i gave cyberpunk2077 another shot after hating it at launch because multiple people pestered me about it for two years. i was repeatedly told of my lengthy list of criticisms, āthey fixed all that, itās like a totally different game nowā.
10 hours later itās clear that theyāre either:
a) delusional b) liars c) literally cannot hear criticism of the game being spoken aloud
because that shit was 99% identical to at launch, bugs included. the difference between the game that people keep describing to me and the game in front of me is so stark that iām fucking baffled. itās like itās a cult or something.
What is it, Human Fall Flat, whereā¦ the jank is likeā¦ kinda the whole point?
People still love Goat Simulator, lol.
Also there is literally an entire subgenre of games that has been dubbed āslavjankā, where the jank is genuinely viewed fondly as a kind of nostalgic brokeness, like its quaint or cute in how its broken, but fairly competent in other ways, the disconnect creating a kind of ācomfortable frustrationā, if that makes any sense.
āIts broken in a way I like / I am used toā kind of thing.