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yeah it's a satire but it's also what you described. Taking preexisting objects from the real world, slightly changing them and calling it a day. Just because there is satirical background doesn't make it any better. It's funny, sure, but it's still a reskinned Coca Cola just like said supermarket posters.
Except Ubisoft didn't change them. They just scanned pre-existing posters and plopped them in game.
 

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I don't really care about posters in games when i need to save my head from zombies, if i cared then i would care about the rocks in Witcher 3 and flaws in many other games.
Like I said, this is just an example of the level of laziness of the developers - they didn't care about the details, they just wanted to make something that roughly looks like a game and can be sold to the end-user. I'm purposefully complaining about the minutiae of the game in order not to complain about the glaring issues like the fact that every zombie on-screen seems to have 8 twin sisters or brothers nearby, about how the weapons are uninspiring and generic, and most of all unimportant since you could spend the majority of the game using the bat and you'd be fine, about how the challenge in the game comes from cheap tricks and sheer sizes of the swarms of zombies, about the forced platforming elements that "sometimes work" etc. etc. - there's a lot of "flaws" to talk about, I just don't feel like digging into this pile, so I picked one thing that I found completely absurd and put it in the limelight.
yeah it's a satire but it's also what you described. Taking preexisting objects from the real world, slightly changing them and calling it a day. Just because there is satirical background doesn't make it any better. It's funny, sure, but it's still a reskinned Coca Cola just like said supermarket posters.
This isn't the developers making a poster that "looks like a TESCO poster" as it's the case with Fallout devs and Nuka Cola, it's the developers scanning a bunch of TESCO, Lidl and ASDA posters, brushing out the logos and calling it a day.
 
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Like I said, this is just an example of the level of laziness of the developers - they didn't care about the details, they just wanted to make something that roughly looks like a game and can be sold to the end-user. I'm purposefully complaining about the minutiae of the game in order not to complain about the glaring issues like the fact that every zombie on-screen seems to have 8 twin sisters or brothers nearby, about how the weapons are uninspiring and generic, and most of all unimportant since you could spend the majority of the game using the bat and you'd be fine, about how the challenge in the game comes from cheap tricks and sheer sizes of the swarms of zombies, about the forced platforming elements that "sometimes work" etc. etc. - there's a lot of "flaws" to talk about, I just don't feel like digging into this pile, so I picked one thing that I found completely absurd and put it in the limelight.
I don't know about them, until i try it can't say anything bad/good about it.
And about the poster thing, the game things are happening in London aka UK. In the same UK where's Tesco, that's why they didn't cared much about it. There was no need for a change. They could have called it Tenco and it would be still the same, people would say " Ohh its Tesco actually! " just like they say " Ohh its Coca Cola actually! " with Nuka-Cola.
 

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I don't know about them, until i try it can't say anything bad/good about it.
And about the poster thing, the game things are happening in London aka UK In the same UK where's Tesco, that's why they didn't cared much about it. There was no need for a change. They could have called Tenco and it would be still the same, people say say " Ohh its Tesco actually! " just like they say " Ohh its Coca Cola! " with Nuka-Cola.
You're completely missing my point. You don't scan a pre-existing poster and say "I made this texture". You didn't. Lemme go scan a Mario poster, print it and start selling it. "I made that! It's... Merio! My OG character! Want a poster?".
 
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You're completely missing my point. You don't scan a pre-existing poster and say "I made this texture". You didn't. Lemme go scan a Mario poster, print it and start selling it. "I made that! It's... Merio! My OG character! Want a poster?".
Did they really say that THEY made the poster? They just put it there to make it more "realistic"
You're just making a big thing of it, its just a small thing to nitpick and its really not important at all. What important is how the game feels and plays.
 

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You're completely missing my point. You don't scan a pre-existing poster and say "I made this texture". You didn't. Lemme go scan a Mario poster, print it and start selling it. "I made that! It's... Merio! My OG character! Want a poster?".
okay maybe I missed that part but I still don't think it's that big of a deal for the player. Unless this game is all about immersion, where your complaint would've made much more sense.
 

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Did they really say that THEY made the poster? They just put it there to make it more "realistic" You're just making a big thing of it, its just a small thing to nitpick and its really not important at all. What important is how the game feels and plays.
Yes, they did, because they released a game claiming that its content is original when it's not. I'm illustrating a point here - it's a lazily made game created by people who didn't care, to the point that they got their textures from a Google image search - something I expect an indie dev to do, not a serious studio. There's a difference between making something look like something else and stealing something.
 
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Yes, they did, because they released a game claiming that its content is original when it's not. I'm illustrating a point here - it's a lazily made game created by people who didn't care, to the point that they got their textures from a Google image search - something I expect an indie dev to do, not a serious studio. There's a difference between making something look like something else and stealing something.
Not even Indie devs do that. And welp i'm out of arguments. I'm not saying that its good that they did that but i don't care if a Lidl poster is in the game where the main focus is actually the atmosphere and the gameplay. I don't see the poster as a major flaw of the game but just something that shouldn't be in the first place. With or without it, i don't really care. Won't stop me to try the game lol.
 

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Not even Indie devs do that. And welp i'm out of arguments. I'm not saying that its good that they did that but i don't care if a Lidl poster is in the game where the main focus is actually the atmosphere and the gameplay. I don't see the poster as a major flaw of the game but just something that shouldn't be in the first place. With or without it, i don't really care. Won't stop me to try the game lol.
It's not about the poster, it's about the attitude the creators had towards their project. This is just a symptom of a bigger problem, I don't care about the posters, I care about the fact that the devs clearly wanted to push the game out of the gate as quickly as possible to focus on titles they actually cared about. Here's for hoping that the game at least gets a nice graphical update and maybe they'll polish it into something decent with additional content.
 

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It's not about the poster, it's about the attitude the creators had towards their project. This is just a symptom of a bigger problem, I don't care about the posters, I care about the fact that the devs clearly wanted to push the game out of the gate as quickly as possible to focus on titles they actually cared about. Here's for hoping that the game at least gets a nice graphical update and maybe they'll polish it into something decent with additional content.
Yeah i get it, i'm not a fan of it either when they cheap it out, but your attitude during the whole thread was " Game is very bad " which i found biased. The poster is something that i don't want to focus, the game is the thing that i care about. I still can't say that i agree with you until i play the game.
 
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ZombiU is a solid survival horror game and is anything but shitty/mediocre/generic or whatever buzzwords you guys are throwing out. Its a pretty good game and a nice addition to the PS4/One's library.
 

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The YouTube section of Zombi(U) is quite heated. :P

So this will prove that it's the fault of Nintendo fans that Ubisoft's Wii U games didn't sell well, right?
Just goes to prove once again Wii U owners don't support third party games.

Wii U version is still superior then.
Because it has a physical release? That's completely irrelevant to people who've switched to the digital format.
 

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On the Vita and Wii U, Yeah Physical release feels like a surperior version due to the memory cards bollocks and Wii U whopping flash memory.
On PS4 and Xbone this isn't and Issue and ever since Steam I don't believe there are that many people who buy physical PC games anymore.
 

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On the Vita and Wii U, Yeah Physical release feels like a surperior version due to the memory cards bollocks and Wii U whopping flash memory.
On PS4 and Xbone this isn't and Issue and ever since Steam I don't believe there are that many people who buy physical PC games anymore.
The ideal memory card for Vita is either 32GB or 64GB anything like 8GB or 16GB and you're asking for trouble since it'll run out quickly.
 

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The ideal memory card for Vita is either 32GB or 64GB anything like 8GB or 16GB and you're asking for trouble since it'll run out quickly.
Tell me about it. My 16 gig memory card came with the Vita bundle but I would love so much to have a 64 Gig card. After 3 Retail games all that fits on it are smaller games/Indies or PSP/PS1 games. really sucks.
 

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Foxi4 STFU ALREADY like the individual in the beginning of the thread said if you had fun playing the game. .....wait for it THAT'S THE TAKE AWAY FROM THE GAME... kids these days...
 

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