Such a pointless thing to do which puts a massive target on your back for no reason. Backlash is deserved and maybe he learned something
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Hes a libertarian nepo baby born into extreme wealth. His dad, the chairman of his company's board and a main investor, was a cofounder of Inuit, the turbotax/quickbooks company.
Learning isn't likely a strong suit.
Just 3 months ago Kojima was sporting „Make TV Great Again” hat with zero backlash. I think people look for ways to be outraged.
Please downvote this more to prove my point about pointless tribalism.
You mean in 2017 like the article pointed out. And maybe there should have been backlash for it. It was a shitty thing to do then, and an even worse thing to do now
There are more important things to get angry over. Getting angry over hats is just tribalism.
When the tribe which they're appealing to is a death cult with a huge body count then that's just being reasonable
Motherfucker decided to come out as MAGA on a global stage while journalists and protestors were being shot by rubber bullets and tear gassed just miles away. He was in range of the predator drones flying over head in a US city, and where Marines were illegally deployed to US soil for the first time in hundreds of years.
But nah dog, just ignore all that and play the game, the game that clearly supports all that. Cause focusing on what the dev clearly supports is not allowed for some reason because he wore it on a hat.
Ah yes, getting angry over someone appealing to fascists is just tribalism. My bad
i will. thank you for your permission
I was instance banned for trying to reason that we should talk about policy rather than hats when talking about politics.
This wasn’t intended to be ban evasion as I do not intend to return. Goodbye beehaw people, I guess it wasn’t a safe space for autistic people XD
"I guess it wasn't a safe space for autistic people" is an insane takeaway from being temp banned for talking about people fucking their mothers and how people downvoting you arouses you (on a thread about not using a right wing hate symbol).
As an autistic person I'm baffled you'd try to hide behind your neurodivergence here.
Nah fuck the political implications, the message is %100 correct. The current FPS games don't give the same enjoyment as I used to get from the old MW3/CS:Source era, and I really enjoyed Splitgate 2 and truly think it can change up a lot of things in the FPS space.
I mean yeah but really no. The political implications are too big to ignore here. Especially given the event being in LA with all the shit going on. Also like as a particularly targeted person in this fascist administration, it really doesn't feel great for people to use fascist iconography to make a stupid joke!
Also like splitgate 2? Really? The game that during this announcement announced a battle royale mode? The most tired shooter mode since hero shooters? And the one that had $145 microtransactions on launch? This is the savior of fps gaming?
Nah
So this is a little off topic but is SG2 any good?
I was in love with splitgate 1 at launch then stopped kinda played off and on during the last season and put down the game after they announced they’d stopped. I played some of the closed betas and stuff just felt off, 1 felt like maps were designed with portals in mind offering sight lines and some risky areas if you were gonna shoot thru portals, but 2 felt like they made a pretty cross between a hero/ability plus arena shooter then slapped portals on it, and it just didn’t feel like splitgate to me.
Its not very good
I mean, abilities? OK, why not.
Different classes? Well, ok I guess?
But like, I can't get into a match where anyone is using portals. In the only arena from SG 1 you can actually See some intent in being Portal oriented, but in all New areas they just dont make sense to usw. The Objectives are placed completely Outside of any Portal areas, and even where they are placed its just like „If you run to the other side of the Map and back, you can flank some random angle no one will ever use
And why make every classes weapon different?
Also, power weapons are just not worth picking up, every 2. Player is a bot, and the game itself feels pretty soulless with this corporate arena vibe that the finals have done better already.
Yeah you’ve just summed up what I’ve been struggling to put into words it just feels off
Ngl if it wasn’t splitgate and remove the portals I think it could have been a good f2p shooter that’s a little bit of arena.
I was never good at portaling in 1 but it was fun, during the closed betas it felt like a way to shave off a couple seconds running instead of using it to flank or get wierd angles
Also yeah it felt very… sterile idk… like it was made for esports both in lore (which isn’t bad) and irl
If you didn't have the portals, you could just play halo, which I'm doing now
About 1, it was always really fun having 2 ends of the maps as bases and just trying to hold it while trying to portal to the other. At least that's what I remember. The weapons were also fun (which I can't say about every weapon except from the fortitude class, since 1 aero's feels like a paint gun damage wise and the energy gun is an SMG, if someone took it and just completely ruined it for CQC by making the projectiles have the travel time of a sniper firing at 1km.), and the gameplay itself was way less ability centred.
Also, making the lore of a game „Its esports” is just so generic. Sure, turn it into a Gulag people are thrown into by the rich. Turn one company into the bad guy if you want. But not this shit
Oh yeah the base felt really true on that one arena trying to hold your vertical area.
In Atlantis or the underwater map it felt like a “base” slowly rotated around the map for a really fun dynamic as well as that one industrial and lava maps
But yeah my original point was it feels like serveral good ideas (minus the lack of portals) mashed together in one hodge podge
Are you able to leave your house? People are going to wear shit and make jokes. There is no use getting hung up on things that are well out of your control.
Shit take. There is a difference between seeing something out on the street and choosing not to support a developer because of their shitty behavior
And I am also free to think the joke is in bad taste and to refuse support for a game that makes jokes that make light of the shit situation I'm in :)
The political implications were the point though. Or do you think he had no idea what he was doing? The "We didn't know it would be taken as a political statement" BS is just damage control
Isn't Splitgate 2 going to be a BR? Or is that just an optional mode? Because I don't see diving straight into the dumpster that is Battle Royale as making FPS great again, even without the political undertones.
It's an optional mode for those who like it, I found their team fight modes more fun.
It’s an optional mode for those who like it
They probably said that when they added BR to Fortnite too.
Cs source was an abomination though. The hitboxes were insanely large. Cs 1.5 and 1.6 were the best ones. Cago/cs2 are good too.
idk but for me none of the CS games feel as smooth to play as CS:Source.
Even csgo/cs2? Because they're way smoother than source. Animations are way less jerky and more fluid.