Looking at some of the vidya gaem jurnlizm articles on this whole thing, the consensus seems to be a bunch of hemming and hawing about how while the article writers completely "understand" the frustration of gamers... Dragon's Dogma 2 is totally great and fine, though, actually, and the review bombing is utterly unfair and "the furore [sic] is overblown" and "Capcom is only offering an additional convenience to players" and it's all apparently a "misunderstanding" and so on and so forth blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda shut the fuck up.
No.
There is no misunderstanding here, at least not by me. I don't give a flying fat fuck if the $40-plus of DLC is "completely optional" or whatever. (The already $80 game itself before you even factor in DLC at all is also "completely optional," as far as I care, and I'm opting to not buy it, simple as that.) The fact that all the DLC is consumable shit that you can just get via, you know, playing the goddamn game makes the whole thing worse in my eyes, not better. The fact that this kind of daft dumbfuckery exists at all is enough to make me not buy the game just on principle, even if I were to utterly ignore all the other heinous problems with the game. And no, Fraser Brown of PC Gamer, you fucking dimbulb, the fact that "we've been living with microtransactions for a long time" is not a valid argument in favor of Dragon's Dogma 2 having microtransactions, because microtransactions have always been greedy, vile shit and always will be, no matter what game they're attached to.
And all of the comments under these articles seems like about 60/40 (maybe 70/30 if I'm being charitable) of actual gamers being rightfully, justifiably, rationally upset about this stupid shit versus Capcock-slurping fuckbois militantly defending the game and/or reputation management drones reputation management droning on and on.
(Also, "Hey, Helldivers 2 had a ridiculously shitty launch on PC and started out 'mostly negative,' too, but look at it now, sitting at 'very positive,' ha ha you just got schooled" is not the airtight, ironclad counterargument that a lot of these morons seem to think it is. It just further proves my point that most gamers simply learn to tolerate whatever sewer sludge they're munching on, trying to pretend like it's gourmet chocolate rather than the fetid feces it actually is. Which is why I think Dragon's Dogma 2 is still going to sell like fucking hotcakes, no matter what the Steam rating is currently [and accurately] sitting at.)
Yeah, I'm sure the underlying game hidden in there somewhere actually is pretty good, if it's anything at all like the first Dragon's Dogma game (which it seems like that's basically what it is: just like the first game, but more of it). However, the fact that Dragon's Dogma 2 is completely buried under a huge, slimy, diarrhetic shitpile of draconian Denuvo DRM, needless predatory DLC, game-breaking bugs, hideous performance issues, dubious design choices, and a far too large price tag (and that's even before taking the additional $40-plus DLC prices into consideration at all) just means that a lot of people, like us, simply aren't going to be bothered to try to dig through all the dogshit to get at the ostensibly good game lurking beneath. For me, at least, maybe in half a decade or so, I might deign to give the game the time of day, if they've managed to scrape all the residual horseshit off of the game by then. The first game was good enough for me to not just write it off altogether, forever, but I'm certainly not touching it while all that shit is still covering it up and choking it to death.
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Date: 2024-03-23 07:29 pm (UTC)From:No.
There is no misunderstanding here, at least not by me. I don't give a flying fat fuck if the $40-plus of DLC is "completely optional" or whatever. (The already $80 game itself before you even factor in DLC at all is also "completely optional," as far as I care, and I'm opting to not buy it, simple as that.) The fact that all the DLC is consumable shit that you can just get via, you know, playing the goddamn game makes the whole thing worse in my eyes, not better. The fact that this kind of daft dumbfuckery exists at all is enough to make me not buy the game just on principle, even if I were to utterly ignore all the other heinous problems with the game. And no, Fraser Brown of PC Gamer, you fucking dimbulb, the fact that "we've been living with microtransactions for a long time" is not a valid argument in favor of Dragon's Dogma 2 having microtransactions, because microtransactions have always been greedy, vile shit and always will be, no matter what game they're attached to.
And all of the comments under these articles seems like about 60/40 (maybe 70/30 if I'm being charitable) of actual gamers being rightfully, justifiably, rationally upset about this stupid shit versus Capcock-slurping fuckbois militantly defending the game and/or reputation management drones reputation management droning on and on.
(Also, "Hey, Helldivers 2 had a ridiculously shitty launch on PC and started out 'mostly negative,' too, but look at it now, sitting at 'very positive,' ha ha you just got schooled" is not the airtight, ironclad counterargument that a lot of these morons seem to think it is. It just further proves my point that most gamers simply learn to tolerate whatever sewer sludge they're munching on, trying to pretend like it's gourmet chocolate rather than the fetid feces it actually is. Which is why I think Dragon's Dogma 2 is still going to sell like fucking hotcakes, no matter what the Steam rating is currently [and accurately] sitting at.)
Yeah, I'm sure the underlying game hidden in there somewhere actually is pretty good, if it's anything at all like the first Dragon's Dogma game (which it seems like that's basically what it is: just like the first game, but more of it). However, the fact that Dragon's Dogma 2 is completely buried under a huge, slimy, diarrhetic shitpile of draconian Denuvo DRM, needless predatory DLC, game-breaking bugs, hideous performance issues, dubious design choices, and a far too large price tag (and that's even before taking the additional $40-plus DLC prices into consideration at all) just means that a lot of people, like us, simply aren't going to be bothered to try to dig through all the dogshit to get at the ostensibly good game lurking beneath. For me, at least, maybe in half a decade or so, I might deign to give the game the time of day, if they've managed to scrape all the residual horseshit off of the game by then. The first game was good enough for me to not just write it off altogether, forever, but I'm certainly not touching it while all that shit is still covering it up and choking it to death.