I saw this advertised on Steam - and my first thought was "What on Earth is a Dung Eon?
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Yet another bloody multiplayer online shooter.
I should’t laugh, but,
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Been getting this all over my news feed but never even heard of it. How many ways are there to shoot each other up?
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They ran out of ways to evolve that sort of gameplay (not there aren’t ways, it’s just no longer the focus) so now the only thing they can think of is ways to evolve the “live service” model, which in short is just them experimenting with ways to maximise profit from a users play time and getting away with what they can before regulation takes their toys away (see: micro transactions that unlock content on the disc in early days of 360, or loot boxes. Let’s never forget loot boxes )
Meanwhile, Hello Games…
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They saw Borderlands flop and be a movie nobody asked for and thought, “These feckers haven’t seen anything yet.”.
I would watch a mini web series of jack black pretending he’s Steve, punching trees in a forest, make it seem like outsider art/adult swim fodder.
A whole film with a budget and big names?
Oh no.
Minecraft, much like borderlands, has always confused me by what the people holding the IP try and turn it into.
Minecraft was never about it’s story, it’s setting was an afterthought and things like a guy in a blue shirt named Steve were basic for a reason.
I felt same way about borderlands, light on story, setting is dull and repetitive, gameplay was fun and worth a rental, clap trap is the worst thing ever invented. Please kill it.
Both these franchises, have had telltale games and various spin offs exploring it’s worlds and characters.
These games that don’t have worlds or characters (okay Minecraft has worlds but it’s left blank for players to project their adventure on to).
I just roll my eyes every time I see someone who holds an IP and thinks they have the next star wars.
Angry birds did it too. The emoji movie? Dear lord… They honestly have no idea what it is they’re doing or why or how it’s supposed to be done with integrity they just want that lunchbox money.
They think it’s the IP and name of things we love, and so it’s all translatable into various spin offs even if those spin offs are a direct contradiction to the soul of the IP.
You like borderlands? Oh that must means you all love deserts, treasure and fucking claptrap. Who doesn’t love claptrap? Claptrap on everything!!!
You like Minecraft? It must be the memorable characters and blocky world and not the gameplay you enjoy I bet. Heres a dungeon crawler. And a telltale game that’s also a netflix show.
Sorry for the rant I just don’t understand how the people making more money than we’ll ever know in our lives, are so tonedeaf with the IP they acquire. It’s infuriating
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They could use that money making us a new game to play
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Have to share this. Kudos to the writer. They sum it all up so well
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“Raspberry Ripple Irn-Bru”
I’m sorry this is sacrilege. Irn-Bru is only allowed to have one flavour. And that flavour is called Irn-Bru. This is heresy towards the Scottish and all they’ve achieved!! I thought I was going to come out of this angry at Nintendo but now I’m irate at whats been done to Irn-Bru.
What’s next? A palatable Buckfast that doesn’t make you feel like you’ve fallen in a ditch?
#MakeIrnBruIrnBruAgain would have been a great slogan for the Leave campaign during Brexit. They’d have had my vote if I could.
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I suspect that in a blindfold test, I couldn’t tell the difference between Irn-Bru and any other fizzy orange drink - say Fanta, Corona, or Tango. Buckfast is (pardon the pun) a bit of a hangover. In the days when alcohol sales were much more resticted than now, so-called “tonic wines” were regarded as medicinal, and could be sold in circumstances, and at times, when other alcoholic drinks could not.
Consequently, tonic wines such as Wincarnis, Bentox, and Buckfast became popular with people who were determined or desperate to get drunk, regardless of their location, or the time of day.
By the 1980s, UK licensing laws had relaxed so much that any kind of alcohol was available in any supermarket at any time of day, and the demand for most tonic wines collapsed. I haven’t seen Bentox or Wincarnis for years. Inexplicably, however, amongst hardened drinkers in Scotland and Northern Ireland, the demand for Buckfast remained. It’s hard to explain, except as a self-perpetuating cultural phenomenon. There are tastier, cheaper, stronger, drinks freely available - but Scottish alcoholics still drink Buckfast.
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Only the Wildmen outside the Pale can be seen drinking it; the jackeens in Dublin aren’t built for the schtuff.
In terms of price and mileage, buckfast and giant 2 litre bottles of cider remain the go to for underage teens drinking in fields, especially during the winter. It’s a traditional right of passage shared between nations and it will be sad to see the day that it’s gone. But also, a cracker of a relief because having youth drinking as part of your culture has certainly held us back in some fields, and I don’t mean they passed out in them. Or actual fields.
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