#that moment when you and and some Blizzard dev from X years ago had the exact same idea. somehow

[moonfurthetemmie]

so i'm playing World of Warcraft again, for the first time in ages, and apparently in Dreanor there's??? A big mushroom area??? And people who wander in get infected by the spores and attack those who aren't infected?

one of them mentioned bringing me to 'the heart'

I'm still doing the side questline for the area but like. it's the same thing that's happening in Untitled.MP4 down to the goddam color scheme

i have no memory of this place. why is it so similar. i'm so confused

[cringywhitedragon]

Reshi’s worst gaming moments of 2023

Warning: This does contain some curse words and some mild ranting but is generally just for me expressing some of the worst fails that I find personally in the gaming industry this year. Tread carefully if you don’t want to read.

It’s that time of the year again folks, and you know what that means….

It’s time that many of us begin wrapping up this year, and in some cases, discussing some of what I feel are some of the worst gaming related moments of this year.

And while this year did have some wonderful game releases, there was also a lot of chaos, dumpster fires, and quite a few RIPs this year.

Please note: for this “list”, I will not be discussing drama regarding YouTubers, streamers, and/or gaming critics/reviewers unless it has a direct tie to a game or the industry itself/and or the drama was large enough to be considered problematic (IE: The Hogwarts Legacy harassment from certain less than stellar members of the internet community on streamers from last year which I did cover and shame in my last Worst of Gaming in 2022) so no Zero Punctuation.

But anyways, let’s get this dumpster fire a rolling shall we?

Two big Oofs, So long E3 and Volition. You will be missed.

We all know reboots and or remakes. Almost every major franchise gets them at some point… Aaaaand many of those tend to be a hit or a miss.

For one, you may have one that is a massive success such as the FF7 remake and or perhaps a middle-ground like that of Maverick Hunter X that really doesn’t do anything and just gets ignored. Or on the other and most likely hand, you have a reboot that absolutely ruins everything about what we all loved about the original, disembowel everything we loved about the original, and spit it back at us to less than positive reception.

It happened with DMC which thankfully recovered. But what happens when executive meddling that ends up killing a studio.

Then you’ve got the Saints Row “Remake” from last year which sadly ended up killing the studio all because Deep Silver decided to force the dev team to change things away from the original idea.

And in other news, it turns out that after nearly 20 years that E3 is finally kicking the bucket. There’s a number of reasons from the pandemic to the whole gaming companies following Nintendo with the Direct format and while I’m sad to see it go, I had a feeling that it wasn’t likely going to last long after 2020

RIP E3 and Voltion, you will be missed. And f*** you Deep Silver for ruining a franchise.

Oh blizzard…. Blizzard… blizzard… (And Microsoft. Keep your hands to yourself, we’re not here to make Xbox exclusive here.)

We all know about this and thank fuck it seems to be dying down after the big M bought them out. It was a mess.

But don’t think Microsoft is off the hook. Some documents did reveal that the company did show an interest in possibly trying to buy out a certain group of game studios from Japan which I doubt would go well with by fans of some of these company’s franchises. Capcom told them to screw off, Nintendo I highly doubt would let them, and Sega?

….

*no comment*

MS, as much as I love your computers because MACSrPOO, leave the little guys in the market alone. We don’t need any more franchises going exclusive to your console. You had your cookie with Activison-Blizzard, now keep your hand out of the cookie jar.

Kong and Gollum exist…

Runners up for worst games of the year since this wouldn’t be a list without them. They fit the bill, they’re buggy, they’re glitchy, they were rushed and look like a low budget PS3 game (and one killed its studio after release and LoTR fans were not happy)

Also strangely Gollum released recently on Switch in Japan of all places and world-wide is still TBA (I thought that was kinda funny)

Starfield: “Dead” space filled with humans and pronoun dramas

Another we all saw coming. Starfield is a clusterfuck like a lot of Bethesda games but at least it’s playable unlike a certain fallout game a few years ago.

Most people find it boring and personally I’m only a tiny bit frustrated that I’m forced to play as a human and don’t have the option to play as another species as another space-sandbox allows you to do *cough cough* Starbound *cough cough*.

Also there was a whole drama over freaking pronouns and nexus removing a mod that got rid of them. Personally I don’t give a flip-flop and this whole drama since it was all stupid. I mean it’s fine if you don’t like pronouns or you do, and I'm fine with ppl modding a game and whatnot freely but please be civil about it.

Unity from unity’s redonculus fees

The indie scene is pissed and I understand why. Hey unity, spare the little guys and actually focus on the actual garbage *cough cough* asset flips using your engine

Insomniac got hacked: It was worse than the rockstar hack

Leaks happen all the time but hacks are a different thing which really sucks for companies as we saw only a few days of posting this.

Please do not go out looking for any content of this hack since this was done by a ransomeware group and out of respect for the devs.

Komani fracking up silent hill

Ah yes, the EA/Blizzard-Activison of the East and another fail. So we got a P2I (influence) television show and some more stuff I’m not sure off

EA officially bypasses Overwatch 2 (another disaster) with its annual sports release

Overwatch 2 is a big ripoff but it’s funny to see that it got bypassed by a buggy ass EA Sports game on Steam in terms of ratings