whether or not it is incline is remain to be seen, all the people praising this game right now are bootlickers who were given free copies. if you take their opinion seriously, then I don't know what to tell you
We have tried this conversation via shoutbox (if you recall, it concluded with you calling me a Jewish agitator because I asked you a question you didn't want to answer, which to be fair is some quite advanced race theory) so I'm aware that its a wonderfully Sisyphean ordeal but I'm bored so let's try again. You say that your opinion of the game - which was, by your own admission, once positive - changed once a few people who received preview copies started posting their positive impressions of it
If we must dismiss all the information we get from people who had access to free copies of the game (which is, by the way, pretty much all pre-release information on any game ever), shouldn't this mean that our judgement should remain unaffected, meaning we should act as if we had no information on the game at all? Why go the extra step and suggest piracy - unless piracy is the default for you? (No judgement there if so, mind.) Besides, discounting info from people with pre-release copies would only leave us with info from the developers who, unlike Fluent and Junta and the rest, stand to directly profit from the game doing well, so shouldn't we treat their information with even
more scrutiny than that of preview players? Then how come your original perception of the game was more positive when what you had available was the dev info sans the logically more trustworthy fanboi info?
That is not to say that I think Prime Junta shouldn't have disclosed his involvement in development earlier, even if it was very limited and - crucially, I think - uncompensated. I think if you like a game there is nothing wrong with promoting it. With enough zeal you might end up doing it in a hyperbolic or obnoxious way (as our friend Fluent is sometimes prone to, sadly) or you may even end up misrepresenting the game either intentionally or unintentionally, but anyone can do this for any game regardless of having played it or not. It seems strange that such actions would sabotage one's enjoyment of or willingness to purchase the game. Personally I think a line gets crossed when people who stand to financially benefit from the game end up misrepresenting it and there is no evidence that this is being done here. Again, I think if anything Kurvitz' words promising roughly 60 hours for an average playthrough and such should be taken with more scrutiny than anything Fluent or Prime Junta wrote.
I am probably more hyped for the game than I should be, granted. The concept always appealed to me and I love pretty much every preview I have seen thus far. My biggest concern is whether the density and reactivity of the game persists in its middle and final acts or if it ends up feeling rushed/diluted. I am not against the skepticism of your conclusion - its your reasoning I find entirely incoherent. Like yo, fam, if you just wrote "eh fuckit I'll pirate this one" then I wouldn't have even raised an eyebrow, but your justification that seems like a flimsy rationalization to me. Remember any action is righteous as long as its willed ok
. That shit was pinned for 6 months.
