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[Slap47]

Seems like a trollshielder like moonmanmatt, a soyfilled mangina just pretending to be a “based shitlord” in order to trick gullible trashheaps like KIA and OAG into supporting him

He tried to manufacture outrage by saying that troons were outraged about this. They couldn't give a damn.

 

[ProfDongs]

To be fair YIIK is just like Palanhiuk and Murakami if they didn't know how to write likable awful characters, and shamelessly combined elements from vastly more successful works and call it inspiration.

 

[UE 558]

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He tried to manufacture outrage by saying that troons were outraged about this. They couldn't give a damn.

This is what we call astroturfing kids. He’s trying to make it seem like there’s some grassroots rightwing movement being set up to combat the injustice brought upon this game by game journos, when in reality the kinds of gamers he’s claiming to be supported by would rather play an actual JRPG instead of a soyfilled pixeljunk immitation by a Californian.

 

[Commander X]

"The biggest mistake that I made was thinking games weren't original."

 

[Begemot]

To be fair YIIK is just like Palanhiuk and Murakami if they didn't know how to write likable awful characters, and shamelessly combined elements from vastly more successful works and call it inspiration.

Murakami's last novel was good IMHO and got a fair amount of praise. This guy seems like a goof.... Sorry @Tard Baby

 

[Cable]

This is what we call astroturfing kids. He’s trying to make it seem like there’s some grassroots rightwing movement being set up to combat the injustice brought upon this game by game journos, when in reality the kinds of gamers he’s claiming to be supported by would rather play an actual JRPG instead of a soyfilled pixeljunk immitation by a Californian.

if I was a Californian I'd probably learn that Chrono Trigger is on Steam and is now the confirmed best version and just buy that instead, it's cheaper, even without discounts.

 

[Pizdec]

I feel like just mentioning this as was mentioned a billion other times: if your main inspiration for a game is based off of an actual suicide, and your protagonist is wearing a shirt plugging your abandonware game (which from what all the reviews said would have been good if you just fixed the damn bugs, which if I guess you couldn't be fucked to do so since you took it off steam to keep people from buying and refunding it) by all means fuck off you cretin.

 

[UE 558]

I feel like just mentioning this as was mentioned a billion other times: if your main inspiration for a game is based off of an actual suicide

Tbf, a true crime-based story can be done right, as seen in Henry, one of my favorite horror movies, but the issue is that the way he does it comes across as tasteless shockbait

 

[Slap47]

YIIK Dev Responds to Claims of Plagiarism - Niche Gamer

Earlier we reported on accusations that YIIK: A Postmodern RPG had plagiarized lines from popular Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Now the game’s creator Andrew Allanson has responded to our contact. “YIIK contains quite a few homages to the writer Haruki Murakami. Our intent was to include...

nichegamer.com

His defense of plagiarism.

“YIIK contains quite a few homages to the writer Haruki Murakami. Our intent was to include little nods to Murakami’s lesser known works as tributes. Within the game, the tributes served a narrative function,” Allanson said.

“As the game revolves around the themes of broken reality, much of what the protagonist Alex experiences is colored by the lens of fond or strong memories,” he added. “We picked out a couple of novels, films and video games to become the subjects of Alex’s memories that influence his reality in-game, through the allusions we talked about. Some of these appear as more subtle homages to other authors like Chuck Palahniuk, Thomas Pynchon, David Mitchell. Since it looks like people are asking specifically about the reference to After Dark, let me try to explain our intentions as best I can.”

The explanation behind the offending scenes in our previous report is the “Proto Woman character speaking the words from the novel is part of a distorted reality being presented to Alex,” and as such “they’re not a character from the regular, grounded reality Alex believes he knows. A regular person would have been written to speak with the intention and knowledge that they were quoting a book. Instead, the role ‘Proto Woman’ plays is more like a pseudo ‘narrator’ of After Dark.”

The idea is, Alex has read After Dark, and his fondness for the novel is seeping into his reality with vocal and physical manifestations calling his attention back to the passages of the book now living in his subconscious. In that context, we thought it would not be in-character for “Proto Woman” to cite that their words hail from Murakami’s novel, since they don’t have the awareness that their words are actually an excerpt from a book.

Also, it was our intention for Alex to be utterly bewildered by the things that he’s seeing and hearing all around him. Certainly the YIIK player might realize these are words from After Dark, but we thought it would be difficult for Alex to consciously realize in that moment that he was listening to a direct excerpt of the novel.

I feel like just mentioning this as was mentioned a billion other times: if your main inspiration for a game is based off of an actual suicide, and your protagonist is wearing a shirt plugging your abandonware game (which from what all the reviews said would have been good if you just fixed the damn bugs, which if I guess you couldn't be fucked to do so since you took it off steam to keep people from buying and refunding it) by all means fuck off you cretin.

Dunno why people are being moralists about something so minor.

 

[Commander X]

I think people are making a bit too much out of this 'plagiarism' which I see as more of a clumsy attempt at homage, when you can easily criticize the game for looking and sounding terrible and in general being a giant hunk of garbage. The gameplay footage of YIIK brings to mind those fake games you'll see on a TV show where they can't use footage from an actual game because that would require them having to pay for the right to do so, so they got people to whip up some fake low poly nonsense and they overlay NES noises over it, and the person they hired to produce it hasn't seen any CGI since around the time of Dire Straits' music video for "Money for Nothing"

 

[Shitassdeaddude]

The gameplay footage of YIIK brings o mind those fake games you'll see on a TV show where they can't use footage from an actual game because that would require them having to pay for the right to do it, so they got some people to whip up some fake low poly nonsense and they overlay NES noises over it,

Holy shit you just nailed it. I knew there was something about it that bugged me besides the low polycount. Risk of Rain 2 is a low detail game that still looks great, but YIIK looks exactly like something some hack show like Big Bang Theory would cobble together as cheaply as possible and pretend its a video game.

 

[SinEater]

Yiik makes me want to play LISA. Is that okay, or do I have brain problems?

 

[Pizdec]

Dunno why people are being moralists about something so minor.

My intention wasn't to be moralist, but more so pointing out a rather poor spark of inspiration made worse by a condescending dev and shit writing that tries to pointlessly drone on.

But too many gamers, when they look at this, when they play a game, they’re so used to having to identify with the character

That's called immersion, and that's typically what we as gamers do my dude. Why do you think people drop thousands of hours into a game like Elders Scrolls, or Final Fantasy? It's because they're easy to insert and relate ourselves into. Oh, and importantly, they're fun to play.

I wanted to make a game about a guy who’s a piece of shit unlikable character, who by the end of the game has to transform.

You can still make an unlikable protagonist who has to transform into a better person, Just don't make it take the whole fucking game. Look at Tales of the Abyss for a decent example.

So, the thing is, games aren’t art. They’re toys for children and it’s considered in bad form to talk about anything meaningful, or impactful or thought provoking.

Clearly you never played Hotline Miami.

 

[Haramburger]

I feel that if pewdiepie wasn't shilling Murakami books in his monthly-ish book review videos people would have never even caught this plagarism story. It's obvious the game designer wanted that dialogue to be noticed and found, but what a dumb fucking easter egg; you can copy catchphrases and memes here and there, but the one thing you're not supposed to directly copy is text from a book. It's drilled into American student's heads(or was, who knows with schools these days) not to copy books without citation.

PS+ gave me that game. I've never even bothered installing it and when they'd just take it back.

If it's the voice-acted later edition, Zoe Quinn is one of the characters in the gay furry bar in the first half of the game.

 

[Kaede Did Nothing Wrong]

yiik is so fucking shitty in every conceivable way it's like something the state department would craft to torture guantanamo bay prisoners.

 

[Violence Jack]

Yiik makes me want to play LISA. Is that okay, or do I have brain problems?

well LISA: The Painful is actually good so...

 

[Slap47]

I feel that if pewdiepie wasn't shilling Murakami books in his monthly-ish book review videos people would have never even caught this plagarism story. It's obvious the game designer wanted that dialogue to be noticed and found, but what a dumb fucking easter egg; you can copy catchphrases and memes here and there, but the one thing you're not supposed to directly copy is text from a book. It's drilled into American student's heads(or was, who knows with schools these days) not to copy books without citation.

Dunno, it seems like the text he copied was used at a rather pivotal moment in the story.

 

[Pizdec]

Dunno, it seems like the text he copied was used at a rather pivotal moment in the story.

I've never read Murakami's work, but I don't need to to know he clearly picked a quote that only someone who also read it would've known, which I feel was intentional to keep people from finding out.

I feel that if pewdiepie wasn't shilling Murakami books in his monthly-ish book review videos

He does book reviews? Damn I'm seriously out of the loop.

 

[Y2K Baby]

well LISA: The Painful is actually good so...

Fake news.

 

[Shitassdeaddude]

Fake news.

Thems fightin' words.