MiguelItUp
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Hey GAF, I was just curious about your take on all this. Scrolling through Twitter this AM, this tweet was thrown in my face...
I don't follow Gene at all, but because I follow video game related material, his tweets come up occasionally. I honestly don't even know his general views or opinions on things either, so forgive me if this is really a "not surprised" moment. I'm fairly certain I remember him having a few of those in the past. But this was the first time I saw someone basically say that The Medium's story is "too much" essentially.
Did any of you feel that way? I feel like the biggest take away I got from The Medium was that the story wasn't great, and the gameplay was even weaker. But I'm curious to know if any of you here had a similar take away to Gene, or something even moderately similar. He even went as far as to labeling Xbox's tweet as "toxic positivity" when they were just responding to Greg Miller saying "The Medium > RE Village."
Which, to me, feels extremely excessive.
It makes me wonder if we're going to get into a future where folks that share an opinion similar to his will attempt to cancel games (or bash them with negative press) based on their story. Something that we haven't really seen aside from games that contained extremely violent or sexual visuals.
As a huge Silent Hill fan I'm remaining hopeful for the future of its series, while also being hesitant on all fronts. Though I know a lot of people are already jumping to conclusions because of Bloober's previous titles that didn't contain any homeruns. But I feel it's a shame that something like this could get them some new bad press, especially if the whole Silent Hill thing is true, because that'd be huge for them. Well, and especially since a ton of people love to flock to blue checkmarks.
I don't follow Gene at all, but because I follow video game related material, his tweets come up occasionally. I honestly don't even know his general views or opinions on things either, so forgive me if this is really a "not surprised" moment. I'm fairly certain I remember him having a few of those in the past. But this was the first time I saw someone basically say that The Medium's story is "too much" essentially.
Did any of you feel that way? I feel like the biggest take away I got from The Medium was that the story wasn't great, and the gameplay was even weaker. But I'm curious to know if any of you here had a similar take away to Gene, or something even moderately similar. He even went as far as to labeling Xbox's tweet as "toxic positivity" when they were just responding to Greg Miller saying "The Medium > RE Village."
Which, to me, feels extremely excessive.
It makes me wonder if we're going to get into a future where folks that share an opinion similar to his will attempt to cancel games (or bash them with negative press) based on their story. Something that we haven't really seen aside from games that contained extremely violent or sexual visuals.
As a huge Silent Hill fan I'm remaining hopeful for the future of its series, while also being hesitant on all fronts. Though I know a lot of people are already jumping to conclusions because of Bloober's previous titles that didn't contain any homeruns. But I feel it's a shame that something like this could get them some new bad press, especially if the whole Silent Hill thing is true, because that'd be huge for them. Well, and especially since a ton of people love to flock to blue checkmarks.
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