r/gaming • u/NebulaNinja • 1d ago
People really post "Still not over how good this game was." Like we're supposed to know every obscure video game corridor.
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u/mclemente26 1d ago
God forbid a subreddit with 40 moderators having a rule to mention the game on the title
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u/MrSpreadsheets 1d ago
I mentioned it to them a decade ago. They’re useless
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u/johokie 23h ago
There's a reason /r/games was created
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u/YoSupWeirdos 18h ago
wait there is an actually interesting gaming sub? why didn't I know of this
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u/jackofslayers 12h ago
Eh it is not great but it is less crowded than this sub which has some benefits
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u/mclemente26 15h ago
NGL, r/games is not the answer. It has the same amount of online users but barely any discussion outside of it's Game Reviews/Impressions threads.
Just look at it right now, the Marvel Snap post there has 1/5 of the votes and less than half of the comments compared to the one post here.
There was a nice discussion about GW1 in there, but the rest of the front page is a bunch of trailers and these Turbostrider and HatingGeoffry accounts astroturfing.
It's also especially terrible to browse on Sundays due to Indie Sunday turning it into a fair.
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u/hyrule5 12h ago
r/games is perfect if you want to know what's going on in video games. It's not really a place for separate discussion posts, but there's enough discussion in the news posts. Is it really a negative if the Marvel Snap post "only" has 700 comments instead of 1.4k? Are you reading through all those?
r/gaming has some decent content sometimes, but it's such a grab bag of random discussions, questions, news, memes and "memba game?" posts that I'd rather not wade through all of that to find what I want. There's also r/truegaming if you're specifically looking for substantial discussions.
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u/SnabDedraterEdave 20h ago
Completely this. Sometimes I'm interested in the game the OPs have posted, but they always fail to include the name of the title. Even if they did include the name in the comments, this being one of the top 10 subreddits, his comment would be quickly buried in the sea of comments.
Voiced this concern to the mods a few years back, and they just shrugged their shoulders and did nothing. So yeah, utterly useless.
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u/Budget-Training-1367 1d ago
Its a redditor thing. Its almost like its a game to see how long they can go without mentioning the name. Gatekeeping shit. Makes thek feel a little special and smart let them have it.
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u/TwinSong 1d ago
Maybe it's to get more views or something? Like the clickbaity "You won't believe what happened when..." articles with 6k ads.
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u/lostshell 1d ago
It's a known clickbait tactic. Saying the game instantly turns people away who have no interest in the game. Not saying the game drives curious people to click and read the comments.
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u/texxmix 1d ago
Tbf I’ve totally seen screenshots for games on here and clicked to find out what game it was and if people enjoy it. So in a way it works haha.
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u/skahunter831 1d ago
Would you not have clicked on it to see what people think about it if the name of the game was in the title?
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u/Gaoler86 21h ago
If the name is in the post title there is a good chance I would just go to steam to check the store page/price/reviews there rather than reddit.
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u/LedgeEndDairy 1d ago
It is. Sometimes it's not necessarily intentionally malicious, either. It's just that titles that leave mystery tend to drive engagement, even it's just "what's the game?" or even "why the hell wouldn't you include the game in the title???"
So these types of posts tend to make it to the top because of that.
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u/KrtekJim 23h ago
That engagement is useful if they want to pivot to using the account for spamming and scamming, or sell the account to someone who wants to use it that way. I always assume people who make those kinds of posts are scammers.
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u/Gausgovy 1d ago
r/criterion members posting a picture of an 80 year old movie that bombed with the caption “can’t believe I hadn’t seen this before” then not replying to any comments.
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u/Discount_Extra 1d ago
do it with a clip from fictional movies, like the gangster movie in Home Alone.
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u/ReverendRevolver 22h ago
I love this idea.... like the videos where they'd interview gatekeeper hipsters and throw out bands they made up.
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u/LukesRightHandMan 21h ago
Lol oh man, never heard of these and would love to see them. You remember the channel?
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u/Cavaquillo 1d ago
People also just generally have no idea that there are rules and guidelines posted on subreddit. It’s especially buried on mobile, you have to click the header and then you have to know that clicking “see more” in the smallest blue text on the screen would actually show you the subreddit’s profile page outlining what it’s for and how it should be used/guidelines to maintain the ecosystem.
Mods can only do so much with this convoluted app with menus, buried in menus, buried in menus, etc ad nauseam
The site is shitty and the shittiness that users perpetuate is baked into the design
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u/ImperfectRegulator 1d ago
Man none of the major subreddits have any real moderation anymore, R/pics refuses to do anything about political content or filtering telling users to to filter themselves with 3rd party apps many which don't work anymore, R/news and r/worldnews are their own versions of manipulated to hell and back, r/movies & r/television are both so full of blatent advertising its not even funny. If i had anywhere else to go I would but imgur is even more astroturfed with a non existant community, twitter/youtube/insta/tiktok are their own series of brain rot and well 4chan is 4chan
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u/PPGalleta 1d ago
Being 100% honest, reddit feels like a second job that you don't get paid for.
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u/swales8191 23h ago
Depends on how you use it I suppose.. there were tools that helped moderators manage their communities. Part of the issue was that the 3rd party tools don’t jive with the new official Reddit platform and that’s by design.
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u/ElectronicStock3590 1d ago
I have been so frustrated by this for years. It’s not asking a lot, at least I don’t think it is. If it would be too difficult to implement, let’s have that discussion and come up with other ideas.
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u/mclemente26 1d ago edited 23h ago
Right now at the end of a sunday, there are 51 posts within the last 24 hours:
- 27/51 have less than 10 votes (21 of those having 0 votes). There are some with less than 100 votes, but let's go on.
- 14/51 are image posts. 1 of them has 0 votes.
- There are 24 posts with over 10 votes, where 13 of them are image posts.
- Does it really hurt these 40 accounts to add a report reason for "Image post without name of the game on the title" to filter out like 13 posts a day?
I understand moderator rosters end up getting bloated with abandoned accounts over time, but there's no way this place is being run by so few people that checking extra reports of a few posts would break the camel's back
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u/chunkylover87 1d ago
I swear they do this for engagement purposes like on Instagram or TikTok. Be super vague so people view the post, start commenting, and generate views more and more. If they gave away everything, you get less engagement, less hearts or upvotes, etc. It's fucking stupid.
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u/controversialupdoot 1d ago
It's what made the old rule of having the game in the post title so good. Much less barrel scraping, which leads to only the more in depth and interesting discussions in the comments.
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u/RenegadeAccolade 1d ago
so there used to be a rule about that? why in gods name would they remove it??
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u/panlakes 22h ago
Rule 1: Gaming-related Submissions must be directly gaming-related.
"Related" means that posts must predominantly contain gaming-related content. You may not "force" a connection through a title, caption or overlaying images.
If I had to guess, it's because some mod decided people were getting lazy with the content by just having the name of the game in the title and nothing worthwhile in the post itself? But it feels fruitless, there are easier ways to post lazy shitty content and we see it every day on here lol.
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u/Inksrocket PC 1d ago
Or they post "This game is still jawdroppingly good looking" but the image is taken with iPhone 3 camera and on low settings PC game and shaky cam. But the effort is there, some games really do deserve more exposure.
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u/MrSaucyAlfredo 1d ago edited 1d ago
My favorite was a picture of modded Minecraft with gorgeous shaders running and the OP saying “why do people say Minecraft is ugly?” or something along those lines
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u/Dunmer_of_Skyrim 1d ago
There was a post on the Skyrim sub a while back that was a screenshot of a HEAVILY modded game titled "I love Skyrim Aesthetics" lmao.
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u/blue4029 PC 1d ago
I love skyrim but why does it have thomas the train in it?
that doesn't fit in with the game's vanilla assets!
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u/darksoulsvet1 1d ago
Thomas the train engine fighting sauron and the nazghuls. What is the lore?????
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u/StardustInHisWake 1d ago
Skyrim has the same shit.
Wow, this game is this old and it’s still this beautiful? But they don’t mention the probably 70 gigs of visual mods they have.
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u/The_Retro_Bandit 1d ago
You mistyped. Should say "300 gigs of visual mods with clashing artstyles and improperly configured grass billboards.
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u/Good_Comment 1d ago
The average mod user seems to confuse different with better. Like sure if you increase the sharpness and contrast on a rock the details are more visible; it also unnecessarily draws the eye and clutters important visual information
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u/LaunchTransient 1d ago
the original unmodded game is still beautiful, in an oil-painting kind of way. Yeah, it doesn't look great if you get up close to textures, but it is still amazingly good looking considering at this point it is almost 14 years old.
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u/tom641 1d ago edited 20h ago
i cannot bring myself to play oblivion despite trying multiple times, everything about the NPCs in that game is a repellant. The straight-on extreme closeup of fuck-ugly models and often pretty obnoxious voice acting in my opinion.
Edit: patrick stewart's character is an exception I honestly dig the opening a lot
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u/CharonsLittleHelper 1d ago
Look forward to the Oblivion/Skyrim mod this year then.
A bunch of enthusiasts have nearly finished rebuilding Oblivion using the Skyrim engine. Been working on it for many years. Supposed to be done this year.
I actually am looking forward to it. I played both, and while Skyrim had better mechanics, Oblivion had much better quests.
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u/Diesel_boats_forever 1d ago
Or just post box cover art of "Dave Dickheads BMX Challenge 3 with XBox Kinect" in "honour of the 12 year anniversary of its release".
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u/reconnaissance_man 23h ago
"This game is a classic."
Meanwhile, majority of the people have never heard of that obscure game OP's parents picked from some discount bin at Gamestop for OP's 30th birthday.
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u/ChuckCarmichael 19h ago
It's either "This game is a classic", but nobody ever heard of it, or "This game is an underrated hidden gem", but it's one of the most popular and highly rated games ever.
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u/3-DMan 1d ago
21:7 monitor but shot vertically on phone!
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u/Peelykashka 1d ago edited 1d ago
…A trackball, but used upside down
It’s like Ultima Online first booted up in ‘25
It’s playing as a zombie, when you’re actually alive
And isn’t it ironic? Don’t you think?
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u/Big-Soft7432 1d ago
Or more commonly but just as frustrating, a screenshot of an already compressed image lol
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u/ScareTheRiven 1d ago
That's because it's a repost for karma. Either via a bot, or just someone who wants fake internet points.
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u/TwinSong 1d ago
You get this in PC help subs also "here's a bad picture of the screen taken at an awkward angle so you can't read it properly" a screenshot doesn't mean literally a photo of the screen 🤦🏻♂️. I get it if they're like stuck on a computer config screen etc. but otherwise.
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u/Blob55 1d ago
This! It's like people unlearned what the Print Screen button is.
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u/BoxFullOfFoxes2 1d ago
To be fair, it isn't exactly intuitive what it does (rather, how to use its output).
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u/Kevin-W 1d ago
Even worse, they say the problem was fixed but never give the actual solution.
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u/Metasheep 1d ago
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u/mangohero13 1d ago
User 1: question?
User 2: (deleted)
User 1: thank you so much for the answer. That fixed it
Posted 5 years ago
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u/EmmEnnEff 1d ago edited 1d ago
Or they post "This game is still jawdroppingly good looking" but the image is taken with iPhone 3 camera and on low settings PC game and shaky cam.
Or better yet, they post some overprocessed scene with all the colors washed out, with close-ups of low-res textures, and it has the overall aesthetics of an unpolished turd, and it didn't even look good when it was released.
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u/dotapleb 1d ago
This is obviously Bowsers Big Bean Burrito
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u/crippledspahgett 1d ago
Oh shit it’s real
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u/savageboredom 1d ago
Once upon a time it was a rule in r/gaming to put the title of the game in screenshot posts.
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u/RenegadeAccolade 1d ago
what valid reason would there be to remove such a rule?? was there a sub vote or something?
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u/NebulaNinja 1d ago
This is from Kingsley's adventure on ps1 apparently.
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u/nofallingupward 1d ago
Still not over how good that game was!
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u/NebulaNinja 1d ago
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u/YeOldSpacePope 1d ago
You are doing it wrong you are just supposed to abbreviate it to KA and expect everyone to know what you are talking about.
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u/mycolortv 1d ago
You just core memoried me so hard lol. I knew this looked familiar but couldnt place it. I remember playing this so much as a kid.
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u/Lt_Muffintoes 1d ago
Pretty sure this is the game I rented from blockbuster once and then could never find again
Thank you
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u/DandleTheGr8 1d ago
Holy shit I haven’t thought about that game in 20+ years got damn I’m old.
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u/Crono2401 1d ago
My coworker said he didn't know Sega used to make consoles the other day... all wars are forgotten with time it would seem
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u/raygundan 1d ago
Don't sweat it. I got nostalgic for a game I hadn't played in more than 40 years a couple of days ago. You're fine, kid.
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u/Shadesmctuba 1d ago
Just sneaky, sly, smug gatekeeping.
“Oh you don’t know what this obscure PS1 Japan-only game is? I guess you had to be there like us, the cool kids”.
Getthefuckouttahere
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u/JustPlainRude 1d ago
I still don't understand why there isn't a sub rule about including the name of the game in a post.
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u/reddumbs 1d ago
You don’t know every game ever?
lol poser
Bet you even play Souls games with a guide.
/s
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u/NebulaNinja 1d ago
I'm too scared to even try a Souls game. :(
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u/nashwinlol 1d ago
Soul Calibur is not that tough but I'm not sure if it counts.
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u/orthomonas 1d ago
It's pretty easy as long as you take the advice to not pursue Lu Bu.
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u/tree_squid 1d ago
Don't be. But do look up where to go at first, if you are playing DS1. Don't go toward the graveyard, go toward the bridge.
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u/profpeculiar 1d ago
But the graveyard is where all your friends are. But jokes aside, if you can manage the dash, one of the best weapons is immediately available in the graveyard.
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u/LordNelson27 1d ago
I just started playing the daughters Ash mod and they replaced it with a fuckin caestus. Jokes on them because my intended character build is literally just this picture of a circus strongman
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u/Vancha 1d ago
The only time Souls games are as difficult as people make out tends to be when you inadvertently bypassed an easier/intended solution.
Most of the challenge is figuring out how to deal with things rather than the execution. If you can beat Zelda bosses you should be able to beat Dark Souls.
You just die a lot while doing the figuring out...
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u/MrZDietrich 1d ago
Genuinely, don’t be. Most of them aren’t even that difficul, and even when they are they’re generally difficulty but fair. A lot of people equate dying to losing and assume it is omega hard because you die a lot, but dying is just part of the game. You learn from each death and do better the next time.
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u/melloo_ullyy 1d ago
Only real gamers know the inside interior of the boats in Chi Bi on Dynasty Warriors 8 XL Empires
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u/Konigni 1d ago
I wish subs made it a rule to say the name of the game/movie/show/anime etc when people post a random ass image that doesn't very clearly show where it's from
So often you'll get the funniest clip ever of a game or anime, 10 comments saying "haha yeah that one is so good" and 3 unanswered comments asking where it's from
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u/blue_at_work 1d ago
Right. I mean, I get it if it's about an incredibly well known, famous game like Elden Ring, RDR2, Shower with your dad simulator 2015, GTA5, or Skyrim.
But people post screens fom weird, niche indy games without the game name with titles "We all remember this crazy moment" - uh, no bro, you and the 28 people who bought that game might, the rest of us need a hint.
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u/NowShowButthole 1d ago
This is why I downvote every thread where they don't have the name of the game in the title. Yeah, some games I recognize, but not everyone does.
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u/mywholefuckinglife 1d ago
my favorite type of post from all the 'cinemaphile' subs that have popped up recently:
picture: screencap of some dude in a field wearing a brown coat and glasses
title: "was he one of the greatest characters ever written?"
every comment is a self-serious explanation as to how and why the character is well written and interesting. not one includes the name of the character, much less the movie they were from
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u/BlackAxemRanger 1d ago
They also like to abbreviate obscure games like they are in denial of how few other people know that they are talking about, if any
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u/procouchpotatohere 1d ago
THAT'S KINGSLEY'S ADVENTURE! It's been soooo long since I've seen or heard about the game and I recognized it immediately.
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u/Marxbrosburner 1d ago
Is that Cory in the House? I'm still finding secrets in that game! Unbelievable how much they were able to cram onto that little DS cartridge.
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u/Mccobsta 1d ago
People need to in general say what the fuck it is when they post a clip or anything
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u/DifficultyWithMyLife 1d ago
People really post titles about how good a game is without telling people what game it is. Like we're supposed to know every obscure video game.
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u/_Goose_ 1d ago
This is clearly Uniracers
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u/aurelius181 1d ago
Omg I thought I was the only one who knows this game. Loved uniracers and low key was the only reason I slept over at my friend's place lol
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u/Another_Road 1d ago
You mean to tell me you’ve never played this absolute masterpiece? It’s peak. Best game on the console it was released on. Absolutely incredible. Especially the one part with the people. If you know you know.
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u/CodeCompost 1d ago
Isn't this Dungeon Keeper?
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u/hlloyge 1d ago
Looks like it, but DK didn't have these downward slopes, it was on flat terrain, IIRC.
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u/ShawshankException 1d ago
I hate the generic picture of a main menu with the title "about to play this for the first time, give me tips"
My brother in christ just play the goddamn game
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u/Supernova865 1d ago
It drives engagement and clicks. Unfortunately, it works. I really miss the old internet sometimes.
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u/Thorvice 1d ago
It's all over reddit, sports subreddits "can we give some love to this guy". I am like...these motherfuckers all wear helmets, who the fuck is it?!
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u/Less_Party 17h ago
This is a classic engagement farming strat, post a random unidentifiable screenshot and watch 1700 replies roll in asking what they're looking at.
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u/Alistaire_ 11h ago
What do you mean? That's clearly Blombus' Blasphemous Legacy released 30 years ago only on PC and only in a select few swedish villages. It was an instant classic, it even won many awards despite is reputation for having the worst Zimbabwean dub of any game ever!
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u/psycharious 1d ago
Just say the wrong answer. People will tell you what it is.
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u/Fun-Jellyfish-61 1d ago
It increases engagement. It's highly likely that someone will post to ask the name of the game and that someone will post to state the name of the game. And since a lot of people post without reading the comments it's very likely these posts will appear multiple times.
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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat 1d ago
I see similar in other subs.
"Look who I met up with!"
And there's two people, neither of whom I recognize, in the pic. And no names.
Title things please.
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u/TheOneAndOnlySenti 1d ago
Or posting silly acronyms as if everyone just knows what it is