#mislead the game

[henreyettah]

03/10 🦊

More foxes here

[yamsgarden]

All those dandori issues are causing some real brain damage

[revueofmalice]

something quick ^_^… i really like drawing nicole her hair is fun.

[bisexualchaosdemon]

The Foxhole Court, The Raven King, The King's Men

The Sunshine Court, The Golden Raven, The Raven's ???

Heart? Family? Smile? Freedom?

[blue-eli]

Ink October day 3: Sophistry

An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so.

[skibasyndrome]

I was once again tagged by the lovely @grapehyasynth to do this, thank you so much! 💜💜💜

Rules: You will be given a word. share one sentence/excerpt from your wip(s) that start with each letter of that word. My word was SNOW.

 "S-ay it, just fucking admit you're jealous of him."

"N-o. He doesn't need to know about everything I do," he presses out between gasps.

"O-h, you didn't seem like you found me dorky earlier!” Simon only laughs, burying his face in Wille's chest.

"W-e’re all just here to have fun, right?" He asks and Wille nods, because, duh, that was the whole idea. He probably wouldn't have ended up here otherwise.

yaaaaay, I managed to give you four different sentences from three different kinktober wips! Life may be kicking my ass, but I will write those fics, I tell you 🫡

I feel like damn near everyone of my writer moots has been tagged before, but since this is (at least to me) just as fun the second time around: @pagegirlintraining, @iwouldnevergetintofanfic, @earlgrey-lateatnight, @bigalockwood, @enjoythesilentworld,

@hergrandplan, @caramelpenguin, @oneofthosebells, @sillyunicorn, @stretchoutfics & whoever else feels like they wanna do it again (or for the first time!)

Your word is: DISCO

[beefcliff]

i may be a smart art boy but i am also the biggest Bethesda apologist i know. todd howard is my dad in spirit . Fallout is my home and if i think about starfield for too long i make unflattering noises.

[lizzybeeee]

Friendly reminder the Dragon Age Devs AMA is happening later today for all you Americans out there! Consider me very impressed that a majority of the questions with the greatest upvotes are quite critical of the game!

I linked it below!

[figofswords]

hm

[kcamberart]

throwback to that time someone reuploaded Uncle Panko to itch.io like 6 months after i released it but instead of just swiping my cover image as well they used this instead

[jolikmc-thoughts]

So, I just got done playing this little game by Hitsuji over the course of a year. It's called "NEET Girl Date Night". It's pretty rad.

You play the role of yourself as you try and navigate the precarious paths of engaging with your friend's cute cousin, Kara Eklund. As the game title suggests, she is a NEET and maybe a little bit of a shut-in, too. But, she's definitely interesting. Cute, too~

This game is really well written. I think it accurately portrays the kind of things it's going for very well. Plus, Kara is actually really cute on all fronts! She's just a genuinely lovely person.

You can find the game at Hitsuji's itch.io page, linked above. It's a good way to spend an hour or so. Also? It's free*.

* It's actually "pay what you want", but $0.00 is an option…

[reel-fear]

If you want my opinion, I think we should give Lone Wolf the benefit of the doubt, yes it does look a little bit cheap in some areas but the game does look pretty fun and both the art and characters are still on point. Alice and Sammy are also returning so that’s a plus! I think it’s best that we stay optimistic for this game and Bendy’s future.

That's fair and I respect your opinion, I think my thing is I'm worried people are too optimistic about Bendy's future games being better than the ones they've already created because the team behind Bendy is very anti-listening to feedback. Which means it's likely these games won't improve unless fans make a bigger push to be more critical of them and show the devs they won't spend their money unless the team can prove they care about this franchise and aren't gonna let the polish drain just because it makes more money.

I criticize Bendy not because I want it to die or be bad, I only do it because I hope one day either 1. A competitor rises up and gives the fans essentially a better version of Bendy that they deserve and they can use my feedback and others to see where it can be improved. or 2. The bendy team listens to my feedback and the general fandom's to make future games better. Plus generally get their act together.

As it stands the trailer is rushed and cheap, which is bad because a trailer for a game should be the most polished part of the affair. I mean this is what is supposed to convince people to buy the game when it comes out! I had the same problems with The Cage and I'm unhappy to see this becoming a pattern. [I mean that's a game I'm even more confident is going to horribly crash and burn cause I honestly don't know why'd they make a midquel to a game which everyone hated the ending of-]

Look. I understand some people feel a sort of loyalty to the Bendy devs, it's hard not to feel like you're in some sort of friendship when it comes to such a small indie team. But at the end of the day you have to remember defending them when they mess up only gives them more reasons to ignore feedback and most of all you don't know Mike or Meatly as people outside of what they Choose to show in their public image. So when the public image they've crafted is one that's bad and leaves people worried about how the games they're making are gonna turn out. Nobody can be blamed but them. And if you really care about them and/or Bendy it's better to boost feedback even if it's negative.

Like sure Sammy and Malice are returning but look at the treatment they got in Dark Revival! Meatly and Mike have never addressed how poorly done the original characters were in that game and I think it's cause far as they're concerned it was perfectly fine and people are complaining about nothing. [That or enough people didn't seem to care for it to matter to them whether that point was valid or not] Despite the fact Sammy was shot down for a gag after finally speaking up [and was in a ton of Dark Revival marketing material] and Malice was nothing more than a rip off of her chapter 3 self with no interesting changes, we never got to hear her thoughts on how the world is doing, on how she feels now hearing her enemy, the ink demon, was supposedly killed, or on Wilson, the keepers, etc. I mean it was a huge waste and with the promise Sammy will be 'restored to his Chapter 2 glory' I want to call this poor writing out now rather than wait for the cage to come out and pretend I never saw it coming.

Criticism is a good thing for Bendy, we should embrace it rather than shunning or discouraging it. I hope most of us can agree on that. Even if I seem harsh, I would rather lean towards that, than risk going too easy with my words and being ignored by the devs.

[i-mas]

HARUKA AMAMI / 天海春香 ❤️

[tearlessrain]

I mean years ago I really hoped that we might get some coherent dalish lore in this game that actually treated them with some measure of respect, and I was trying to give the benefit of the doubt that maybe people were right and the weird handling of their culture and beliefs thus far was a setup that would pay off when the veil crumbles and shit goes down and we see more of both the dalish and tevinter, and then we'd get some cool deconstruction of both the dalish gods AND the maker/andraste.

but that was years ago and by roughly the third time they re-announced the game I was starting to suspect that development had passed out of the hands of anyone who would give a shit about lore and setting and story payoff long ago.

and based on what people are saying so far it looks like that's true.

[animezinglife]

He's so sweet to her. 🥺

[bunabi]

Not pre-ordering because these past few years have been SO full of games that make huge promises they don't make good on and games are released too early and in shambles - it's a digital release, they're not going to run out. So mostly I'd like to give it at least a week to a month to make sure the game, you know, functions, and isn't a mess before spending the significant amount of money that a AAA release is nowadays

Mmhm after pre-ordering DAI deluxe on PS3 I totally understand 🫠

Though this time, since the first act of DAV is clearly really polished and they've had ten years of experience wrangling the Frostbite engine, I'm a lot more optimistic

But I'm still worried whether they have time to comb over act 2 & 3 just as much before Halloween, considering the layoffs & the fact they had to shift gears from live service to single-player only three years ago