all said journos/feminists/sjw's/whatever clearly want xyz games banned or censored.Silvanus said:
She's spent the last few months reworking the game to make it more appropriate for a PC platform, and addresses complaints about the characters being too sexy by altering their proportions and outfits (IE, the main character getting more of an armoured look).bastardofmelbourne said:
Her response to complaints there was no playable male characters was answered tongue in cheek style by tweeting a concept art for 'Broliday' - a muscled rhuby-rhod-a-like in a posing pouch who would work like the female character they added to Shadows of Mordor.
I doubt anybody's complained that these characters are too sexy, they're hideous.Windknight said:
I dunno man, that game doesn't look very good. Apparently the port is poor as well with the UI still scaled for phone screens and awful textures.
I don't think it's right to abscribe intent like that, I had no idea Wu made the game before you said so and never would have even noticed. It's like when Paul Feig called everyone who didn't like the Ghostbusters trailer a mysoginist - the more likely explanation is most people just didn't like the trailer.
No Man's Sky also has mostly negative reviews but we don't chalk it up anything but to the game being bad.
I don't think it's right to abscribe intent like that, I had no idea Wu made the game before you said so and never would have even noticed. It's like when Paul Feig called everyone who didn't like the Ghostbusters trailer a mysoginist - the more likely explanation is most people just didn't like the trailer.
No Man's Sky also has mostly negative reviews but we don't chalk it up anything but to the game being bad.
Ignoring all of the GG related stuff (I tried to stand firmly on the fence during that shit storm), it does seem like a genuinely shitty game and a lot of the reviews show that people did give the game a try. Maybe some review bombing happened, but honestly, the controversy around it probably caused it to sell a lot more copies than it had any right to. You can say "oh those Gators" all you want, but in the end, they probably made her more money than her limited talent/resources would have allowed for.
I don't like the woman, but Jesus Christ that's ugly. I know looks aren't everything, but there are late 90s/early 2000s PC games which look better than that. Hell, I'd argue GLQuake looks better because GLQuake at least has a coherent colour palette and interesting designs, and was optimised for PC. Having a low budget and a lack of staff isn't an excuse; you're supposed to work with the limitations that you've got and find ways around them, not blithely power through them. Trying to sell this for ?7.00 is just offensive.
Personally I think it just looks kinda bleh, and that's all the emotion I can really stump up on the issue. Of her game.
Still disgusted about the transphobism that came out when talking about her, one user on this very website very bad about it in particular.
Still disgusted about the transphobism that came out when talking about her, one user on this very website very bad about it in particular.
It reminds me of my sister. She wants her life to be better and for people to like her more. But she doesn't want to actually DO anything to bring it about.Phasmal said:
Oh boy, somebody dug up the decaying body of an ancient controversity and began flinging it around.
To be honest, I used to support GG back in its early days. I mostly wanted major sites to edit their CoC, but that's it, all of the drama flew under the radar for me.
Politics aside, the game looks fairly poorly put together, even for an indie title.
To be honest, I used to support GG back in its early days. I mostly wanted major sites to edit their CoC, but that's it, all of the drama flew under the radar for me.
Politics aside, the game looks fairly poorly put together, even for an indie title.
I did hear of her lying on that, damn. And screwing over backers is some Tim Schafer shit, of wait, its several times worse in her case.Here Comes Tomorrow said:
Oh holy jesus, fuck, those visuals are atrocious.
Anyway... Does anyone besides haters cares about games made by Wu at this point?
Anyway... Does anyone besides haters cares about games made by Wu at this point?
To be fair, a good chunk of said criticism was from GG trolls trying to 'divide and conquer' by pretending to be 'SJW's'. Which is why Broliday was presented the way he was.Breakdown said:
To be fair, unless the PC version was radically improved over the iOS original (to the point of being barely recognizable), it deserves every negative review it gets. It's a mess that has only gotten any real attention for two reasons: It has an entirely female dev team with a trans woman with the right politics at the lead and therefore gets automatic praise (remember all the cattiness that went down when she had coffee with the CEO of Stardock, which made her persona non grata for a while because he's a wrongthinker?) and she's not terrible at manipulating social media into generally believing that anyone who doesn't like her work doesn't like it because of misogyny or transphobia and revving up the social justice brigade to give her a boost.AndrewVE said:
My suspicion? The reviews will have an upswing for a bit as the twitter engine gets moving, then settle back into a "mostly negative."
At least it looks like she used higher res textures for the PC version. Hopefully she completely revamped the control scheme (which is not a thing that would work well on PC), so it can be merely bad and not unplayably so.
I'll admit the negative review that suggests the dialog was written by a parrot with a keyboard is a bit hyperbolic, but it's...really bad.