Petty things that annoy you about games/companies/personalities/etc...

J Arcane · September 25, 2012, 07:25:25 PM

Quote from: Soylent Green;585572For what it's worth, ICONS is now owned entirely by Steve Kenson (his company bought the rights off Adamant). It is a great game.

Then it's high time they hired some artists and layout people who don't suck and put out a new version. One with less crappy DeviantArt and Cactus Man.

Silverlion · September 25, 2012, 10:22:19 PM

Quote from: Soylent Green;585539Hehe, sneaky, sneaky.

See I did this with Smallville, and I'd rather generate interest in my campaign, and the games tools than the games name..

Sure eventually they'll know, but typically its not an issue for me.

RPGPundit · September 26, 2012, 02:54:25 PM

Quote from: J Arcane;585574Then it's high time they hired some artists and layout people who don't suck and put out a new version. One with less crappy DeviantArt and Cactus Man.

There are some games so great, you should forgive them their crappy art.

Also, I will not reject any game based only on who wrote it. If tomorrow Ron Edwards were to come out with the greatest straightforward Regular Traditional OSR Sword and Sorcery D&D-based RPG I'd ever seen, I would certainly buy it and say it was good.

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Libertad · September 26, 2012, 03:07:30 PM

Around my high school years I realized that the creators of a few of my favorite books/movies/games were jerks in real life and/or had some pretty crazy views.

After much thought, I came to this conclusion: I enjoyed the series despite this because their dickishness didn't bleed over into their work. If I only bought books/movies/games from people who weren't jerks, acted like jerks at some point in the past, or didn't have weird/crazy beliefs, I'd be avoiding a lot of good stuff.

Of course, I'd stopping purchasing their work if it became increasingly filled with their personal hang-ups and author tracts to the point that it overrides other themes.

mcbobbo · September 26, 2012, 05:00:24 PM

I make purchase decisions based on personalities all the time. I try to avoid Rihanna because her tolerance of Chris Brown drawing breath is offensive to me. Scientology has a similar effect on me, and I never went to see Rock of Ages because of Tom Cruise.

On the plus side for RPGs, they have fewer celebrities and I have less exposure to the few that exist.

I was, though, turned off by Nikolai Vrtis's rejection of my offer to contribute to D6 that I switched systems for a while.

That's the best I've got.

Ladybird · September 26, 2012, 05:27:52 PM

I think there's only one publisher I categorically will not buy from, and that's based on personal interaction with the owner, as well as my dissatisfaction with products of theirs that I have bought. I'm not even going to give them the Google hit by mentioning them here. What's problematic is when people on my "Must buy!" and "Never buy!" list work together...

TristramEvans · September 26, 2012, 10:27:04 PM

Quote from: J Arcane;585565I won't buy ICONS even though I'm curious about it because GMS is a douchebag, and the art is fucking atrocious.

Same here, except that I pirated the game just to see how Kenson's approach to an update of FASERIP compared to my own. When confident mine was superior and there was nothing to be had from the game, I deleted it. Because, my god, that's some damn crappy art.

And yeah, GMs is a tool. He also stole artwork before, so he gets none of my patronage.

If he puts out another edition with some decent artwork, I may buy it just because.

Oh, also Rebecca Borgstrom, or whatever their calling themselves these days: I won't touch any of their games just based on the obnoxiousness of the fanbase. Ditto Exalted, but I have no interest in that game anyways.

J Arcane · September 27, 2012, 12:03:40 AM

Ironically, I caved finally and bought Exalted purely because of a woman. Love makes you do strange things.

Just Another Snake Cult · September 27, 2012, 12:05:28 AM

Quote from: Soylent Green;585489Petty? Okay here's petty.

I have not purchased (yet) "Dogs of W*A*R", the Barbarians of Lemuria modern day spin-of because of its terrible cover.
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I Googled the cover (I wasn't familiar with the game) and found that it looks like the cover art to a really cheap VHS tape of a 1980's low-budget action film. Like a late 80's Menahem Golan's 21st Century Films' release of a dubbed and re-cut Hong Kong/Indonesia co-production staring Chris Mitchum.

If the game was phamplet-sized and actually came packaged in a VHS clamshell with a bright orange "Please Be Kind-Rewind" sticker on the box, it would be an essential purchase.

Kiero · September 27, 2012, 11:53:51 AM

I've never played any Palladium games, but everything I've ever heard about Kevin Siembieda tells me the guy is a total twat and I wouldn't want to buy anything he's written.

jeff37923 · September 27, 2012, 02:05:22 PM

After he came out with the d20 abortion book and tried to defend the tripe as "an attempt to stimulate discussion" on RPGnet, I decided that Louis Porter Jr. doesn't deserve any of my money or interest - ever.

Zachary The First · September 27, 2012, 02:33:13 PM

Wushu earned my everlasting irritation several years ago, not because of the system itself, but because of a hyper-aggressive species of fanboy promoting it for everything from World War II campaigns to removing kitchen mildew, regardless of actual suitability for the task at hand.

J Arcane · September 27, 2012, 03:08:59 PM

Quote from: Zachary The First;586415Wushu earned my everlasting irritation several years ago, not because of the system itself, but because of a hyper-aggressive species of fanboy promoting it for everything from World War II campaigns to removing kitchen mildew, regardless of actual suitability for the task at hand.

And now he posts here ...

The Traveller · September 27, 2012, 03:13:05 PM

Quote from: Kiero;586299I've never played any Palladium games, but everything I've ever heard about Kevin Siembieda tells me the guy is a total twat and I wouldn't want to buy anything he's written.

Wouldn't his sticking to his guns and keeping control over his creation qualify him as the ultimate Indie developer?

Personally I have no difficulty with his attitude, although I wouldn't play his games because they don't strike me as being very good, I'm quite puzzled by all the people who go on mighty tirades against the man for the terrible crime of not doing what they wanted.

J Arcane · September 27, 2012, 03:23:50 PM

Quote from: jeff37923;586401After he came out with the d20 abortion book and tried to defend the tripe as "an attempt to stimulate discussion" on RPGnet, I decided that Louis Porter Jr. doesn't deserve any of my money or interest - ever.

Not to mention he's an infamous plagiarist.

I won't touch a thing with that jackhole's name on it. Anyone who makes GMS look like the good guy in an online spat clearly isn't worth a damn.

Petty things that annoy you about games/companies/personalities/etc...

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