Intergalactic actor reveals Neil Druckmann’s coaching on overcoming online harassment

Show me review threads on GAF where User Reviews are given more weight than Critic reviews.

This is NeoGAF.

Here we take critic reviews as a credible source.

Unless, you are part of the loud minority I was talking about earlier.
Cant decide if it's just a troll or he's that dumb.
 
You have no words because you were proven wrong and the cognitive dissonance is too much for you to bear. Only the minority of the minority of GAF users put user reviews as a more credible source than critic reviews.


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Yeah, sure, you got me. Whatever.
 
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U know I would not mind if I felt this was a genuine attempt at diversity but it's not. It's clearly a political gesture designed to give the middle finger to right wing conservatives, don't care what the game characters look like but can we take politics out of our games, it's so pathetic. Behaving like school children.
 
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I think that Neil is fully aware of the gaslighting he is pulling with his games and is happy with the discourse it sparks around them. In a no such thing as bad press type of way.

This behavior is bad for the world at large. His "artistic vision" is little more than a cover for using societal issues to his "advantage" while inflaming them. His tank is refilled seeing people mad at his game. It was made for that purpose.

An artist asks "what is inside of me that I want to express". He asks "what is inside of everybody else that I can exploit". That's why "subverting expectation" movies are dogshit.
Ding ding ding!

Druckmann is a master at playing these cards. I've said it before: careful how you judge the little that's been shown about the game, because the dude basks in the negativity and has an ace ready to pull to make detractors look like they're the fools.

Not to mention, it's damn easy to equate the dislike for a character to dislike / hate / harassment towards the actual actor or actress, and play the racist / incel / misogynist card to shut up even the most rational critics.

If you don't like what ND does, the best thing to do is to not buy their games, and not pour fuel into the fire. Devs love controversy, especially when their ass is safe because they got the complete support of their publishers and the press.
 
I hated TLOU2, Druckmann for ruining TLOU and refuse to play this game. I don't sink to their level by ever talking to anyone about this shit, but if you want to talk about being harassed, I was harassed when Joel was killed.

That is all.
Everything is going to be ok.
 
Harassment is lame. Id rather we all ignore this release and the creator's output so he will go away.
That's what 99% of their "harassment" is, people shrugging and deciding not to give a shit about their game. Those narcissists can't deal with it, it's the greatest form of harassment to them. But they will choose to focus on the 1% of retards who take things way too far, into actual harassment and use it to paint any gamer that isn't enthralled with their garbage.
 
This has the chance to be the most epic fail in videogame history. Naughty Dog going from the top to the bottom thanks to their insistence on fighting this bullshit agenda war and pushing their craziness.
And before you might think, this doesn't give me joy, as I even love TLoU2. But if someone still goes woke, I daresay they deserve being broke.
 
Ding ding ding!

Druckmann is a master at playing these cards. I've said it before: careful how you judge the little that's been shown about the game, because the dude basks in the negativity and has an ace ready to pull to make detractors look like they're the fools.

Not to mention, it's damn easy to equate the dislike for a character to dislike / hate / harassment towards the actual actor or actress, and play the racist / incel / misogynist card to shut up even the most rational critics.

If you don't like what ND does, the best thing to do is to not buy their games, and not pour fuel into the fire. Devs love controversy, especially when their ass is safe because they got the complete support of their publishers and the press.

I was thinking he'd do something like this, where in most of the game she has hair but there is one specific part of game where she needed to shave her head for some important reason. And of course that's the part that they show in the trailer to drum up well expected controversy and then when the game releases you see that she actually does have hair and it was used to make people look stupid for complaining about the trailer.

But then I saw her in The Last of Us episode and she has the same shaved head. So now I'm thinking that maybe the whole game will be like that lol
 
FYI, join date barely matter, i have seen people whit 15 year of service saying the most asinine stuff arond here.

If I only had 4 Years of Service, I would think the same.

Also, member with less years say more 'asinine' stuff compared to senior members.
 
Make characters that people want to be.
Not that people hate.
simple.

You don't see anyone harassing any actor from clair obscur
 
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Tell me what take you disagree with.
Not with what you actually said but this whole superiority shit. User reviews does not matter with all the review bombing that happens
You are not wrong in the slightest when you mentioned the critic reviews are taken more seriously than user reviews

As for me I don't care. If I'm excited for a game no review decides if I buy or not. But yes, user reviews means jackshit. Word of mouth though? The total opposite
 
Not with what you actually said but this whole superiority shit. User reviews does not matter with all the review bombing that happens
You are not wrong in the slightest when you mentioned the critic reviews are taken more seriously than user reviews

As for me I don't care. If I'm excited for a game no review decides if I buy or not. But yes, user reviews means jackshit. Word of mouth though? The total opposite

Hideous Snake Hideous Snake , see what I mean?


You have 10 Years of Service on NeoGAF, and we both agree about the difference between critic reviews compared to user reviews.

Yet member who have less experience than us think that they all are the same.
 
More on topic, after TLOU2 I decided no further money will be given to anything Naughty Dog develops and releases going forward unless there is a change in how they approach their games.

Druckmann's approach to these more recent games sucks. I don't need him telling me what I should think about identity politics and the like.

Will Intergalactic be a good game? Who really knows. Assumption is that it probably will be, but anything can happen. I'll just see what the overall impressions are of the game whenever it actually gets released. Yes the protagonist looks like shit. But it's just another Druckmann statement that you should accept what he does because he knows better than all of us peons who will determine the game's success or lack thereof.

Fuck Druckmann and his shitty political statements in gaming. Not a dime will be spent by me unless something changes with Naughty Dog. A pity, as I was a Naughty Dog fan for close to 30 years. I miss when they used to just make games that were fun.
 
If I only had 4 Years of Service, I would think the same.

Also, member with less years say more 'asinine' stuff compared to senior members.
Get out of here with that elitist shit.
Who cares about how long you are a member on GAF. Some people are nice and some people are pricks, years of service do not make your posts more meaningful.
 
Ding ding ding!

Druckmann is a master at playing these cards. I've said it before: careful how you judge the little that's been shown about the game, because the dude basks in the negativity and has an ace ready to pull to make detractors look like they're the fools.

Not to mention, it's damn easy to equate the dislike for a character to dislike / hate / harassment towards the actual actor or actress, and play the racist / incel / misogynist card to shut up even the most rational critics.

If you don't like what ND does, the best thing to do is to not buy their games, and not pour fuel into the fire. Devs love controversy, especially when their ass is safe because they got the complete support of their publishers and the press.

I'm sure he knew what he was doing with the trailer - ie. he knew the reaction he would get. However, I've been noticing for a while that getting embroiled in controversy before release isn't doing games any favours. It may have been a viable strategy to get a game into the limelight at one point, but not so much anymore. I think people are getting fatigued at this point. It's also possible he told the actress to ignore online criticism in a belated attempt to not stir up any more controversy for precisely that reason.
 
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Fuck Druckmann and his shitty political statements in gaming. Not a dime will be spent by me unless something changes with Naughty Dog. A pity, as I was a Naughty Dog fan for close to 30 years. I miss when they used to just make games that were fun.
He literally race swapped 3-4 characters over his own original work in the TV show, because ya gotta keep pushing and pushing. Nothing stops this train. Choo choo!

I do miss the light-heartedness of Uncharted 1-3, however.
 
Nobody takes steam reviews seriously. Its just whiny cunts with potato PC's that are complaining why the game is crashing on max settings

Depends on the agenda. I've seen them cited numerous times here as a proof of a game's worthiness or lack of.

I don't read reviews at all whether it be from fat slobs/leftists moonlighting as "journalists" because they don't play these games or from users who are raging over whatever. They would rather talk about anything but the game itself and how it plays. Well, I used to read reviews back when gaming magazines like EGM, Gamepro, and Gamefan existed because they were good unlike today's trash. However that was over 25 years ago.
 
He literally race swapped 3-4 characters over his own original work in the TV show, because ya gotta keep pushing and pushing. Nothing stops this train. Choo choo!

I do miss the light-heartedness of Uncharted 1-3, however.


In the series Hannibal this is brilliantly done. That is created by an actual artist.
 
He literally race swapped 3-4 characters over his own original work in the TV show, because ya gotta keep pushing and pushing. Nothing stops this train. Choo choo!

I do miss the light-heartedness of Uncharted 1-3, however.

Uncharted 1-3 were amazing games. I still remember firing up the first 1 in 2007 on the PS3. Was absolutely astounded by what an incredible game it was. That's what is missing from Naughty Dog now. They don't make games. They are trying to make a shitty movie using gaming as the delivery platform. No thanks. They haven't learned from how Hollywood is crashing and burning for pushing shit literally no one but maybe 0.4% of the entire gaming population is asking for.
 
Depends on the agenda. I've seen them cited numerous times here as a proof of a game's worthiness or lack of.

I don't read reviews at all whether it be from fat slobs/leftists moonlighting as "journalists" because they don't play these games or from users who are raging over whatever. They would rather talk about anything but the game itself and how it plays. Well, I used to read reviews back when gaming magazines like EGM, Gamepro, and Gamefan existed because they were good unlike today's trash. However that was over 25 years ago.
There's decent reviews but the majority are useless. Nothing beats word of mouth for me

Reviews don't mean anything for me personally
 
He literally race swapped 3-4 characters over his own original work in the TV show, because ya gotta keep pushing and pushing. Nothing stops this train. Choo choo!

I do miss the light-heartedness of Uncharted 1-3, however.

Agree.

I found UC 1-3 to be over hyped shit in its time but now...

Those games are competent gold compared to the self-indulgent slop we get from ND and some other high profile devs that bask in smelling their own farts.
 
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There's decent reviews but the majority are useless. Nothing beats word of mouth for me

Reviews don't mean anything for me personally

Word of mouth is basically how I find out about games now. I don't consume gaming media in any form because of all the agendas involved.

If I find out a game is fun, count me in. Gaming is supposed to be fun which is the thing that seems to be getting lost with all these stupid AAA games.
 
Word of mouth is basically how I find out about games now. I don't consume gaming media in any form because of all the agendas involved.

If I find out a game is fun, count me in. Gaming is supposed to be fun which is the thing that seems to be getting lost with all these stupid AAA games.
And thats the only right way to go. Especially with the current shitty forced garbage we have
 
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