Everyone is a fucking shill now

sounds like a skill issue mine get 20 posts

See

find a game

not many people playing it

no talk about it anywhere

developer is practically anonymous, never talks about anything other than their game

no presence of anything even slightly political

free or cheaper than a burger

"Hey, I found this cool game that I've been having fu-"

"SHILL SHILL SHILL SHILL BUY AN ADD DEI DEI KEK KEK KEK WOKE WOKE WOKE"

It's all so tiresome.

nigga it 2025, you should know by now that Anon Babble is not for talking about video games. if it isnt ragebait, racebait, or engagement bait youre thread probably isnt making it past 10 replies, and thats IF those replies are even relevant. hell i wished we could have threads about shitty "so bad their good" indie horror games on itch.io

I doubt it's going to blow over any time soon, it'll go through dozens of interchangeable buzzwords before dying off.

E33 and other garbage AAA games threads are not organic. The oblivion threads were not organic and the spam immediately disappeared 2 days after launch.

The mod faggot thinks that spamming the catalogue is the funniest shit ever.

Parry slop and UE5 slop will never be good and i'd rather have you niggers discuss your """"""""games"""""""" and """"""""gameplay"?""""""""" somewhere else.

It's the mods fault. It's the newfags fault for thinking they are being funny, this place is just as worthless as it's moderation and the way mods handled 8ch was eye opening. Sucks that site is fucking DEAD, i hope Anon Babble eventually dies too.

do you actually want to talk about a cool indie demo i found?

You can't start a discussion without setting a bait these days
There are also alot of people who comes here just so they can be edgy

Make another one, then, don't bitch and moan that no one wants to talk about it if you don't put in any effort

try to make a thread to talk about the the most best "7/10" games and series anons have played

get maybe one reply as thread slides to page 10

meanwhile the 5th fucking assassins creed thread was just created as the last one hit 500 replies

honestly when i knew that id just stick to Anon Babble. at least the schizos over there are on topic

weeb

Dogshit thread

wants to talk about 40592th shitty indie game

shits on people talking about 40592th shitty indie game

Your heckin' wholesome nintendo wannabe troon indie game no.35723 is no better than the no.56232 anime girl troon indie game

thats not what fucking shilling

is

The difference is he wants to talk about the game while the others want to fuck one of the characters.

most people on this fucking board lack the nuance to find a game anything other than a 10/10 or literally a 0/10 (often not even because of gameplay but because of shit tangentially related to the game)

This has been the case for years. "Genuine" discussion of any "new" game doesn't occur for a few weeks before and after release. Some retards genuinely continue the shilling as a cheap and easy way to get (you)s and dopamine, but they become easier to mind-filter with time. Lurk moar newfag

Anon Babble is a place to shill your game and nothing but.
Want proof? Tranny jannies removed the IP counter to make it easier for shills to shill their games without people noticing the samefag shilling.

Why does video game based Anon Babble have no proper discussion?

Only on occasion, people are too jaded and they don't understand funposting, discussion or anything that isn't trying to score points over the internet. Reddit comes here to be the person they pretend not to be, jeets come here to shill and the other various leftoids/rightoids/browns come here to shit the place up.

Anon Babble went to shit when they started thinking they were super serious political platform
Anon Babble went to shit when they thought anyone gave a fuck enough to shill their game here besides ubisoft

at least the schizos over there are on topic

Barely. The thread I frequent has a guy who literally spends all non-working burger hours throwing out bait and if anyone at any point doesn't immediately recognize it for what it is, he will argue with them, accuse everyone of samefagging, tell people to take their meds, and he will do this until bump limit EVERY time because he has some vendetta against the thread when it made fun of him for literally ERPing with himself with hyperdick shotacon images.

I indeed stopped talking about games because I realized I was promoting / marketing / shilling those games for free.

I hate how modern internet discourse involves behaving as psychotic and irrational as possible. Nutters who come here from their favorite social media playground are the reason self-defense laws exist.

erm... so, do you guys like it more when Mario says "wahoo" or "yahoo" when he jumps?

games are fucking STUPID, there's nothing to talk about in them

Genuine discussion does happen but its relatively rare.
You gotta start off with a niche thats interesting enough to get people to click your thread, but no niche that no one talks about the actual subject matter or overpowers the topic with a derail.
Hidden gem threads tend to be rather consistent, but those will obviously be rarely about a single game. The bait OP meta is too consistent because people are too susceptible to instant gratification and are more than willing to bite.

Unironically, if you wanna talk about games, go to reddit. Yeah you can't say jigger but at least you could at least find of the community of the game you like.

I can see why people make stealth generals on Anon Babble when Anon Babble is the way it is.

I've really been digging Schedule I I'm surprised I haven't seen any threads about it considering it seems like it's pretty popular.

Anon Babble being known mostly for Anon Babble and Anon Babble causes retards to flood here thinking that EVERY board has the same culture as those two makes it even worse because they then go back to their social media platforms and try to bring more people like that here to be "based". the advertising for this site went from light hearted Anon Babble and pony thread simulators to screenshots of a Anon Babble post of a screenshot from twitter with the most blatant engagement bait.

Go back.

OP here. To answer where is MY video game thread, my DRG thread literally died at like 20 replies. Fuck you.

The general I somewhat frequent, on a different board, has had a Anon Babble crossboarder who samefags himself and dumps the same posts, only to double down when its noticed and begin consistently regurgitating his favorite newfag buzzwords as if they are weapons to cause physical harm. This has been ongoing for over 6 years straight now and I wish him a violent end in meatspace.

Everyone is a fucking shill now

Yes. And It's only going to get worse.

Reddit is horrendous for discovery.
Either you need to already know your niche media exists or you get buried under the most normalfag of opinions that has tens of thousands of people already in agreement on.
This is true not just for vidya, but all media.
If you genuinely want niche things you need to dig trenches and get searching, because there's fucking no website that will help you other than some offhand mention by some guy who knows a guy. Unironically any traditional forum or imageboard is the only way to organically come across that, maybe a youtube comment section if youre perusing through a niche content creator and know that their tastes generally align with yours. You just can't really get exposed to niches by the algorithm

Reddit niggers already come here and circlejerk their favorite Top 5 or Top 10 Bestselling x media movie/game/book/etc.

the closest ive come to unhinged schizos is maybe in old /fgg/ threads, and the kiriko poster in the overwatch general but im pretty sure thats a bot

You missed the bus for DRG threads. Most of the activity was during its most active development, now its on the backburner while rogue core is indev so expect that to get threads once its out of alpha.
There is the Anon Babble thread but it has its own Anon Babble-flavored problems.

Your only hope for genuine discussion is that the game you want to talk about has enough traction to not die at 10 posts per thread but not too much traction that the catalog refreshing autists declare jihad against the game for some percieved slight

Problem here is that this site's Anon Babble is too fast, and it is full of normalfags. People here will only talk about what is advertised to them because whats more important to them is the social clout of a thing rather than videogames, otherwise we'd see more "What game you playin or interested in?" threads than whats hot news in the sector.

hey guys, wanna talk about this ok indie

So you want to shill your own shit while complaining about others doing the same?

Anon Babble has a DRG general going at all times.
Agreed. Unfortunately Anon Babble is only a smaller Anon Babble.

The only good thing about Anon Babble compared to Anon Babble is that the slower pace doesn't demand schizos turn it into a chatroom to keep the thread bumped.
There are still namefags but ritualposting, blogposting, waifudumps, and the general Anon Babblefaggotry isn't severely watered down.

I mean niche subreddits. Sure, they are still normalfags, but they are normalfacs that actually gives a shit about the games you play and could give you content related to the game.

Reddit's posting system means discussion will always be ass Im sorry anon. That site is only good for tech help for some decade old problem

have to know it exists already

Most "communities" nowadays for niche games are in an insular discord server now. Theres no natural way to stumble into them if you arent already aware of them
I hate modern internet structure

Reddit is horrendous for discovery. Either you need to already know your niche media exists or you get buried under the most normalfag of opinions that has tens of thousands of people already in agreement on.

Anon Babble is not much different nowadays. 99% of actual vidya discussion are about the latest FOTM slop that everyone else is already talking about

While that's true, that's incidental rather than by design. People who say "just go to reddit" are just fucking stupid. I'm sorry, I'm sure he means well, but there's a reason I stick with this shithole and that's because it is literally the only place outside of small BBS forums (which have their own problems) where discussion isn't curated by some algorithm.

just search for the community name in the search bar

How is that hard

Damn

have you tried... bumping... it?

wtf dude you just killed a GTA6 twitter thread

I just want to peruse a forum at my own pace for a niche interest not be dumped into a furry zoomer's idea of an IRC client and feel like an old man getting dragged into an afterschool club.

I was just in another thread that was derailed by talk of paid shills and I was wondering, would Anon Babble respond better if a thread started like:
"Hi Anon Babble I'm anon from Ubisoft, we wanted to show you these clips of the new Ass Creed game and wanted to you to let us know what you think about it!"
If shills were open about it aisnted of trying to blend in, would threads get honest responses?

Probably, it depends though.
Some devs show their faces during next fests when their game demos are on the table and are earnest about noting down feedback that they receive.
The difference is scale. Some guy paid to advertise on behalf of the team is way different from a game's sole designer wanting to get raw unfiltered opinions from anons.
Most devs will keep their noses clean to avoid unnecessary drama from being associated with this hellhole and adjacent chan culture.

Yes nigger, of course I tried bumping it.
And guess what? No one gives a shit about the game I posted despite it not being completely niche.

did you keep bumping it? you can do that now without being called out on it. this sounds like you just aren't willing to put in the effort

of course not. part of the problem is that Anon Babble has a overinflated view of how influential it thinks it is vs how influeintial it actually is because its still chasing the gamergate/tortanic high. theres also the fact that it seems like they assume that since they cant find any games fun, anyone who does must be getting paid for it

Viral marketers are a thing, I don't know what else to tell you because it's completely obvious. It's also easy to tell the difference between troll shilling and actual shilling. I don't think most gacha threads are done professionally though, they actually are just severely mentally ill gooners.

E33 / Oblivion demake are a horrible games , if you are not a shill you have brain problems.

but yes i agree, you should be able to talk about them, but that doesn't really happen you just end up spamming the board cause that's what you actually want.

what games do you like anon?

enter thread about a supposedly bad game

list 9 bad things about the game but say 1 positive thing

"OMG YOU FUCKING SHILL HOW DARE YOU NOT BE OUTLANDISHLY NEGATIVE WHOS PAYING YOU???"

i think its just the internet as a whole man. everything is just measured in extremes now and its killed any form of discussion at all, not just for video games but everything.

E33 was made by an AA studio though. They're smaller than fucking Project Type-Moon.

Yes. And it turns boring after a while.
I have actual lives to live, anon, I could never compete with the nolifes on Anon Babble.

>everyone is a fucking shill now

>hey guys, wanna talk about this ok indie

Kek the ironing

Theres a difference between wanting to talk about something and being paid to advertise via artificial word of mouth.

You seem to be shit at shilling the game you want to talk about, anon.

It's such an issue, no one on v wants to talk about games they like, they wanna complain about games they don't like instead. They wanna bitch and moan and make bait threads to farm (YOU)s rather than ever actually discuss the things they like. It's like despite the anonymity here people are still scared of being vulnerable and just unapologetically admitting they like something and want to find like minded people to talk about it with. They'd rather be a reddittier hivemind and make sure that all their opinions align with everyone else here. I'm 98.2% sure the majority of these niggers do not play games

Because I want actual discussion, duh.

There probably won't be any proper DRG threads again until Rogue Core releases.

Damn

You pretty much have to add a disclaimer even when you're stating an objective fact or some faggot will have a mental breakdown. Anons just want to seethe and whine while coping that it's criticism and harsh truths. Actual criticism involves being able to point out something's strengths or decent ideas it had and how they could have been improved and anons are absolutely incapable of doing that. It's the opposite end of some redditor or journo calling everything 10/10 and about as dull to listen to.

20+ threads at once every hour for literal weeks

organic discussion

always a cropped image of a character with nothing at all to talk about for gameplay or setting

always just some MUH CUTSCENE shit

havent seen a single screenshot be posted of this game, because thats totally natural and normal for a game so discussed and shilled on here
its been 3+ weeks of nonstop shilling and i have yet to see a single FUCKING SCREENSHOT
its always some heavily cropped image of a main character in some cutscene bullshit

(((33)))
Are you retarded?

You pretty much have to add a disclaimer

No kidding. Every time somebody criticizes or praises something they need to post their fucking credentials like it's a scientific paper.

Yeah, I'm a real oldfag in the series/genre and this game is actually the best/worst

The thread, of course, always started with a gigachad superimposed over an obviously dogshit game.

I like making threads about games I like saying that they are shit and then call everyone in the thread who says I'm wrong a tranny and then start arguing with myself pretending to be another guy. It's good fun.

It's like despite the anonymity here people are still scared of being vulnerable and just unapologetically admitting they like something

I'm convinced most people on here are just miserable fucks and they get upset and offended whenever anybody around them is capable of being positive about anything. Hell, as an example, just look at the replies you see whenever a picture or some reference to a couple gets posted where multiple anons immediately start saying they're probably getting cheated on, asking why they're together, or coming up with any possible scenario where they hate each other. Niggas literally behave like some stereotypical bitter spinsters.

Not true, I had a kind of stealth resident evil outbreak thread that reached 100 just the other day! Plus the other discussions in the thread were good too

what did x mean by this

now that the dust has settled

who was in the wrong here

he's right you know

Does x really

twitter screenshot

streamer screenshot

article screenshot

.

What was X's problem

ohnononono

Why is this allowed

X, X Japan

And so on and so forth.

I’m actually curious about that game but what you’re describing is making me REALLY hesitant to buy it. It’s extremely unnatural

Here you go mate, just for (you).

Same here, man. Some anons treat keeping up with every niche game or grinding every hour of some jank indie like it's a badge of honor. I love games but I also have bills, work, and a life outside of arguing with people over whether a walking animation is "soulless" or not. Let people enjoy or dislike stuff without turning it into a federal case.

The worst is the gaggle of retards who obsess over sales and metacritic scores. We have a famitsu thread up right now, and not a single post is actuallly discussing the games themselves. It's nothing but a circlejerk of "LOOK AT HOW MUCH MONEY MY COMPANY MADE YAY".

I remember these people shitting on Pizza tower and Anton Blast and other indie games because they didn't sell 20 million copies like Zelda or Mario.

Then try again later when the board isn't being spammed as much.

unironically coming to Anon Babble to discuss game

did the Anon Babble hack taught you nothing?

kirikoposter is definitely a bot

Anyway, buy Onirism.

fuck off shill, buy an ad

NOOO YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT THAT VIDEOGAME ON THE VIDEOGAMES BOARD!

kek

Pop into any gacha discussion that isn't blatantly just someone baiting for an ERP partner and it's the same thing, also the same thing with vtuberfags. A coincidence, I'm sure.

What if I then posted.....gameplay footage?!

MOOOOODDS DELETE THIS VIDEOGAME IMMEDIATELY

Oh, yes. Gacha is definitely a cesspit. And it's one that comes in a thousand flavors.

I've hated this game for the longest time because I thought the Blueberry was a cute girl, and then it's revealed that he's just a very feminine man.

You lied to me, you Goblin.

There was no lie.
Look at this and tell me what you see?

Wasn't the combat 3rd person before? Did the dev change it to be like modern doom to chase trends? If he keeps changing the basic gameplay of the game, it's never going to be finished.

There is an optional toggle in the settings for 1st person view now.

talk about a game genuinely

get called a shill

Why would anyone want that?

I dunno. There used to be a mod that you needed to have FPS mode, so clearly there was demand at the time.

Tendies unable to accept other games can be popular while they need to spam and samefag their same agp threads

Check out the few ys x threads in the archive and see some anon having a fucking meltdown over those kek

talk about game popularized by streamers or some other normalfag trend

repeat meme phrases or copy paste the same post in every thread about the game

behave like a hive mind with everyone else who "likes" the game

act confused when this behavior is seen as bot spam and shill posting

This is usually what happens, though there are some exceptions. I just don't believe that most of the people complaining in this thread are those exceptions

Iconic when you use slop from korea as a pic

this website is so shit

People will mention E33 at the game awards this year like they did for Metaphor last year "oh right this game came out, jrpgs nerds liked it I guess"

>hey guys, wanna talk about this ok indie-

why are you shilling your shitty "ok indie", shill?

Election tourists are more like election rapefugees. Old Anon Babble is never coming back.

talk about a game

game has a dedicated schizo that obsessively refreshes the catalog for any reference of it

everyone is too fucking stupid to ignore it

schizo that spams gay furry porn and shill his own game anytime someone makes a thread about an indie game

Im a simple man, Im miserable irl so I try to make everyone as miserable as I am online. Until that day comes I will continue f5ing the catalog until not a single positive sentiment remains

It's really grim, that shills are so overpaid and underqualified. You'd thik they'd stop arguing in terms of parasocial pressure (e.g.: "Faux majority like xyz, so you have to!", "It sells so well, you have to buy it too!" and "Buy it or you're [poor/missing out/gay/a nazi/...]!") instead of simply pitching the game by speaking about it in neutral terms. You'd think that after +15yrs of marketing research they had mastered canned authenticity, but it's the same formulaic and generic approach to EVERY SINGlE piece of garbage they are trying to shill. If you parsed the archive you'd compile terabytes worth of the stale pastas and gotchas.

If you actually pay attention, you'll ...(cont.)

... eventually realize that marketing isn't trying to sell you shit games, but that shit games sell you marketing, i.e.: pad traffic and engagement -- they are little more than onboarding schemes to consultation rackets, e-grifting parasocialites and digitial daycare-botfarms.
The industry has been captured by PR gremlins. These PR gremlins cultivate an unsustainable economy of lies: they sell problems, rent out solutions (marginally smaller problems) and deceive everyone -- shareholders, developers, customers and players. They don't care about the quality or reception of the product, they don't care about what you believe, love or hate and they don't care to convince you of anything. The more controversy, the better for them.

Their final goal however is to distract and placate you, while high finance (read: their owners, banksters) turns your passions and lifetime into vacuous commodities.

be PR gremlins

gaslight publisher into whipping developers into frenzy to create super-slop

gobble up the majority of the "development" budget, recommend hiring nepotists

proliferate more slop to e-grifting parasocialites to fan the flames; hype a product you know will fail miserably, gaslight customers and shareholders with predatory marketing

reinvest a fraction of your hyper-bloated budget and buy copies through subsidaries and at a discount to gaslight everyone some more, after padding stats shortterm refund to ruin them longterm

simultaneousely shill for and against the product to maximize controversy and thus traffic, engagement and demand of your service and that of your buisness partners, such as consultation rackets

eventually come out of it being the sole profiteer, blaming everyone else

In other words: if you're a shareholder of a publisher or developer studio instead of an investor to a marketing agency, then you are a barely functional lobotomite.

So what discussions aren't "shilling" then? You are currently "shilling" an insane perspective if you think the majority of discussion isn't genuine just because you don't like the subject or agree with the poster's opinion.

They've got one of these for everything now, on every board. I assume they're made in a lab

discussions about old games that don't have any upcoming sequels/remakes or something so obscure, there would be no logical reason to shill it

I thought complaining about Anon Babble was a bannable offense now

Each board is supposed to be allowed 1 (one) meta thread.

mention a game on the ghost archive while the site was down

less than a minute after my post there's a copypasta posted and some dude samefags about how much he hates it

You'll survive

Nah, I've seen people get accused of shilling for those too.

sharty lost

I always genuinely wonder how people can be dumb enough not to notice the pattern repeat itself ad-infinitum.

Extremely high volume of posting for weeks, even months leading up to release

Almost no posts a few days after release

Elden Ring obviously had organic discussion surrounding it because it's STILL talked about regularly here, it's hard to imagine a game having such a dedicated organic hypetrain only for it to completely fall flat nearly every time. For reference, see pretty much every korean game being sold on its coom factor.

If the old game was discussed by a youtuber or streamer then you will probably be called a shill. If even one youtuber mentioned the obscure game, you will be called a shill. If the obscure game was made by someone from /agdg/, you will be called a shill and the dragonfag will come in to spam gay porn.
Extreme paranoia and distrust is the norm for this board. This is Anon Babble - Schizoid after all

free or easily pirated game

OP posted a lobby to play with anons

still gets called a shill

The site is full of loud idiots.

The fact that redditors come here to make horrible posts is the reason this site has declined so much quality. Fuck off back to r*ddit and stop dumping your low effort garbage here nigger.

Discussions that are not shilling are discussions that I personally like.
See: the Elden Ring newfag who replied to you as a clear immediate example. In all reality, the use of "shill" is an invocation of 2016+ newfags seeking out others of their kind.

You were shilling so you could have people to play with obviously. If you want friends so bad, you better pay me first

For his next trick, he'll say that everyone's pretending to hate reddit and they actually all use it!

Let's talk about Super Robot Wars Y then. I'm excited to see Macross back in some form, but I have to say I'm kind of disappointed that they made those really cool animations for the Getter Robo Devolution DLC in 30 and aren't including it in Y. At least it's not Armageddon again, especially after 30 didn't even bother giving you Shin Getter to start with instead of Dragon.

the Elden Ring newfag who replied to you as a clear immediate example

I don't like Elden Ring, I think it's literally the second worst game in the series behind 3. You're not very smart.

This is every general these days, doesnt matter the board, but Anon Babble certainly has highest concentration of schizos on the site. Problem is they spilloff on to Anon Babble when they’re not getting the attention they want from Anon Babble. Cant be content to just shit up one place.