Searched and didn't see this posted yet so decided I would. Title says embarrass but it's mostly about games he think did things well in this case.
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Games That Embarrass The "AAA" Industry (The Jimquisition)
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Haven't seen it yet (at work) but this seems like this is a positive video? But I see totally see what you mean, it can be a bit much sometimes.
I can only wish that some employee from one of these AAA companies that Jim just shit on just got triggered and hit dislike on the video. Thanks for throwing it in their face Jim. These companies deserve more shame than they get.
I love getting stuff in-game just by....wow, playing the game! What a concept. Using Jim's example, I am just so grateful to play Borderlands and be able to do something so simple as changing my skin or get a legendary gun without a fucking prompt to buy it with ......."currency".
I love getting stuff in-game just by....wow, playing the game! What a concept. Using Jim's example, I am just so grateful to play Borderlands and be able to do something so simple as changing my skin or get a legendary gun without a fucking prompt to buy it with ......."currency".
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I thought it was "AAA games with embarrassingly bad practices" and I was like "so... all of them?". :D
thanks for the heads up, will watch when I get home!
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All this whining got old long ago for me, sad that he never really changes his shtick.
He says in a thread about a positive video.
Way to embarrass yourself
Yeah, I spoke too soon
Tell us more how you feel about Jim and why you nonetheless feel the need to post in his threads.
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It's not mentioned indie stuff wasn't really the focus here. Was mainly talking about Borderlands 3, Code Vein, and then stuff like vampyr, greedfall, surge 2, plague tale.
I told you, you can re-read it anytime you want to reply to a opinion not worth it in your eyes🙄
My games. Focus deserves all the success and more.
And yet people are like "Eww, janky low budget games, not worth my time." It's honestly pretty sad.
Employees have no say in this for the most part so if they feel defensive about their games i can't blame them
Maybe if it's an employee who have bought into the things Jim is railing against , even then, if they are low man on the pole what can they realistically do.
I always blame the execs first
Yeah I am actually quite impressed with what Code Vein has to offer as a "AA" game. It's most certainly not perfect, far from it. But it has kept me going for 60 hours already right now.
Another great video by Jim.
EA, Activision and Ubisoft are a goddamn embarrassment to games industry, offering less content than F2P games with every aspects of the game monetized.
EA, Activision and Ubisoft are a goddamn embarrassment to games industry, offering less content than F2P games with every aspects of the game monetized.
Video ends on note about this situation.
He has a right to an opinion, or can you only post in Jim Sterling thread if you agree with his crusade against the "AAA Industry"?
Yeah, I stopped watching his stuff altogether for a year and more because I found his negativity draining. It's only recently that I've started to dip my toes back into that water...
I'm reserving judgement until we get a better behind the scenes look on what's going on between Focus and BigBen. That seems to be major turf war between 2 French mid-tier publishers, and Focus is on the receiving side, despite the games they publish generally being better than BigBen's.
I didn't pick it up but I'm glad Borderlands 3 stuck to the way the previous games handled everything. It could've easily been turned into an Ubisoft style cash grab.
Ad hominem attacks against Jim aren't an opinion. It's threadshitting.
You can agree or disagree, but most negative posts directly insult him instead of making an argument. The last thread about Breakpoint also had embarrassing posts like this.
Yeah I've agreed with Jim on this since Overwatch basically. The constant disappointment that game delivered in its lootboxes with a plethora of blue and white (or was it colourless I can't remember) tier items was by far my main disappointment with the game and lead me to drop it well before the end of 2016. I got like 2 legendary skins in like 60 hours of play and one of those was through currency with the other being for a character I never used.
Absolutely terrible 'reward' system. You're basically unwelcome and better set up for consistent disappointment unless you actually buy the lootboxes in bulk (which is the entire point of it all of course) or unless you play for a *very* long time or just get extremely lucky.
I hate it.
Absolutely terrible 'reward' system. You're basically unwelcome and better set up for consistent disappointment unless you actually buy the lootboxes in bulk (which is the entire point of it all of course) or unless you play for a *very* long time or just get extremely lucky.
I hate it.
Some of the "send your spirits on a mission and they come back 4 hours later" sounds so shit mobile monetization that I was very impressed it didn't had the OPTION for me to pay to make it quicker xD
I'm not really familiar with him and havent watched this yet...but isnt this just ripped from a recent ERA thread?
Whining about Jim's negativity in a thread about a video of positive inspirations on the industry isn't an opinion; it's a shitpost from someone who's more concerned with his hot take than actually discussing anything.
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Jim didn't shy away from this. He talked about them needing to do better because they wouldn't be anything without the developers that worked with them.
Honestly I'm happily willing to sacrifice cosmetics to microtransactions if it means we get more updates for a game. Don't agree that cosmetics are really part of gameplay.
That dude managed to turn a simple point into a long video and be pretty annoying while he does it. I haven't watched him much but I don't think I will in the future.
The point is "These new games don't make you pay for their cosmetics". That's pretty much it.
I do agree with his point and I really hate the lazy recolor type skins you find in many games that sell them as DLC or in lootboxes. Those should just be a "pick your own colors" type feature that allows people to color their character according to whatever taste or lack of (based on how horrible a lot of user generated things become in the hands of people who have no eye for aesthetics) they have.
The point is "These new games don't make you pay for their cosmetics". That's pretty much it.
I do agree with his point and I really hate the lazy recolor type skins you find in many games that sell them as DLC or in lootboxes. Those should just be a "pick your own colors" type feature that allows people to color their character according to whatever taste or lack of (based on how horrible a lot of user generated things become in the hands of people who have no eye for aesthetics) they have.
If you think about it, it's actually quite the surprise that Borderlands 3 didn't fall victim to this bullshit. I could see it happening from miles away, but here we are, it's not like it at all.
I agree with him. It used to be enjoyable to unlock this stuff in games just for playing. I rarely play triple AAA games nowadays though anyway.
He is trying to be more positive i think which is good, if he could also not repeat the same points over and over again in the same video that would be even better.
He is trying to be more positive i think which is good, if he could also not repeat the same points over and over again in the same video that would be even better.
Jim is on fire at the moment.
I absolutely agree with him and I did feel the same way for a long time now.
Some recent "AAA" games ended up being nothing more than exploitative pieces of crap experiences. It's already reaching absurd and comedic levels.
I absolutely agree with him and I did feel the same way for a long time now.
Some recent "AAA" games ended up being nothing more than exploitative pieces of crap experiences. It's already reaching absurd and comedic levels.
Yeah I dont get people who just throw out that cosmetics dont effect gameplay. Characters can really just be husks with the same functions
I'll always support Jim because he's like the only big personality advocating that cosmetics do effect gameplay. As he says in the video, they might not directly change stats or whatever, but it effects my enjoyment of the game as whole, it makes me feel good about playing it.
I am constantly tinkering with my Code Vein and Borderlands characters' looks and I'm so thankful that I don't have to constantly look at a storefront where every item is $5-20 for a hat or a color palette. Cosmetics and customizing my characters is one of my favorite things and it sucks that so often they're locked behind overpriced paywalls.
I am constantly tinkering with my Code Vein and Borderlands characters' looks and I'm so thankful that I don't have to constantly look at a storefront where every item is $5-20 for a hat or a color palette. Cosmetics and customizing my characters is one of my favorite things and it sucks that so often they're locked behind overpriced paywalls.