Is it really that bad?

No, it's good.
It's literally just retarded incels hating on Thor because it's the 'cool' thing to do right now.

>>715600726
*Jason

No. It's worse.

>>715600765
my middle name is literally thor

>>715600726
>Thor

>>715600698 (OP)
it takes like maybe an hour to beat. It has 4 minigames and like I think 3 actual bosses.

>>715600856
Not on the divorce documents it's not.

>>715600698 (OP)
no
if anything, the code is way worse

>>715600868
Timful Catpanions?

I pirated it.
It sucks. I feel like I lost by playing it.

>>715600726
Who?

>>715600698 (OP)
>literally 5-10 minutes of gameplay
>the rest is just a really, really bad visual novel
It's crap

>>715600698 (OP)
I watched Quin play it, it looked mid as fuck, Jason is a fraud. Nips churn out h-games with more gameplay and better stories in under a year.

>very positive reviews of game
>dev says something controversial
>people start mass producing negative reviews of the game because they don't like what he said

Now that doesn't seem very fair.

>>715601631
>>very positive reviews of game
Because the only people who played it were a carefully cultivated army of sycophants
>>people start mass producing negative reviews
They didn't though. It was like a couple dozen.

>>715601631
>implying the very positive reviews came from people who actually liked the game and weren't just from people dickriding the 2M+ sub channel

>>715601631
Regardless of his (shitty) opinions, he still hasn't released out of Early Access in 8 years or whatever. That should be a crime. A review bombing is light punishment, given that.

Even if his game was going to be anything but a patreon scam, it looks painfully mediocre and wouldn't even be a blip on the major indie scene if we disregarded this SKG controversy. He ironically very well may have killed his entire grift with his narcissistic overreaction to the goals of the movement.

>>715600698 (OP)
it's aggressively mediocre.

>>715601930
He was bound to get torn apart sooner or later. The man literally cannot stop lying and he can't even pretend to respond well to criticism.
The craziest thing for me was in that Dr K interview he literally said he will never acknowledge criticism if he doesn't agree with it because it's too much like apologizing and he will never apologize if he's done no wrong- of course, being a narcissist he's incapable of doing wrong; as he proved with his Ashes of Creation raid wipe.

He doesn't even need to apologize for shit, he just needs to learn to diffuse shit, and it will never blow up. But his ego won't allow him to.

WoW drama
>Sometimes games can get heated, I didn't respond to the situation in game or the pointing fingers afterwards well and I'd like to put it behind me.
Literally that easy. Not even really apologizing.

SKG
>As a streamer it's easy to forget that things you say can go beyond your own audience and that's not the sort of thing I would have said to Ross directly. I wish him well and would like to put it behind me.

But he has to assert that he is right, he has to play the victim if people won't accept he is right. It's the most textbook case of narcissism I've ever seen. People will write books on this man.

>>715602542
>WoW drama
Are you stupid? He literally WORKED AT BLIZZARD. You know, the company that made the fucking game? Do you really think he actually misplayed or did anything wrong? Why should he apologize when he literally played perfectly?

>>715603041
To be fair to him, he didn't really mention his time at Blizzard giving him an advantage. I guess maybe it was implied.
But mostly he boasted about his skill as a gamer before the WoW drama, which makes it more embarrassing that he misused his blizzard and claimed to be out of mana when he had 2 if not 3 ways to recover mana.

>>715603041
But he never ever mentions that or talks about it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y03L5KlXDLg

>>715603472
The one where he says he's working on the game and then cuts to "I haven't worked on it in 9 months" is also funny. Guy's the perfect lolcow

>>715603470
A few hours after the raid failed, he actually did say it while he was ranting about the raid.

>>715600698 (OP)
No, even I think people acting like the game always sucked are being disingenuous. But fuck Thor.

>>715604039
It always did suck but before it was only ever bought by fans of his twitch streams

>>715603873
I have no idea how he still has an audience when his excuse for not working on his game is "being too busy" and then he streams 9 hours a day.

Apparently his "dev streams" are literally him bringing up the same code over and over again, changing a couple things for 30 mins, and then playing games and talking to chat for the remaining 8 and a half hours.

>>715604039
>Thor.
>>715600858

>>715601631
>parasocial people who got emotionally attached to an e-celeb (Pirate "Jason" Software) are reviewing an indie game positively
How is this different than
>parasocial people who got emotionally attached to hating an e-celeb (Pirate "Jason" Software) are reviewing an indie game negatively

Both are equally retarded, but let's not pretend that the positive reviews were genuine and based on the actual quality of the game. When you ask a person who is not terminally online and attached to his streams "do you think this game is good", the answer will ultimately be "no, it's mid" or "no, it's shit".

There was even one screenshot from a youtube comment where a guy said something along the lines of
>I bought this game for my 11 year old daughter to play since she liked Undertale. She said the game was bad and she wouldn't continue playing it if it ever got finished. She's 18 now.

>>715601631
There's bias but it was going the opposite way. People were being incredibly forgiving with the game and ignoring the elephant in the room about how much of a undertale wannabe it was being from the start. Probably because they were wanting to give an up and coming indie game dev a chance. Now he's demonstrating how much of a narcissistic twat he is you're seeing much more brutal honesty.

>>715604243
I'm using that name so people know who I'm talking about.

>>715604742
Call him Maldavius and everyone will know who you mean.

>>715600698 (OP)
just pirate the software and find out. not like it has unbreakable DRM

>>715604742
His name is jason

>>715605293
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r614oAC0eKk

>>715605838
also to be completely honest, Heartbound wasn't the game that had "uncrackable DRM", that was his previous game I forgot the name of and don't care to look up.

The fucked thing is that his brilliant idea was to hardcore a check for the name IGGGAMES and use steam achievements as the save file.
But what if I want to start a new save? have to buy it again or family share to an alt?

It's beyond retardation. Spiteful, pathetic retardation.

Earthbound or undertale clone?
Who cares.

>>715605946
Oh and this is all unobfuscated lua scripts. like you don't even need to know how to code to fuck with lua or just comment those lines out entirely. lua is literally how I first started modding like 15 years ago

>>715605946
>that was his previous game I forgot the name of and don't care to look up.
Champions of Breakfast

>>715600726
Cmon Jason
your game has been in development for 10 years and there's still no progress

>>715606284
He has been on "the last 8%" of one chapter for 3 years.

>>715600698 (OP)
No idea.
It's still not released yet.

>>715600698 (OP)
I want to hateplay it
How much of the demo covers the actual game?

>>715605946
It's literally the dumbest possible way to do save files or DRM. Steam Achievements can be manually toggled on/off with tools like SAR.

>>715600698 (OP)
>"inspired by" a game that marked the failure of gamers to root out and gatekeep ideological subversives from the hobby
Yes, and more.

>>715605790
JASON
JASON
JASON

>>715602542
>was in that Dr K interview...
>Imagine you are running out of mana, and you need an extra potion...
>And you need the xp to level up...
>Use ayurveda...
Biggest grifter in youtube

>How do I call my Earthbound-inspired quicky game?
>hEarthbound
>Perfect

>>715611840
>Biggest grifter in youtube
Does he also "criticize" wokeness while defending woke games for "not being too woke"?
>https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=gTaiRHpiP2E
>>715612229
>Earthbound-inspired
No, it's clearly Undertale inspired, which is like being Earthbound inspired with a massive glob of mid-2010s ideological subversion added to it.

>>715612370
>which is like being Earthbound inspired with a massive glob of mid-2010s ideological subversion added to it.
So in other words: Every Earthbound-inspired game
Also, he claimed it was inspired by Earthbound and Undertale, so he just calling it "Earthbound" with an H at the front is fucking funny of how much of a hack he is

>>715611840
This post reads so schizophrenic. What the fuck are you trying to say?

>>715612229
>How do I call
It's "what do I call", my ESL friend. Because "call" in this sentence is identifying the "what" rather than being the procedure of calling (like calling on the telephone).

>>715600698 (OP)
It just like a bad mobile 'game' made of simple mini-games and is basiclly an interactive VN. With bad writing at that.
Definitely a time loss.

>>715600698 (OP)
Its a really shitty walking sim with no narrative cohesion, horrible millenial humour and its never gonna be finished, I would highly suggest not paying money for it if you must play it.

Pirate Software is Yandere dev tier, he constantly makes excuses for his shitty game taking forever to make, his main claim is its not coding that takes forever but writing the story, but he won't hire a writer because that would defeat the point of making the game himself. The problem here is he is a REALLY shitty writer, so anything he writes will be garbage, the game would probably be released within a year or two if he just hired a writer to completely rewrite the entire game script and write the rest, and it would be a better game too.

>>715613632
>a really shitty walking sim with no narrative cohesion, horrible millenial humour and its never gonna be finished
So like when Robert Fox ripped himself off.

>>715611008
You can just pirate it. He claims its unpirateable but its really not.

>>715601631
>bias is only OK when it's in my favor
fuck off, maldavius

>>715604742
you can call him ferretfucker and everyone would know, there is no need to call him thor

>>715612616
it has literally no resemblance whatsoever to Earthbound so I don't really know what he's on about

>>715614209
>when it's in my favor
Yes, because in some cases, "in my favor" is also the favor of humanity at large, such as when opposed to the oikophobic-genocidal left or the "centrists" that placate them.

>>715614442
>corpo dick sucking
>the favor of humanity at large

>>715614542
>>corpo dick sucking
What part of "opposing the oikophobic-genocidal left" did you not understand?

>>715601631
or it could be because the game has been in early access with 2 chapters since 2018, he claims to work on it 10 hours a day 7 days a week AND chapter 3 was supposed to be less than 6 months away in 2018 but still isn't done

His reasoning why the game is taking forever with its updates is unironically that "90% of the work comes from writing and I'm a slow/bad writer". He says each patch takes him 1-2 months to write dialogue for but the programming part only takes like an hour. That is, if you believe Maldavius Figtree's words.

>>715600698 (OP)
Played it a year ago before all the drama and before I knew anything about our boy Jason or that he is a twitch streamer, so here is an unbiased review:
It is okay.
Imagine your generic Undertale/Earthbound-inspired indie game.
(Not that you really care, you just started the thread to talk about eceleb drama)

>>715614373
Jason, you literally ripped off earthbound. "Bound" is even in the title. Let's not even get into the style that your game heavily rips from earthbound.

>undertale rips off earthbound
>omg so epic I love it goty goty goty
>thor rips off earthbound
>uhhhh yikes???? he needs to be cancelled >:(

>>715614610
>buzzwords
it's just support for the longevity of games, settle down, sperg
>>715614797
he literally doesn't work on the game, one dude counted the time and in like 163 hours of streaming he did 15 minutes of "coding"

>>715614797
>dude making a le epic heckin indie game is hard
>that's why it took 10 years and it's still not finished
>what do you mean other devs whip this shit up in matters of weeks
>not possible, I worked at blizzard and it doesn't work like that

>>715615173
insane behavior dude

>>715615116
>support for the longevity of games
Is not what I'm talking about.
>>buzzwords
No, those words all have meaning, even if their meaning applies to (You) in some small way and you'd rather they had no meaning at all.

>>715600698 (OP)
I only know about this game because its what caused Toby Fox to get mad at Matpat briefly. I know nothing about the game itself

>>715614952
Timmy, listen, I'm saying the guy doesn't even know a thing about Earthbound even though he's "inspired by it". He's just ripping off Undertale and mentioning Earthbound to sound cool.
You probably never even played any of these games anyway, why am I replying to you?

Should've named it Blundertale.

>>715615247
no one cares about what you are talking about because it's not related to the topic at hand at all, it's schizophrenic babbling

>>715615741
Gottem

>>715601631
Fourth panel, to the right of Mona Lisa

>>715615247
>Is not what I'm talking about.
I have no interest in arguing in accordance with your political schizo ramblings.

Eat my whole ass dude. All of it.

>>715615763
>a game inspired by another game created by an ideological subversive of the oikophobic-genocidal left
>not related to the topic at hand at all

>>715616471
a tertiary level of topic is already off topic

>>715603041
youd expect someone called thor to be able to save his team

If you're funding your game through Patreon, you're incentivized to not finish it. If you fund your game through Kickstarter, your incentivized to finish it quickly. This is the difference between the two kinds of crowdfunded indie devs.

>soul, souless

Can someone explain to me how someone with a ferret fursona is legally allowed to run a ferret "rescue"?

>>715617168
Pretty sure he literally did a Kickstarter 8 years ago, made 20k

>>715603041
>he literally played perfectly
This is objectively and demonstrably false you dick rider.

>>715616202
Fucking disgusting furfaggot degenerate, he means it literally.

>>715617278
jesus christ. he's not even a dev then, he's a scammer

>>715617421
that's obviously a joke

>>715617493
Yea you're right, I just woke up I'm working at like 20% brain capacity

>>715617654
it's ok it happens

>>715600698 (OP)
It plays like any other Undertale knockoff. Bandwagoners are just going to nitpick and hate. Most of them are worse off than 7YearsAtBlizzard is, don't fall for the Holier than Thou ITT and elsewhere.

However, the game is basically abandonware. Pirate it if you must, make PirateSoftware regret the designation.

>>715616471
Oh yeah silly me yeah after repeating your incoherent babble for a third time I completely understand what you mean now, carry on.

>>715618196
>Putting up for the compulsive liar

>>715617198
I jerk it to anything anthro, but that deer on the right looks like shit.

>>715618196
>However, the game is basically abandonware.
Nah uh, he totally updates it every month dude! He's added features such as
>a quit button
>a # symbol to the font
>additional dialogue options to existing trees
>bug fixes
And many many more!

>>715600726
>Guys I have something important to say
>"Popular opinion"
That is pretty much 98% of the internet right now. It's cool to shit on the guy for some obvious reasons, but I think it's well over played
All over a fucking mana gem

>>715618892
In your own opinion, would you trust someone alone with a real life animal of the same type as their fursona?

>>715619597
All he needed to do was not build a persona on lies

>>715600698 (OP)
Way back when he was gaming the algorithm and started flooding everyone's recommend videos on youtube I remember getting recommend a clip from him during one of his "dev" streams where he talks about it's hard to make an rpg because everything you make is one time use (as opposed to a platformer where you can make a bunch of reusable pevel elements which you can configure however you want) which was setting off major alarms bells for me because thats just not true and is a telltale sign of a stinky codebase.

>>715618643
>I have to pick a side
I think anyone still participating in the shitshow are permavirgin psychopaths, analogous to the Sons of Kojima nonsense.

>>715620372
I mean it sure sounds like you're taking Maldavius' side here.

>>715619780
Well yeah. Most YouTubers live like this, he just wasn't good at it. But it has been way over played. It's just popular at this point.

>>715620170
>where he talks about it's hard to make an rpg because everything you make is one time use (as opposed to a platformer where you can make a bunch of reusable pevel elements which you can configure however you want)
this also gave me what would be the equivalent of an ick for codemonkeys
specially because at the time i was designing an rpg-like system and you basically make a few objects/systems/scenes and reuse them over and over and over with just some things changed

>>715619550
>Nah uh, he totally updates it every month dude!

Except for , many actual game Devs and people who know coding have pointed out . He is coding like a self taught coder who has never worked at a game developer before ( "thor" --I worked at Blizzard !! ) maybe fetching coffee , because his coding does not show it . and he is making errors in his use of various functions of the language , so all it takes is a roll out of gamemaker 3 software and it is broken , and because he is a shitty coder who does not follow basic rules of a game studio -- he will have to hunt down and fix all the errors by hand . then it will be
Ooops Um Uhh No refunds , donate to my ferret rescue !! Bye !!

>>715620769
Not in the same way. He's a pathological liar and a narcissist. It's such a bad combination.

>lied about his actual work at Blizzard
>lied about being a hacker
>lied about knowing anything about how to make games
>lied about why he hasn't finished his game
>lied about his own skill in games
>lied about SKG
>lied about Off-Brand Games getting review bombed
>lied about being swatted
If he was capable of being honest about ANYTHING he might not be so detestable.

>>715620750
>Persecutory Delusions too.

>>715621627
>I'M UNBIASED AND YOU'RE SILLY!!! BUT I WILL COMPARE YOU TO ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS LOLCOW TROLLING GROUPS OF ALL TIME!!!
Just doesn't sound very unbiased, bud.

>>715619780
>>All he needed to do was not build a persona on lies

And it is sooo funny that he did this to himself by being a narcissistic asshole. Could have kept stinging along the bayers of his game for more 10 more years -- all the cucks on his channel and donors -- his imaginary elite hacker 5kills - I worked at Bliazzard !!
Everyday My Youtube suggestions is some one else dismantling him and his lies, and it's funny because it / He was not worth their time to debunk him , untill he pissed everyone off by attacking Save Video games and became a celebrity douche -bag

>>715621897
Just change "Sons of" to "Kiwi," and "Kojima" to "Farms" and the pieces all line up.
The obsession you guys share have been stinking for some time.

>>715601631
>pic
Da Vinci liked gay sex, isn’t that enough?

>>715622470
Can't lie your way out of this one, Maldavius

>>715623458
>3rd person accused ITT of being Jason
Sure thing bud.

>>715611626
SHAAAAAAAUN!

>>715601631
For what it's worth, the positive reviews weren't fair in the first place. The game is shit and the average consoomer is an animal that needs to be enslaved and rigurously conditioned if you don't want it to consistently do THE DUMBEST THING.

>>715600698 (OP)
It’s like if Undertale had far less gameplay, boring music, 0 charm, and was unfinished.

>>715617198
Betcha right can’t even be mind-broken and raped

Heartbound is supposed to be like
an uwu, emotional, charming, feelings game like undertale or omori right?
How is anyone supposed to reconcile this with the creator visibly being a pompous narcissist?
I mean, i dont really care about the "artist has wrong opinions" debate, but when the art itself is trying to create an emotional bond with you, it's hard to accept that connection from someone who goes out of their way to be publicly obnoxious

>>715600698 (OP)
It's way too little for something you pay for.
You could play things of similar or superior quality for free on newgrounds a decade ago.

>>715628648
Regardless of what it's supposed to be, it fails. The writing is bland, forces jokes where they're unneeded, and subverts nuance in place of having characters you don't know cryptically tease plot points that aren't in the game. What bothers me the most is everyone's dialogue is written the same way, there's legitimately no difference in how the characters speak. Thor being a narcissist could be the problem, but it's also just a beginner writer problem.

Reminder that Jason's sycophants legitimately patrol 4chan so they can defend Maldavius Figtree for free

>>715629868
They don't do it for free, I get private group chat sessions with him if he thinks they did a good job.