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What do you think got way too much hate than it should've? (kbin.melroy.org)
submitted 17 hours ago by NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Funko Pops, to me.

I understand that some of them are fairly overpriced, but I also really like them as is. It doesn't work on all characters, but it sometimes work on a lot and there's so much representation and variety that it's good to have a few.

If people want to talk about waste of plastic and vinyl, they should bark at the companies who make teeny tiny figurines that serve no purpose and have so little detail that spending any money on them is a waste.

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[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Mass Effect Andromeda. The hate was so intense it caused the publisher to disavow the series entirely.

The hate was because people were comparing Andromeda (the start of a new trilogy) with the entirety of the first trilogy. People were upset that Andromeda wasn’t grander in scale than all three former games combined. The gameplay was fine, and it was clear that they were trying to build the story up just like they had done with the original trilogy. There were several DLC chapters planned, and it was going to grow into an entire series of its own.

It’s like people forgot that the original trilogy spent an entire game just introducing the main villain. Like you didn’t even realize who the main villain for the trilogy was until the very end of the game. But when Andromeda did something similar, people got baby-mad about it.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The hate was so intense it caused the publisher to disavow the series entirely.

The game wasn't exactly flop money-wise, it sold about what they predicted it would and at least one big DLC was heavily hinted in the game itself. What really killed it is the fucking 2018-2020 era in computer gaming when multiplayer shooters propagated like crazy and idiot doomsayers and other marketing "experts" prophecised end of not only RPG genre but single player games in general, for example Bioware was ordered to drop everything and make the Anthem trash.

Agree with placing Andromeda here though. That game did had some glaring design flaws (like ship and vehicle being unarmed and alien having just few different faces) but overall it wasn't nearly that bad as haters say.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

I think it wasn't a bad game, it just wasn't a great Mass Effect game. If it had released as it's own stand-alone thing and had been marketed a bit less grandly I think it would have been a lot better received.

[–] NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Gamers just don't know what the hell they want anymore. They'll bitch and cry about anything.