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, “they fixed all that, it’s like a totally different game now”.
10 hours later it’s clear that they’re 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 i’m fucking baffled. it’s like it’s a cult or something.
What is it, Human Fall Flat, where… the jank is like… kinda the whole point?
People still love Goat Simulator, lol.
Also there is literally an entire subgenre of games that has been dubbed ‘slavjank’, 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 ‘comfortable frustration’, if that makes any sense.
“Its broken in a way I like / I am used to” kind of thing.