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If there's no content control it's not going to be as big as YouTube from that alone.

Besides what's stopping companies suing the users of the site uploading illegal material instead?
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I think games based around YouTubers or internet personalities are a bit different than random cameos shoehorned into a game.
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It seems like an awfully bad way to date a video game. Like 90% of these guys will be absolutely irrelevant in a decade.

And yeah I don't follow YouTube culture at all. I'd rather not play a game that spawns random characters with dyed hair and screen names.
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https://www.kotaku.com.au/2017/09/pc-game-adding-option-to-disable-popular-youtuber-characters-after-players-complain/

Shortly after the release of Steam prison break hit The Escapists 2, players flooded the forums with questions. "Who are these people with weird names and funny coloured hair," they wanted to know, "and why can't I make them go away?"

The Escapists 2 is a sandbox game in which you try to escape from a series of increasingly ludicrous prisons including a Wild West train, a boat that's gonna maroon you on an island, and Space Prison. When you begin a level, the game whips up a batch of semi-procedurally generated characters to populate each area.

Players have been surprised to find that this sometimes includes a handful of popular YouTubers and streamers like JackSepticeye, DanTDM, and CinnamonToastKen. When the game first came out last week, these real people with fake names appeared a little too often for players' tastes, garnering a deluge of complaints:

Some players feel like YouTubers and streamers are just a marketing gimmick that crashes through the fourth wall and shatters any sense of immersion. Sure, they figure, it will be fun for popular YouTubers to see themselves in prison, or for smaller time YouTubers to make videos where they torment famous YouTubers, but if it comes at the cost of regular players' enjoyment, is the extra promotion really worth it?

Others feel like their inclusion is an attempt at pandering to children, who players perceive as only a small part of the game's audience.


The Escapists made a name for itself on Steam by blending crafting with prison breaks. So it's not surprising that adding more prisons, multiplayer, and more places to escape from, has worked out well for the sequel.

In reality, though, it's a bit more complicated than that. For one, this isn't even the first time YouTubers have appeared in The Escapists series. A few, like Paul Soares Jr. and Jim Sterling, appeared as prison wardens in the original.

Second, YouTubers and streamers played a big role in the success of the first Escapists, cultivating much of its community and culture. This can be seen everywhere from view counts and comments on YouTubers' videos to The Escapists' Steam Workshop, where the second most popular map of all time is a YouTuber tribute simply titled "JackSepticeye."

It's for that reason, say the game's developers, that they gave YouTubers and streamers a more prominent role in The Escapists 2.

"We've had a long association with content creators for The Escapists," said a rep for Team17 in an email, "and they played a key part in helping it become a success."

Despite that, Team17 acknowledged that YouTubers and streamers were appearing a bit more frequently than intended, claiming it was "a bug that wasn't found before the launch of the game."

Ugh and people complained about Rabbids
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Link?
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Sony barely bothered to support a handheld system and yet people still expected them to support an expensive accessory that hasn't found mainstream success anywhere.

I was calling that when they announced the thing. Sony have short attention spans and pretty much everything outside of PlayStation consoles ends up getting dropped by them quick.
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Anteaterking posted...

I would, for example, describe the kid when I was in high school who would spout Chuck Norris jokes in class and say "desu" all of the time as being socially awkward, even if he didn't seem to think he was being awkward.

The difference to me is that this kid gets shunned for it (and lets be real kids like this generally have social disorders too). People like Trump do not.

I mean I would describe Trump as confident but it doesn't feel right to call those kids confident.
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

Uhh, you don't have to personally feel awkward to be socially awkward. I don't know where you got that requirement from...

That's pretty much how I've always seen people talk about it. Socially awkward people are people who are anxious about social interactions and constantly feel awkward in social situations because of it.

People who are confident don't care about what other people think so they're generally not socially awkward. Trump doesn't have any issues talking to people clearly. He just constantly puts his foot in his mouth.
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I suppose so. It's pretty mediocre and long though so be warned. Time is the biggest cost.

MabusIncarnate posted...

Yes. It's hardly as bad as it's made up to be. "Facial animations" is a shallow reason to hate on it so much.

That isn't even close to being the biggest issue with the game.
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I don't think it would work like that. It wouldn't run PC games anywhere near as well as games designed for it. That's how consoles manage to cut costs.
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

He said "if she weren't my daughter we'd be dating" on a talk show with his daughter right next to him. That's top tier social awkwardness.

If the person himself doesn't feel socially awkward saying weird crap and isn't shunned for it is he socially awkward though?

Like we all have a racist weird Uncle who says crap that makes everyone else awkward but is he socially awkward? Generally these people don't feel awkward at all. That's why they blatantly say the crap they do.
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Which game would you rather endure?
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

Sad_Face posted...

Pepys Monster posted...

The more socially awkward you are, the more intelligent you are and vice versa.

For starters, CEOs aren't socially awkward.

If Donald Trump is anything to go by, yes they are.

Trump isn't socially awkward. He's more oblivious due to his arrogance.
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My Dad Wrote a Porno
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I wish tbh
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Agreed tbh. I didn't think I would have been playing it this much already.
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Nobody is forcing or manipulating these weirdos to donate hundreds of dollars. Plenty of people stream online as a hobby for free.
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SmidgeIsntBack posted...

Imagine if the next Walking Dead season was a prequel with no zombies. Yay/nay?

A prequel about Rick/Shane being cops or about Negan before the apocalypse? Sounds interesting enough.
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Point Blank if you had the light guns.
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Kelystic posted...

is it still chloe this chloe that?

Well you play as Chloe so probably
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Yep. It's great so far.
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Metua posted...

Rabbids X Minions when

Rabbids x Minions x Gremlins
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BLAKUboy posted...

Rabbids should never exist period.

Bwaaaaaaaahhh
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MrStabbath posted...

i don't disagree, but video game fans tend to pay more attenion then YOUR AVERAGE MOVIE GOER. Who they will need to appeal to if this movie is going to succeed.

It really wasn't that complicated. He's a dead guy that the bad guys worship and the protagonist and antagonist are cloned from him. That's about all you need to know.
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Capcom got Mega Man and Ryu
Sega got Sonic and Bayonetta
Maybe Ubisoft can get Rayman and Rabbids lol
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DarthAragorn posted...

Yaridovich posted...

MrStabbath posted...

need a big boss origin movie first. but since it says solid I doubt it'll be one. if they jump straight into mgs 1 your average movie goer will be like wtf.

How can you say this when Metal Gear Solid 1 actually came out first and had a great stand alone plot?

Metal Gear 1 and 2 existed first...

Sure but most people started with MGS and managed fine. The game tells you enough about Big Boss. Wait maybe I'm reading his message wrong since he said first.
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Prince of Persia and Hitman are decent but still not really worth watching.
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Smells a lot like another Assassin's Creed turd
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It must still delve into some of the paranormal stuff surely. Perhaps through Rachel. Or maybe there will be a time travel twist at some point. Not really sure what to expect.
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Sephiroth1288 posted...

Darmik posted...

I believe in context and not black and white rules.

Same here, which is why I call people who are against bodyshaming hypocrites as these sort of people overwhelmingly attack people they don't like for their appearance.

That sounds pretty black and white to me. Besides you're sorta presuming everyone has your strawman logic solely because they made fun of Trump.
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Sephiroth1288 posted...

Darmik posted...

I don't have an issue insulting Trumps appearance because of his behavior and attitude towards appearance and I doubt I'm the only one.

Either you believe it's ok to insult people's appearance or you don't. It's like in the case of free speech: We allow people who support restricted speech laws to speak freely, because doing otherwise would make you a hypocrite and would be an injunction against the virtue itself.

Similarly, people who are against body shaming who pick-and-choose who it's ok to bodyshame are hypocrites for that reason. Either you are against bodyshaming or you aren't. you don't get to take this a-la-carte.

I believe in context and not black and white rules.

Which is why I would insult Trump and call him a Mango Face but won't say a thing about his family.

Besides CE criticizes appearance plenty. I wouldn't say it's restricted to politics.
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Sephiroth1288 posted...

Darmik posted...

Sephiroth1288 posted...

--kresnik-- posted...

SageHarpuia posted...

Dragon56 posted...

as is his big shit orange face

Oh look, another liberal mocking someone because of their skin color.

SJWs dispense with all their notions of decency when dealing with people who disagree with them.

It's bad to fat shame...unless it's Republican politician. It's bad to slut-shame...unless it's a Republican politician's daughter. It's bad to be racist...unless they're a Republican, in which case feel free to call them a "house n*****"/judenrat/etc.

Is this the part where you pretend that Trump isn't notorious for insulting peoples appearance?

I don't believe that not insulting people's appearance is a virtue.

But SJWs do, which proves they're tremendous hypocrites whenever they try to insult people for their appearance.

I don't have an issue insulting Trumps appearance because of his behavior and attitude towards appearance and I doubt I'm the only one.

Outside of that you can continue yelling at your strawman.
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Sephiroth1288 posted...

--kresnik-- posted...

SageHarpuia posted...

Dragon56 posted...

as is his big shit orange face

Oh look, another liberal mocking someone because of their skin color.

SJWs dispense with all their notions of decency when dealing with people who disagree with them.

It's bad to fat shame...unless it's Republican politician. It's bad to slut-shame...unless it's a Republican politician's daughter. It's bad to be racist...unless they're a Republican, in which case feel free to call them a "house n*****"/judenrat/etc.

Is this the part where you pretend that Trump isn't notorious for insulting peoples appearance?
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Those tennis shorts he wore sure looked like an atrocity.
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I wonder how many guys have left their partner to be with a girl they saw in porn.
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creativerealms posted...

A single Rabbid with the Mario + Rabbids costumes would be fine.

This would have been sacrilegious a year ago. I wouldn't mind that now tbh. Ubisoft earned it.
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I can't really imagine how sad and lonely those guys are. The logic must be like "she's hot and she plays video games! I love her! How do I get her attention?" or something.
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And the winner is....Rabbid!

"Bwaaaaaaaaahhhhhh"
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APM posted...

I mean these people are literally asking people to perform sex acts in front of children

No. They're asking to film people having sex which they will then show to 17 year olds and talk about it.
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APM posted...

scar the 1 posted...

APM posted...

Lol and y'all are saying what liberals do is a slippery slope. This is what liberal degradation of society looks like.

Degradation in what way? This sounds like sex ed.

Of our morals. Literally performing sex acts in front of our children what the fuck? Back then we would call the feds on these people.

Damn better start censoring the internet then.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

I like how no care or attention at all is put into how men are depicted in porn or how porn affects men, just women.

Have you watched the show?
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This whole Orwell worship from conservatives is really quite bizarre.
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Umm the censored scenes are hilarious. The whole point is that they're mocking the Australian Government (with a crying Koala and didgeridoos) as well as describing the joke in graphic detail which makes it okay for some reason.

If they played just the audio they're not mocking the censorship anymore.
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Fans in 2006: Johnny Depp should play the Joker! He's so quirky and weird! He'd be great! Crispin Glover is my back-up choice!

Fans always go with the most obvious pick possible. Generally because the actor played the same damn role in another movie! Wow Brian Cranston played a bald bad guy so he'd a perfect Luthor! Lets just forget how shitty it would have been if he was typecasted as a goofy Dad forever.

It would be pretty boring for both the movies and the actors if fans got their way tbh. The best roles are always "You don't know what you wanted until you actually get it"
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I used to be the kinda person who wanted a top tier phone. But after I spend a couple of days enjoying my snazzy new thing the novelty wears off quickly and it's just another phone.

These high powered games just drain the battery quick and they're often not even very good. Mid range phones seem snappy with browsing, messaging and playing music and that's how I spend 90% of my time on my phone so I'm fine with that now.

So much of the new stuff seems so gimmicky now. Wow a phone screen that curves on the edge! A phone with an extra screen strip for notifications! Who gives a shit.
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I'm guessing it's not worth the cost to manufacture. They're competing with digital releases and people who simply emulate.

I would be curious to see how that would go though.

As for why stuff changes later that's due to porting the game to other platforms. Sometimes it's just a quirk because the game was designed for that original platform in every single way. But it could also be due to licensing.
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The biggest issue to me was just the execution really. Battles in the show generally feel pretty grounded.

Sure we still have the main characters surviving in those battles because at the end of the day it's still a TV show. But we had stuff like the scene where Jon nearly suffocates fighting Ramsay for example. They still feel human.

In this scene we have a badass hero squad fighting off hundreds of zombie soldiers. There's nothing else really like this in the series before. It looked like something from The Avengers.

I think if it was something like Jon and crew spending most of their time hiding behind enemy lines and barely surviving it would have went down a lot better.
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Wasn't there someone here who would always mention that show for some reason
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