Yep, that is why the plot of Infinite was to me more a bunch of not fully thought through but cool sounding concepts instead of a proper and fully consistent story and world. I like the game for its art style, game play and atmosphere, but it is 100 % not making sense.

And now that you spell it out to me, I never realized before how directly contradicting that ending was to the whole concept of Bioshock 1.

Because to me it lost the point at the moment where they said:

Thanks for explaining it to me in more detail.

While I understand what you mean and agree that Infinite and its DLCs throws everything before out the window, I would argue that Fontaine was just the first bullet that killed Rapture but there were many more bullets waiting in the magazine, so to say. The oppression and inherent wrongness of Rapture, including the addictive behaviour of Adam combined with the inherent and even desired power structures would have driven it down the drain either way. Probably later than the New Years Eve party, but it was in my mind always on a path of self destruction.

And yeah, BioShock 2 was done without the involvement of Ken Levine, so he sadly didn’t really saw it as part of “his baby”. I liked BioShock 2 and Infinite, but Infinite felt more like an alternate canon spin off than part of the main series. For me they are simply similar but different beings, not of the same continuity.

Can you explain it to me inside a spoiler? I played all from BioShock till BioShock Infinite & its DLCs years ago and can’t remember how it directly justifies Ryan?

If the best argument you can bring for your point is that it is literally not forbidden to say it, maybe do everybody else a favour and just shut up.

Freedom of speech is important, but not a good argument enhancer.

I always loved dodgeball. Too bad you only play it in school and if I would play it now, I would probably hurt myself massively.

Favourite exercise is probably hiking. Full workout and you get a great view of nature, what’s not to love about that? Except if it rains of course…or is too warm… or too many people… OK there are some possible downsides.

It’s worth mentioning that the Shinku patch was released just 12 hours after Version 1.2 went live on July 2, which is a rather quick response by the devs at Perfect World to “un-nerf” their newest character.

12 hours for the patch to be released, players playing it, complaining about it online, the devs reading it, deciding to act on the complains, change the model and release the new patch?

That sounds a bit too quick to me and more like they already had the model ready. For whatever reason.

And just for completeness sake, this whole thing is stupid beyond believe.

Please continue putting better known games from time to time, so that everyone can have a Aha moment. The obscure games are awesome as well, but I haven’t known a single one of them XD

Well the question is why would the difficulty be such a strong point in China but outside it isn’t? The translation thing makes more sense in my opinion. Why would Chinese players be worse than non Chinese ones? The difficulty of Silksong was criticised outside of China as well, but it didn’t lead to such low scores

Thanks again!

And curse you social media! I want my forums back!

And yeah, while it’s negative for the developers, I can understand that people use the options they have seen to work.

Ah okay, thanks for explaining the background. Now I can understand it better.

Is it not possible to use the discussion forums on steam for that translation request?

Thanks for that compilation, it’s always interesting to read about different cultures.

my reasons for positive review:

• having fun (or liking the game for singular astonishing positive parts, if the whole game has some.flaws)
• wanting to support smaller studios (I’m more forgiving for a 1 person studio instead of AAA) if I think the game is still worth to be supported

My reasons for negative review:

• shitty behaviour by developer after my buy (removing content, adding shit content like microtransactions, etc.)
• unfun
• technical problems that majorly impact my enjoyment

In general I give most things the benefit of the doubt and can enjoy certain positive parts in a mostly bad game. so my reviews are mostly positive, as I curate already strongly what I buy.

While I can understand why / how most of the reasons you talked about came around, I’m a bit baffled about the missing chinese localisation. Does that mean a significant number of chinese players buy a game simply to give it a negative review on steam? In the steam store it’s shown what languages are supported. So if you can’t speak any of those languages, why would you buy it?
If the localisation is bad, then I can understand buying it and giving it a negative review due to feeling scammed.

And I can give you an explanation for the number 1 negative reason: Poland, Czech republic and Turkey are all regionally close(ish for Turkey) to each other and you have it in your mind as European. Similar to probably Chinese having Korean in their mind, which most Europeans likely don’t think about.
Maybe the translation company they asked had those languages and so they ordered it. And yeah, I can understand the developer. If I never intended to support a language due to unfamiliarity and then those language speakers are giving me negative reviews… feels unfair.
Entitlement is the way I would describe it. Again, I can unterstand people wanting to play something and I can unterstand feeling left out for your language not being supported. But then buying the game and giving it negative reviews for that? Just don’t buy it or make community translations like so many others do.

While it was still an okay end for me, your points are also what I didn’t like about it.

While I appreciate the internal look into the psyche of why somebody can become such an asshole, he was getting off too lightly in my opinion. His opening up to ribbit was well acted, I liked the portrayal of that.

This is a really mean thing to say out of the blue. You’ve assumed malintent when there wasn’t any.

This you?

If you know any teenagers/young adults who would enjoy “baby’s first psychological horror” this is a good recommend.

Calling teenagers babies is condescending. Could have just left that word out and write “first psychological horror” or “introduction to psychological horror”.

And regarding why say something: because they want you to learn about your behaviour and be able to learn and grow from it. So they care and think that you can improve instead of being a lost cause, where you just down vote and move on.

Yep, I send an email to support asking about it and they said they can’t tell me more than the second apology and quoted it.

Depends on your definition of “make good”.

After the first disastrous comment on reddit they issued a second one on Twitter which sounded like the first one should have in the first place.

But that’s all and they didn’t address it inside the newsletter, so for me it’s empty words without really addressing the deeper issue of how much somebody in GOG fucked up.

Yeah, I plan to do the same.

It’s interesting to see how much content there already is in the demo. Could already be its own full game.

Yep. And that is the difference between “not doing wrong” and “doing right”. Because in the latter’s case, you don’t die. Or at least… Its complicated

Nethack, a very deep and actively obtous game. If you want to figure it out yourself, its complexity is nearly on a level with dwarf fortress.

Outer Wilds does not fit 100 % your description, as it doesnt hate the player. But it is a game all about exploration and figuring stuff out yourself. And if you do things wrong, you die.

Yep, was pretty alright as coop game.

But I seriously wished they finally let Amadeus, Pontius and Zora retire and let new heroes go. It is getting ridiculous to unlock the same stuff for the 6th time.

And now after watching the trailer: FINALLY. Now let’s just hope they manage to do the transition in a good way. In contrast to the 3D transition…