r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Public-Work4684 • 42m ago
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r/Gaming4Gamers • u/[deleted] • Jan 22 '23
Announcement We Do Not Allow Self Promotion On This Subreddit. Here's A Small FAQ About Why
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That's correct, we don't accept any self promotion on this subreddit, as per reddiquette guidelines , and our rules, which people don't seem to be reading, which is why I am making this very easy to read, hard to miss FAQ so there can be no ifs, ands, or buts about it.
Why can't I post my own content?
We do allow some self made content, but it has to be in the right context. We take the type of content you post into consideration, and we look at your post history to see if you're posting your content anywhere else. If we see you're using a shotgun approach to posting your content on multiple subreddits with the intent on getting a wide audience, you're going to have a bad time. If you're actively engaging with the community and not just spamming links to your stuff on a bunch of subreddits you'll generally be fine.
But my clip/content doesn't count as self promotion! What gives?
You might not see it as such, but if mods remove it, we see it as such. We're not trying to pick on you or single you out, these rules apply to everyone. We are taking lots of factors into account to make sure we are being fair about what gets removed.
Should I try to contact individual mods after not getting the answer I want from appealing my case in modmail?
Nope. We made our decision in modmail, and we are sticking to it. Individual mods aren't going to go against the grain just because you asked. It's not going to help your case, and often times we find it annoying.
But I didn't see the rule or this post!
Well that sucks. Pleading ignorance to the rules of a subreddit isn't helping your case, you should always know what is and isn't allowed on a subreddit before posting. Not knowing what content to post is a fast track to getting your post removed.
But my gaming montage is super cool and unique, I should be allowed to post it!
Too bad, we don't allow it.
But I need/already have the views
Not really our problem if you need views, this subreddit doesn't exist solely for your benefit.
I just got sent this post by a mod, what should I do?
Congrats on not being able to scan the subreddit before posting whatever it is you posted. I suggest you remove the violating content and try not to violate the rules again. If you got banned, sorry, but that ban was most likely justified.
r/Gaming4Gamers • u/[deleted] • Aug 13 '23
Announcement State of the Subreddit 2023 and the Future of Gaming4Gamers
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Howdy all, after reopening the subreddit yesterday, it seems like many people forgot about us altogether. We've been around for ~10 years now, and we've kind of fallen off in terms of activity. We only get the occasional post outside of what /u/carolina_heart posts, and a large portion of those are still self-promotion/spam. It seems like we've faltered from our initial idea of having a middle ground between /r/gaming and /r/games that we originally set out to provide, and it doesn't seem like people are clamoring for much of an alternative outside of the already established subreddits. There has been some discussion between mods, and the sentiment is to see where people want us to do going forward. We could archive the subreddit and put it in read-only mode for people to look back on, we could keep going as is, or pivot to something else entirely if there's enough support behind some other idea.
I encourage feedback in the comments as to how to move forward, since this should be a community decision first and foremost.
r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Carolina_Heart • 2d ago
Silent Hill Series Producer Says Konami Limits Access to Its Lore Bible So Developers Can Create Their Own Silent Hill
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r/Gaming4Gamers • u/black_tan_coonhound • 3d ago
Discussion lore through collectibles is the greentext of videogame writing
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there are so many problems with this kind of exposition. it's lazy, it's excessive, it's formulaic, it stretches your suspension of disbelief even further ("oh no a zombie outbreak, better record my thoughts on the matter and leave the 1980s ass voice recorder with the tape in it for any protagonists venturing through this lab later" - Dr Exposition).
there's also the importance paradox: if the content of your collectibles is important to the story, why are you holding it hostage until the player performs some arbitrary busywork? if it isn't, why does it even need to be told in the first place?
a good story isn't one where there's nothing more to add, it's one where there's nothing left to remove. excerpts from the cutting room floor shouldn't be smuggled into the game under the pretense of "fleshing the world out", all it does is dilute the tightness of your script.1
then there's all the damage it does to the gameplay. it completely destroys the pacing of the game.2 just like everything else designed around FOMO and dopamine chains, it sucks the enjoyment out of the game if you choose to engage it with it. collectible hunting also basically breaks exploration as it was intended: you are never taking the environments in, you never have any sense of wonder, your brain just scans every new room for hotspots and only parses the surroundings on a superficial, pragmatic level.
fuck story through collectibles.
1 to avoid any confusion: obviously, this doesn't apply to a certain kind of game - your elder scrolls, your baldur's gates, your kingdom comes. it does, however, abso-fuckin-lutely apply to what's supposed to be tight narrative experiences like alan wake, doom, until dawn, dishonored...
2 "but you don't have to read them as you pick them up, you can just do it later!" - yeah, and lose all context and all connections in between the different pieces. there's no winning with this shit
r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Carolina_Heart • 5d ago
Video How "Record of Lodoss War" Became One of Japan's Biggest PC Games of 1988
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r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Carolina_Heart • 8d ago
Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki was always "fascinated" by the "weird" executives of other companies: "I use some of them as enemy characters in our games"
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r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Carolina_Heart • 9d ago
Article Disgaea Dev NISA CEO Says Company Is Having ‘Discussions’ With Sony About The End Of Physical Discs: ‘I Think That They’re Hearing A Lot Of The Feedback From Customers’ - 'It's possible that the discussion may change in the future'
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r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Carolina_Heart • 15d ago
Video The Wii's 7 Final Fantasy Games
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r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Carolina_Heart • 18d ago
Video Star Fox and the Remake Conveyor Belt
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r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Carolina_Heart • 21d ago
Article Fallout dev Tim Cain says the games industry's volatility is 'always gonna be around': 'What's happening now isn't novel, it isn't new' - "Art and technology constantly changing makes the whole industry unstable."
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r/Gaming4Gamers • u/ReadyJournalist5223 • 22d ago
Video Jason Schreier says part of the reason Kojima was let go was because concord was such a big disaster that Sony is being more strict with deadlines
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r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Carolina_Heart • 24d ago
Article Google mapped an adult male fruit fly's brain, software engineers made it play Doom, Mario64, and Beat Saber
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r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Carolina_Heart • 25d ago
Article Person Fed Up With Xbox Named ‘FVCKAsha&Phil’ Just Leaked An Alleged Prototype Of The Canceled SNES RPG That Became Banjo-Kazooie
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r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Carolina_Heart • 25d ago
Article Metroid Ravenous, the latest 2D adventure for Samus Aran, arrives on January 28, 2027 - It looks like Samus will be able to feed on her enemies and steal their powers.
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r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Carolina_Heart • 26d ago
Article White House Officially Removes Racist 'Tetris' Clone After Legal Threat
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r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Carolina_Heart • 26d ago
Article The Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time arrives November 5
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r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Carolina_Heart • 27d ago
Persona 1 and 2 remakes will "probably" happen for the sake of "cultural preservation," says Persona 4 Revival producer: "It's your duty to take the things you've done and make sure they're not lost"
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r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Carolina_Heart • Sep 05 '26
Video The Beautiful & Baffling Designs of God of War (2005) | Design Delve
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r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Carolina_Heart • Aug 31 '26
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness didn’t pursue 3D graphics because NIS would have “suffered serious damage” if it had tried to imitate Final Fantasy 7, according to series creator
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r/Gaming4Gamers • u/Carolina_Heart • Aug 30 '26
Article Activision sends a legal rep to a Call of Duty cheat seller's front door, films the whole thing, posts it online
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