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 Chloyster [she/her]   ( @chloyster@beehaw.org ) M to Gaming · 2 years ago

Silent Hill: Ascension fails to impress with greedy monetisation and cluttered UI

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Silent Hill: Ascension fails to impress with greedy monetisation and cluttered UI

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 Chloyster [she/her]   ( @chloyster@beehaw.org ) M to Gaming · 2 years ago
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Silent Hill: Ascension aired its first episode yesterday, but players are lambasting the game for its monetisation opti…
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  •  Refurbished Refurbisher   ( @refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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    The second I heard the tagline “Face Your Trauma Together” during the original teaser, I thought it was going to flop.

    Clearly Genvid doesn’t exactly have respect for SH fans or for gamers in general.

    •  EvaUnit02   ( @EvaUnit02@kbin.social ) 
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      I (genuinely) don’t understand. What exactly was disrespectful?

      •  Refurbished Refurbisher   ( @refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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        Aside from microtransactions, releasing an unfinished product that broke on day one, and being overall low quality compared to the Team Silent games, they are essentially making fun of trauma and PTSD as a concept. Compare that to Silent Hill 2, which was very respectful in how it handled the concept of trauma and PTSD, and it becomes quite obvious.

        The fact that this sticker exists: v2sdwgsi9lxb1 Should tell you enough.

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    I’ve been expecting this to be a trainwreck for a while now, but I was really expecting that to be from the Twitch Plays style of gameplay, not the fact that the game had pay-to-win mechanics. It’s impressive how they managed to stumble right out of the gate.

    •  Jinxyface   ( @Jinxyface@kbin.social ) 
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      It’s impressive how they managed to stumble right out of the gate.

      Is it? This is Konami we’re talking about. This should be what people expect at this point

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    Checked out Silent Hill Ascension last night and yeah, was not impressed and doubt I’ll look at it again.

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    deleted by creator

  •  🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆   ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) 
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    Other than Telltale’s games, when has an “episodic” game not been this way?

    •  Chloyster [she/her]   ( @chloyster@beehaw.org ) OPM
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      I think the life is strange games did it pretty well

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    Oh it’s… it’s shit.

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