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headfallsoff
@headfallsoff.com

feel kind of :/ about the wolverine game being singled out as a victim of online negativity because people think it looks a bit shit. the dynamics are real but to suddenly care about them now that people aren’t excited for the new 200 million dollar marvel game is like. ok cmon

headfallsoff
@headfallsoff.com

feel like a much better example of this exact thing is how every indie game dev if they get a viral clip just has to get one million quotes now calling it slop based on the least charitable interpretation of 30 seconds of gameplay

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JudgmentCut
@daplyons.bsky.social

I still remember when Hollow Knight was first shown off and people were calling it slop just because it was 2D, there were platforms, and the controls were tight.

possSCREAM, the CEO of Tricky
@possqueen.dev

this literally happened to my game, 30 seconds of higher skill gameplay was posted to a few indie game subreddits to gather interest for the kickstarter and a fuckin Huge indie game focused account on twitter reposted that footage. --

~~~Rixor~~~
@rixor14.bsky.social

Yeah, this is the real epidemic. People pass up so many 10/10s cuz they can't get past the fact that they hate the image of the game they created in their head, and then complain that people don't make good games in X genre anymore.

~~~Rixor~~~
@rixor14.bsky.social

I mean the most recent game I've seen dragged into that discourse was Tricky and the Dream Caster. I was seeing people complain that "every indie platformer has to play like Mario Odyssey" and then I look over at games like Kilaflow and Lunistice and wonder where they're getting their data from.