What are some big red flags that a game sucks donkey dick?

What are some big red flags that a game sucks donkey dick?
>korean
>indie pixel tophat monocle bullshit
>open world
>crafting
>"interactive experience"

>early access
This covers 90% of the shit.

>game is nothing but cute girls doing fan servicing things
>made by any modern western dev
>main cast consists of teens/kids

>Game has "seasons"

This is by far the BIGGEST red flag lately.

western developer

When they try to sell you DLC when the game isn't even out yet

When IGN gives it a good rating

what's wrong with having winter and summer in your game

>over 100hrs of content!

based
trash

>It's long

>retro
>pixel art
>soulslike

"Japanese dev"

>Cinematic

This is a new pattern I noticed. If the game in question:

1) Is developed by a big japanese company that isn't Nintendo (Capcom, Konami, Square Enix, etc.);
2) Comes from a long-lasting series;
3) Is being developed with UE4 instead of an in-house engine like previous games in the same series were used to;
4) Has some form of console exclusivity in order to make console companies (Sony, MS, Nintendo) finance the development of the game;
5) Is described as "streamlined" and "aimed to a wider audience"

It's most likely that that game will be a disappointment in some way or the other.

refences another game in it's steam page.

this

always with their white genocide

>boss rush
>atmospheric and no story
>tedious grinding
>game wants you to replay it just to a make a different build

>EA
>Ubisoft
>Activision

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>first person combat in an rpg but the enemies are 3d models instead of sprites

>korean
White Day is pretty good user

>Esports related
>Fighting
>Recent Western RPGs
>Cred Forums and Reddit memes

that is the unholy union of red flags

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>Episodic.
Do not touch these games until all of the episodes are released (Which is rare).

>boss rush
Why is this a problem? Games like Alien Soldier, Shadow of the Colossus, Furi, and Cuphead are all pretty good, and they are almost literally nothing but bosses.

Don't post my wife ever again.

By the time they're all released I have no interest in playing any of them even if I was interested at first.

ur wife is worst sister

>Youtube LPers are playing it in the E3 footage.

This,
Furi was one of the funnest games ive played in a while

fuck that sewer boss tho

This

>>made by any modern western dev
Plenty of good western indie devs user

I won't touch procedurally generated games with a 10 foot pole.

Maybe you're just jaded. Have you bought a Switch?

It's a Sonic game.

I want to fuck Filia

>>Esports related
>>Fighting
Neither one of those is bad you antisocial faggot.

Not yet.

Usually a good indicator, but Sonic Mania is one of those exceptions that proves the rule.

>indie pixel tophat monocle bullshit

>Female protagonist

Crafting

>game/anime with a "cool"/"badass" young woman protagonist

>Male MC is voiced by Troy Baker.

You’re fucking gay user

>early access
>survival
because we're too creatively bankrupt to make that part for you

Don't decide which games to try based on bullshit "red flags" and don't take Cred Forums's opinion on which games are worth playing.

Stamina bar. Very few games actually are good with it.

Developer is based in California or Canada.

>Roguelike.

Next Level Games is rather decent. They developed:
>Punch Out Wii
>Luigi's Mansion 2
>Metroid Federation Force & Blast Ball

>cutesy anime looking game
>overwhelmingly positive steam reviews
Gee, I wonder what the review section looks like

Under the ironfist of Nintendo.

>"don't mind me while I hit you with my 50+ hit combo without you even touching me once"
fuck off with your 1000 input autism games

>ascii art of reisen in steam reviews

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>survival
>crafting
>zombies
>open world

>scrubquotes detected

>""""""""""inspired by earthbound""""""""
>its actually a complete ripoff in terms of gameplay and humor
>only difference is the setting and overworld

If one the first tags on Steam is "Female Protagonist" I instantly lose interest. I don't care if the player character is female, but if that's how they want to market the game I know it's not someone I want to support.

>Korean
They were so close with Vindictus. The combat is actually pretty good, but
>nexon

I hate Undertale, too.

>Ubisoft
>Ninja Theory
>Naughty Dog
>A "deep, thought-provoking narrative" that always turns out to be Big Bang Theory cutting room floor material

Tags are applied by users.

How can a whole country be so abysmal at making games? Say what you want about Western/Jap/Slav developers, but there is talent there if you look in the right places. I don't know of any Korean games that have been worth a shit at all.

>AAA publisher
>no PC port

>Rippling social commentary on X

Resident Evil revelations 2

Than either the audience they're going after is abysmal or they allow it to go forward. I know devs can choose which tags they allow on their products.

What if they don't much care about the tags because they don't expect people to be dumb autists about user applied stuff?

>korean
They made Gunz the duel. That's all I need from them.

>game has skill trees
>it's neither a RPG or a RTS

>title is donkey dick sucking simulator 2017

>story
fuck off with your story

I'd agree with you if it wasn't for Divinity Original Sin.

>When it's described as a "Short, surreal experience".

-EARLY ACCESS
-OPEN WORLD
-CRAFTING
-SURVIVAL

THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE

Thats a cute girl. Does she have a snapchat?

>Esports related
>not bad
esports are fucking gay and make games less fun you stupid nigger. Fighting games are aight tho

>multiplat
doubtful
>first released on PC
get out satan

A lot of posters are describing We Happy Few.

you mean that game that shamelessly ripped off lisa?

I still can't believe that game ended up being a survival/crafting game. That first trailer was intriguing, but whoever was in charge of actual game design really dropped the ball. It could have been an interesting story driven narrative, but they had to make it into some bloated 60 dollar mess.

>"cool"/"badass" young woman protagonist
>made by western devs

>Xbox One exclusive
>EA or Ubisoft
>Memes
>Survival/Crafting for no reason

I heard a story campaign is being worked on.

>Zombies
>First person shooter
>turn based
>Cinematic
>2D weeb shit

>extremely interesting premise for a narrative-driven $30 indie game
>now a $60 crafting/survival game with a $150 collector's edition that doesn't even include the game itself

This was the fuck up of the millennium.

I'd say there's a high chance it was going to be a story focused single player game but then the publisher said survival and crafting is hot now so add that in

sauce?

>Western AAA studio
>"indie darling"
>creator is in bed with many journos

That just about covers all the bases.

>with a $150 collector's edition that doesn't even include the game itself
I still can't get over this. It feels so unreal that this happened.

>Is called Dark Souls 2

I am going to merry ryuko!

>game is nothing but cute girls doing fan servicing things
Neptunia might be garbage, but it's a guilty pleasure.

>all chat
Just what I wanted, children trash talking each other every game
Cool

>Made by Leftists
This is literally the easiest criterion for failure. Go look up the lead developer, then look up their Twitter. If you see them sniveling about niggers or women not being represented enough, they're going to produce shit.

Right Wing Men are the only kind of Men. Everyone else is basically a woman.

>japan produces some of the best games ever made
>korean and chinese games are almost all shit
Why is this?

>Survival
>Openworld
>Crafting
>Zombie
>Indie

>The dialog consists of "fuck" being said in every sentence no matter the situation to sound "adult" and "mature".

> I'd agree with you if it wasn't for Divinity Original Sin.
It's shit and you know it.

cringe: the post

Female protagonist
Open world
Anime art style
Pixels
Made in California, England, or Canada
Lead director/designer cries on Twitter about the big bad Drumpf or other politics

I can't play 90% of modern games

battle royale

The fanbase is filled with people I don't like. I don't think I've ever been wrong on this.

Anything call of duty like, it's the most casual franchise there is and it's killing gaming.

crafting is good.
real red flags:
>survival
>sandbox
>early access
these three together.

really boils down to a country's overall philosophy, work ethic, and the company's own MO

at the risk of sounding like a weeb i would say japan has an advantage in all of those areas, in regards to putting out a product that isn't actively trying to rape consumers in the ass, though there's plenty of exceptions

china has negative fucks to give, they will relentlessly put out any piece of trash they can for a quick buck, especially since they don't have to publish outside of their country in order to see huge profit

korea is weird, companies are full of people that want to make a good product, but it ends up being raped by corporate greed by the time it's published. there's constantly games that are decent to play in beta, but end up being P2W shitfests when they go gold

>game has massive amounts of DLC, while still charging full price
>30 FPS
>more than 1 hour of cutscenes
>90+ metacritic score
>sex fanservice of any kind
>casualized gameplay for the normie filth

For starters.

Honestly, only Call of Duty should be allowed to be Call of Duty. Even when CoD shits the bed, its imitators are way worse.

>Metroid Federation Force & Blast Ball
thanks for proving his point

>Survival
>Crafting
>"Retro" art
>Early access

Styx 1 does that but it's a good game
For some reason the drawn cutscenes have no fucks and are all pretty good while the 3d models cutscene are full of fuck and your mother jokes and they suck, maybe they were written by different people

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>early access (might be good when it's not a flaky beta yet)
>indie/roguelike (some rare exceptions)
>tricky heapys of useless DLC (Just $1.99 for this outfit or an extra gear slot!)
>Anything recent brought to you by EA

>"10 trillion unlocks!" used as positive bullet point

I am going to marry Satsuki!

Name a modern fighting game that does this. You can't.

search zonetan kill la kill

You need to be over 18 to post here

>Game tries to go for anime artstyle but gives every character XXXXL sized noses

Transistor is pretty good

>moe crap
>open world
>"_____ experience"
>crafting
>survival
>remake
>over ___ hours of content
>day 1 dlc
>cinematic
>EARLY ACCESS
>console port

>QTE not mentioned yet
Times change I guess

You know how in Fallout 4, they say "War. War never changes" at least 50 times during the first 2 minutes of the game? Like Bethesda is REALLY REALLY REALLY trying to to tell you that the game is a faithful Fallout game and not some soulless piece of corporate, dumbed down trash?

If a game has anything like that, then it's going to be shit no matter what

QTEs are fine in games where split second decisions and hectic gameplay is the norm. As a little flavor for something cool as a reward to finishing off a boss or finishing a hard section of whatever

QTEs arent always bad
having them for finishers is pretty fun, but if its hard integrated into the combat like FFXV its fucking garbage