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Mar 31, 2025 3:11 AM
SteveBruleCheckItOut
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emu314159127001
I always thought that was a real game, or at least something like it was around
TigerThong
i mean marvel rivals is pretty basic and meh tier of a game.
Colopty
Butters has good taste then.
dextarrogue
Rivals is so good. I have way too much time played for someone as busy as I am.
Curlycupcake
I don't play Rivals. As a free Chinese game, I assume every crumb of my personal data goes to the CCP.
SubsyServy
In Lord of the Rings Online (mmorpg like wow) my vanity kin (guild) is Hello Hobbit Island Adventure.
Sidewaysgts
Rivals is a fun game. Highly recommend giving it a try. It’s worth the price at a minimum.
SomethingNiceAndSimple
The best part? "Hello Kitty Island Adventure" is actually really good. I've been enjoying it a lot
lifeisadadjoke
I know a bunch of 20-something uni students that play HKIA. Then again, we have legalized pot, so...
MasterMookie
Ah golden age of WoW. If they actually kept being invested in the game instead of trying to pump out money they would have been so fucking huge right now. But nope blizzard just dying and dying. I wonder why... Games are for fun. Corpos don't get that. Has anyone played a blizzard game since Microsoft took over in 2023? Is it the same shit different management?
Intrspace
I play wow :) it's better
resworn
Fuck yeah, got that deluxe shit and I'm having a time 💕
DarwinGreen5
when life imitates art. https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/hello-kitty-island-adventure-switch/
Allrighty
Wait, this isn't Animal Crossing?
SteveBruleCheckItOut
Thanks. I guess I should have included she is playing this lol
DerpyBestPrincess
I mostly play tycoon and sim games, IN ADDITION to WoW Classic, it's amazing I even have time to breathe as it is. Rivals is pretty damn good though. I just prefer to relax nowadays.
FrequentlyBaffled
I've been playing the shit out of Schedule 1 this weekend. (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3164500/Schedule_I). Its a drug dealing tycoon sim that's super chill and has some great music. It just released in early access, but I'm 20 hours in and not at end game yet.
DerpyBestPrincess
Ooooh, very interesting! Thanks!
cuddleskunk
Holy shit...I didn't realize that Sanrio actually made a game by that name as a deliberate reference to South Park...that is nuts.
modus0
Life imitating art.
NomDeImguerre
They didn't. Or at the very least, they publicly denied doing so, or even being aware of it at the time.
cuddleskunk
They apparently made an April Fools joke about it back in 2008: https://web.archive.org/web/20080606200354/http://blog.sanriotown.com/blog/2008/04/01/hello-kitty-online-announces-island-adventure-expansion-pack/ so they were definitely aware of it. I found out about the thing from 08 thanks to this article:https://www.polygon.com/23787195/south-park-butters-hello-kitty-island-adventure-apple-arcade-release-date
NomDeImguerre
Regardless, they claim it's just a coincidence. https://www.polygon.com/23787195/south-park-butters-hello-kitty-island-adventure-apple-arcade-release-date But both things can be true: Just because a Public Relations employee referenced a 2006 joke in 2008, doesn't mean that more than 15 years later, the entire company (still) knows about it. It's extremely likely that the person who posted that doesn't even work at that company anymore.
cuddleskunk
That's definitely possible.
CrimeBrulee
I think the Hello Kitty game is supposed to be good.
Abnet
aren't all games supposed to be good?
CrimeBrulee
A lot of kids IP games are garbage shovelware that only sells bc children want it. The Hello Kitty game is apparently actually good.
Renza0
I absolutely love the fact that they actually went and made the game like 10 years after the fact, and that it was probably inspired by this episode
JimFromMarketing
Holy shit
Renza0
and that nearly every comment is thanking Butters for referring them to it
WaitingForCoffee
It's a soul-cleansing game.
kilgoth1
Don't want that.
Icanhearwhatyouresayingandtheanswerisno
Burning everything with fire?
SteersAndQueers
Cool coz I'm maidenless
Magnar1183
Unlike Animal Crossing
WaitingForCoffee
I found AC rather stressful. Too many FOMO mechanics
Magnar1183
I just find it dull
TorSverre
Basically Animal Crossing with a Hello Kitty theme.
CeoHuntingSeason
Why make new game when you can re-skin old one, money machine choo choo
CyberHexx
On a similar theme, There's an early access game on Steam called Critter Cove. It's Animal Crossing mixed with Subnautica. I highly recommend it. Relaxing island punk theme with funny characters.
Xenarion
"mixed with Subnautica" as in, underwater and base building, or giant monsters and horror-like atmosphere?
CyberHexx
Diving, scavaging, town building, underwater exploration. There's a health bar, but no enemies or bad guys, so to speak.
ElbowDeepInUserSub
But Marvel Rivals is free...
TwoBitGreaser
So is your first hit of hard drugs.
MorayCup
And? I have better things to do with my time
Hrafna55
If it's free then you are the product.
itsameeeee
so is free candy from strangers
nasukkin
Is it "free" like Marvel Snap is "free"? You can play it but you will lose to every non-CPU player if you don't do all the microtransactions?
Dragondraikk
So far, only purely cosmetic items are monetized. characters, maps, modes are not. There are no purchaseable "buffs" or anything like that.
ChickenChickenBurningBright
is it any good? "IT'S FREE"
TrueLegateDamar
Also the fan-created 'art'. So much 'art'.
Enoan
By all accounts it's fine. If you like hero shooters it's a pretty good one, but like it certainly isn't much new or exciting, just solid
Zeterai
It's hot, and it's ready.
DerpyBestPrincess
To be fair, it is actually pretty fucking good. They saw how Blizzard fucked up Overwatch and decided to make the genre good again.
cheeseguy3412
And then they fired the US team, including the game director, a few weeks ago.
wheelersdealer
Give me OG overwatch over either of them
TheBigBadBonerBiter
*the monkey's paw slowly curls a finger*
ilsalta
Which means they are trying to monetize me down to the freckle in my left arm pit.
Rips4w
Nope.
smashpro1
It's actually not as aggressively monetized as something like Overwatch or Fortnite. Like, there's paid cosmetics and season passes but all characters, modes, maps, etc. are free.
modus0
Free free, or "Free - You either spend real-world money or high double-digit to triple-digit hours of playtime to just barely earn enough in-game currency to afford once thing" free?
smashpro1
I'd say the amount of hours is closer to the mid double-digits.
Dragondraikk
Free free actually. At least so far they have been unlocked for everyone the moment they were released and no plans to change announced.
SomeDetroitGuy
Free games end up being VERY expensive.
DerpyBestPrincess
Absolutely nothing of game mechanics is behind a paywall.
FoamingToad
I have a hard rule. Never pay for anything but the game (slight correction, may she'll put for a remaster). Never paid for skins, mobage, passes. Payment history on Android is about three quid to unlock streaming for Plex, and tbh I could have worked around that.
thadken
The model is full free to play outside of cosmetics and sprays and junk. Everything is expensive if you spend on things you don't need.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
A lot of games make it so that you don't technically need to buy stuff, but it becomes a lot less fun and more grindy if you don't.
thadken
For sure, I didn't mean to imply I disagreed with the notion, only that this particular game isn't a great example of that issue among the general F2P market. At least not yet anyhow.
BloodyDisappointment
The only "grindy" part is the Battle Pass, and even then if you play just once every three days, theres plenty of challenges to complete the BP within the time limit. You also get the BP permanently like Halo Infinite.