• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    10 months ago

    After PokemonGo - a rink-a-dink micro-transaction wait and click game - rocketed to the top of the charts in 2019, is it any surprise that Vague Pokemon Pastiche on Arma gets you such a big return?

    Still not really feeling it, but nice to see an indie developer doing well.

    Wonder how long until the team lead goes insane and holes himself up in a bucker, like the guy who profited of Minecraft...

    • dannoffs [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      No idea how the experience with Pokémon go was by 2019, but that summer it came out in 2016 was truly something special. I would go out with friends to play it and you'd run into other groups of people doing the same thing and form larger groups and just walk around and talk. The game itself was pretty meh but I met more real people playing it than any other actually "good" game.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        10 months ago

        that summer it came out in 2016

        God damnit, 2016 and 2019 all happened in the same year, I refuse to believe otherwise.

        I would go out with friends to play it and you'd run into other groups of people doing the same thing and form larger groups and just walk around and talk. The game itself was pretty meh

        Right, but then the "meh" of the game meant the crowds went away and there wasn't a bunch of goofy nerds around to talk to. It was just something you did silently on your phone in an elevator while your coworkers glared at you.

  • marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]
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    10 months ago

    It's my kid's favorite game right now. Half of our hangout time together is playing this game. It's not that bad tbh.

  • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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    10 months ago

    I like how people were dissing this game before it came out, but now they're probably playing it.

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    • Xette [they/them]
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      10 months ago

      I'm still standing strong on not playing it cause I'm earth's strongest hater

      • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        I'm sticking with not playing it, but I also don't have any strong feelings either way and I haven't played any pokemon game since the original blue in an emulator on a windows 95 PC.

      • mamotromico@lemmy.ml
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        10 months ago

        I’m just waiting for some improvements on performance and I’ll gladly gobble this slop. I have a hardon for shitty coop survivalcrafts

  • GinAndJuche
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    10 months ago

    And not counting the pirates

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    It’s one of the best of that genre.

    Which is a genre of jank-ass games

  • oktherebuddy
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    10 months ago

    I was finally gonna get around to playing valheim and now everybody has moved on to the next base builder

  • Comp4 [she/her]
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    10 months ago

    Yep over 19 million. 12 Million on steam and 7 million on xbox.

  • grandepequeno [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    I'm going to buy it for my homie's bday soon, but you can't catch me playing a survival crafting game