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CyricZ
02/12/20 8:01:22 AM
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https://nichegamer.com/2020/02/11/report-ai-the-somnium-files-review-bombed-by-resetera-user-obsessed-with-a-set-testing-metacritic/

The story broke on resetera and it turned out the perp was one of their own.

Dude claimed it was an "experiment" but is also obsessed with one of the game's characters so judge that for yourself.

Got to the point where the game's designer is like "Uh what? What's going on with this?" Imagine making a game you're proud of and someone just tanks your online score to make a point.

Point is, play AI: The Somnium Files.

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TwoDoorPC
02/12/20 8:05:52 AM
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the "experiment" excuse is always bullshit.

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Vyrulisse
02/12/20 8:13:10 AM
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Someone mentally unhinged from ResetERA? Shocking

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Noraneko_Vel
02/12/20 8:15:02 AM
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CyricZ posted...
Point is, play AI: The Somnium Files.

This. The game is great.

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Musourenka
02/12/20 8:18:05 AM
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Bet that person is getting canceled.

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KillerSlaw
02/12/20 8:18:31 AM
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Resetera proving once again they have the worst users

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GiftedACIII
02/12/20 8:34:17 AM
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The post is seemingly from an account that loathed works by Spike Chunsoft (the developer of AI: The Somnium Files), including Zanki Zero: Last Beginning and Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls over allegedly pedophilic content.

As an aside, a young character in Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls has a backstory where she was sexually abused. The Twitlonger post author claimed this was designed to be erotic for the games fans, as oppose to revolting, shocking, or making players feel pity for the character.

Meanwhile, Zanki Zero: Last Beginning has tragic back-stories for all their characters, all if then centering around the murder of a child. Some characters had backstories with sexual abusive events happening to them at young ages.

These include a character who traded sex to a teacher for protection from bullies at middle school, an older man stating his sexual interest to a younger boy, a child discovering they were the result of an incestuous relationship, and a character who was forced into an incestuous relationship with their own father.

The revelation at the games content caused the Twitlonger author to become exceptionally upset. When they were crying about it on the AI discord, an assumed moderator kicked them.

The rest of the post discusses how the user was kicked from another Discord server prior (focused around the Dangan Ronpa series).

When the moderator who kicked them due to their outburst acted in a manner the author deemed inappropriate (She retweeted a really shitty joke about Ota getting raped while cross-dressing) they attempted to reveal this to other members of the Discord server. They were kicked again.

Its always these types of people.
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NL
02/12/20 8:36:55 AM
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TwoDoorPC posted...
the "experiment" excuse is always bullshit.

It's the lesser used "I'm actually laughing"

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ssjevot
02/12/20 8:38:37 AM
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Hopefully this gets Metacritic to realize their site is poorly designed.

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Kitt
02/16/20 2:29:30 PM
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Hey look, further proof that user reviews are shit. Also, this guy needs help.
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omega cookie
02/18/20 2:13:37 AM
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So ResetEra, aka Mental Illness: The Forum, has mentally ill users who do mentally ill things?

Quick, someone call Ripley's, they're not gonna believe this shit.

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Cobra1010
02/19/20 9:03:37 AM
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Can someone explain to me how this can be done by one person? Does he make a lot of accounts or something?

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DoGCyN
02/19/20 9:06:49 AM
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Cobra1010 posted...
Can someone explain to me how this can be done by one person? Does he make a lot of accounts or something?
Yes. That's exactly what he did

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KillerSlaw
02/19/20 9:13:40 AM
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omega cookie posted...
So ResetEra, aka Mental Illness: The Forum, has mentally ill users who do mentally ill things?

Quick, someone call Ripley's, they're not gonna believe this shit.

Just want to let you know this got a giggle out of me 10/10 post

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DoGCyN
02/19/20 9:32:26 AM
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eston
02/19/20 9:38:31 AM
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I wonder why more devs don't do this with positive reviews

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Malfunction
02/19/20 9:42:56 AM
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Weird to see the usually pro review bombing right wingers get so in a twist about this itt
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CyricZ
02/19/20 9:48:10 AM
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eston posted...
I wonder why more devs don't do this with positive reviews
You actually sometimes see this with bottom-of-the-barrel indies on Steam.

Something that stuck in my head are those games that are meant to be next to nothing in gameplay but have hot women in some capacity, either in animation or actual FMV of women in bikinis or what have you.

Positive reviews will always be light on detail on gameplay, but will be sure to note that "the women are VERY hot".

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DeadBankerDream
02/19/20 9:51:48 AM
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Have the people here bitching about Resetera being unhinged ever visited the gamefaqs PS4 board?
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CyricZ
02/19/20 10:01:30 AM
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Saying "Resetera" is a dogwhistle, and yes, I knew so when making this topic. If I hadn't mentioned it someone else would have.

What I prefer to focus on are two things:

  1. That it's easier than one would think to tank a Metacritic score, which can have a serious effect on small developers.
  2. That you should play AI: The Somnium Files.

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Malfunction
02/19/20 10:02:11 AM
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Remember when devs of a game were openly transphobic and angry ppl review bombed them *cos they apologised* and they subsequently retracted their apology.
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Malfunction
02/19/20 10:03:08 AM
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I'm kinda interested in this game but it seemed kinda pricey when it first released too

Is it the zero escape people or just that style of game? I like ZE but also think the story is largely nonsense
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Noraneko_Vel
02/19/20 10:11:46 AM
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Malfunction posted...
Is it the zero escape people or just that style of game?

Same people and same author afaik.

The plot twists aren't as shocking as Zero Escape's, but instead it has a more consistently good writing and significantly better characters.

Malfunction posted...
Remember when devs of a game were openly transphobic and angry ppl review bombed them *cos they apologised* and they subsequently retracted their apology.

Appealing to SJW garbage is always a mistake, politics don't belong in gaming and you'll lose money regardless of whether you go woke or go against it.
Best to just avoid the biggest issues and do your best writing good characters and making good gameplay as a developer.

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CyricZ
02/19/20 10:14:58 AM
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Noraneko_Vel posted...
Same people and same author afaik.

The plot twists aren't as shocking as Zero Escape's, but instead it has a more consistently good writing and significantly better characters.
The voice acting is also top shelf.

Noraneko_Vel posted...
Appealing to SJW garbage is always a mistake, politics don't belong in gaming
You say this yet are a fan of AI: The Somnium Files?

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DoGCyN
02/19/20 10:20:47 AM
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Malfunction posted...
Is it the zero escape people or just that style of game? I like ZE but also think the story is largely nonsense
It's the same feel of a game but it won't wrack your brain as much (if the ZE games did that to you). Has overall great writing, fun dialogue, and good voice acting, so that is a big plus. Story is good

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Noraneko_Vel
02/19/20 10:21:40 AM
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CyricZ posted...
You say this yet are a fan of AI: The Somnium Files?

It made big losses coz of the LBGT pandering Uchikoshi did, right?

By the way, fun fact: In Japanese, Mizuki's words felt much more natural and she clearly spoke out of her heart, using words like "I think" a lot, making it clear it was just her opinion. It didn't feel unnatural when I listened to it and it fits Mizuki's personality. Plus she was very tense (based on narration) during that scene coz she was sitting right in front of a huge LBGT person lol.

In the localization it was spoken factually, obnoxiously and felt like she was lying to push the LBGT agenda (it says "full of talented, artistic people" factually lol. Except no, that does not apply to the LBGT group specifically, being part of the group does not magically give you artistic talents).

CyricZ posted...
The voice acting is also top shelf.

Don't know about the English one, but the acting was great in Japanese.

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DoGCyN
02/19/20 10:22:47 AM
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Noraneko_Vel posted...
Don't know about the English one, but the acting was great in Japanese.
Surprisingly, the English dub is really good too. I still recommend the Japanese Dub

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KillerSlaw
02/19/20 10:29:00 AM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
Have the people here bitching about Resetera being unhinged ever visited the gamefaqs PS4 board?

Keep that whataboutism at Resetera

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JE19426
02/19/20 10:29:25 AM
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Noraneko_Vel posted...
It made big losses coz of the LBGT pandering Uchikoshi did, right?

Did it? That's surprising given that it was in among the top selling games in September on Steam, and had to delay the physical release in North America due to high demand.
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DeadBankerDream
02/19/20 10:30:11 AM
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KillerSlaw posted...


Keep that whataboutism at Resetera

It's not a whataboutism when you introduced the comparative element, you big dumbo.

KillerSlaw posted...
Resetera proving once again they have the worst users

No, gameFAQs clearly has the worse users of the two.
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Noraneko_Vel
02/19/20 10:32:28 AM
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DeadBankerDream posted...


No, gameFAQs clearly has the worse users of the two.

Resetera is absolutely the worse userbase because they ban you for having different opinions and for not pushing their pathetic agendas.
GameFAQs has more trolling, but that's because people can speak their opinions, it's much more pleasant around here.

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DeadBankerDream
02/19/20 10:33:07 AM
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Noraneko_Vel posted...


Resetera is absolutely the worse userbase because they ban you for having different opinions and for not pushing their pathetic agendas.

How is that worse than the average topic on the PS4 board?

Spoilers: It isn't.
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Cobra1010
02/19/20 10:33:40 AM
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eston posted...
I wonder why more devs don't do this with positive reviews
I remember a dev actually did but he got caught.

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Noraneko_Vel
02/19/20 10:33:53 AM
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Oh I don't know, maybe because I enjoy not being banned for saying I like lewd games and cute loli characters in games?

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SocksForWok999
02/19/20 10:33:57 AM
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Vyrulisse posted...
Someone mentally unhinged from ResetERA? Shocking

Lol

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KillerSlaw
02/19/20 10:34:32 AM
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DeadBankerDream posted...
It's not a whataboutism when you introduced the comparative element, you big dumbo.

No, gameFAQs clearly has the worse users of the two.

"Clearly" because you say it? Lmfao definitely a resetera user

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DeadBankerDream
02/19/20 10:37:03 AM
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KillerSlaw posted...
"Clearly" because you say it? Lmfao definitely a resetera user

I don't know what this means. Are you confused by me not ending every sentence I make with "in my opinion"?
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CyricZ
02/19/20 10:37:18 AM
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Noraneko_Vel posted...
It made big losses coz of the LBGT pandering Uchikoshi did, right?
I dunno. You tell me.

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GiftedACIII
02/19/20 2:48:25 PM
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Malfunction posted...
Weird to see the usually pro review bombing right wingers get so in a twist about this itt

To be fair and even though this is a dumb deflection, I havent heard about any other instances where its a single person who put it to the lowest score.
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CyricZ
02/19/20 2:51:40 PM
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Not confirmed, anyway.

This guy admitted to it. Most reviewbombs don't have people coming forward.

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Error1355
02/19/20 2:57:40 PM
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I'm getting closer to the end of the game, and the game is fan-fucking-tastic.

Play it.

PLAY IT.

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Smackems
02/22/20 3:59:00 AM
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Resetera is an authoritarian hell hole

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Rika_Furude
02/22/20 4:04:59 AM
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AI: The Somnium Files is amazing. Such a shame it's not that popular.

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