He Pannedit Now He Sucks shouldn't even be applied to him since, while he does often comment on how bad a game is, that's secondary to his goal of explaining how bad the game's development was. The games often being shitty is because their management was shitty.
The series is ultimately meant to criticize the game industry and its bullshit workplace practices, not the games themselves.
Edited by M84 on Jan 10th 2021 at 11:05:39 PM
Disgusted, but not surprised
x10: Three reasons I know that you didn't watch the video: he says the game was chosen by Patreon, he admits the game was perfectly decent on its own, and nobody with any love or knowledge of the Sonic frachise can hear the name of Ken Fucking Penders without expressing how much they hate Ken "That Douchebag" Penders.
Edited by IniuriaTalis on Jan 10th 2021 at 10:56:32 AM
Does anyone actually read these?May Ken Penders step on all the legos. I don't even care about the OG Archie continuity (The video doesn't mention that Sega was so furious with Archie's handling of that case that they eventually dropped their contract) but just the fact that this man basically singlehandedly destroyed an ongoing story that had lasted multiple decades and had the investment of countless furries fans since their childhood over a petty temper tantrum is just... Legendarily assholeish.
As for the game itself... A glimpse into a great possibility honestly. Matt was right, the dialogue in it is pretty darn charming and proves decisively that the Sonic franchise is great material to mine for character interaction.
Perhaps we'll get another Sonic RPG some day and Sega will give so few shits by then that the devs can do crazy stuff like allow the player to hook up a Crack Ship or having a character go on a long-winded tirade about the plots of every single Sonic game and wondering aloud how they could all possibly happen in a little over a year.
You are not alone.> He Pannedit Now He Sucks shouldn't even be applied to him since, while he does often comment on how bad a game is, that's secondary to his goal of explaining how bad the game's development was. The games often being shitty is because their management was shitty.
His entire rhetoric is entirely reliant on deciding any negative claims about a game and its development must be 100% true.
It's tabloid clickbait, plain and simple. Your typical gamer excuse to cheer on rabid hatred of the people who make games.
And like others said, you clearly did not watch the vid if that is your take on it.
Also, a lot of the development info he includes in his vids is straight from said developers.
This is actually a big part of why he rarely covers Nintendo games, since Nintendo is notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to development.
Edited by M84 on Jan 12th 2021 at 4:59:40 AM
Disgusted, but not surprisedStanning for videogame developers (as in the companies not the individual actual programmers and other employees) is a weird hill to die on in general.
We really shouldn't be defending them from any and all criticism of their shitty practices. Not only for basic human decency, but because coddling them encourages them to get worse and worse.
It's how we got Mass Effect: Andromeda. It's how we got Anthem. It's how we got Fallout 76. It's how we got Warcraft: Reforged. It's how we got Cyberpunk 2077.
Edited by M84 on Jan 11th 2021 at 5:07:08 PM
Disgusted, but not surprised![]()
And as we all know as gamers, there is nothing than game developers deserve to burn in hell for more than making games that millions of people loved.
It says a lot that any sort of dissent away from the internet's love of encouraging hate and abuse towards creators is immediately "stanning." All while the same people adamantly defend to the death people like Matt McMuscles. Or the developers they adore.
Edited by arasokasilverwalker on Jan 11th 2021 at 1:19:59 AM
I would...not classify any of those mentioned by M84 as widely beloved games. Cyberpunk is divisive at best and the rest are largely regarded as crap.
Also, even certain generally liked games can and have been developed under studios that let crunch, sexual misconduct, or inadequate pay and even layoffs in the workplace slide (the likes of Ubisoft, Telltale aRockstar have put out plenty of good titles but they've all been guilty of this). THAT'S what Matt condemns, the actual ethicality of where these games come from and how they get made.
Self-serious autistic trans gal who loves rock/metal and animation with all her heart. (she/her)> the rest are largely regarded as crap.
And that's what you tell yourself to justify treating people who enjoy and make things you don't like as utter shit, because you have a legion of like-minded people who say it's cool to make life hell for folks who dare to do anything you don't approve of.
And then you cheer on someone like Matt McMuscles whose career is built on encouraging hatred and negativity instead of making anything of value himself.
> Nobody enjoys the stress inducing crunch, the shitty leadership, and the other issues that make their jobs a lot harder than they should be.
Which is why, the moment anyone claims such, even if they have no evidence whatsoever to support any of their claims, the sort of people you approve of immediately start abusing developers, encouraging hate towards them, and making their lives hell.
Why is this discussion happening on Sonic Chronicles, of all games? It might not be terrible, but I'd have trouble describing it as good, never mind some masterpiece that needs defending from such scathing criticisms as having mediocre review scores and weak sales
Also, I've generally found that Matt's prone to over-selling the games he talks about

Yeah, what happun focuses on the story leading up the final products, not the final product itself, per se. Like L A Noire is a great game but the stuff behind the scenes make it a good target.