I stumbled upon it two days ago and already have 15 hours in it ;-;

I was thinking this when I watched dandadan. Like, almost all main story arcs in the first season centre around some form of sexual assault, and you’re telling me the MCs weren’t scarred by them in any way, shape or form???

Oh yeah, 100% I played for the first ~3 years OW was out and had a blast for the first two

It was after that where I started getting good and saw the flaws of the game. As you said, too many characters counter other characters, and the constricted 6v6 (and later 5v5) made individual performance stressful in many games

If you’re looking for a similar (but imo much better/laid back experience) then TF2 is a great game, where the medic supporter is the strongest class in the game

I brought this up in my friend group, and, to quote one of them, the general consensus is “is it weird that I actually don’t care”

I hatwcwhen guess try to add too many characters

Earlier on, it felt like I could competently play all characters and, when i saw another in the field, knew what to expect from them

Now, I feel like constantly learning new characters is a chore at best

I played it at launch and couldn’t get above 26 fps on lowest settings. That’s with constant stutters btw

I’m not playing it until I can at least hit a consistent 30

When games have a designated button to show interactive elements in the environment

This just screams “we don’t know how to make an uncluttered game”

That’s not what this was about?

They made an IP, a minor share holder used company funds to buy majority states in said company, then forced the guys who made the game out of the company. I’m not able to do investigative journalism in a comment, but there is still an ongoing legal case on this

It was initially an artist-owned company, which had a hostile takeover against the wishes of said artists

Not sure how you’d define it as anything other than stole

They made the IP and game, their parent company had a full change in leadership, they questioned what qas happening, and the new guys said “yoink” before kicking them out

Ip was stolen by corporate suits

Pirating the game is the most moral thing you can do

Merry smissmas!

You still have to tell UE to make them though

…no they came from genAI?

But fr tho I agree. Sure, there are sole knobheads who clearly haven’t read the article, but the disparity between what you see here and the r-place is wonderful

Kind of defeats the purpose of a placeholder…

I hate when people try to shift the goalposts

These guys didn’t disclose the usage of AI when initially sold as well as for the award, and there’s nothing more to it than that

There’s still not even a disclaimer on the steam store page or anything

[if AI was] removed once discovered, I don’t see any problem

The problem was that it was sold to consumers at all without consent. You don’t get off scot free when you accidently leave some cocaine for the inlaws to find. There was malicious intent just by not disclosing its usage

OpenOrca

You bring this up and imply we’re agreeing here, but I find it odd that you immediately backtrack and say that AI usage in general, not OpenOrca usage, is a-okay. It’s entirely irrelevant what AI tool you use if this company didn’t

Can I blame someone for using placeholder texture [using] AI

Yes. A placeholder texture should be made to be obvious that it’s a placeholder. As soon as it doesn’t do that, it’s failed at its job. By using AI like this, you’re effectively making the QA’s job 10 times harder, as now they have to stare at every texture to make sure it’s not AI generated

left and right creating drama [about CO]

Yes. Because information came out on a large platform that allowed more people to hear about it compared to when it was initially released.

I actually played through Clair Obscur about two months ago and gave it a very hearty review on steam, but as soon as I heard that they used AI without disclosing it that changed into a very charged negative thumbs down. It’s very easy to pretend that people just hate things because they’re popular, you see it all the time with youtubers and movies after all. Unfortunately, there’s usually a very good reason that irks these people

The vast majority was made by hand, and the game is good

You seem to have missed my main point, and it’s not just here, either. You eluded to this frame of mind multiple times when writing these past two comments. My entire argument is that it was incredibly scummy to not disclose the usage of AI, robbing the buyer of any agency in the matter

Me responding to your other points is really just entertaining their idea, rather than engaging in a thoughtful discussion, as the only response you had for this main point was mainly along the lines of the above quote I’m responding to, which is really just moving goalposts

By acting like it doesn’t matter because everything else is good, you’re kind of weirdly conceding the point, as if it didn’t matter if they did it, then why shouldn’t they disclose it?