• onlooker@lemmy.ml
    293·
    10 months ago

    Okay, what do social dynamics and personal hygiene have to do with console players and triple-A games?

    • The_Vampire@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, the title of this post, the meme’s upper text, and the rest are all at odds and I’m just confused as to what OP is going for.

      Is the point that consoles are the AAA industry and services normal people with normal needs? How does this mean we should boycott it?

      Are we being tongue-in-cheek? Are we not supposed to boycott the AAA industry?

      Why does this meme single out ‘console peasants’ as normal people? Is normal bad? Is irregular bad? Is PC bad? But PC gamers also care about gameplay and are regular people? How much sarcasm is supposed to be here?

      OP, WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

  • kat_angstrom@lemmy.world
    334·
    10 months ago

    Op, are you trying to imply that only peasants wash their hands after using the bathroom? I’m so confused.

    • UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      10 months ago

      It’s funny because I always heard that the rich preferred perfumes over bathing, and looked down on peasants for their bathing, especially public baths.

      No source. It’s just what I heard. Even if it’s true, who knows what era and people it applied to.

    • hexortor@lemmy.zip
      78·
      10 months ago

      These are all very normal things. The joke is that console gamers are normal people, whereas pc gamers are a bunch of hardcore nerds who never wash themselves, never leave home, don’t have a job and don’t know how to interact with women

  • Norodix@lemmy.world
    64·
    10 months ago

    But but but… Consoles are the AAA industry. Indies have a chance because of PC gaming.

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
      35·
      10 months ago

      and nowadays im siding with the indies.

      triple A has been pretty dissapointing lately.

          • onlooker@lemmy.ml
            5·
            10 months ago

            What do you mean? We already have them. For example, Dark Souls makes me go AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA all the time.

          • idunnololz@lemmy.world
            3·
            10 months ago

            the year is 2050
            you are in a stadium
            a man walks up on stage. he yells at the top of his lungs for 30 minutes straight
            the crowd goes wild
            suddenly the lights go out
            the lights come back on slowly
            you see “The elder scrolls V: Skyrim”
            The first AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA…A game
            Todd Howard has done it again

    • Franklin@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 months ago

      Honestly the XBLA (Xbox live arcade) kicked off a lot of indie games, that was short lived though it differently has the best chance on PC

      • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        The best thing to come out of Microsoft’s push into the indie space was XNA, which even now stands as one of the best game development frameworks of all time. It’s a shame they murdered it in its crib.

        (I know Monogame/FNA exist, but I’ll always wonder where the project could have gone with Microsoft-level funding)

    • MilkLover@lemmy.ml
      1·
      10 months ago

      Closest one I’ve found to a AAA studio that doesn’t suck is Techland. Dying Light 2 was a very underwhelming release, but at least they’ve mostly fixed the game and are still updating it and listening to the community.