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[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years 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@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

You're forgiven for enjoying this game given that you have a kid soviet-playful

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Xette@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

You'll always have a place on Pluto.

[–] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years 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 1 points 2 years 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@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

And not counting the pirates

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Gamers really go hard for total slop

[–] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It has boss fights / raids of your base like in Valheim but once you get your base setup and like 5-6 workers you only have to farm for specialty materials and they do the rest.

[–] DyingOfDeBordom@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

imagine exploiting workers

My guys got hot tubs and all the berries they can eat when in the wild they have a high chance of being murdered by roving gangs of humans.

[–] Deadend@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

It’s one of the best of that genre.

Which is a genre of jank-ass games

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago
[–] Comp4@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] refolde@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Okay cool good now please stop shoving this game in my face

[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

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